Mike Flanagan has kept his word and answered all the burning questions left unanswered by the first season “Goosebumps at Midnight” on Netflix. So the series does come to some kind of conclusion after all.
The disappointment of Mike Flanagan fans was great when “Goosebumps at Midnight” was cancelled after the first season. One reason for this might be that the series simply did not bring the success that the Netflix managers had hoped for. But perhaps it is also because the contract between Flanagan and Netflix has expired. It was recently announced that the horror mastermind will be doing business with Amazon in the future. With “The Fall Of The House Of Usher”, however, one last Flanagan format awaits us next year at the big red N.
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Mike Flanagan already prepared for the emergency a few weeks ago and promised that he would answer all open questions in case “Goosebumps After Midnight” was cancelled. He has now done just that.
In an extensive tumblr post, Flanagan revealed all the details that were planned for a second season. His introduction is as follows: “I am very disappointed that Netflix has decided not to release a second season of ‘Goosebumps at Midnight’. So I’m writing this blog as our official second season so you know what could have been. “
WHO WOULD HAVE DIED?
As Mike Flanagan reveals in the thread, Amesh (Sauriyan Sapkota), Natsuki (Aya Furukawa), Kevin (Igby Rigney) and Ilonka (Iman Benson) would have died in the second season “Goosebumps at Midnight”. It was also planned that a new patient would come to the Brightcliffe Hospice – and Spencer (William Chris Sumpter) would have benefited from medical advances in terms of AIDS treatment. In any case, he would no longer have been terminally ill in the finale.
In the second season, Mike Flanagan would also have adapted the novel “Remember Me” by Christopher Pike. This is one of Flanagan’s all-time favourite Pike books and deals with the story of a teenage ghost who tries to solve his own murder after being pushed off a balcony. This story arc would have related to Ilonka learning to accept her own death through the story.
WHAT ABOUT DR. STANTON?
What about Dr. Stanton (Heather Langenkamp) Mike Flanagan has also spoken at length. She is in fact the daughter of the original Paragon cult leader Aceso. Her nickname was Athena, she wrote the Paragon diary that Ilonka found in season 1.
So it was also Dr Stanton’s initials that Ilonka found carved into the tree in season 1 (her birth name was Georgina Ballard). She hated what her mother had become and wanted to turn the Brightcliffe estate into a place where life is celebrated.
Dr Stanton (Heather Langenkamp)
When it is revealed at the end of Season 1 that Dr Stanton is wearing a wig, it is because she is undergoing chemo – because she has cancer. So the disguise is not malicious in nature. So after helping so many people deal with their illnesses in the best way possible, she now has to deal with them herself. As Flanagan explains, her treatment will be successful.
WHAT’S BEHIND THE LIVING SHADOWS?
The living shadows are not an evil entity in “Goosebumps at Midnight.” As Flanagan makes clear, they are also not death itself, but the absolute unknown. When the shadows devour a person, that person is led to a place of understanding and catharsis.
Anya (Ruth Codd) has already had this happen to her in season 1 when she was reached by a shadow. It was only then that she was able to accept her death. This is exactly what would happen to Ilonka and Kevin in season 2. They too would have been reached by shadows and thus not only remembered their past, but also understood that they had nothing to fear.
So if the living shadow is not death, who is? The answer would also have been revealed in season 2: It is the caretaker (Robert Longstreet), who already appeared in two episodes of the first season. It would have been shown that there is no caretaker at Brighcliffe at all, but only that the youths meet this mysterious figure shortly before their deaths.
