Midnight Mass

All the critics who gave Midnight Mass a full score, giving it almost 92% (!!!!!!!) upon release, go fuck yourselves. I'm switching off at the fourth episode, I have absolutely no interest in watching seven hours of drivel that some users gleefully gush over, feeling like they've swallowed all the wisdom in the world and like they've blown a hole in the world with their five stars. Mike Flanagan has taken too big a bite and tries to be very mysterious and build a strange village on an island, but what good is that when you are past the halfway point and wouldn't actually be able to describe "what the show is about" in one sentence. An overstuffed art-oriented oddity that has no drive, no pace, no atmosphere and actually nothing to make me want to follow it. Hand on heart, if someone really enjoys sitting on their ass for seven hours, staring at a dumbass and listening to the constant chatter of characters without anything interesting happening, then something is wrong. And now, everybody get on me. (29.09.2021)

The first episode, as is usual with Mike Flanagan, builds the atmosphere and the foundations of the story from the beginning and, unlike other pilot episodes, doesn't try to forcefully strike with some wow moment to lure you further. Whether that's a good or bad thing is probably up to each of us, but either way I hope that in the following episodes the plot picks up and doesn't stagnate. (28.09.2021)