The Netflix Series That Should Make Religious People Uncomfortable.

[Cattledog]

The series touches on many themes, but its terror is grounded in the violence and cruelty of its religious characters. The charismatic Father Paul Hill (Hamish Linklater) is unwittingly a conduit for evil. We learn in Episode 3 that he is actually Crockett Island’s elderly Monsignor Pruitt, who was believed to have fallen ill after a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Father Paul tells the congregation that he’s the monsignor’s replacement, knowing they wouldn’t believe the truth: that he encountered a winged monster on his travels that drank his blood, then fed him its own blood to restore his health and youth.

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/10/netflixs-midnight-mass/620446/?utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2XCijpS_s60IaLWbEojZqJH0teSS_ViD1vGSocMr5lBHRyutxx6y6Uaro

[viva la]

1. Linklater is pretty amazing

He makes the character charismatic but also scary.

[RKP5637]

2. Religion ... wrote the book on horror. n/t

[Runningdawg]

3. Slavery, stomping in the heads of Native babies, rampant sexual abuse by the church - no outrage.

But a Netflix series? Well that's the line in the sand. LOL

[Ocelot II]

4. Really good series; I think I'll watch it again.