Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticAround the midpoint of Mike Flanagan’s new Netflix horror serial “Midnight Mass,” in the middle of a conversation about loss, Kate Siegel’s character Erin asks Zach Gilford’s Riley: “What happens when you die?”Humanity’s been grappling with with that big question for millennia, and a single conversation likely won’t crack it.
But Riley tries, delivering a monologue about the body’s atoms “scattered across the goddamn cosmos” and becoming one with everything, his speech underscored by plaintive piano.The character is reaching beyond his grasp in order to deliver emotional catharsis and meandering into well-meant cliché.
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