Watched all seven episodes of the U.S.A.'s Midnight Mass on Netflix. I enjoy cozy, small town settings with occasional storms and pot luck fairs, boating trips, ferry rides, and candlelit processions on cold nights, but perhaps especially if the movie turns out to be a chaotic vampire story (no spoiler there; the movie is actually about warped faith in a fallen angel with secondary themes of death, rebirth, and resurrection, and a tertiary theme of how small-town Christianity always hinges on personality and power, thus rendering itself as a non-world religion). 

I am always wondering why only Catholics have vampires in their lives, like diabolic possession--all the way from Bram Stoker's Dracula, whose victims roam cemeteries with cement statuary and fear crucifixes to Anne Rice's homoerotic vampires to Mike Flanagan's island vampires--although this movie does have two Muslims participating in the chaos.

It seems to me, as a writer, that Midnight Mass was initially conceived as a stage play. There is too much concern with characterization, and the dialogue too rhetorical, poetic, and metaphysical for island folks. Scenes rely on entrances and exits, and on-screen business comes across as stage business.

Being a Religious Studies major, I immediately found the first inconsistency: Paul Hill claims that Jesus' first miracle was filling empty nets with fishes after being cast into the water; some sequences later he claims that Jesus' first miracle was turning water into wine. There were too many hymns, too many prayers, and too many quotations from the Old Testament taken out of the context of Hebrew history. And, like all Hollywood writers, the screenplay writer seems to believe that the Book of Revelation is all about the future rather than a metaphorical reflection of John of Patmos' present under the reign of Emperor Domitian.

As a result, Midnight Mass is a classic example of Bible misinformation, and has the aftertaste of an idea-oriented M. Night Shyamalan production.

Unfortunately that Jeepers Creepers monster also didn't help any.