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Mike was seriously becoming my favorite director during Haunting at Hill House. I loved Dr. Sleep and how it finally told the ending to the Shining story. It made me go back and watch every single piece of work he directed and I loved most of them but not all.

Unfortunately, I am not sure if its the producers, Netflix, or some other "entity" out there, but I feel like he is losing his touch or "rinse and repeat". The scare tactics are the same. I don't mind the reusing of actors from time to time as I get it...he has some favorites. The slow melancholy piano music is getting to be the same over and over. I am starting to feel another M. Night Shyamalan coming on with a few great works but it goes down hill from there.

Please, Mike, for the sake of your fans...evolve. You have a gift of story telling that could make you one of the best out there....but your fans need more than "rinse and repeats". Transform the thriller industry. Take a step up and not back, and give us something that we want to watch over and over, tell our friends about, and always come back as one of the classics.

This Midnight Club had some good story telling, some good scares, some good plots, some good emotions, some good acting, some good directing....but you are better than mediocrity. Mike, become what we all think you are capable of.

I loved the setup! It's the right amount of grim (and not too over the top horror set ups that we generally see). I also loved the concept of midnight club - stories within the story.

I was hooked to the series for the first 2-3 episodes. Post that it just becomes confusing.

Here are my problems:

• The midnight club stories don't relate to the overall plot. Yeah, they have tried to include symbolism in it via connecting with the lives of main characters but it doesn't come off that well.

• The horror post 4-5 episodes just diminishes and the stories around love and friendship takes over (which is fine but this is supposed to be a good horror series so please!)

• Some characters are very irritating including the main one. You stop liking her as the episodes progress.

• The ending is blah!

If you aren't familiar with Christopher Pike books, this won't be a hit for you. It's unfortunate that they tried to make it a teen horror, as Pike's books aren't scary. I'm not upset with the changes to The Midnight Club book, as there is no way they could have made a series from that. Again nothing scary. It was a book about dying teens who told each other stories at midnight. There was no over arching mystery involved. So the parts about the symbol and the patient who was cured are all new for this series.

What I do like about this is that there have been no good film adaptations of Pike's books. At least here were get snippets in the short stories the characters tell.

If you are looking for something more along the lines of Hill House or Midnight Mass, this isn't it. This is more like a more mature version of Are You Afraid of the Dark. For me, that's not a bad thing.

I watched all ten episodes of The Midnight Club. What kept me watching? The creative writing. Decent acting. Fantastic atmosphere. Finally, I loved the choice of music.

What I had issues with, I was a Hospice nurse for all ages, and none of my residence looked so...healthy. They were not up all hours of the night, roaming around and climbing stairs. By the time anyone enters Hospice care - it is palliative care. Even my youngest of patients never exhibited the level of energy like the movie. It made it difficult to see them as dying.

The stories within the story were well-written, but took away from the shows main objective. As for the main objective, it can be interpreted in several ways, but I'm unsure what the creators were tying to convey.

I think too many things suffered a high level of ambiguity, and left me feeling like it needed a finish line.

I loved those three (Hill house, Bly manor and Midnight mass) and have watched each at least 2 - 3 times. This one was boring IMO. I am in episode 6 and already getting annoyed by Ilonka. As others have said, prob will fast forward and skip to the end. Some scary scenes are good, but it is not as gripping as the other previous creations from the writers. It was good to see actors in cameos from their previous work though.

I really hope it gets better from episode 6 and something actually happens!!

PS. Why does IMDB want a 600 word review now? Everyone doesn't need to write an essay, some movies/ series just deserve a few lines!