Midnight Mass has been streaming on Netflix since Friday, but best stop reading now if you haven't reached the end yet, as creator Mike Flanagan has broken down the show's devastating dénouement during a new interview.
SPOILERS ahead!
We're not going to touch on every major twist here, but in the final episode, Erin (Kate Siegel) uses the last of her strength to tear through "The Angel's" wings with her knife while he's draining her blood. The creature then attempts to flee the island before the sun rises, but we don't actually see what becomes of it.
When Leeza (Annarah Cymone), who had regained the use of her legs after ingesting the vampire's blood, tells Warren (Igby Rigney) that she can no longer feel her legs, we (and many others, evidently) took this as a sign that the ravenous beast must have been turned to ash before he was able to reach shelter. However, Mike Flanagan has now revealed that he never intended to make the vampire's ultimate fate clear.
“We’re not saying he died… Our hope really there was just to say that Leeza’s concentration in her blood had begun to tip back, that she was going to be OK," he tells The Wrap. "We didn’t want it to confirm about The Angel, in that way that you can never kill fanaticism, it’ll always kind of come back. But I love that that’s what it meant to you!”
Yeah... the finale of Midnight Mass is bleak enough as it is, so we're going to go ahead and assume the creepy bastard was fried!
What do you guys make of the ending and the series as a whole? Check out our review here, and drop us a comment in the usual place.