Midnight Mass

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did people who watch it think it was "very sad"? A friend warned me that it was "very sad" but that is not how I would characterize it. Am I just dead inside?

Overall I thought it was really good, though the last episode got a little annoying at times.

Sad? No. Is your friend particularly religious?

[Anonymous]

We are on the episode (7?) where first there is a long monologue about Ignatz Semelweiss and then there is a long monologue about 9/11. This series really cried out for an editor. Sooooo boring.

[Anonymous]

Overall I really enjoyed it, but it was at least two episodes longer than it needed to be. All the extended scenes of everyone singing hymns and all of the ridiculously long monologues desperately needed editing. But if you can ignore that it’s certainly an interesting premise and like I said I enjoyed it a lot.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Did people who watch it think it was "very sad"? A friend warned me that it was "very sad" but that is not how I would characterize it. Am I just dead inside?

Overall I thought it was really good, though the last episode got a little annoying at times.

Sad? No. Is your friend particularly religious?

Parts of it are very sad. Without too many spoilers…

A late miscarriage of a wanted child
The struggle of caring for a parent with dementia
A young girl is paralyzed and the man to blame is destroying himself with remorse
A deeply in love couple can never truly be together and the man can never truly know his child


You don’t need to be religious to find these things very sad. Just human.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did people who watch it think it was "very sad"? A friend warned me that it was "very sad" but that is not how I would characterize it. Am I just dead inside?

Overall I thought it was really good, though the last episode got a little annoying at times.

Sad? No. Is your friend particularly religious?

Parts of it are very sad. Without too many spoilers…

A late miscarriage of a wanted child
The struggle of caring for a parent with dementia
A young girl is paralyzed and the man to blame is destroying himself with remorse
A deeply in love couple can never truly be together and the man can never truly know his child


You don’t need to be religious to find these things very sad. Just human.

Sure there are sad undertones, but the show is not sad. Only a depressed person would focus on that instead of the real storyline.

[Anonymous]

Disliked the ending. Didn’t love all the monologues throughout, either.

It was interesting to me that no one ever mentioned the word “vampire” throughout the series. Lots of talk of religious beliefs but no mention of other supernatural phenomena. For me the best thing about the series is how it shows an overlap between mainstream religion and the kind of supernatural phenomena that most people dismiss. The questions it raises about where the line is between believable and good vs unbelievable and/or evil for the religious characters.

IMO, Bly Manor > Hill House > Midnight Mass

[Anonymous]

I’m with you OP-DH and I just finished the series and, man, it was so good! I don’t usually get teary-eyed watching horror, but Mike Flanagan is a master. Loved the soundtrack too, and I’m not religious at all.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Did people who watch it think it was "very sad"? A friend warned me that it was "very sad" but that is not how I would characterize it. Am I just dead inside?

Overall I thought it was really good, though the last episode got a little annoying at times.

Sad? No. Is your friend particularly religious?

Parts of it are very sad. Without too many spoilers…

A late miscarriage of a wanted child
The struggle of caring for a parent with dementia
A young girl is paralyzed and the man to blame is destroying himself with remorse
A deeply in love couple can never truly be together and the man can never truly know his child


You don’t need to be religious to find these things very sad. Just human.

Sure there are sad undertones, but the show is not sad. Only a depressed person would focus on that instead of the real storyline.

Have you finished the show? I think most people would consider the storyline to lead to a sad ending. I am actually really confused as to how else you could interpret it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The acting blew me away -- that cast is incredible.

Hamish Linklater, the priest will absolutely win an award. His sermons are amazing

+1

He is a revelation…no pun intended.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did people who watch it think it was "very sad"? A friend warned me that it was "very sad" but that is not how I would characterize it. Am I just dead inside?

Overall I thought it was really good, though the last episode got a little annoying at times.

Sad? No. Is your friend particularly religious?

Parts of it are very sad. Without too many spoilers…

A late miscarriage of a wanted child
The struggle of caring for a parent with dementia
A young girl is paralyzed and the man to blame is destroying himself with remorse
A deeply in love couple can never truly be together and the man can never truly know his child


You don’t need to be religious to find these things very sad. Just human.

Sure there are sad undertones, but the show is not sad. Only a depressed person would focus on that instead of the real storyline.

Have you finished the show? I think most people would consider the storyline to lead to a sad ending. I am actually really confused as to how else you could interpret it.

Yes of course I finished. It’s a story about vampires disguised as an angel, taking advantage of a depressed cut off town. More of a false prophet situation rather than a tear jerker.

You can also focus on the redeeming qualities:
- a father forgives his son
- a husband wife fall back in love
- a daughter finds her father, her father gets to finally renew his love for his mother
- a paralyzed teen forgives her assailant

Or you can take it for face value, which goes back to a creepy vampire movie

[Anonymous]

I can definitely see how viewers would find the ending sad!

Hamish Linklater and Samantha Sloyan were absolutely incredible in this.

[Anonymous]

Ugh but the dialog in some episodes (so long and painful)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Disliked the ending. Didn’t love all the monologues throughout, either.

It was interesting to me that no one ever mentioned the word “vampire” throughout the series. Lots of talk of religious beliefs but no mention of other supernatural phenomena. For me the best thing about the series is how it shows an overlap between mainstream religion and the kind of supernatural phenomena that most people dismiss. The questions it raises about where the line is between believable and good vs unbelievable and/or evil for the religious characters.

IMO, Bly Manor > Hill House > Midnight Mass

I just binged through it last night and I would agree with your assessment. The last episode was just too much.
Funny however, I never considered a vampire, I always assumed a demon that acted like an angel under false pretenses. But I see the whole vampire thing now.
And yes Hamish Linklater’s performance was amazing. But I also think Samantha Sloyan aka Bev was outstanding.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Disliked the ending. Didn’t love all the monologues throughout, either.

It was interesting to me that no one ever mentioned the word “vampire” throughout the series. Lots of talk of religious beliefs but no mention of other supernatural phenomena. For me the best thing about the series is how it shows an overlap between mainstream religion and the kind of supernatural phenomena that most people dismiss. The questions it raises about where the line is between believable and good vs unbelievable and/or evil for the religious characters.

IMO, Bly Manor > Hill House > Midnight Mass

I just binged through it last night and I would agree with your assessment. The last episode was just too much.
Funny however, I never considered a vampire, I always assumed a demon that acted like an angel under false pretenses. But I see the whole vampire thing now.
And yes Hamish Linklater’s performance was amazing. But I also think Samantha Sloyan aka Bev was outstanding.

She was amazing. I’m rewatching Hill House now- she was underutilized in that series, I realize now. Glad she got the spotlight in Midnight Mass.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are a lot of spoilers out there, but one of the best parts of the show is the twist, so be careful!

I have seen three episodes so far. Is the twist you are speaking of revealed in episode 3? Because I saw that coming from the beginning/time we met the new priest....