Halloween is around the corner and The Midnight Club is the perfect series to watch this time of year, but if you’re like me, you’ll probably be left with more questions than answers. After watching the first season, the only conclusion I have is we better get a second season to answer all the lingering questions left in season one. I enjoyed the series. Yes, I’m recommending it to fans, but just know that it’s a long drawn-out process getting to the end only to be left with more mysteries rather than stuff being resolved among the characters. I probably need to watch it again and maybe that’s the filmmaker’s intent, which is not a bad thing, but I want answers. The series is based on a book by the same name about a group of terminally ill children who are staying at a facility for people with their type of conditions, let’s just say, it’s haunted. They get together at midnight and tell ghost stories, and part of their agreement is the first person to die, somehow has to come back and tell him what’s on the other side. It seems simple enough, but there’s always more going on. The idea of telling ghost stories within a ghost story is appealing. The main characters are not the first Midnight club as they soon discover. While I will not give any spoilers, The Midnight Club’s original purpose was a little bit more sinister when it came to cheating death. With this being a show about the individual stories and how they connect to the overall story,  it makes the audience more curious about the bigger story…the true purpose of the midnight club.

Like a good horror story, it’s the suspense that makes the story worth watching because little by little through the stories the Midnight club tells, the overall story surrounding the deaths of original members and why the facility is haunted is the better story. The main character of Ilonka is the one who figures out that there’s more to the midnight club and just gathering to tell stories. Something happened long ago. There’s a mystery to the full purpose of the midnight club as she is confronted with mysterious characters that are not whom they seem to be. I wish I could tell you that you figure all that out by the end of the first season, but that isn’t true and unfortunately, that’s one of the downfalls of this first season.

As I said, I liked it, but I don’t know if it needed to be 10 episodes. I feel like this is a story that could have been told in six to eight episodes and not so drawn out. However, while the individual stories that the kids tell and how they connect to the overall story are fascinating and lend to the overall mystery, you want answers, and the first season doesn’t give you enough answers. Like, who is Shasta really? A former member of the Midnight club? Is she on the run? And it’s not hard to figure out that Dr. Stanton played by the great Heather Langenkamp from The Nightmare on Elm Street movies is another huge mystery. And of course, you realize that in the very last scene of the first season. No spoilers, you just got to get to the end to see what I’m talking about. There’s so much going on in the first season with all of their individual stories connected to one another that it’s hard to keep up at times. I can understand why there were 10 episodes, but the audience shouldn’t be left more confused than what they were when watching the first season.

However, part of the saving Grace of this first season is the cast and the wonderful acting. There’s not any big names in this season but all of the young actors were great, especially Ruth Codd who plays Anya. Sometimes when you have a show whose main cast is young actors, it doesn’t always work. Experienced actors tend to make better shows, but it’s not like we haven’t seen young actors come in and make a show great. Riverdale at least through the first few seasons is a good example where the older actors played by teen heartthrobs from the early 90s were the background characters. I love the fact that Heather Langenkamp was in this. She rocks just like Jamie Lee Curtis in the latest Halloween movies. But not even good acting can make this a perfect show. It’s true that there are a lot of stories to tell, but it’s hard to keep up with the individual stories of The Midnight club are telling versus the overall story this is where I show like this needs to be tighter and more focused in 6 to 8 episodes. Whether The Midnight Club deserves a second season, we almost have to have one just to give us any kind of