‘The Midnight Club’: Netflix’s Teen Horror Series Is Frighteningly Light on Thrills

THRILL-SEEKING

Mike Flanagan’s latest saga follows a group of terminally ill teens who gather every night to tell scary stories. Too bad they’re not actually that thrilling.

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Fractured haunted-house ensemble stories about mortality, family, trauma, and shadowy apparitions hiding in the dark have become writer/director Mike Flanagan’s Netflix niche, as evidenced by The Haunting of Hill House and The

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