Short of starting a pointless review thread, I thought I'd resurrect this thread for a quick spilling of my thoughts.
I didn't like Midnight Mass. People were talking how great this show was and it got me intrigued, but I found it like Squid Game: brief moments of quality just mired by loads of crap. I liked the ultimate premise of this show---how it finds an inventive way to use vampire mythology, interpreting it through Catholicism--- but found it over-written, over-acted, and anti-climactic. There are a few subdued and genuinely great performances given the material but the majority of the time it's played so big and obnoxiously so. I don't mind long dialogue sequences but everyone speaks in the same cadence and rhythm, and often in circles. One person would make a statement, repeat it, and then reiterate that same statement through a story. It was irritating to sit through a lot of it especially knowing where and how it ends.
Damn, did I wish this was better. There's genuine great stuff here but it's all so sloppy. It really feels like Mike Flanagan had this script forever and wrote it when he was a young man, but never revised it when he got the chance to actually make it. It plays so sophomorically for someone with so many projects under his belt now.