Midnight Club season 2 canceled at Netflix—here’s how it would have ended

The Midnight Club won’t have another meeting. Canceled by Netflix at the start of December, horror master Mike Flanagan’s warm-yet-spooky foray into YA horror was also his first stab at an open-ended TV series, and thus didn’t end as neatly as his other limited series like Midnight MassOder Haunting of Hill House Since it’s unlikely for The Midnight ClubFlanagan’s departure to Amazon to direct shows was a major reason that the show did not get renewed. The writer/director also revealed to fans the plans to end the series.

Flanagan described what season 2 looked like in a long Tumblr posting. The Midnight Club What it would look like. First, there would be a structural change. While the majority of episodes were centered on cast members sharing scary stories based upon Christopher Pike novels, five episodes had Ilonka (Iman Benjaminson) as protagonist telling his version. Do not forget me, Flanagan’s favorite Pike novel, across five episodes. It’s about a girl who’s pushed off a balcony and then tries to solve her own murder as a ghost — with a few spoilery twists as to how this relates to what the cast is dealing with at the end of season 1.

A recurring thread in Flanagan’s outline for the season is that nearly every frightening image or motif introduced in the first season has a bittersweet and heartfelt story behind it. It’s fitting for a show about terminal teens living together and coming to terms with their fate via scary stories. It’s In The Midnight Club, as with much of Flanagans’s work, fear is just an obstacle in the way of characters discovering something human and beautiful.

If you’ve seen the whole show, check out the outline. It’s not the goodbye the show deserved, but it’s nice to have one in any form.