Heather Langenkamp on That Dr. Stanton Reveal

[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for The Midnight Club.]The forged of The Midnight Membership is the center and soul of the present. The big majority of my enthusiasm for a second season comes from the truth that I can’t wait to reunite with these characters. Nevertheless, Mike Flanagan and co. do throw in a few cliffhangers that I’d be very wanting to discover additional, specifically, the large Dr. Stanton reveal.

All through a lot of The Midnight Membership Season 1, Heather Langenkamp’s Dr. Georgina Stanton seems to be a health care provider and facility head with a coronary heart of gold, doing no matter it takes in order that the residents of Brightcliffe hospice can have a look at each residing day there as a win. Although Samantha Sloyan’s Julia Jayne/Shasta expresses frustration with how Dr. Stanton runs her operation, Dr. Stanton herself by no means does a single factor to trace that she has anything however the youngsters’ finest curiosity at coronary heart. Nevertheless, then the ultimate scene of Season 1 provides up some curious info that challenges the viewer to rethink every part they only noticed.

The ultimate sequence of The Midnight Membership Season 1 follows Dr. Stanton by Brightcliffe as she closes issues up for the night time. When she will get again to her residence, Dr. Stanton removes a wig and we see the Paragon hourglass tattooed on the again of her neck.

The primary massive query this sparks is, is Dr. Stanton truly Athena, the daughter of Aceso, or somewhat, Regina Ballard? Whereas the story particulars do appear to align for probably the most half, I’m hung up on the truth that Athena was 16 in 1940 when the Paragon Tragedy befell. That’d make Athena 70 in 1994, a great deal older than Langenkamp who’s 58.

However whether or not Dr. Stanton is Athena or not, that also leaves us with one other crucial unanswered query; what are Dr. Stanton’s intentions? Whereas it seems she’s been attempting to guard Ilonka (Iman Benson) from the Paragon practices, on the very finish of the present because the tattoo is revealed, a subtitle pops up that claims “ominous music.” Might that tease that Dr. Stanton had nefarious intentions all alongside? I posed that actual query to Langenkamp herself throughout our Collider Ladies Night dialog.

Langenkamp started by revisiting when she first came upon about this extra layer to Dr. Stanton:

“These scripts have been written in a while. We did not get all 10 episodes after we took the job. I believe we obtained the primary 4, or the primary three, after which they sort of got here out one after the other, and it was all the time only a shock. And I might be like, ‘Mike! What are you doing? Oh my gosh!’ It was tremendous thrilling to assume that I had this very mysterious different layer to me. However we’ve not actually been taking part in it up in any respect, clearly, as a result of it was a shock. We wished it to be a shock.”

As for what that shock actually means, Langenkamp did affirm what it suggests about Dr. Stanton’s present situation health-wise:

“So the truth that I’ve a bald head within the final body of my scene there clearly is supposed to point that I’ve most cancers as properly. And I believe it will not be surprising — I imply, it is surprising that I’ve most cancers, however if you truly take into consideration how I have been behaving by the entire sequence, it will be like, ‘Oh, I get it.’”

As for whether or not Dr. Stanton is sweet or evil, Langenkamp stopped wanting giving us a clear-cut reply. In truth, she’s satisfied Flanagan isn’t even sure in regards to the route the character is heading.

“I believe the music is supposed to make you query who she is. However, I do not assume that that is given away but. I do not even know if Mike is aware of. I believe he thinks he is aware of, however I do not assume he is aware of.”

Langenkamp laughed and added, “In the present day he may assume that she’s all good, after which possibly tomorrow he’ll get up and say, ‘Nope, I do not assume I like that concept.’”

There’s been no phrase but on whether or not Netflix is shifting ahead with a second season of the present, however hopefully that announcement will arrive quickly. Whereas we wait, remember to try Langenkamp’s episode of Collider Women Night time masking her journey from A Nightmare on Elm Avenue to The Midnight Membership beneath: