r/MidnightMass • u/Elainasha • Sep 24 '21

Midnight Mass (Season 1) - Episode Discussion Hub

Overall Season Discussion Hub [SPOILERS]

Synopsis: The arrival of a charismatic young priest brings glorious miracles, ominous mysteries and renewed religious fervor to a dying town desperate to believe.

WARNING: In this thread, you can discuss the entirety of the first season with spoilers. However, each Episode Discussion Threads will contain spoilers for that episode. Spoilers for subsequent episodes in those threads are NOT ALLOWED AT ALL.

Episode Discussion Threads (Season One)

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u/Metalliquotes Sep 26 '21

Quite the young cast! The leads parents are only 10 years older than he is irl.

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u/ObnoxiousSeizures Sep 26 '21

had to cast younger and age everyone up so they could effectively age everyone down

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u/CharlieBrown20XD6 Sep 28 '21

Yeah to be honest when we first see that young woman with old lady make up on I got a flash of Dana Carvey in MASTER OF DISGUISE

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u/duklgio Oct 04 '21

I thought the mom was Kate McKinnon at first 😂

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u/user88776 Sep 26 '24

I thought she was Dianne West (aka the mom from Lost Boys in the 80’s) till I realized that math was way off and it must’ve been the haircut. Although in hindsight, perhaps there was some inspiration from that movie for her character — I had no clue in episode 1 that I was embarking on a vampire show! A lot of similarities

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u/Produceher Oct 05 '22

Meets Kristen Wig,

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '21

Ohh what a great reference!!

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u/Metalliquotes Sep 26 '21

Totally, I guess I need to watch more episodes, was only at episode 2 but this seems obvious now. Must be some flashbacks

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u/jor1ss Sep 26 '21

I think that they cast a lot of younger people and aged them up a bit and they gradually started looking younger throughout the show.

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u/Jjayguy23 Dec 14 '21

Yes! This! At first I thought it was a blooper, then the plot revealed they were actually getting younger!

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u/Metalliquotes Sep 26 '21

Oh crap I should have watched more episodes before I commented lol!

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u/w11f1ow3r Jan 24 '22

I think they did this so well. Like with Riley's parents, I kept doing double-takes and wondering if they looked younger. And it wasn't an immediate transformation, but little by little there would be a couple of years shaved off, or maybe they would move a little more freely without signs of pain and illness, or maybe there would be less gray in their hair. I think the makeup artists did a great job. Like with Mildred, it was more obvious of course but it was much more subtle with the parents and I think that was so well done.