God This Show. Mike Flanagan The Director That You Are

God this show. Mike Flanagan the director that you are

the way midnight mass spent all of seven episodes showing us what faith and fanaticism looks like only to remind us what true faith looks like in the last five minutes of the episode, by showing us the people singing, the sheriff and his son praying at the beach and the monsignor and his love holding their daughter. the way the one who believed that she was the most faithful and righteous while actually being evil was the only one who didn’t make peace with her own death and tried to cling to life with claws and teeth.

they really said faith is not about idolatry, or blind belief, or even a big guy in the sky, it’s about community, and love, and the people who forget that and allow themselves to believe that they’re better than others will find themselves alone in the end.

Some people will be like “We need more well-written complex and morally grey women in media” and then can't even handle HER

Kartein: Teaming up with Kayden? That's ridiculous, such nonsense

Kartein: Who's friends with who? I can't stand to be within 5 feet of Kayden actually

Also Kartein: Pauses in the middle of the fight with a top 10 to check on Kayden, not ONCE, but TWICE. Actively more concerned about Kayden than his own wellbeing

Completely straight behaviour. Totally platonic; nothing to see here. He's totally not concerned for his husband or anything, they totally didn't get married after Astra arc

Platonic, problematic soulmates indeed

I love how their friendship is written in a way where literally nobody can ever see them as a couple, just as really sassy best friends

if kim dokja with his dogshit life and his dogshit luck can graduate university and get a dogshit job then so can i

Midnight Mass really went above and beyond to not only show true faith, but also true horror.

At the end of the day, the creature pruitt brought back wasn't the real monster at all. Bev Keane with her hypocritical idolatry, the mayor with his blind faith, Monsignor Pruitt with his selfish greed and one dimensional thoughts, even the other islanders' blind faith; those were the real monsters in the show

Just as true faith wasn't confined to the halls of a church, true horror wasn't the eildtrich monster at all

Excellent writing to juxtapose the horrors of fanaticism and religious propaganda against an actual monster; then using all these metaphors to show that faith is born from love and community

Truly the cherry on the top!