HADADI: I think that so much of Flanagan's other stuff is about the grief that accumulates from being alive and from your past actions. So, Roxanna, how do you think that factored in? It is because of the - who it's based on, a YA author. You got people backing out of rooms when you never should back out of a room, and you got seeing things in mirrors. You got your ghosts, your jump scare ghosts. It does feel like a Mike Flanagan series. And with the buy-in that they're all terminal, that's probably going to come up sometime. I immediately, one episode in, was like, great, I'm going to feel awful when any one of these characters dies. And I just sort of - I never stop delighting in the things that he makes. He is a man who fulfills the promises that he makes with just the flat-out buy-in of being a Mike Flanagan property. And this is going to make me jump scare in the first episode. And I'm like, this is going to make me cry in the first episode. I know there's going to be terminal children. And so I was - sort of right off the bat, I know it's a kid cast. He loves themes of mourning, loss, family, interpersonal trauma. What'd you think of "The Midnight Club"?ĬRUCCHIOLA: Mike Flanagan's career is so varied at this point, but he loves his themes that he returns to. Stanton, played by iconic scream queen Heather Langenkamp. The hospice is staffed by Mark, played by Zach Gilford, and it's run by Dr. There's also a cute potential love interest named Kevin, played by Igby Rigney, and the handsome and charming Spence, played by Chris Sumpter, along with several other teens who gather to tell scary stories in the hospice's incredibly, ludicrously well-appointed library. She arrives at Brightcliffe and meets her fellow patients, including her surly roommate, Anya, played by Ruth Codd. We meet Ilonka, a young woman diagnosed with terminal cancer. In "The Midnight Club," we get the story of Brightcliffe and its residents, and the stories the teens tell each other. He co-created this series with Leah Fong. With "The Midnight Club," he's adapting several works by the YA horror author, Christopher Pike. He has produced three horror series for Netflix - "The Haunting Of Hill House," a modern retelling of a Shirley Jackson novel, "The Haunting Of Bly Manor," based on Henry James' "The Turn Of The Screw" and the vampire series "Midnight Mass" from an original idea by Flanagan. "The Midnight Club" comes from Mike Flanagan, as you mentioned. I'm always thrilled for the occasion to discuss Mike Flanagan. JORDAN CRUCCHIOLA: Thank you so much for having me back on. She is a writer and producer and the host of the podcast "Feeling Seen" on Maximum Fun. WELDON: And also with us is our horror maven, Jordan Crucchiola. WELDON: Joining me today is Vulture TV critic Roxana Hadadi. I'm Glen Weldon, and today we're talking about "The Midnight Club" on POP CULTURE HAPPY HOUR from NPR. The result is both a straight-ahead horror show and a stealth anthology series. The teenage patients gather in the library every midnight to tell each other scary stories. The facility, called Brightcliffe, is a gothic mansion outfitted with a dark history, secret rooms, ghosts who supply plenty of jump scares and a strange tradition. The Netflix series "The Midnight Club" is set in a mysterious seaside hospice where teens with terminal conditions spend their final days.
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