He pushed genre ‘safety’ boundaries, even venturing as far as to write about teen murderers (The Lost Mind, The Wicked Heart), shower voyeurism (Die Softly), and terminal illness (The Midnight Club). Here are all the songs that can be heard on The Midnight Club’s soundtrack, episode by episode. Christopher Pike often straddled the line between traditional YA and darker adult themes. But Flanagan kept Pike’s world in its pre-broadband internet setting, giving the soundtrack a chance to revive a slew of tunes from a time before Spotify.
Netflix’s The Midnight Club could have easily been updated to a present-day series the lives of terminally-ill children may have a bit more technology to contend with, but the unfairness of their shortened lives and the grappling with mortality are the same. Initially published in 1994, Pike’s The Midnight Club was set in a hospice center for teens facing terminal illnesses. Warning: Spoilers for The Midnight Club Season 1 follow. And the songs on The Midnight Club’s Season 1 soundtrack take Pike’s 1990s-era book setting and turn it into a 21st-century love letter to throwback jams.
Also in line with the Haunting series, The Midnight Club is not solely Flanagan’s brainchild, but rather pulled from the works of a great author - this time, it’s teen horror master Christopher Pike. His latest project, The Midnight Club, continues this tradition. With The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor, series creator Mike Flanagan established himself as one of Netflix’s go-to names for horror.
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