The Midnight Club: Mike Flanagan show gets canceled by Netflix after its first season

Mike Flanagan soared to horror success with his Netflix features, The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass. The director then tried his hand at capturing a younger audience with his first series, The Midnight Club. The show is adapted from the work of author Christopher Pike. The series is about a group of teenagers facing terminal illnesses and living at the Brightcliffe Hospice, where paranormal activities take place.

Variety has reported that Netflix has now canceled the YA drama after one season. Netflix is known for its business model of ending series in a limited amount of time. However, this is the first project that executive producers Flanagan and Trevor Macy intended to have multiple seasons. The show premiered in October with ten episodes. The pilot set a record for the most jump scares in a TV episode.

The cast included Iman Benson, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, Annarah Cymone, Chris Sumpter, Adia, Aya Furukawa, Sauriyan Sapkota, Matt Biedel, Samantha Sloyan, with Zach Gilford and Heather Langenkamp. The show was created by Flanagan and The Haunting of Bly Manor scribe Leah Fong. In the event that the show would not be renewed, Flanagan revealed he would still share his plans for season 2 eventually.

He added, “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. 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.”

This news comes after the announcement of Flanagan and Macy’s Intrepid Pictures exiting their deal with Netflix for Amazon Studios.

Source: Variety

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