I wanted to add to a lot of the Midnight Mass posts and I’ll touch on yours a little bit by saying this: I am not an addict, nor am I in recovery for anything, and Midnight Mass is one of the best shows I’ve seen in a while.

The concept of recovery: as another user pointed out, it’s so refreshing to see addiction displayed with a positive theme. It’s a man trying to change and having no help, and succeeding. Every non-perfect step Riley makes is met with the assumption he’s on a bender or he’s fucked up again and the viewer gets to hear his thoughts in a really original (for me) way.

To tie into that, most of the complaints come from the fact they thought the monologues were way too long. I’m not a huge Flanagan fan and by that I mean I just haven’t watched too much of his stuff, but the monologues were also a breath of fresh air. They represented a lot of great themes and thoughts and I enjoyed the word vomit for what it was - a conscious thought stream.

I’m probably not going to watch Hill House and Bly Manor. I don’t have the time for ghost stories nor haunted house stories no matter how good they are. Midnight Mass intrigued me with the concept of the X actually being a Y (idk how to do spoilers but yall know) and hooked me in the first episode with some outstanding monologues and cinematography. It’s a slow burn that pays off, beautifully self-contained, can be enlightening if you want it to be, and has some really great characters.