Spoilers below for the midnight clubso be careful if you haven’t seen the ending yet.
The Halloween season is the perfect time to spend a netflix subscription given the abundance of both original and licensed horror content , and two people who know a little bit of horror are genre novelist Christpher Pike and genre director Mike Flanagan. The latter is again associated with The curse of Bly Manor writer / producer Leah Fong on co-creating the weird but exciting thriller the midnight club . The series not only adapts Pike’s novel of the same name, but also some of his other independent books, with a cast full of new and familiar faces. The finale ends with some great revelations that add context to much of what viewers have seen over the course of the season, but don’t delve into any explanations.
When Gossipify spoke to Flanagan and his Intrepid Pictures production partner Trevor Macy, writer / director confirmed that while viewers should be able to discover Georgina’s true identity in those final moments, the first season didn’t feature everyone. the pieces of the puzzle. . for what it all means. When I asked him not only about Georgina, but also about the revelation of Stanley and Vera Freelan, here’s how he said it:
Hence, the revelation of Georgina. The explanation for all of this: There are clues throughout the season. But if there is a second season, we will explain it in detail about Georgina’s connection with Paragon. If you step back and look, it’s not very hard to see who she is, but what she looks like and why it will be a little surprise. And then, as far as Stanley Freelan is concerned, this story too, we have a big thing planned for the end of the second season that ties it all together.
Let’s quickly break down these two revelations below …
- Allegedly, Heather Langenkamp’s Georgina Stanton is Athena, aka Georgina Ballard. Given the nape tattoo, her close ties to hospice in general, and her mysterious antagonism to Samantha Sloyan’s Julie Jayne / Shasta, among other clues, it seems pretty clear that Georgina has undergone some name changes over the years. years. years. as well as presumably suffering from his own disease.
- The couple who first lived in the Brightcliffe building are the same ghosts that haunt him. As revealed in a newspaper clipping in episode 5, the building was first built by an industrialist named Stanley Oscar Freelan. And it was in the finale that viewers were finally able to name the hideous faces that appeared throughout the season, with William B. Davis’ Stanley and Patricia Drake’s Vera Freelan making appearances for “Mirror Man.” “and” Cataract Woman “. Ilonka and Kevin..
Of course, there are assumptions and speculations to be debated as to why Georgina took over the house to use as a hospice for teens, what happened in the past between her and Julia, and why the restless spirits Stanley and Vera are still there. 100 years of the building’s existence. But those discussions are for another time, or for another season.
Mike Flanagan continued, pointing out the idea that fans of Christopher Pike’s novels will have a better way of understanding things than others, even with just the midnight club book yourself as a useful guide. And while fans are definitely hoping the show will be reprized for a second season on Netflix, the co-creator has already promised to provide the full answers, even if season 2 doesn’t arrive. In his words:
There’s a big clue in the way the Midnight Club novel ends, a big clue right there. But we get an explanation from some of the sources of him; Pike has a very specific idea of the cyclical nature of life and death. So hopefully it will happen in a second season. If we don’t have a second season, I’ll put everything on Twitter and everything will be available to everyone. We will tie everything.
If everything is truly cyclical, perhaps technically we won’t have a second season of the midnight clubbut rather a “new” series called The Curse of Briarcliff Hospice. Or perhaps, taking inspiration from the sand of an hourglass, we could call it days of our lives. Wait, no, that might already be busy.
The first (so far) season of the midnight club this is available for streaming (opens in a new tab) in its entirety and you can find many more upcoming netflix tv shows to see when you’re done. Or simply come to our Program of the first TV 2022 to see what else is happening on the small screen.
Source: Cinemablend
