Yeah, I really enjoy OMITB, really cool to see Steve Martin still has his comedy chops (the finale of the first series is a masterclass in physical comedy from him)
So, it ended the way most of Flanaganās stuff did, but it was still a really good experience. His stuff seems to be a textbook case of the questions being more interesting the answers. So in all, not as good as Midnight Mass or Hill House, but so much better than Blye Manor. An underappreciated part is that after so much 80s nostalgia in recent years the 90s soundtrack was a really nice touch.
Unlike his other stuff some of the plot was left for a planned second series, but still no word on whether Netflix will Greenlight that. I know someone had been reading the book recently (@deneb ?) so I wonder what their take on it is?
The series was very much more involved than the book. I didnāt dislike either, but the series was better, more fleshed out. The whole extra storyline was entirely new.
The stories the kids were telling were more interesting, I think there was only 1 which was the same as in the book. There were 3 or 4 extra kids who werenāt in the book
I probably enjoyed the personal journeys and interactions of the kids more than the mystery/horror aspects of the show. But then thatās true for me for all his shows.
Itās my least favourite Flanagan series, but because I personally rate them all highly, that doesnāt mean I didnāt enjoy it.
Incidentally, thereās been a bit of chatter that he really wants to do Stephen Kingās The Dark Tower as a series, but as a direct faithful adaptation rather than adding his own take on it.
I read that Netflix licensed his entire library, which is something absurd like 100 books, and they decided to use some of those other books as the basis for the kidsā stories. Given how well some of them fit the personality of the kids I thought that was a clever and really well done thing.
I think Iām mostly in agreement with you. I watched it for the scares, but that didnt really deliver. I wasnt thrilled with the Paragon side of the story and so liked best the actual Midnight Club side of it and the way kids were navigating their situation, each other and the way they told their stories as an expression of that.