Netflix’s The Midnight Club has reportedly been cancelled after just one season. You can see the trailer for that one season in the video below.
This cancellation – reported in Variety – comes after the executive producers of the show, Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy, left their agreement with Netflix to start a new one over at Amazon Studios.
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Flanagan is best known for his hit shows The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass, though he turned his attentions to a slightly younger audience for The Midnight Club.
It was based on the work of young adult writer Christopher Pike and told the story of a number of terminally ill teenagers living in a place called Brightcliffe Hospice.
Of course, there were loads of paranormal and supernatural things going on, and those mysteries were unravelled as the series wore on.
This news might come as a surprise to some fans, given that Flanagan had said recently that he thought there was more to come from the series.
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At a press gathering in October he said: “This was designed to be ongoing.
“I don’t know if it will.
“We’ll see how it goes and we probably won’t know for another month or so what Netflix wants to do. But it was very much designed to continue.
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“Pike has 80 books, so we have a lot of unused material to pull from… We also didn’t answer some of the bigger questions of the season.
“Those answers exist, but were meant to be for the next season.
“If there isn’t one, I’ll put them up on Twitter. Then we’ll at least all be able to talk about it.”
It now looks like he might have to start that Twitter thread, after all.
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The first series only launched on October 7 this year, featuring 10 episodes.
The first episode actually broke a strange record, boasting the largest number of ‘jump scares’ in a single episode of TV.
That record was verified by Guinness World Records, who presented Flanagan with a special award certificate during a New York Comic Con panel.
After that, Flanagan told a press conference: “This is particularly important to me because I hate jump scares and I think they are the worst.
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“My whole career, people have been like, put more jump scares in, and do them faster!”
His partner Macy added: There’s a meme about it, especially with movies, ‘Put more jump scares in the first act, it doesn’t work!'”
Flanagan continued: “I hate them, because I feel like it’s very easy to walk up behind somebody and smash things,
“The notes were already coming in of, ‘time to do jump scares.’
“So I thought, we’re going to do all of them at once and, if we do it right, a jump scare will be rendered meaningless for the rest of the series and we’ll just destroy it and kill it, finally, until it’s dead,
“But that didn’t happen.
“They were like, ‘Great! More of those!’ So my whole career I’ve completely just shat on jump scares as a concept, and now I want to make sure that it was pinned to me as much as it is to the show and Netflix and all of us who have inflicted this on everyone, now I have my name in the Guinness Book of World Records for jump scares, which means the next time I get the note I can say, ‘As the current world record holder in jump scares, I can tell you I don’t think we need one here.’ And that’s my whole strategy.”
Topics: Netflix, Film and TV
Tom Wood