Midnight, Texas – season 2 – review

Director: Various

First Aired: 2018

Contains spoilers

The second Charlaine Harris vehicle to be adapted, when I watched Season 1 of this urban fantasy I wasn’t wowed but it was a fairly solid, enjoyable watch.

Season 2 had a little more draw in, possibly down to being familiar with the characters, but it also struggled with those characters – sending some of them away, or even killing them off, probably due to them struggling to use the characters. This was probably no bad thing, I suggested that season 1’s weakness was “possibly too many characters”. This season certainly felt more comfortable with the characters it used.

François Arnaud as Manfred

So we meet psychic medium Manfred (François Arnaud), in his adopted town of Midnight. He and the other supernatural creatures living in the town do so semi-hidden from the mundane world but the local hotel is bought by Kai (Nestor Carbonell) and his wife Patience (Jaime Ray Newman) and turned into a healing resort. Despite some scepticism, they discover that Kai is the real deal and that, not only can he cure the ill and injured, he can draw out supernatural powers – essentially transforming a creature to human and this cure aspect might have been explored more as an allegory of more controversial 'cure' claims.

Lem and Olivia

One of the early episodes in which we see this in action is with Lem (Peter Mensah, True Blood), the vampire turned energy vampire. Lem is essentially 'vampire roofied' by a stripper, Dawnette (Marissa Cuevas), who discovers what he is, forcing him to turn her. In turn she turns two more of the strippers and they go out to get revenge on men and those who have exploited them or slighted them.

strip club massacre

The solution involves having Kai turn her human again – but not before a bloodbath in the strip joint and an attempt on the hotel (as Kai didn’t give her a receptionist job). Lem, of course, is a primary character and, therefore, there is always some degree of vampire action in the series. One of my favourite moments of this season involved Basil (Adam Langdon) an omniscient Trickster. One of his tricks looks to be the season cliff-hanger but, as the series has been cancelled, we’re unlikely to see how that pans out.

after revenge

So, a series that has been cancelled but this was a stronger season than the first and the whole thing was an enjoyable supernatural romp. 6 out of 10.

The imdb page is here.

On DVD @ Amazon US

On DVD @ Amazon UK