Midnight Mass Borrowed Its Best Twist From Twilight

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It may not seem like the Netflix horror hit Midnight Mass borrowed a lot from the Twilight saga, but one of the show’s biggest twists was previously touched on in Stephenie Meyers’ teen romance franchise. On the face of it, Midnight Mass doesn’t seem to have a lot in common with Twilight. Admittedly, the Netflix miniseries does feature the same mythological bloodsucking creature as the earlier teen blockbuster movie franchise, but Midnight Mass’s vampires owe more to Salem’s Lot than the story of Edward and Bella.

Or at least, so it would appear at first glance. A closer look at both texts reveals that Twilight and Midnight Mass both share an unusual twist on standard vampire mythology, albeit for very different reasons. While it is unlikely that Midnight Mass was directly inspired by such a fundamentally divergent saga, there is still no denying that Twilight did one of the show’s most interesting subversive twists first.

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The revelation that vampires can actually control their bloodlust and opt not to live off humans if they so choose was a shocking twist in Midnight Mass, but Twilight used the same logic years earlier with the saga’s “good” vampires, who only drink animal blood. Admittedly, the saga’s vampires are so-called «vegetarians» to make them less threatening to the reader and small-town teen Bella Swan, Twilight's infamously passive protagonist, whereas, in Midnight Mass, the fact that vampires don’t need to give in to their bloodlust plays into the show’s broader critique of groupthink and fundamentalism. However, the basic premise still operates the same, with one major caveat.

In Twilight, the fact that the vampires can survive in the sunlight and don’t