It’s going to be one season and completed for The Midnight Club at Netflix. It’s being reported (by way of TheWrap) that the horror sequence, which debuted its first season in October, has been formally canceled. No second season might be developed, which means the primary season finale, which left many unanswered questions, can even be serving because the sequence finale. While the information is clearly unlucky for followers of the present, co-creator Mike Flanagan is certain to be bummed out as properly, as he’d been picturing a prolonged run for The Midnight Club.
“This [series] was designed to be ongoing,” Flanagan mentioned shortly after the present’s premiere, per Variety. “I don’t know if it is going to. We’ll see the way it goes and we most likely gained’t know for an additional month or so what Netflix needs to do. But it was very a lot designed to proceed. Pike has 80 books, so we’ve a variety of unused materials to drag from.”
At the time, he additionally teased that followers will nonetheless get solutions to the present’s mysteries. While it is actually not the identical factor as watching new episodes over the course of a season, Flanagan promised that he’d be divulging that info quickly sufficient on social media if the phrase have been to return in that The Midnight Club was canceled, as has simply now occurred.
“We additionally didn’t reply a number of the greater questions of the season,” Flanagan mentioned. “Those solutions exist, however have been meant to be for the following season. If there isn’t one, I’ll put them up on Twitter. Then we’ll at the very least all have the ability to discuss it.”
The Midnight Club Ends Just as Quickly because it Began
The timing of the present’s cancelation comes simply as it has been reported that Flanagan could be transferring on from Netflix to Amazon Studios, inking a multiyear deal to provide unique reveals for Prime Video. Along with Trevor Macy, Flanagan beforehand labored on the anthology horror reveals The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, and Midnight Mass. They’re additionally nonetheless engaged on another mission for Netflix, dubbed The Fall of the House of Usher. Unlike these different reveals, solely The Midnight Club was conceived as doubtlessly lasting many seasons.
Inspired by the Christopher Pike books, The Midnight Club follows a bunch of terminally ailing people in a hospice gathering collectively at night time to share spooky tales. The sequence stars Iman Benson, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, Annarah Cymone, Chris Sumpter, Adia, Aya Furukawa, Sauriyan Sapkota, Samantha Sloyan, Matt Biedel, and Zach Gilford. Horror style fan favourite Heather Langenkamp of A Nightmare on Elm Street fame additionally has a particular function within the present.
You can watch the primary and solely season of The Midnight Club on Netflix.