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More Musing on Midnight Mass - Spoilers
Oct. 8th, 2021 10:39 amI'm still chewing on Midnight Mass, and why the typical compassionate, multi-viewpoint Mike Flanagan ending, an ending the emphasizes the flawed humanity of everyone involved, worked for me in the endings of Bly Manor and Hill House, but falls so flat with Midnight Mass.
I owe a debt of gratitude to Leah Schnelbach for their excellent discussion of Midnight Mass at Tor.com - go read it here: https://www.tor.com/2021/10/01/religious-horror-and-horrific-religion-in-midnight-mass/
Midnight Mass has a villain. Bly Manor and Hill House have trauma that make their apparently villains worthy of compassion and mercy even as they do awful things, but Midnight Mass has an actual, straight forward villain, and pretends that it doesn't, and I think there's the issue for me.
Spoilers below the cut!
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So this story has a villain. And I am annoyed by how the story seems to fail to even realize that in its last chapters.
I owe a debt of gratitude to Leah Schnelbach for their excellent discussion of Midnight Mass at Tor.com - go read it here: https://www.tor.com/2021/10/01/religious-horror-and-horrific-religion-in-midnight-mass/
Midnight Mass has a villain. Bly Manor and Hill House have trauma that make their apparently villains worthy of compassion and mercy even as they do awful things, but Midnight Mass has an actual, straight forward villain, and pretends that it doesn't, and I think there's the issue for me.
Spoilers below the cut!
( Read more... )
So this story has a villain. And I am annoyed by how the story seems to fail to even realize that in its last chapters.
