Ep. 19 - The Midnight Club
Get ready to be spooked out and talk about horror as Andrew and Presley join the ranks of The Midnight Club.
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The Midnight Club is a Netflix original series that premiered in fall 2022. The series follows a group of eight young adults who have one thing in common: they are all terminally ill. The group lives in Brightcliffe Home hospice just outside of Seattle, which is run and owned by Dr. Georgia Stanton (played by Heather Langenkamp) who bought the house as a place to provide terminally ill teens with a place to live out the remainder of their lives on their own terms. The Midnight Club meets at midnight (shocker) in the library of the home, to tell each other scary stories. We see each of the club members give stories and bond throughout their time together at the club. The club has an agreement that whoever dies first has to communicate with the others beyond the grave. Ilonka (played by Iman Benson) enrolls in Brightcliffe Hospice hoping to find a cure for her thyroid cancer, after reading a story about a woman with the same ailment going there herself for hospice care, only to mysteriously vanish for about a year and emerge fully cured of her cancer. Throughout the series we see each of the clubbers deal with their imminent departure from the world in their own ways. As Ilonka spends time in the house, she has hallucinations of an old man and old woman periodically, also uncovering the secrets of a cult called the Paragon that previously occupied in the house. The Midnight Club performs a ritual discussed in a journal of Julia Jayne (played by Larsen Thompson) to help save Anya (Ruth Codd) from terminal bone cancer after her health takes a dive. The ritual is ultimately proven unsuccessful, and Ilonka is convinced by Shasta (a woman who lives in a commune close to Brightcliffe, played by Samantha Sloyan) to allow her into Brightcliffe to perform the ritual again, by revealing that she herself is Julia Jayne and that the ritual will work this time. Georgia finds Ilonka, Shasta, and Shasta's friends from the commune in the hidden basement of the home, and pleads with Ilonka not to drink the tea Shasta has given her as part of the ritual, just before multiple of the other women there start falling very ill after drinking it. Georgia and Shasta scuffle, resulting in Shasta getting away while Georgia and Ilonka provide medical aid to and call EMS for the other women. A member of the group leaves as they are found to have been misdiagnosed, and the group finish their stories at their final Midnight Club meeting of the show. The series leaves us with a cliffhanger showing Georgia take off a wig to reveal both that she is bald (and potentially dealing with a sickness herself) but also has a tattoo of the hourglass symbol which represents the Paragon on the back of her neck.