Midnight Mass Why The True Villain Is Human

Midnight Mass: Why The True Villain Is Human

While Midnight Mass slowly unfolded into a full-fledged vampire story, the true villain remained distinctly human. Here’s a look at who it really was.

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Midnight Mass Why The True Villain Is Human

Midnight Mass slowly unfolded into a full-fledged vampire story, yet the true villain of the show remained distinctly human. Over the course of seven episodes, creator and director Mike Flanagan crafted an audacious tale that tackles ideas of faith, religion, death, and love in his latest Netflix horror show. After The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor, Flanagan swapped his ghosts for vampires, both ancient and freshly turned, but it was not a creature of the night or any kind of angel/vampire hybrid monster that turned out to be the cataclysmic villain of Midnight Mass.

In the first few episodes, it seemed as though Monsignor Pruitt, under the guise of Father Paul Hill, was positioned to become the show’s antagonist due to his shadowy nature and ulterior motives. And, though Pruitt had his fair share of shortcomings and mishaps—with shipping the vampiric Angel from Jerusalem and feeding vampire blood to unsuspecting churchgoers arguably being his worst—his intentions remained noble albeit horribly misguided. Then there’s the Angel to contend with. The ancient vampire thirsted for blood and murdered several of the island’s inhabitants in its quest for sustenance. Still, it was not its actions that doomed the island community to its lamentable fate.

The fall of the fictional Crockett Island was ultimately caused by human nature, whose failings are no better encapsulated than in one particular resident. Bev Keane may have started as a slightly zealous and somewhat irritable local parishioner in the first episode of Midnight Mass, but by the concluding episode, she had quite resolutely demarcated herself from the rest of the island’s religious community as someone who would go to any lengths necessary to achieve her twisted vision of providence and reaffirm her deluded faith. Whereas Monsignor Pruitt redeemed himself towards the end of the show and realized the error of his ways, Bev doubled down on her fanaticism and took charge as the leader of the short-lived vampiric cult. She ultimately got her comeuppance in the form of a foreshadowed disturbing death fit for Bev, but not before bringing the rest of the island down with her.

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Bev’s descent into becoming a key villain was a gradual one and continuously fuelled by her zeal and bigotry. What seemed to have initially set her on the path to antagonism was the poisoning of Joe Collie’s dog, Pike. This calamitous crime indicated that the unassuming parishioner had a malicious side to her and hinted at her penchant for poison. This same poison that Bev later used to spike the communion wine led to the death and vampirism of most churchgoers – and indeed, the same poison that is theorized to have killed Father Pruitt turned him undead. Bev became the perpetrator of countless other transgressions throughout the show, but it was the self-righteousness and blind adherence to scripture (and the not-so-casual racism towards Sheriff Hassan) she used to justify her actions that really brought in the theme that human nature was the true villain of Midnight Mass all along.

During the show’s finale, Bev Keane remained unremorseful and as bereft of self-awareness as she had always been. While the rest of the island’s inhabitants came to peace with their crimes and chose to go out with a hopeful song of love, Bev succumbed to desperation in the face of certain death, with her frantic digging by the shore at the end of Midnight Mass perfectly demonstrating how fickle human nature can be. As self-assured as Bev once was in her evil ways, she ultimately broke down when her theological delusions were proven to be just that—notions of an imperfect and human mind. Midnight Mass may have had its fill of vampires and bloodshed, but its conclusion was an all too familiar one, particularly because it was brought on by human weakness.

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