Despite setting a world record (for the most jump scares in an episode of television), Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong’s The Midnight Club won’t be meeting up to tell any more scary stories. According to The Wrap, Netflix has decided not to renew the series for a second season.
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Though the series was generally well-received, it only lasted three weeks on Netflix’s top ten. Recently, executive producer Flanagan (and his creative partner Trevor Macy) traded his overall deal with Netflix for a new setup at Amazon—but Flanagan does still have another adaptation, the Poe project The Fall of the House of Usher, coming with Netflix.
While most of Flanagan’s TV projects (The Haunting of Hill House, Midnight Mass) were clearly designed as single-season runs, The Midnight Club was different. It ended on a cliffhanger, and Flanagan told The Wrap, “The show was designed to carry forward and we made the decision in the writers room not to reveal two of our kind of bigger existential secrets of the show so that we’d have something to say in the second season.”
The Midnight Club, which was based on the work of Christopher Pike, tells the story of a gaggle of terminally ill teens at Brightcliffe Hospice—teens who meet up at night to share scary stories and explore the inevitable mystery of the hospice itself. The show’s cast included some returning Flanagan performers (Igby Rigney, Zach Gilford, and Annarah Cymone) and new stars Iman Benson, Adia, Aya Furukawa, Ruth Codd, Sauriyan Sapkota, and Chris Sumpter, along with Nightmare on Elm Street‘s Heather Langenkamp.
You can still join the club for its single season on Netflix.
