I think it’s a fair comparison. They just don’t have much in the way of dark secrets, just a lot of religious fervor.
I have been watching it. The idea seems to be that most characters are the “win at all costs” type of personality. Then they are all jammed into a pressure cooker. I enjoyed the first season more, but this is still ok. Yes, the characters are pretty loathsome - but those kinds of personalities resemble a lot of people I’ve met in real life, so it’s interesting to me.
That's the fun of baseball playoffs: when they start throwing in everything but the kitchen sink.
One of the really unique things about baseball - ground-rules doubles and the like. Never know what a weird bounce can do to the outcome!
At least on the surface, it has a bit in common with Preacher: horror/thriller genre, some implied supernatural elements, obviously the religious theme and nature of the main/one-of-the-main character.
Tonally they're actually a bit different, Preacher is a super dark comedy, it's vulgar, over-the-top action, visually absurd (and I mean all that in the most positive way), where Midnight Mass is a slow burn, realistically grounded, it's a drama first, while Preacher is very "comic book-y".
Fun Fact: the main character in Flanagan's movie Hush (starring/co-written by his wife, who's also a star of Midnight Mass), is an author, who's last big blockbuster novel was titled, well, yeah, you guessed it ... Midnight Mass
In response to your second spoiler, see my comments in the religion thread.Just finished Midnight Mass (2021 Netflix)- Thumbs up horror story with some caveats- it’s slow, lots of talking, philosophizing, and Bible quoting. Some of this is intriguing and thought provoking, especially talk about living and dieing, what it means to live and die, and one character who is the Muslim Sheriff relates his sobering experience of 9-11 and forward.
Five episodes to set up, two with some quickening events. Seven episodes make it drag, talk, talk, talk. I was not expecting this ending, but was satisfied with it, despite a point, found in second spoiler. I expect some church people hated this, see spoiler.
Vampire Story
It is very interesting how some primary tenants of Christianity mesh so well with vampirism, consuming the blood of Christ, resurrection, life ever lasting.
Did the Head Blood Sucker survive??
Midnight Mass Spoilers all over this post. STOP, FOR YOUR OWN PROTECTION.@Huntn That last question (in spoiler block #2) doesn't get answered, only by a character ruminating that is "seems unlikely".
Evil S02E13, season finale. Well, it's about goddamn time.
I pay the $10/month for Peacock and am somehow not annoyed about paying it. We love the NBC comedies and they have BSG and Dr Death was entertaining. Pretty polished streaming service out of the gate.
Well, I finished Midnight Mass, and here's what I liked or noted:
Good list / observations, I'll respond in the spoiler tag
- I like that these vampires' weaknesses are unique: they can't handle sunlight but they obviously aren't afraid of the cross.
They were very much written as having something more like a virus, weird/alien, but not having a "supernatural" angle, being light sensitive is biological weakness, a cross is spritual.- Every vampire story has to have a scene where someone tries to convince someone else that there's an actual, real vampire out there without sounding crazy. This one was handled very nicely in the scene between Erin and Dr. Gunning. It felt very organic, not contrived at all.
They didn't even drop the V word (not unlike Walking Dead not using the Z word).- Anybody else pick up on why Mildred Gunning (the doctor's mom) ran out of the church and told her daughter never to go back? I think it's because both she and Father Paul had previously suffered from dementia. Somehow that made it possible for her to sense that Father Paul was dealing with evil.
It was after the sermon about being an army, about using force to deliver the word of god, I think tonally and spiritually, she knew those weren't the words of the man she once knew.- I'm not sure what all the dead cats with the broken necks had to do with anything.
That was the vampire chowing down, I think it was just supposed to suggest something horrific was going on.- We never do see whether the "angel" makes it to the mainland, this leaving the story loosely open for a sequel. The return of Leeza's paralysis, however, suggests that the "angel" died, since it was the source of all the miracles.
A bunch of the actors are going to be in Flanagan's new show in '22, and so far, he hasn't done a sequel, so I think this story is 100% done, but even "in story" you're right on with the legs.
The interesting thing about that scene, is THAT actually implied some kind of supernatural connection - however, the doctor also said, without being full on converted, you would naturally revert back, and the sun might even burn out the "bad blood".
So one more time, a nice juggling of science vs. faith.
