Mike Flanagan’s latest Netflix Original horror series, The Midnight Club, was the first that could have gotten a season 2 as part of his deal. However, Netflix has confirmed that the show will not be renewed for a second season. The Midnight Club is a Netflix Original teen horror series created by Mike Flanagan and based on Christopher Pike’s novel of the same name. Mike Flanagan’s fourth Netflix Original series and his sixth overall project for Netflix.
Mike Flanagan has been one of Netflix’s best content creators for several years, beginning with and every year, subscribers look forward to his latest venture in the horror genre. The Midnight Club is a group of terminally ill teenage patients who live at Rotterdam Home. They meet at midnight in secret to tell horror stories. The group agrees that whoever dies first will make an effort to contact the remaining Midnight Club members from beyond the grave.
Renewing status of The Midnight Club season 2 on Netflix
This is the first of the four Mike Flanagan shows produced for Netflix that we anticipate getting a second season, as the creator has already stated they planned to do so over multiple seasons. The Wrap announced that Netflix had cancelled the series over two months after its initial debut, claiming low performance (more on this in a second).
It happened on the same day that Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy, who had an overall contract with Netflix, switched to Prime Video (via Amazon Studios), where they are currently working on The Fall of the House of Usher, which was their final project for Netflix.
How popular was The Midnight Club on Netflix?
Performance on the streamer will very probably determine if a contract is renewed, so let’s explore that immediately. But critically, The Midnight Mass saw its audience decline by almost 60% between weeks two and three. The demise of any now-cancelled Netflix Original has frequently been predicted by that kind of decrease.
One of the poorest Netflix first weekends we’ve seen in a while was experienced by the show. According to Netflix’s official statistics, just 18.79M hours were watched globally. Before completely disappearing from Netflix’s top 10, the show appeared there for three weeks. The programme was watched 90.31 million times on Netflix between October 2 and October 23, 2022.
The Netflix Top 10s reported by FlixPatrol do indicate that in week 2, there was a significant increase in viewership, but week 3 saw a sharp decline in both viewership and viewing hours. The show was only able to rank as the 18th most popular title on the service on day one. It improved to position 5 on day 2. It reached position 2 on day 3, rank 4, and day 4 (which would have fallen outside the metric above).
According to a demand analysis engine, TelevisionStats.com, the programme peaked in early October 2022 as the sixth-biggest show in the world but has since fallen. The Midnight Club was the Flanagan show that performed the worst so far, according to outside data. According to Google Trends, it was only able to attract 34% of the overall demand that Midnight Mass had only a year earlier.
