This focus on character was influenced by Fong’s time on flashback-heavy shows like “The Magicians” and “Once Upon a Time” - the latter of which was created by veterans of the mother of all flashback shows, “Lost.” She sees “The Midnight Club” as part of that lineage: “This is, in its way, a flashback show because we don’t see what the kids were like before they lived at Brightcliffe,” Fong said. “The Midnight Club” Eike Schroter/Netflix “And that helped us to understand what could fit in this season or what was maybe a little bit too sprawling.” The stories that made the cut had to meet a multifaceted set of criteria, offering opportunities to switch up the look and feel of the show - but more importantly, they needed to reveal something essential about the characters who told them. “Each writer kind of did a book report, and so we did our own ‘Midnight Club’ where the writers had to orally tell the story of the book in the room,” Fong said. Stephen King’s ‘The Dark Tower’ TV Series in the Works from Mike Flanagan
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