Midnight Mass: A Lesson on Perspective
I’ve used the evenings of the past month to catch up on all the Mike Flanagan supernatural horrors circulating on Netflix. I’ve been a little late in the game with The Haunting of Hill House, but after I stumbled through Universal’s haunted maze version of the show at Halloween Horror Nights last month, I had to see what the show was all about.
Since creating The Haunting of Hill House (2018) and Bly Manor (2020), Flanagan has taken on another supernatural horror with a bit of a twist to it. And that is his most recent Midnight Mass (2021).
**If you have not yet watched the show Midnight Mass, this post may contain spoilers**
Those of you who know me know I love stories with multiple — and perhaps ambiguous — perspectives. Stories that make you think about what it all might have meant. Midnight Mass does not disappoint in this realm. Flanagan gives us a lot to unpack with this one. It’s a premise that seems familiar, but is also unlike anything we’ve seen before. It’s ambiguous the whole way through, and that’s the beauty of it, and what makes it so easy to speculate on endlessly.
