>Midnight Mass (2021)
This mini series is one of the best I have seen in years. It is fantastic. Anyone else watched this recently?
>Midnight Mass (2021)
>Midnight Mass (2021)
This mini series is one of the best I have seen in years. It is fantastic. Anyone else watched this recently?
whats it about
It is one of those you can't say much about without spoiling it. There is a group of people on a small island and they get a new priest after the old guy is taken ill and he seems very cool but something strange is happening on the island too. That is all I could say. Give it a try.
oh and he's a vampire and there's a major vampire who he believes is an angel
Its about having a character monolgue for 5 minutes (not joking) and be a preachy homosexual about their personal views (the writers) in some cathtic way followed by another monologue about the most reddit view of religion or addiction or what happens after we die.
Get better taste this show told you how to feel every step of the way, first 2 episodes were alright but falls so far after that. Priest was GOAT acting though, and only his scenes mattered, everything else was just gay fluff
Stephen King's Salem's lot, there done.
Based and truth-pilled. It's a crappy woke version of Salem's Lot, with the one non White guy on the island being the most moral of them all, the lesbo doctor being smarter than everyone else, the prostitute single mom being super moral, etc.
thats nonsesne the MC sacrificed himself to save them all, the dad was MVP, the sheriff was good too, the Righteous girl killed the monster, the kids escapes, one white one black, it really seems odd to call this show in anyway woke, you want to discuss its approach to religion and christianty and islam in particular sure, but modern "wokeness" is not apparent
Muslims and an atheist heckin #resist evil Christians on a tiny island
you are a very dumb person, maybe watch a show before commenting on it
It's basically Bloodborne
Your Mom, Oy Vey
christians bad, atheists good in between skull numbing monologues
The priest was great but every fricking episode was a long spiel about some inane pseudointellectual drivel, worst of all being a nearly 20 minute spiel on "dude death lmao" by that israeliteess who was fricking the producer or director or whatever.
I actually agree with RLM on this. The complaints about the monologues are over the top. The israeliteess was cringe, I agree. Her pseudo Hinduism Alan Watts speech in the last episode is the worst. The other conversations are good though. I like the one where the main guy and the priest are talking and promise total honesty and the guy says he is jealous of the priest. Their AA meetings are pure kino.
>Her pseudo Hinduism Alan Watts speech in the last episode is the worst.
It's literally the only positive spin on death that isn't pure cope.
Not him but it's massively outside of her character which I found took me out of it.
>it's massively outside of her character
I recognize it was clearly the author speaking through her. That said, why's it unusual for the sulking child of the town teacher to be pseudy like that?
>Regeneration is a standard vampire power.
Yeah if you watch anime or play videogames, less so for normies. Go ahead and ask your parents about vampires.
Be also aware of this: Pruitt has been poisoning the whole town with the angel's blood for quite a while before that reveal. It's safe to say they're being somewhat manipulated by it, the series makes frequent references to it fricking with the psyche of those who drink its blood.
Anyway, I understand your gripe with the realism of it. But it's a TV show about vampires posing as an angel. You're setting yourself up for disappointment if you go in expecting total commitment to making it as realistic as possible. It's just horror-flavoured melodrama, not The Wire with vampires.
>why's it unusual for the sulking child of the town teacher to be pseudy like that?
She may have had her doubts but she was Christian. You don't suddenly let go of your beliefs as you're dying, if anything you cling onto them.
I think those beliefs are reconcilable with Christianity somewhat. But maybe I'm being too liberal about it.
You are being very liberal. I and the screenwriter have very similar backgrounds and her final speech was meant to contrast with her original speech about death, heavily implying she no longer believes she's going to heaven for basically no reason.
thats not true she says she still has faith that she will, but accepts that their is a possibility she's wrong
Maybe I'm misremembering but I remember being very annoyed at the contrast between Islam and Christianity at the end. She is basically doubting everything she believes in her last moments, the town is illustrating that it's more important to get each other's forgiveness than god's, and meanwhile the Muslims have stronger faith than ever. It undercuts the whole message. The writer treats Islam as somehow different than Christianity because it's exotic, a mistake many anti-religious types make. The Muslims basically show what I would expect religious people to do while dying while everyone else is acting out as the screenwriter's mouthpiece.
you are misremembering the ones who hold to their faith still hold to it even after being forceibly turned choosing to embrace the sun, the girl as I said believes and dies believing, you might want to rewatch that last ep you seem to be mixing things up, also its the muslim kid who volunteers to be turned first so idk why you'd think its biased towards islam
I don't think you're really grasping my points
I think I am, the Muslim guy wasn't any more or less "right" then the christians, both the true believes and those not brainwashed understood they were dealing with a demon, even after being turned many of the townsfolk held onto their faith
>the Muslims (muslim theirs only one left) have stronger faith than ever (in comparison to the christians
yea I really don't see that
Where does she say she still has faith?
https://www.reddit.com/r/HauntingOfHillHouse/comments/pxw74y/midnight_mass_final_soliloquy_about_the_nature_of/
the entire speech, what? she is saying their is more their is life beyond she doesn't know how it works just that she believes their is more to us and to life then we can see
Are you okay?
yea, you?
>It's safe to say they're being somewhat manipulated by it
And yet the old lady who de-ages has no trouble denying him. The issue is not that some people go along with it. It's that everybody goes along with it outside of the small handful of protagonists. This is despite the fact that the show begins with a town who mostly does not attend church. If it were only the handful of devotees who accepted the ludicrousness of what the priest is spouting, it'd be one thing. But the whole town just agrees to mass suicide over the course of a few weeks.
>You're setting yourself up for disappointment if you go in expecting total commitment to making it as realistic as possible.
?
Vampires taking over a small town is a story that's been done a thousand times over. You can have that story without turning every single character into a moron.
>This is despite the fact that the show begins with a town who mostly does not attend church.
It clearly gets more popular over time for reasons shown in the show.
>And yet the old lady who de-ages has no trouble denying him.
You have to look at what happened prior to that.
The priest and main guy were the best and the show declined hard after about episode 5 for obvious reasons. The main guy particularly was really well written and relateable.
>The main guy particularly was really well written and relateable.
Go back
Where to friend?
jail
Yeah, the AA meetings were good, but Shekelsheila was just too much. It was like 15 minutes of rambling and it was obviously because she was fricking someone running the show so they gave her a shitload of screen time the show just didn't need.
It was okay. Started off very strong and kind of withered away by the end.
The guy playing the priest was great.
I tried the directors other shows. Didn't like Hill House and dropped Bly Manor about 20 minutes in because of how bad the accents were.
So compared to those, Midnight Mass is a masterpiece.
They were too broad. They simply say 'monologues are good' and 'disliking monologues dumb' when the truth is that, some are are good pieces of character work and some are masturbatory garbage that should not be here.
This. I could only stand the show because the priest actor and character was fricking great, the rest....people dont talk with monologues all the time holy shit
holy shit yes that fricking monologue was an actual chore. you think "ok the guy went on a bit but that's it over at least" and the kate fricking siegel starts yapping and it made me want to drop the show then and there, even though I didn't.
she's in absolutely everything Flanagan does because she's his wife and I'm accustomed to that but that monologue crossed the line, honestly.
I wonder when he writes these long wined dialogues he fist punches the air. He needs a Patrice Oneal type figure to tell him this is horseshit, keep the speeches strictly one on one AA meetings and the church, also cut them in half. At the end of the day we're here to entertained not lectured.
see for me its not being lectured its like reading a book and the author goes on a rant, where you agree with it or not, and the characters listening to this rant may or may not agree with it, its still a great read and an interesting approach, doesn't matter if you agree with that particular characters point of view but their POV is presented well, that's what I liked about MM it wasn't biased at all no-one was disparaged except that church carer lady frick her, evil b***h
I hated how the director spent the last episode on anyone but the priest. I only cared about him and his storyline and yet they were all sidelined so we can see the director's wife talk about shit and strong brave girl escape with her boyfriend. God it was so annoying.
boring trash
Great concept but you have to be a huge pretentious homosexual to enjoy the execution
Some of the execution is better than others. AA meetings were kino. The priests pulpit speeches were pure unadulterated kinography.
they are called sermons anon and yes they were pure kino give that man more roles where he gives big speeches he's really fricking good at it
Lol yes the term sermon escaped me. I felt myself shrink back in my seat as he became fore and brimstone.
It is hardly whyte peepo bad. But yeah there is a diverse cast that wins out over everyone else.
>NO, THE COURAGE TO ACCEPT START AGAIN
AA meetings were so fricking good
>yeah there is a diverse cast that wins out over everyone else
Anon they literally all die apart from 2 characters, a white kid and a mixed girl. I don’t know if anyone really “wins”
tbf the religion girl does, she wreaks that evil fricking demon
The twist wasn't very surprising, the story dragged on instead of adding at times but the actors were great, the atmosphere fits and overall it was a good watch. One of the better Netflix shows for sure.
>more anti-Christian shitflix garbage
When did this board become so pozzed?
It was praised by multiple Christian reviewers and even many bishops of the Roman Catholic Church as fair and even handed in its criticisms and opinions.
Ok hooknose.
Frick this israeli trash.
you have no idea what you're posting about do you?
You're not religious so why do you pretend to care?
man get over yourself, not every piece of media needs to cater to your mythology. There's thousands of shows and movies out there chock full of normalizing being a christian. Go watch something else. moron.
but it does cater to your propaganda atheistcuck.
no it doesn't, at all, its very balanced
As an actual christian (not an internet larper like you) there was very little anti christian sentiment if any
>As an actual christian (not an internet larper like you) there was very little anti christian sentiment if any
When's the last time you even opened up a bible buddy
>As an actual christian
t. supports gays and trannies and immigrants and loves israelites
This Occulus guy has been going downhill for awhile now, never was that great to begin with
>priest sees an obvious demon vampire and thinks its an angel and somehow convinces other people that the obvious monster is an angel
>add a bunch of high school drama level monologues for excitement
wow what a great story
you didn't watch the show eh? dumb frick stop larping as a christian you aren't
im not larping, i just actually follow Christ's teachings
and of course i didn't watch the show, it's on netflix and its about evil priests and it looks boring
why would a Christian watch this?
you are moronic, and trying to comment and discuss something you haven't watched, you complete idiot, why would a christian not watch this? you can't answer because you didn't fricking watch it you stupid child
>I just actually
no you don't you are blaspheming with every post you make, you are not christian at all, but thats ok, you can be saved now repeat after me
>I am sorry for my sins Jesus I accept you as the son of GOD and my salvation, please forgive my transgressions (i.e. this means your sins) and help, amen
I think that's all you might be capable of right now, but go ahead and try it, clear your mind and more importantly your heart and ask for forgiveness and help, He is their just for You, every day all day
point out the blasphemy, please
you are calling yourself a christian and call the father an evil priest. trying to discuss a show you haven't watched, if you were raised christian which is possible you have strayed you have strayed far. Ask for guidance from the Lord seriously, or just go back to your atheist hateful shitposting without context or relevance
i don't think you know what blasphemy means
it is a serious term
the priest in the show is serving an evil entity
it doesn't serve Christ in any way to look into it any further
i don't care about the 'nuance' of a show about evil monsters
yes it is serious and you are guilty of it, I understand your only knowledge of christianty is from shit you've maybe hopefully read not actual experience, so you don't really get it, but yea you've blasphemes multiple times, but you never cursed the...well that ones not forgivable so not going to say it. you didn't do THAT so ok, still you have blasphemed, I don't think you understand what your talking about
>You totally did blaspheme
>No I am not elaborating on that
>Trust me you totally did
I am not even anon or a Christian but frick you are scummy
I pingted out exactly where anon plasphemed because you have no idea what you are talking about you don't understand what I am talking about, thats ok too, I'm not judjing just odd that people akak You and the one I was responding too have no idea what they are talking about and yet felt they can contribute or even argue various points, do you understand you have no fricking clue what you are trying to discuss? do you comprehend that even a little?
t. still no argument
people notice this in real life, too, anon
>still no argument
while I made a complete and coherent argument for that exact point, but go ahead and ignore it, because you can't even read let alone discuss your lack of faith in a conductive manner
so you refuse to point out any way I've blasphemed in this thread
because I haven't
you also have no argument against anything else I've said in the thread
people notice this, anon
an argument to refute what? you have done nothing but waffle on about things that do not happen in this show. Its bizarre, and you have blasphemed multiple times here is one example
>i just actually follow Christ's teachings
no you clearly don't you liar thats blaspheme
t. does not know what blaspheme means and/or is too arrogant to admit he was wrong
i'm glad to hear it, anon
and everyday
this is either bait or protestant moronation. probably both
>protestant
catholic you stupid moron
the unforgivable sin is protestant moronation, yes
there is nothing you can say that is unforgivable, only an act is unforgivable, suicide, and that is because you get no time to ask for forgiveness.
no the unforgivable sin is not obviously you can beg for forgiveness anyway, but one is taboo just one, dont do it, simple as
you won't say it, its not on to say it m8 never has been never will be God will be pissed at you, and suicide is forgivable but only through Jesus. Gods not happy with that shit
meant for
obviously
Huh? Do you have any idea what you are talking about anon
si
Well you are incorrect. Maybe read the bible. Or just stop larping.
>just read the bible loooooooooooooooool
just read the cathechism larper
Suicide is not unforgivable according to catholic doctrine. There is one unforgivable sin and you did not name it. You are a larper, stop.
>it says right there in the bible that whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven therefore that is unforgivable
>look at me ma, me a barely literate 21 century man can perfectly interpret a holy text that is more than a millennia old, aint I smart ma?????
literally just open the catechism moron
nothing worse than a moron on a high horse
Post the catechism if you are so familiar with it anon :^)
""Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven."136 There are no limits to the mercy of God, but anyone who deliberately refuses to accept his mercy by repenting, rejects the forgiveness of his sins and the salvation offered by the Holy Spirit.137 Such hardness of heart can lead to final impenitence and eternal loss. "
The reason why suicides werent allowed a christian burial is exactly this.
Post the catechism please anon
cc1864
Soooooo the one that says sinning against the holy spirit is unforgivable? So when i said you were wrong by saying there is only 1 unforgivable sin i was in fact... Correct. Thanks anon ^.^
yeah keep being obtuse
> There are no limits to the mercy of God
>no limits
the sin is not asking for forgiveness, thats it. its unforgivable because you dont want to be forgiven.
Im confused you originally made the claim the only unforgivable sin was suicide. Now you are massively changing your tune. Very peculiar
and i said why it was unforgivable right? because you cant ask for forgiveness
funny how you suddenly arent cryptic about it huh
I support nome of those things. Tell me anon when's the last time you opened a bible? Congregated? Prayed?
this
no real Christianity you larping homosexuals
some reddit critic complained that it was Christian propaganda
Anglin said it’s the best thing he’s seen in years. Only reason I’m torrenting it.
it's just vampires
total waste of time
Vampires , Christianity , eternal life and DMT references all in the one show . Not bad if you pick up what's being put down.
/x/ related..
Scripture and theology debates and references in the show were kino too.
are you dumb?
it was angels
>aww this thing that looks like a demon is sucking my blood and killing me
>i know, it must be an angel!
Really? How moronic to the writers think we are?
He was coping moron.
So are you for thinking this steaming pile of shit is "kino"
I can handwave the priest being manipulated by the dracula blood. Doesn't explain why the entire town went along with it. Only makes sense in a universe where no one knows what a vampire is.
>Doesn't explain why the entire town went along with it.
Seeing their priest de-age 50 years and seeing a cripple walk helped.
If you told someone in 2010 that most of the world would take an experimental vaccine for a disease with a sub 2% lethality rate, they would think that's unrealistic too.
Regeneration is a standard vampire power. Again, either everyone in the town is an absolute moron, or this is some parallel universe where nobody has heard of Dracula. Literally nobody questions the fact that this guy compulsively drinks blood and can't expose himself to sunlight.
>or this is some parallel universe where nobody has heard of Dracula.
Probably, no one ever mentions vampires.
>Regeneration is a standard vampire power. Again, either everyone in the town is an absolute moron, or this is some parallel universe where nobody has heard of Dracula.
This happened well before the vampire was introduced they all just assumed it was gods power. When the vamp is introduced is when they all should run away in fear.
A handful of people come into the priest's house where he has murdered a man and drank his blood and now can't be touched by sunlight without literally sizzling. Not one of them thinks, "Hey, this is kind of like a vampire a little bit." The main dude gets attacked by the flying vampire, it drinks his blood and he is infected and now compulsively wants to drink blood. Not once does he mention to anyone that this sort of feels like how vampires have literally always worked.
>You have to look at what happened prior to that.
Nothing happened prior to that. She didn't like his sermon. Quite the powerful mind control effect that can be immediately and forever undone by having a mildly different interpretation of scripture.
they literally saw someone come back from the dead
yes they do figuring out the blood and exposure to sunlight is key to them understanding whats going on
>they literally saw someone come back from the dead
Yeah, vampires tend to do that. That's what's implied by being a member of the undead.
>yes they do figuring out the blood and exposure to sunlight is key to them understanding whats going on
You're moronic. I'm not saying they couldn't figure out how to kill the vampires, I'm saying it's so unbelievably obvious that he's a vampire that it never should have gone that far. Even the atheist never stops to suggest that maybe it's a vampire.
>Yeah, vampires tend to do that
Ever heard of Jesus? Lazarus?
Yeah, they walked around in the sunlight and didn't compulsively drink blood.
>its obvious to the audience, not to the participants
Right, because they are written as morons. The audience doesn't see anything the main dude doesn't see.
uh no what? the main dude sees the vampire and gets turned he comes back to AA and sees the vampire, before that all he "knew" was something odd is going on and the Father is lying about something, what that something is he doesn't know until he sees the vampire
its obvious to the audience, not to the participants until its almost too, late, well really it is too late, but they only know 1/2 way through the last ep, the general population that is the others are figuring it out and kinda get it by about ep6, for obvious reasons
and most of the town nopes the frick out, but not all, he got enough of them, the rest are like
>uh no thats a fricking demon I am not killing myself go to hell
To be sure, it felt like this world did not have vampire legends, possibly because the creatures actually exist in small numbers and took care to not reveal their existence.
in such a world that had never heard of vampires, if you heard of consuming the blood of some winged creature could allow the crippled to walk and bring back the dead, the first thing you'd think would be some biblical/Christ analogy as well.
Its the only way Midnight Mass makes sense because otherwise even the dimmest of bulbs would've been thinking "wait, our priest brought back a motherfricking *vampire*??"
>Really? How moronic to the writers think we are?
Christians are morons mate. Demon with monster wings is an angel. Thats how dumb Christians are in this show.
back to plebbit Black person
apparently it's the director's magnum opus, in which case I feel sorry for him. It's a better show than most for sure, but it's good at best. Too many weak moments drag down the good, and the ending didn't land
the muslim chief was a good actor but pretty cringey
Is this actually good or does it just fall back on the lazy AHA! CHRISTIANITY WAS THE REAL DEMON ALL ALONG! trope?
Not at all, it handles faith very well. It is a really slow burn and the first episode or two does look like it'll do that, but it doesn't
no not at all, for instance its the one with Faith who ends up stopping the evil
It doesnt do that but its still shit. It paints christians as sheepish followers that will follow someone making promises even if it means killing and drinking blood. The story isnt what makes it bad, its the non stop monologues that would never happen in real life, no one talks for 5 min straight without someone interjecting.
thats not true at all the old women immediately rejects the priest when she hears his sermon, same with the main family who are also devote and the MC girl of course
>Ignores the entire rest of the island that mindlessly follow
again no its about 1/2 the others refuse to take the coolaid and get attacked by the turned when they wake up ,did you even watch it?
It was a minority of the island that did the Jonestown shit in the church
>AHA! CHRISTIANITY WAS THE REAL DEMON ALL ALONG! trope?
thats literally what its all about.
No its not
Midnight Mass > Haunting of Hill House >>>>> Bly Manor
After Bly Manor I'm shocked he was allowed to make anything else, I've never seen a show shit the bed so hard in my life. I literally couldn't sleep the night I finished it because it made me so mad and I had to write down all the ways it pissed me off
post the written down stuff
I never finished it. I got to like episode 7 and stopped watching.
I was enjoying it though.
Maybe I shouldn't finish it
you stopped on the last ep did you? ok this is totally believable and not some tarded npc trying to fit it, nope you genuinely watched up to the 2nd to last ep and then dropped it, you utter homosexual
You've never put down a show and forgot to continue watching it because you weren't that interested?
on the last ep? for a show like this? no you are saying you watched 7 and then noped out on the finale you fricking liar
7 isn't the finale.
It's 9 episodes long.
I stopped watching on the flashback episode.
I think your post singlehandedly put most of Cinemaphile's shitposting into perspective for me, thank you.
>blacks good
>trannies good
>men bad
>church bad
>priests bad
>jews good
>religion scarry!!!!
Yeah, do yourself a favor Cinemaphile and give this a wide berth.
literally none of that happens in the show.
So fricking boring. The dialogue is comically bad. Le ebin grimdark stiff humorless horror movie, many such cases.
>soi horror good
when did Cinemaphile become full of soihorror fans
yea I liked it, the priest was the standout of course
>Church bad #2284857185829-B
yawn
Don't forget, chuch bad, non Whites good, lesbians good, prostitute single moms good, White people EVIL! Typical Wokeflix TRASH.
again thats bullshit, the drunkard white guy was portrayed as a good guy so was the drug dealer for that matter, the sherrif for instance was timid and unsure of himself ad so by negilgance helped with the downfall, in a similar way the parents of the black kid were so overjoyed their daughter was "healed" they bought into the cool-aid %100, its like you never watched the show and just are reiterating talking points you heard on leddit or twitter or something
I liked it but I couldn't call it the best, some things just didn't work for me. But a good amount of talent went into making it.
It's kind of nice that Mike Flanagan has a pretty identifiable style now and you know that if you've seen one of his creations, you're probably going to like the others. Would be good if modern horror had more personalities like him, even though he's not perfect.
I hate this show and regret watching it. No I will not watch the newest midwit horror netflix trash that the director is in the process of shitting out.
>it's so BORING
>they're so STUPID
>why did they burn all the buildings down?
>why didn't they just dig holes or hide?
>the ending was so DUMB
how do I show them the light?
how the frick are they going to dig holes in the few hours until sunlight, they burned the houses so they would have no shelter, wtf? you are DUMB and STUPID
I watched it and yes did enjoy it. for me, it's Hamish Linklater. just go watch Legion, he's in it. completely different tone, but Legion is also good (if not bizarre)
oh yea I completely forgot he's in that, he's great in that too, really good actor, that man can deliver a monologue like no-one else
and Fargo, and The Stand
Best part was when the Muslim cop said he couldn't investigate the church because he experience racism after 9/11. Who ever wrote that should get shot out a cannon.
Truth. This shitty show was full of moronic leftist propaganda jammed down your fricking throat, with the plot stolen directly from Salem's Lot, and King did it better, without woke shit.
My favorite part of that whole thing is that Flanagan is a moron who doesn't know that Sheriff is an elected position. So the evil white racist citizens elected a brown Muslim guy as Sheriff. They don't care about the script at all they'll write any ridiculous thing to push woke bullshit.
Yeah I liked it. The guy playing the pastor carried the show hard.
>rural white christianity......... bad
goyslop, subscribing to netflix is equivalent to subscribing to blacked.com
My ass would have gotten off that island pronto. Even if the bad guys called off the ferry. My ass would have gotten a raft or a pool floaty or the canoe the boy had, and gotten the frick far away knowing that come nighttime shit was going down.
at least get to cat island and wait out the night
This show would have been good if not for the most pretentious and longest speech in all of fiction.
Besides the younger brother and the cripple girl, did the vampire survive?
no it didn't make it to shore
no thats why the crippled girl became crippled again, the vampire died its power died with it
Last year. Priest gave one of the best performances ever.
Sucks for the teen survivors. Their families are all dead, no money or anything, and they’ve been raised on the island their whole lives. Plus the girl is cripple again.
they'd get plenty of government benefits their whole town died they'd be setup
If you google Midnight Mass on the archive we were discussing it nonstop when it first released.
Be sure to check out The Midnight Club when it comes out in a few days, same director.
That looks like super shit and pozzed version of a good kid series.
The trailer looked pozzed at first, but near the end you can sort of see shit starting to get real. I'm guessing most of the scares in the trailer were/are going to be fakeouts.
It's a great comedy
this whole thing is obvious a vampire story from the start and yet almost everyone becomes a victim of their own illusions except for a few for whom this becomes a religious horror story. it's legit great
Bly Manor is the best one and no one talks about it
it better be, really liked Midnight Mass so I was thinking of checking it out, you better not be lying to me anon, this is the internet you don't lie here
Not him and haven't seen it, but it's based on the driest gothic horror story ever written and the original story isn't really even about ghosts but on the horrors of (suspected) child grooming and corruption.
watching the trailer I assumed that was what was going on, anyway once its out might see it, really did like MM so maybe
No, it's fricking awful. It's shockingly bad compared to Haunting Of Hill House even though it's the same cast and almost the same story
yea I never watched that shit, serialized garbage although I understand his season was hated because it took a different direction, good, maybe I'll check it out sometime, really sounds like you got filtered hard, good so the house season he directed is good? good
The priest was the only good thing, since he can fricking deliver a monologue. The rest were all terrible, especially the sandnog and the stupid b***h who can't act but gets casted because she's Flanagan's wife
the sherriff and the MC were the 2nd and 3rd best actors everyone else was really good as well, the MC girl was good, she couldn't do the monologues as well as the others mentioned but she still was pretty good at it
>the stupid b***h who can't act but gets casted because she's Flanagan's wife
This needs to stop, shes in all of his shitty movies and shows and ofcourse shes shit in all of them.
shes ot terrible, shes not as good as the Father of course, the MC the Sherrif, the crazy b***h woman, the father, and well so on, but she's not that bad, she just isn't up to the level of the rest of the cast, which are stellar
The father guy is good, I just really hate the writing in this show. Flannigan sniffs his own farts too much. He's afraid to write a straight drama so instead does "horror" or horror light in my opinion. Not sure why these directors are ashamed of the horror genre. After the 3rd monologue I just skipped all her scenes and all boring monologues.
The scene where there on the sofa talking about god and death is early youtube debate bullshit we have all heard a million times.
I don't think you hate this show at all, I think you got offended at the religion vs atheist slant, I did not regardless of the director who is clearly going through a crisis of faith irl, and he is putting his crisis on screen coupled with some pretty great stories, its fascinating to watch. Btw I am christina and pray daily, its between me and Jesus none of your bosinuss, but this show is coming from a guy whos been "disenfranchised" by the idea of God and is struggling to deal with that, just like his characters who have gone through some heinous shit, I like it
Hi christina
os that the name of the female MC, eh w/e I didn't mind her but then some of you seem to be coming from house on haunted hill or american horror stories or something, never watched those never watched any of this guys stuff until MM and I liked it, I liked it a lot
lol sure why not, that was a dumbass typo on my part, eh im drinking
>I am christina
YWNBAW
But I'm an atheist homosexual, so why would I be alarmed at the criticism of Christianity? I just hated the speeches. I can watch a movie pick apart a religion as long it gives me what I want. Horror in a horror show is all I wanted. If you haven't already you should read Salem's lot
I have read salme lot and mayn SK novels I really like the hack, I was the one to first post on this board that its similar, but its not the same at all, its a very well constructed story with a great cast crew, and everything, have you read salems lot? or any SK novel? have you ever read anything?
I watched it. It wasn't that fantastic. the first 5 episodes are intriguing, but as soon as they make the reveal on episode 5, it all becomes predictable, and the series loses what kept the viewers watching. the final 2 episodes is just you wishing it to end already.
think again
>associating queerness with villainy and deviancy
It's amazong how homosexuals will reveal their true intentions if you give them the slightest opportunity
No it is wasn't it was trash
Review the batman mike
are you trying to reference some homosexual yt dipshit? why are you even posting you homosexual? thats pathetic, either watch the how and then critic it or frick off, you absolute zoomy wanker
The part where all the vampires get over their initial bloodlust and start feeling remorse over all their murders really got to me.
that whole scene is great, and then they go out almost apologetically trying to explain t
>that's its a good thing come one just do it we love you
Its so fricked up, good stuff.
>Yeah yeah yeah vampires, whatever. Can we talk about how American Muslims were the real victims of 9/11?
it was one scene in a plethora of scenes that explained that character and why he was their, you need to stop getting butthurt over actual writing, you are confusing a real normal story with actual writing it with incompetent woke writing shit that you zoomies have been bombarded with, I understand you poor fricks are brainwashed and trying to get out of it but you really don't get it at all. I do feel for you I really do. Its just you can't pay attention the google machine has ruined you
That's unironically what it was like.
no it unironically wasn't anything like that, stop samegayging
>the town is in trouble can you, the sheriff, protect us?
>let me tell you why i'm not going to do my job. it all started two decades ago on 9/11...
>*20 minutes later* ... so you see even though nearly everyone in this town has been nice to me, including you woman asking for help, there are like two of you who are dickheads so frick you all
>and yes my son goes to this church too, but lets ignore that because the script says you came to me for this monologue and nothing more
It really makes you think, doesn't it? The funny thing is Wokeflix tried to make it seem like that muslim guy was the best person in the whole town, and all the Whites were portrayed as worthless drunk buttholes.
he's a nobod "hserrif" ina town with one cop, his office is in the back of the convenience store, seriously its like you "critics" really have no idea what you are talking about and are just reiterating your also clueless YT homosexuals who "reviewed" this show
The ending should’ve been him jihading the vampire cult
I’d have given it 6 stars out of 5 if they’d actually done that
eh a bomb would've been moronic and waaaay to on the nose, after all this nuanced character set up NO, the sherif've never done that, dumbfrick idea, besides that woud've killed everyone, as in the whole world or at least the shore town, the vamp was gone he took the old lady and flew off by that point, sheriff was trying to save his son, failed miserably but that was his goal
she's trying to get his support, irl you have to sit through a persons diatribe while they convince themselves they need to help
I know because of the style of show this is it wouldn't happen, but she should have realized he wasn't going to help her and just got up and left in the middle of that.
you mean the MC? he was fricked and chose the best option to save his waifu, in a similar vie the sheriff knew he was fricked and went for revenge for his son, as you do
You made no argument and I've never seen a negative YT review of this show.
I also don't hate the show. That scene is just nonsense.
I also left out how the woman asking for help is doing so with a some urgency and then sits there quietly for several minutes while this guy says a bunch of nothing at her.
No I did make an argument you just didn't read it, just like you didn't pay any attention to the show
Did anyone else cringe when the mixed race girl goes to that drunk guys house to tell him she forgives him? Its scenes like that make me believe the writer sniffs his own farts.
It was so well acted by the drunk guy that it worked.
>Carries your show
Now imagine if he wasn't in this. Would you still like it?
If they got an actor just as good as him to deliver his lines then yes
it's great but the ending is shit
it starts loosing steam around episode 5
>that 30 minute monologue scene where he levels up atheism to 100
For me it's the montage where Holly Holy plays. Where the miracle is working and everyone on the island is happy. Ultrakino show.
Also Riley was literally me.
How did the priest not realise the moment he met the angel that it's actually a vampire?
I think it was Romero rules where the V word doesn't exist in their universe
It was okay, better than Bly Manor but that was an absolute hunk of shit that should've never been released. Midnight Mass should have been 4 episodes and had some plot lines drastically cut, and any monologue over 30 seconds besides the AA meeting should have been immediately axed.
It was a fricking chore towards the end, that midwit speech about death was fricking awful.
>them trying to science fricking vampires
awful. Also, what is this directors obsession with lesbians in literally everything he makes.
>>them trying to science fricking vampires
Why they always try to do that.
Either you go all the way and make them completely mundane or you don't even try to address the scientific plausibility of fricking vampires. Trying to do both always result in shit.
>It's totally an explainable parasite with a totally explainable psychic bond between victims
>Trying to do both always result in shit.
okay
I am legend literally went all the way into making them mundane anon that's the point. They were just a weird disease. Nobody in I Am Legend had superpowers or telepathy.
Excellent book. Shame about the wildly popular abysmal adaptation.
That quote,
Dracula is such a shit book not even horror just boring gothic romance.
at least it goes out the window the moment she sees fricking nosferatu, because I sure would like to see how that motherfricker gets science explained.
>because I sure would like to see how that motherfricker gets science explained.
I'd settle for an explanation how he got that trunk through customs from the Holy Land.
I think its mentioned he took a boat on some half a year journey.
question I have is the frick is the vampire? he feeds like an animal, and doesn't seem exactly all the way there, so how did the fricking Priest dress him up like a goddamn bishop, or convince him to get in the trunk
>I think its mentioned he took a boat on some half a year journey.
I still don't find that very plausible but it reminds me this potential kino is on the way.
I don't think it would have worked in only 4 episodes. Even though I loved Salem's Lot, even the 3hr20m version doesn't feel long enough to really build the characters and the threat.
>We're having THE meeting
This was peak kino
aye
he was in massive cope and also in late stage dementia and also starved and water deprived when he encountered the "angel" he was trying so hard to fix his town he saw it as his 2nd ultimate chance to fix the island, hubris, his sin was hubris
Overall I liked it. A few problems like how no one on the island recognised the priest just because he had de-aged. You show the vampire priest burns only in direct sunlight ...so what's stopping the vampires simply erecting a cloth tent or finding shade to survive till nighttime?
that age makeup was so fricking awful I instantly knew mommy doctor was going to de-age in episode 1.
I prefer chapelwaite even though they did the whole black man fricks daughter meme.
He never got to frick her. So there's that.
It was good. Zero rewatchability for me though. Pretty slow paced in a way that only works when you don’t know what the frick is going on
did you guys actually watch it?half the town didnt wanna get turned and were killed when they saw the vampire
>all religious people can go full Jim Jones and drink the kool-aid, except the heckin atheists and their muzzie pets
dropped
no they don't about 1/4 do, you dumb frick
wasnt it like 50/50?
that being said the last scene is pure kino with Closer to Thee
no it was about 1/4 maybe 1/3 but no-where near close to 1/2, and yes the walk into the sun scene was kino
>atheist b***h gets shot, is literally dying
>refuses to take the vampire aid even though it would literally save her
I could understand if she was trying to deny it for religious purposes, but she wasn't. she was just like, "nah ill just die its okay"
if you mean the MC girl she was killing the vamp while allowing it to drinl her knowing she would turn but thats ok, shes going to kill the evil monster save the kids and dying is ok, because their is Heaven waiting, Jesus wept did anyone actually watch this show?
>if you mean the MC girl
He literally says the atheist. Christ on a bike, can you not read posts?
no, the doctor who gets shot and her father and mother are literally holding her saying drink this eternal life blood, it'll save you and because you have no religious hang ups, why would there be any reluctance?
because she is starting to understand she is dealing with a supernatural force and it would curse her? in her last moments she understood she was wrong, wat?
ah yes, the school of inferring what characters are thinking without a single ounce of evidence, classic.
or all the evidence accumulated through the story and all her dialogue which was apparently just "monologues" for you, so you really didn't get the character at all, no I get it, you don't but your trying thats nice
I don't think you even know what character we're talking about.
the science girl/doctor whos mom was really old until the priest got involved, do you understand what character we are talking about?
I'm glad you looked it up, kindly post a quote where she is at all even somewhat religious or comes to terms with it being in any supernatural in the final 3 episodes
just one sentence will suffice, if you can manage not slobbering all over yourself
you are an idiot, you've already admited you never watched the show, as such you can't understand any sort of nuance in the characters, since you've at best read about them on imdb, you utter pleb homosexual, WATCH WHAT YOU ARE TRYING TO DISCUSS
>still no quote
school of inferring, everyone. keep slobbering
you need to read back through the reply chain this isn't your twitter I'm not going to spoon feed you any more then I have, watch the show yourself or at least actually read the replies that have been posted, you dumb frick
no further back then 1 post, try again zoomy,
<Alan Watts is le good. Him being a notorious alcoholic do not impact any of his heckin based ideaas
I'm also an alcoholic.
yea he really did write some good shit, whats your point?
all decadent westerners are attracted to Buddhism lite, so it makes sense you like him. Spoiler alert, things matter
no i think buddism is utter nonsense stop straw manning and face up to your own issues you dumb homosexual
Watts is literally buddhism lite what are you saying?
>I can't investigate these murders because that one lady at church was mean to me.
>*Extended monologue about racism after 9/11*
Good writing for characters, the priest was very well acted, but overall it doesn't make much sense. It also falls very flat as an allegory for the Church since the plot was only made possible by artificially removing what makes Catholic Church corrupt, but also prevents heresy from happening: the parish is on an isolated island where the priest doesn't have any oversight and can do whatever he likes. In real world the second he starts spouting heresy and subverting people, a bishop goes nuclear on his ass. Otoh they could have made a good allegory if it was about a hierarchy of vampires who cover each other's asses and pose as priests, bishops, nuns, preventing any accountability to anyone outside of the organization.
Also for a show about religion, it gets a lot wrong. The entire Lent (40 days) seemingly passes in what seems like two weeks at most. The Muslims pray at sunrise which is something they're forbidden from doing.
Otoh it did have a very funny, if unplanned, Antisemitic undertones: since the ancient vampire was found in the outskirts of Jerusalem, he had to be a member of a certain ethnic group. From here on his quest to subvert and corrupt a closely knit and peaceful community using Christian religion becomes really funny.
>artificially removing what makes Catholic Church corrupt
Keep sucking off your israeli reporters and their trumped up "scandal"
I'm Polish, we have trad pedophile hunter priests who literally speak out loud about a pedo lobby within the Church that tries to undermine their efforts. And unlike israeli reporters they explicitly name what connects this lobby: their sexual orientation.
wtf has this got to do with this show that you apparently never watched?
Oh, okay. That makes sense. I've noticed Bishops are quick to throw accused priests under the bus regardless of how credible the accusations are or aren't. That's how Cardinal Pell got sentenced before being released so soon.
I mean it's not even subtle if you know your Nazi propaganda
Reminder the writer is basically a teenage atheist with a israeli wife.
>I connected pretty intensely with Buddhism for a few years in there, even seeking out temples in Los Angeles as I tried to further explore it, but ultimately the book that impacted me the most was God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens. That led to Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris. But I found more spiritual resonance reading Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan than I found in two decades of Bible study.
https://www.mikeduran.com/2021/10/02/netflixs-midnight-mass-offers-salvation-without-bite/
>We're all...LE STARDUST!
Oh shit I forget about that bs, this show was cringe at times.
>Everyone yapping about Christians and vampires but ignoring the motherfricking cylon on the island
wait what Starbuck was their? who was the cylon didn't see any of the 13
>Religious people are so stupid!
>Also, you should let this TV show tell you what to think. If you don't like the ten minute expository monologues, that's your problem.
explains why chris pratt triggers him
I know its trite to say, but it was unbearably Reddit
>Look it's an angel 🙂
Just as dumb as Pitbull owners.
Oh no they destroyed all the motorized boats!
On an island only a few miles from shore!
We can’t get out!
Yet another movie that can only exist because white men aren’t the protagonists. Any reasonable white man would’ve just started swimming before nightfall and made it to land in a few hours. That or find some flotsam to use as flotation anyway and dog paddle out past the kill zone. Of course a woman and some minorities would rather just sit around in a house when vampires are stalking them trying to be really quiet. Fricking dumbass series.
>Any reasonable white man would’ve just started swimming before nightfall and made it to land in a few hours.
How cold is the water?
Who cares? Oh the water is too cold! I’m gonna get all wet! Woman problems. Hell if anything just TAKE THE BOAT ANYWAY. So what if the motor is broken, just unmoor it and FLOAT AWAY. Push it off the fricking pier if you have to. THERE ARE FRICKING VAMPIRES RUNNING AROUND. Drift a mile out and DROP ANCHOR.
The fishing community where no one knows how to commandeer a boat if it’s motor is bad. It’s such typical Hollywood libshitism, these people have never even stepped foot on a small island or been in a boat, I can understand if they were helpless in LA but COME THE FRICK ON.
>Lets burn our house's
>Why?
>Reasons
>Oh no its sunlight lets hide in our hou---
This was so fricking dumb just shit trite writing.
loved it
At first I was impressed bc it started very interesting, the miraculous gift and the subtle creepyness, as a trad Cath i was almost excited and wanted to show it to my gf, then it went full Christianity... LE BAD, Muslims and lezbos and atheist... LE GOOD. Holy shit! Way to kill the series, then the Hindu new age monologue at the end, JUST...
I bloody loved it. Couple of my friends complained about the monologues being self-indulgent, but I loved it all, but i am a bit simple so.