Witch

Dusty continues his rampage, killing more people and taking more lives. He doesn’t want to do it, but the voices in his head compel him to kill. They call out “Harmony” and he can’t resist.

The detective on the case continues to question Kevin about his use of a chatroom for stalking purposes. Kevin reveals that he used the chatroom under the username “Einstein,” and claims that he only used it for one purpose. The detective wants to know more, but Kevin is understandably reluctant. ..

The voices that call out “Sheila” the next victim are always looking for someone to continue their cycle of violence. But of course, it will be someone else who is unsuspecting and unsuspecting again!

Ilonka tells her story as she walks home from work, a tale of love, magic and fate. It’s a story about a girl who wants to save someone though.

The protagonist for this tale is Imani. Imani and her mum are both healers that have the gift of “scrying” which essentially projects images onto the lake from their psyche. So what are these images? Well, they’re actually glimpses of the future. Imani’s mum tells her daughter that she needs to be careful while using it.

Imani’s mother has an even crazier gift – she can actually heal people and bring them back from the brink of death. In doing so, it sucks the life out of her. As she helps a fatally wounded woman come back to life, she collapses on the floor, just as Imani shows up.

Imani, grieving the death of her mother, turns to scrying at night in an attempt to understand what happened. In her vision, she sees a boy get shot dead. That boy is Ben and he was set up with Imani that night as a date. Along with their friends, they go out to pick up drinks from a liquor store in Imani’s vision. The liquor store is the same one that she saw in her vision. ..

Imani’s friends are understandably sceptical of her story about shooting Scottie instead of Ben. Imani feels guilty for going out on a date with Ben knowing he should have been the one wounded. Before she can continue the story though, Anya suddenly collapses on the table and breaks up the story. ..

Anya has sepsis and she’s in a rough way. Most of the kids resign themselves to this fate but Ilonka refuses to roll over and let cancer take her. Instead, she’s determined to try and save all of them no matter the cost. “I’d burn the world down. That’s what it mans to love her.” She says. Dr Stanton though is quick to point out that if she continues to fight like this, when the inevitable does happen it’ll hit her so much harder that usual.

Ilonka tells Anya that she loves her and wants to do what’s right. As she weakly opens her eyes, she whispers “I want to live.” which is enough for Ilonka to do everything she can to try and save her friend.

Shasta agrees to help Ilonka in saving Anya from the evil beings that are taking her.

In order to save Anya, they need “The five sisters” - Cheri, Natsuki, Sandra, Shasta and Anya. Interestingly, Shasta also has that hourglass symbol on her wrist. Apparently this is older than the Paragon. In order to save Anya, she needs to do exactly what she says. After cutting her hand and letting the blood drip down, we cut back to Brightcliffe.

The group of people decide to go all-in on this, intent on kicking the devil in the teeth. Sandra though is not so sure. She believes they’re messing around with spiritual stuff that’s outside the body and shouldn’t be messed with. Sandra decides to skip out.

Natsuki arrives to talk to her, pointing out that they’re family and she should be there to support them – for Anya’s sake. And the fateful time comes, and Anya is busted out in the middle of the night. They descend down to the creepy underbelly of Brightcliffe. Sheets down there are arranged into the word “DONT” which should be the biggest red flag…but it doesn’t dissuade any of them from continuing.

The group of kids sit in a circle, reciting the Goddesses of old while sacrificing in their name. Suddenly, the lift rises up and they’re stuck on their own, worrying they can’t get back up. Now remember, the kids were stuck down here earlier in the season and we cut to the midnight club, so that seems like a bit of a plot hole!

Sandra, the adult overseeing the ceremony, is not getting involved. Each of the kids have a trinket to sacrifice to the fire; something that is important to them. ..

The kids are cutting their hands and dropping blood into the fire. Each of them does this in turn, dropping a thumb print of blood across Anya’s forehead in the process. As they begin chanting, that familiar black shadow rises up out the fire and seems to reach out for Anya.

The Episode Review

The Midnight Club has been a bit slow-paced so far. The blood ritual at the end seems to hint that we’re going to be picking up the pace (and scares) for the next three episodes, but this is definitely going to be an acquired taste.

It would seem that Haunting of Hill House was a one-off in terms of “horror mastery” as very thing Flanagan has released since has very much garnered mixed reactions from people. People have found it creepy, spooky, and even scary. However, some people find it to be a bit too slow-paced and lack suspense.

Midnight Club is one of the weaker games in the bunch, but there’s still time for it to have a shocking and dramatic finale. ..