 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to 31 Days of Halloween today. We are talking about Mike Flanagan's newest creation It is on Netflix. I believe it's a Netflix exclusive. It is called Midnight Mass Before I jump into this review. I need to preface this Just so I'm not needlessly offending anyone I am of the mindset that religion is one of the worst things if not the worst things to ever happen to society and yes, I will go as far back as You know early man staring up at the stars Wondering what those stars were and trying to figure things out for themselves But it's the organized part that I need to harp on here It's organized religion. I do not hold any animosity whatsoever Toward anybody's belief systems or beliefs or any of that stuff I hold a great deal of animosity toward organized religion and religion in general. I don't care which religion it is So I will be saying things in this review That might come off as mockery might come off as insulting So if you are someone who is overly sensitive about your religion, then maybe click away Okay, so I'm a huge fan of Mike Flanagan and he keeps on getting better and better and better I think the very first thing I saw from him was his first movie. I mean I might be wrong there, but hush With his wife Kate Segal Segal something like that in the I always get her confused with Kate Segal from You know married with children and sons of anarchy. Anyways, in fact, that might be Katie's I don't I don't know that's beside the point but I Watched that when I liked it. All right, but Dr. Sleep and Gerald's game really Enforced my my love for his stuff. I watched Midnight Mass I have not seen the haunting of Bly Manor or Hill House I don't want I am I have started the haunting of Hill House, but I wish I had saved Midnight Mass for afterwards because Flanagan has done nothing But gotten better and better as he's gone along This show deals a lot with religious trauma I was a very very devout Christian up until the point when I hit 13 and I started asking questions and All of my questions were answered with you just have to have faith and then an older boy in youth group I was 13. He was 16 or 17. He said Jesus is just Santa for adults and That's all it took for me to start asking questions for me to start researching myself so on and so forth The only criticism I have about Midnight Mass I want to get out up front and it is very small in the grand scheme of things It is a seven episode series I loved every single second of it But I did have one question early on that bugged me and it still bugged me Whereas some of my other questions and everything were answered and that is I do not believe for a second when it's this isn't a spoiler I do not believe for a second that The character of Bev would have just blindly believed Paul Hill Replacing Monsignor Pruitt. I don't believe for a second. I think she would have been on the phone talking to people on well On the mainland because that Midnight Mass happens on an island I Completely blinked on the name of the island boat. Maybe they'll pop up while I'm talking about it I don't believe for a second that she wouldn't have double checked And her character only reinforces that the farther along you get in the series that she would not have just blindly believed There is a note That that is made she says something about she knew it from from the jump Regarding the I think very obvious twist of the of the series even though it's obvious. It's still it's still great I love the way it panned out, but I Still don't believe that she wouldn't have called that day that very first day that Paul Hill showed up for for John Pruitt Okay, with that out of the way, I'm going to jump into The rest of it if I go into spoiler territory I will make sure because some of the twists revolver on you not knowing the The the trope I guess it is And I think I want to talk about a little bit at the end in a spoiler section but right off the bat two sections that are absolutely must watch television is the ending of no not the ending the The conversation between Lisa and Joe Collie In his trailer in episode three was probably the best television I've ever seen period It's I can't think of any scene for for a television show for a series that is better than that scene Not better acted not better written it is absolutely brilliant and you know why she's there You know exactly what's about to happen But the actor who plays Joe Collie was brilliant. Lisa was brilliant It's just an absolutely perfect scene in a bubble encapsulated in itself You don't have to know anything else about the series just watching those two actors Perform those lines Was it gives me chills. I got goosebumps going up and down my arms and my legs right now. Just just thinking of it another highlight is The ending of episode five If that ending does not destroy you I I would I would actually call you heartless I would mean no offense, but I was like, do you have us? Do you have empathy whatsoever? That scene utterly devastated me and of course the last two episodes are I mean they're fantastic I'm gonna be harping on that word like I usually do Because this is a positive review. I definitely want everyone to go out and check out this series um one thing that is that was brought up uh early on You know going going along with the trope um Why didn't anyone question it? You know why why doesn't anyone? And this is where I'm going to get into the the parts that might be offensive to religious people Um, why didn't anyone question? We are literally talking about religious people about christians Catholics whatever who Their whole religion When you question it falls apart So they are by Nature gullible For them just believe that you have to have faith. You got to have faith Everything is faith faith faith faith faith And they are being led to the led through this by someone that they utterly trust without question At one point in time. I mean you see it's it's it's brought up several times Why they wouldn't Say the word um for those of you who watch the show, you know what I'm talking about um, but the I believe that the angel was a fantastically creepy creation um, the very first time you you see it the It's just it's and when bold walks into the house that scene is another highlight. I think that's episode two um, all of it it I mean the whole series is just amazing if you haven't watched it you really Really should watch it. Um, people are joking and I just kind of shake my head about this People who joke that they call it midnight monologues and that there's too much monologuing and rada rada rada rada Here's why I liked the monologuing in fact That was probably my favorite part about the series that there was so much monologuing It took a visual cinematic experience And it made it felt as if I would it made me feel as if I was watching a book I know that might sound weird, but that's how it felt I was getting the the internal dialogue that you normally get that is usually lacking From like adaptations. This isn't an adaptation, but we'll talk about that in just a second Um, it felt like a book. It felt like I was watching a book and I was and it happened over a long series A long period of time seven episodes. I was invested. I Almost said I read we watched two episodes a night. We did only watch Episode five alone that night We didn't do another one after it because it destroyed us so much. So I did two two one and then uh two to finally Uh, round out the series Um, and I suggest you watch the last two episodes back to back if you have if you if you haven't watched it um, but I want I I guess I want to uh Approach the next bit that might be uh Might be a spoiler. I don't know but here I'm gonna I'm gonna throw this out there anyways And I said this on twitter, but this is the best Stephen King adaptation Of a book Stephen King never wrote you can tell Mike Flanagan is a constant reader even if you didn't know about dr. Sleep and Gerald's game and um his wanting to uh His him wanting to adapt revival, which I I will go from that into this I do think it's funny. It's like Flanagan couldn't get the rights or couldn't get you know revival made Um, he I think he got the rights. He just couldn't get it made Um, so did josh boon. It seems to be a running. Uh It's a bunch of bullshit, you know, nobody wants to spend the money to de-age Uh, the characters they just don't believe in the story enough, especially with the the way revival ends It's a very dour piece of literature. Um, but it's very dark Uh, but it feels like Flanagan just took all of his favorite Stephen King ideas and mashed them all together Into one story. Sorry I cut there. I I said a spoiler. I shouldn't have So I'm so sorry for the very very abrupt cut anyways Uh, but yeah, you can tell Mike Flanagan loves Stephen King. Um, and I I respect him and love him for creating this This mash-up of some very very cool Stephen King content. Now if that wasn't his intention I mean no slight against the man. There are plenty of original ideas in here and even uh, non-original ideas that are delivered or executed Much much better than what he might be riffing off of uh, the the original source material Whatever you want to call it now the reason why I like this so much Whereas I usually hate it when people just repurpose, uh, Stephen King is because Stephen King himself repurposes content But he makes it better. Um, if you watch my phantoms by Dean Koons versus Stephen King's it You will see all the connections that I feel Stephen King read phantoms and was like I can do this better and he did it better Uh, Flanagan I believe he he nailed the feel of a Stephen King story and Stephen King didn't even write this joker I would love to read a book from Mike Flanagan. If it's anywhere near as good as this Um, okay, I'm right here at the end. I'm gonna traipse into spoiler territory Do you know my opinion if you have not watched this? What is wrong with you? Unfuck that right now go out and watch it Especially if you're a Stephen King fan and knowing the fans of my channel You probably are a Stephen King fan. So definitely go out and check it out But yeah spoilers in three two one spoilers Vampires This is This I mean even down to the trunk being pushed into the house This this book this show I keep calling it a book. You see what I'm talking about from earlier in the video Um, even from that it's it's Salem's lot, man It's Salem's lot and it's absolutely gorgeous. In fact, I said on on twitter that You're going to see people when James won James won is uh rebooting Salem's lot When when when Salem's lot comes out when one's reboot comes out people are going to say that it's a that It ripped off midnight mass. They're going to say it It's just like people who came out and ridiculously said that uh, and andy muschetti's it reboots Um ripped off stranger things. You're gonna see it. It's gonna be funny We'll just sit back and laugh to ourselves about it. Um, but yeah, man, this is this is Salem's lot This is Salem's lot meets revival It not so much needful things are storm of the century, but there are elements of those things also It's it's so amazingly done And I've never really said that or felt that way about anything that I felt Was a not knockoff because this isn't a knockoff. This is not a cheap product This is not a cheap check crap cash grab. It has so much heart and passion into it It just felt like so many scenes were taken straight from revival or so many scenes were taken straight from Salem's lot Um, but I loved every single bit of it. Um, I think Stephen King even enjoyed it. I'm not sure Um, I haven't really paid attention too much To to twitter lately and twitter is pretty much my only Stephen King news other than checking out his website But um, I was talking to a friend and I believe they told me Stephen King was uh raving about it Anyways, uh, but that's my the spoiler here how the angel It just fits so perfectly vampirism and the bible it fits so perfectly and flanagan uh not reinstates that but uh He he he goes over that quite a lot in in this story about how You can use religion to explain vampires and I'm so You can use christianity at least um to explain vamp vampirism and it's just it it blew me away How this had never been done before um not in this this context like I said, it's a it's a it's a mash-up of revival And uh, Salem's lot and it's done so perfectly. I did say why didn't I see these connections? Um, I thought and here here's another thing. I actually cannot stand. I hate vampire fiction It's Unless somebody does something So amazingly with with the content like flanagan did here. I just don't care about vampires It's such it's probably the most overused trope next to Werewolves and exorcisms. I think even exorcisms. I don't care too much for exorcism Uh fiction, but I would watch I would 100 watch an exorcism movie directed by uh by Mike flanagan Anyway, so those are my thoughts On a midnight mass Again, if you have not seen it. Why go out not go out But uh get netflix if you don't have it already If you're one of the few people out there who don't have it already Get it watch the show and it it's worth it at least for me and let me know what you thought of it If you've already watched it Definitely leave your thoughts down there in the doobly-doo whether or not you loved it hated it felt meh about it I already talked to one person who felt meh about it and I was like, okay. I can see your point I disagree of course, but I can see your point. Let me know in detail why you felt the way you did about this show So that we can have a discussion, but until next time. I have been e you have been you This has been a television probably the first television show review for 30 days of halloween. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye