TV Season Review - The Midnight Club (Season 1)

 

Returning to the horrors of Halloween, we've all come to know and like these fictional clubs. Of course, we all know The Breakfast Club, The Losers Club from It and The Hellfire Club from Stranger Things among others. Many of us, growing up, joined various clubs to get merchandise and be part of something. I myself was part of the Thomas the Tank Engine club when I was little, whereas my sister was part of the Beano club (a weekly comic that is released in the UK and features our own Dennis the Menace in case you don't know). So we now have another club which comes across as quite similar to the show Are You Afraid of the Dark, in which people tell stories. Not sure if that was this show's inspiration, but certainly interesting all the same. So let's check out this show's very first season:

Set in the mid-90s, A group of eight teenagers, reside in the Brightcliffe Home hospice. They all have some kind of illnesses, such as leukaemia and forms of cancer, but all choose to make a pact that whoever goes first, must be responsible for communicating with the others from beyond the grave. They all meet at midnight to tell stories (hence the name of the show) and as they go about life in this hospice, revelations about the people that run it are revealed and some other strange occurrences too.

With a record of 21 jump scares in a single episode (and well crafted ones at that), this could be the next American Horror Story or even Black Mirror, but minus the anthology feel of those shows. This show is very strange, but at the same time, very much a scary kind of show not because of the horror elements, but also because of these teenagers all being terminally ill. Giving it a sadder, but interesting take on what its trying to be. 8/10