Netflix Cancels Midnight Club After Creator’s New Amazon Deal

The horrors stalking the terminally in poor health, teenage sufferers residing at Brightcliffe Hospice can’t examine to the horror of a streaming community scorned. Mere hours after it was introduced yesterday that Midnight Club creator Mike Flanagan and his producing associate Trevor Macy can be exiting their deal at Netflix and as a substitute getting into a cope with Amazon to create TV content material for Prime Video, Netflix introduced the horror sequence can be canceled after its first season.

While it doesn’t appear to be a coincidence—severely, the cancelation got here six hours after Flanagan’s Amazon deal—there was by no means any indication that The Midnight Club, primarily based on the works of prolific YA horror creator Christopher Pike, was essentially going to get a second season (though nor did we have now purpose to imagine it was on the chopping block). And regardless of horror mega-creator Flanagan’s departure, he nonetheless has yet another mission coming to Netflix—for now—with a restricted sequence retelling of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher.” Production on the sequence completed filming again in July, so until Netflix is feeling notably miffed at Flanagan’s departure, it’ll presumably nonetheless air someday in 2023.

Meanwhile, followers of The Midnight Club could be considerably sated, as Flagan has revealed what would have occurred in season two, together with the solutions to season one’s unresolved mysteries right here:

I want extra creators can be this considerate to their followers!

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