Mike Flanagan kept his word and revealed answers to burning questions from the cliffhanger ending of “The Midnight Club,” following Netflix’s decision to cancel the show after one season.
Written by Executive Producer and Co-Creator Friday Tumblr post. He shared on the heels of Thursday’s news that Netflix has elected not to pick up “The Midnight Club” for a second season, just as Flanagan and producing partner Trevor Macy moved their overall deal from Netflix to Amazon.
“The Midnight Club,” which launched on October 7, consisted of 10 episodes, the first of which broke the world record for most creepy jumpsuits in a TV episode.
Flanagan took great care to outline his plans for the second season, as well as highlighting the main mysteries of the first season, the largest being the identities of the terminally ill Mirror Man and the towering woman he constantly sees. Residents of Brightcliff, Elanka (Iman Benson) and Kevin (Egby Rigney) are cast in the first season.
“They were Stanley Oscar Freelan and his wife, who built Brightcliffe (fun trivia, it’s named after the real-life Oscar Stanley Freelan, who built my favorite hotel in America—the Stanley Hotel. The Stanley Hotel is also the inspiration for “THE” Flanagan wrote. “But more than That… There’s a reason Ilonka only sees Stanley in the mirror, and she sees a cataract woman whenever she looks at Kevin. That’s another thing we took from Pike’s original book… These aren’t ghosts, but glimpses of past lives. Ilonka Stanley was Oscar Freelan, and Kevin She was his wife. They’ve lived many lives this way, and they’re true soul friends—they always find each other, they always fall in love. In this life, they knew it would be short, so they agreed to find each other in the house they built.”
Flanagan revealed that over the course of the season, first Amesh (Sauriyan Sapkota), then Natsuki (Aya Furukawa), then Kevin, then Ilonka, with Spence (Chris Sumpter) leaving the toll upon a positive response to HIV treatment. Cheri (Adia) will be the only member of the Midnight Club, who we’ve known since the beginning of the series, left among a new group of teens, telling the story of her now-dead friends.
Flanagan, who also created “The Haunting of Hill House” and “The Haunting of Bly Manor,” writes, “When Shadow comes for Ilonka, and gives her this understanding—this ‘remembering’—she realizes she has nothing to fear.” She and Kevin are about these characters and they will be reborn, and they both have the joy of finding another way.”
It also could have been revealed as to why hospice owner Dr. Stanton is shown to be bald with strange tattoos in the final moments of Season 1: “Dr. Stanton is actually the daughter of the original Paragon cult leader, Asisu. Her nickname was Athena,” writes the Paragon Journal that Ilonka found. [Season 1]. She turned on her mother and helped the children escape, but because she was part of the cult in her teenage years, she had tattoos.”
Flanagan continued, “She wears a wig at the end [Season 1] Not for an evil reason, but because she is undergoing chemotherapy. Dr. Stanton has cancer. Having helped many people deal with the disease, she now has to deal with it herself. Her treatment will be successful, and she will go into remission, but having to face that – while taking care of the station children at Brightcliff – will be a very introspective arc for Stanton.”
Flanagan says of the plot point he was “most excited” to explore in season two of “Midnight Club,” which is based on the book Remember Me by Christopher Pike, the YA author whose work inspired the entire series.
“Remember Me” is one of my all-time favorite Pike books — it tells the story of a teenage girl who is pushed off a balcony, Flanagan writes, and awakens as a ghost “as a way of trying to help Kevin hang on a little longer.” She has to deal with being a spirit while trying to solve her own murder. . We were going to expand this story over five episodes. We were going to use it as a way for Ilonka to try and come to terms with the fact that she’s going to die, and start trying to wrap her head around being a ghost…but here’s the coolest part… Ilonka won’t be playing the main character in Ilonka’s story. You will play it … Anya.
Flanagan says he wanted to find a significant way to bring the deceased Anya (Ruth Codd) back into season two: “Because that’s how we live, right? In the minds of those we leave behind.” Elonka will use “Remember Me” as a way to imagine her dear friend Anya, waking up as a ghost. and sail into the afterlife.”
And last but not least, Flanagan gives the full answer to the “living shadow” that seemed to haunt Anya when she died in season one. Read this disclosure in full below.
At the end of the season, Kevin will die… followed shortly by Elonca. As she is dying, two things will happen. First, she’ll find herself talking to Janitor, played by Robert Longstreet…and she’ll find out something.
is death. And nothing to be afraid of. It turns out that no one else has seen this character before. Stanton has a cleaning service, nurse practitioners make up the rooms – the only people who’ve seen this mysterious janitor are the patients. It is death, and he offers them kind words before they die. Then what was the shadow?
This is an idea we take straight from the Remember Me book, and we’ll see it fleshed out in the final moments of Ilona’s final tale. In Bayek’s book, Shari is pursued by a dark entity called the Shadow. When you finally catch her, it turns out that it’s not such a bad thing at all.
shade themselves. It is the unknown. As he engulfs someone, in the final moment of their lives, he takes them to a place of understanding and catharsis, preparing them for the next step.
This is what happened to Anya in Season 1 when Shadow finally reached her – which is why she fantasized about a life outside of Brightcliffe, which eventually allowed her to come to terms with her death. It looks different for everyone, depending on how they think – because they are just extensions of themselves.
The shadow is just the final catharsis, the return to our original form – it is a moment of true understanding, and once we experience it, we move on to the next place.
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