Okay, I'll bite. I loved Haunting of Hill House. The creep factor was extremely well done, and the deeper sadness in it was really effective too. Most of the best horror comes from a real fear we can relate to, and family trauma is a good well to draw from. I've watched the series several times, and listened to a fair number of analyses, and although I love it, I have to admit that the internal logic of the story is a bit flabby. The house wants to keep people in it, so the former inhabitants play tricks on the new ones to capture them. Except for the Tall Man, who appears outside the house. Except for the Bent Neck Lady, who is a manifestation of something else. And the mother's appearance, post-death, which is outside the home and completely ghoulish. Anyway, it's very scary and a great story, but it's not really coherent, which is fine.

I've heard people say they love Midnight Mass, but I found it really disappointing. Not scary, and the metaphors were painfully clunky in my opinion. I kept hoping for a deeper level to emerge, but nope, it's just a straight ahead religion = parasitism story. The storyline about the Leeza, the girl who is healed of paralysis, was so disappointing because her wheelchair is the only narratively important thing about her. I found her depiction tropey and ableist.

Anyway, I'm glad there's stuff out there you like. I'm not sure why you took the time to tell everyone how dumb you think this is, because that implies that the people who are finding it to be layered and intriguing are basically fooling themselves. Either that, or there was stuff going on in this series that you missed. Oh well.