Why “Midnight Mass” is the Perfect Parable for Our Times

Netflix’s Hit Series Succeeds as both Allegory and Antidote

“Midnight Mass,” directed by Mike Flanagan and currently streaming on Netflix, takes the vampire genre and subverts it in a way that raises profound questions about our society and its values. As many reviewers have already noted, the series is an extended meditation on faith, but it couldn’t succeed in that regard without juxtaposing faith with its evil twin, idolatry, and asking us whether we can really tell the two apart.