Netflix cancelled Mike Flanagan’s The Midnight Club after one 10-episode season, despite the article arguing it was its strongest spiritual successor to Stranger Things. The piece says both series make their supernatural threats effective by focusing on close-knit young people and the emotional stakes of their relationships.

Premiering in 2022, The Midnight Club adapted Christopher Pike’s 1994 novel and elements of his other work. It follows eight terminally ill teenagers at Brightcliffe Hospice who meet nightly to tell frightening stories and promise that the first to die will try to contact the others, making questions of death and an afterlife especially personal.