Do we all know a lot about Mike Flanagan’s latest tv present, The Midnight Club? Not actually. The synopsis offered by Netflix reads, “At a hospice for terminally ill young adults, eight patients come together every night at midnight to tell each other stories—and make a pact that the next of them to die will give the group a sign from the beyond.”

But what we do know is that Flanagan has, as soon as once more, employed Rahul Kohli to play a component, and we couldn’t be extra grateful. Collider had the primary take a look at his look within the present; the picture was additionally tweeted out by Netflix:

This weblog dropped at you partly by the truth that Kohli is doing a little wonderful style work, has a improbable face, and in addition as a result of of the five-minute rule on the io9 Slack, which is, informally, when you spend greater than 5 minutes speaking a couple of nerdy factor, you will need to weblog concerning the nerdy factor. So right here we’re. What can I say. It’s Friday.

Kohli has been in a variety of Flanagan’s latest works. He starred within the ghost story The Haunting of Bly Manor, the vampire/non secular horror Midnight Mass (which turned me right into a babbling fool for weeks, I might do nothing however scream about Midnight Mass to buddies), and the upcoming The Fall of the House of Usher. All three have been produced and distributed (or shall be distributed) by Netflix, which implies that we’ve got a fairly strongly established MFCU (Mike Flanagan Cinematic Universe). Flanagan typically hires a well-known slate of actors for his initiatives, and I, for one, couldn’t be extra grateful that Mr. Kohli will get an opportunity to good his stoic/scared/however will nonetheless take no shit expression, because it’s very enticing.

I feel that I initially descended into the primary ring of obsession with Kohli in about October 2021, coinciding with the discharge of Midnight Mass. A fast actuality test with some buddies on Discord confirms this. In between Squid Game and Flanagan’s vampire revelation, there appeared a slew of enticing police on Netflix reveals, which I affectionally known as “hot copaganda.” Let or not it’s recognized that I’m not resistant to propaganda.

Just to show my level, let me pull up an image of Kohli from Midnight Mass. Unanimously enticing.

And secondly, simply to show that the MFCU is doing wonders for my pores and skin/crops/thirst, right here he’s because the pun-loving chef in The Haunting of Bly Manor. I feel we will all agree: scorching.

Thank you for coming to my TED discuss. Please contemplate this an extension of my earlier iteration of Men That I Appreciate column, which was about Harvey Guillén/Guillermo del la Cruz.

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