Netflix has reported that The Midnight Club will not be renewed for another season.
The show, created by The Haunting of Bly Manor’s co-creators, Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong, follows eight terminally ill teenagers who live together at Brightcliffe Hospice and meet at midnight every night to tell each other scary stories.
Despite being the fifth most popular show on Netflix globally in October, the YA horror series did not perform as well as previous shows in the newly dubbed “Flanaverse”.
The show, based on the 1994 novel The Midnight Club by Christopher Pike, follows Ilonka, Kevin, Anya, Sandra, Spencer, Cheri, Natsuki and Amesh as they navigate living in an unconventional hospice for teenagers. They make a pact that the first person to succumb to their disease is responsible for communicating with others from beyond the grave.
The teenagers were played by Iman Benson, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, Annarah Cymone, Chris Sumpter, Adia, Aya Furukawa and Sauriyan Sapkota and Matt Biedel, Samantha Sloyan, Zach Gilford and Heather Langenkamp also starred.
Mike Flanagan, Leah Fong, Trevor Macy, Julia Bicknell and Christopher Pike served as executive producers, and the show was produced by Flanagan and Fong’s production company, Intrepid Pictures.
The cancellation of the Netflix original disappointed many fans who were eager to resolve the cliffhanger at the end of the first season.
Fortunately, Flanagan shared answers to the unresolved mysteries:
In an interview with Deadline, Mike Flanagan shared that he was not surprised that The Midnight Club was cancelled because shows like it “require some pretty robust promotion to get off the ground properly, and Netflix’s strategy for promoting new shows has changed quite a bit.”
The Midnight Club follows a wave of promising new shows being cancelled by Netflix in December; hopefully, this is a trend we will not see continuing in the New Year.
Words by Elinor Rees
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