10 Best TV Shows Like Midnight Mass

9. Constantine

Evil 2019
CW

Keanu Reeves need not apply.

This may come as somewhat of a divisive entry due by in large to Matt Ryan’s Constantine appearing in The CW’s Arrowverse. This identifies a key difference that may dissuade Flanagan fans from watching this show’s 13 episodes - Constantine is an “occult detective drama.” Where Midnight Mass simmers and gestates, this DC-based series sprints. The titular anti-hero, John Constantine, spends his one season solving paranormal crimes and hunting demons - quite a departure from the cloak-and-dagger of Crockett Island.

If a more forthcoming approach to the mystical is more your speed, however, Constantine has a great deal to offer. Naturally, the show submerges viewers in religious and occult iconography, satisfying a curiosity that Midnight Mass may have initially fostered. Moreover, the aesthetics of good and evil are continually pitted against one another, explored through individual character (or demon) choices as well as being imbued into the world itself.

At its core, Constantine is a story about a man struggling to reconcile the light and darkness within himself. The series explores whether good people can wade through an ocean of malice and come out unchanged, or if we are all simply waiting to be claimed by its tides. Echoing the inner turmoil of characters such as Father Pruitt and Riley Flynn, Constantine’s search for retribution unearths bounties of food for thought.

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