Erin (Kate Siegel) is taking over from her late mother as the island’s teacher, seeking a fresh start that coincides with her pregnancy.Īdditional change has arrived in the form of Father Paul (Hamish Linklater), a charismatic priest replacing the island’s longtime monsignor. Riley (Zach Gilford) is newly paroled after serving time for a crime that haunts his dreams, and has reunited with his parents (Henry Thomas and Kristin Lehman), who felt his departure from Crockett was already a betrayal. That hasn’t stopped a pair of prodigal children from returning. Crockett was never exactly thriving, but since a coastal oil spill, work has dried up and residents have been departing. The series is set on Crockett Island, population 127. The seven-episode series is packed with details that Netflix would prefer not be spoiled, so allow me to tiptoe. Whatever your reactions to the show happen to be, and some people are going to absolutely hate it, those reactions will come from a very personal and primal place, just like the place Flanagan has mined to make it. I found it consistently committed and admirably bonkers, even when it tested my patience. That surely won’t keep some viewers from calling it bizarrely sacrilegious (it is, usually by intent) and others from lamenting how frequently it ignores the need for genre thrills in favor of long monologues about creed and ritual (it does, probably by intent). This is clearly the work of someone who has taken a deep inventory of his spiritual upbringing. Midnight Mass (which crosses Needful Things with another King story that I won’t name so as not to spoil anything) isn’t braced with a single clear allegorical support beam. It’s about grief and addiction, but more than anything it’s an exploration of organized religion. Cast: Hamish Linklater, Zach Gilford, Kate Siegel, Rahul Abburi, Crystal Balint, Matt Biedel, Alex Essoe, Annabeth Gish, Rahul Kohli, Kristin Lehman, Robert Longstreet, Igby Rigney, Annarah Cymone, Samantha Sloyan, Henry Thomas and Michael Truccoįlanagan’s latest Netflix limited series - his third in four years, after respective hauntings at Hill House and Bly Manor - may be the furthest he’s pushed the subtext to date and it may, in turn, be his least purely scary offering.
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