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Midnight, Texas
Genre
Based onMidnight, Texas by Charlaine Harris
Developed byMonica Owusu-Breen
Starring
ComposerJacob Groth
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes10 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers
Producers
  • Anne-Marie McGintee
  • Christopher Markey
Production locations
Cinematography
Editors
  • Timothy Good
  • John Heath
  • Arman Tahmizyan
  • Louis Cioffi
Running time43 minutes
Production companies
Original release
NetworkNBC
ReleaseJuly 24, 2017 (2017-07-24) –
present

Midnight, Texas is an American supernatural drama television series broadcast on NBC as a summer entry to the 2016–17 network television schedule. The series was commissioned on May 13, 2016.[1] Midnight, Texas is based on the book series of the same name by author Charlaine Harris who also wrote The Southern Vampire Mysteries, the novels which were adapted into the True Blood television series.[2] The series premiered on July 24, 2017.[3]

Series overview

SeasonEpisodesOriginally aired
First airedLast aired
110July 24, 2017 (2017-07-24)September 18, 2017 (2017-09-18)

Synopsis

On the run from his past, young psychic Manfred Bernardo is told by the ghost of his grandmother to seek out refuge in Midnight, Texas. There, he will find a community that can help him. Full of diverse characters—including a vampire, a witch, a fallen angel, a demon and a shapeshifter—Midnight faces numerous threats from the outside world as it welcomes the newcomer.

Characters

Main

  • Manfred Bernardo (François Arnaud), a psychic who moves to Midnight trying to outrun trouble that is following him.[5]
  • Bobo Winthrop (Dylan Bruce), the human proprietor of Midnight Pawn, landlord to Lemuel, Olivia, and Manfred. Also, the best friend of Fiji.[6]
  • Fiji Cavanaugh (Parisa Fitz-Henley), a quirky free-spirited witch who owns Midnight's magic shop and struggles to come to terms with how powerful she really is.
  • Olivia Charity (Arielle Kebbel), a freelance assassin with as many secrets as guns she owns, and lover of Lemuel.[7]
  • Joe Strong (Jason Lewis), a fallen angel who has prophesied darkness heading towards Midnight and husband of Chuy, who admonishes him for revealing his angelhood to others.
  • Lemuel "Lem" Bridger (Peter Mensah), a vampire with a dark past who first came to Midnight in the 1950s and never left, and Olivia's lover.
  • Creek Lovell (Sarah Ramos), the mortal "girl next door beauty" waitress and gas-station attendant who becomes the love interest of Manfred, much to her father's distaste.[8]
  • Reverend Emilio Sheehan (Yul Vazquez), a quiet weretiger who presides over the Wedding Chapel and Pet Cemetery and their Midnighter patrons.

Recurring

  • Xylda (Joanne Camp), a former psychic and Manfred's grandmother and con-partner who now appears as a ghost to watch over him.
  • Madonna Reed (Kellee Stewart), a fierce protector of her fellow Midnighters, and waitress and bartender at Midnight's Home Cookin' diner.
  • Chuy Strong (Bernardo Saracino), a half-demon who, along with his husband, Joe, fears others will find out what they are.
  • Shawn Lovell (Bob Jesser), the owner of Midnight's Gas 'N Go, who is an overly protective father to his children and distrusts Manfred.
  • Connor Lovell (John-Paul Howard), the younger brother of Creek, who is as protective of her as she is of him. He harbors a secret of his own.

Episodes

No.TitleDirected byTeleplay byOriginal air dateU.S. viewers
(millions)
1"Pilot"Niels Arden OplevMonica Owusu-BreenJuly 24, 2017 (2017-07-24)3.57[9]
Pursued by a mysterious man named Hightower, young psychic Manfred Barnardo flees his life in Dallas and moves to the mysterious town of Midnight, Texas. While there, he meets the locals and forms a bond with a waitress named Creek. However, soon after his arrival the many members of the town begin to show impossible secrets, and a young woman named Aubrey Harrison is found dead. Manfred attempts to connect with Aubrey's spirit to solve her murder, but accidentally floods his house full of ghosts and evil spirits. Manfred uses her tip-off on his Ouija board to locate the murder weapon, which the police link to his landlord and Aubrey's fiancee Bobo. At the end of the episode, Bobo is arrested, much to the disbelief of the local community, especially local "wiccan" Fiji, who attacks the police car with magic. Manfred returns to his house to find it glowing orange and filled with ghosts and evil spirits.
2"Bad Moon Rising"David SolomonMonica Owusu-BreenJuly 31, 2017 (2017-07-31)3.29[10]
Manny enlists the help of the other 'Midnighters' to try and get rid of the ghosts and demonic entity haunting his house, and Fiji performs an exorcism to try and encourage the spirits to move. Meanwhile, Manny tries to help clear Bobo's name by allowing Aubrey to inhabit his body so that he can see what happened to her, before relaying this to the sheriff at Davey, who still seems skeptical. The sheriff's deputy makes a fatal error when she decides to investigate noises coming from the Reverend's cellar, causing chaos throughout the town, which Lemuel, Manny, Fiji and Olivia try to clear up. The demonic entity in Manny's home turns out to be a lot more powerful than it first seems, causing serious problems for Fiji. Bobo is freed after a Sons of Lucifer jacket with Aubrey's hair in its zipper is found downstream of her body. The Sons of Lucifer, led by Aubrey's husband, then murder the sheriff.
3"Lemuel, Unchained"David SolomonTuri Meyer & Al SeptienAugust 7, 2017 (2017-08-07)3.06[11]
An old friend of Lemuel's arrives in town with a nest of vampires, though it's soon revealed that there's more to his visit than a reunion. Joe reveals who he is to the Reverend, and his fears about what's happening in the town. Lemuel tells Olivia how he became a vampire, while Manny's grandmother reveals her own past with the vampire to her grandson. When Lemuel is betrayed, and the city is in danger, Manny and the others prepare for a fight, and Bobo and Fiji grow closer. With Joe's help, the vampires are destroyed and Olivia saves Lemuel from the sun. Creek and her father clash over her relationship with Manny.
4"Sexy Beast"Steve ShillLiz SagalAugust 14, 2017 (2017-08-14)3.19[12]
Bobo refers a client to Manfred, a woman who's looking for her younger brother, which leads Manfred to uncover an ancient supernatural who seduces and feeds on men, and seeks his friends' help to deal with her. Olivia interrogates a man she discovered following her after a job. He was hired by her father, and she sends him back with a message to leave her alone, revealing part of her past in the process. Meanwhile, Bobo tries to keep his past a secret, and he and Fiji finally kiss.
5"Unearthed"Milan CheylovBrynn MaloneAugust 21, 2017 (2017-08-21)2.85[13]
Manfred turns to Olivia for help when his dark past finally catches up to him; Bobo must confront his own troubled history after the Sons of Lucifer kidnap Fiji.
6"Blinded by the Light"Nick GomezMark H. KrugerAugust 28, 2017 (2017-08-28)3.37[14]
A girl from a neighboring town goes missing so the citizens go looking for her and find Tiffany, the girl from the vampire van (from Lemuel Unchained). The Rev reveals part of what he knows about Midnight and the veil in order to calm Fiji and Manfred. Joe reveals his secret. The missing girl is found with Creek's father, whom the midnighters come to believe is the man who murdered Aubrey and Tiffany and kidnapped the girl. In a shock twist, the serial killer is revealed to be Creek's brother Connor.
7"Angel Heart"Mairzee AlmasLarry Caldwell & Liz SagalSeptember 4, 2017 (2017-09-04)2.93[15]
A bounty hunter from Joe's past arrives in Midnight to punish him for leaving the angelic fold.
8"Last Temptation of Midnight"Kevin TancharoenMonica Owusu-BreenSeptember 11, 2017 (2017-09-11)2.52[16]
A faceless supernatural makes a pilgrimage to Midnight to usher in a demon's arrival from the veil to Hell; Olivia and Bobo make plans of their own to protect the town.
9"Riders on the Storm"Greg BeemanAl Septien & Turi MeyerSeptember 13, 2017 (2017-09-13)2.45[17]
As the veil breaks and an apocalyptic sandstorm engulfs Midnight, the Midnighters rally to protect Fiji from demonic forces.
10"The Virgin Sacrifice"[18]David SolomonMonica Owusu-BreenSeptember 18, 2017 (2017-09-18)2.72[19]
With Hell literally about to erupt, Manfred leads the Midnighters to take back their home.

Reception

Critical response

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 58% approval rating with an average rating of 5.3/10 based on 24 reviews.[20] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 50 out of 100, based on 16 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[21]

Ratings

Viewership and ratings per episode of Midnight, Texas
No. Title Air date Rating/share
(18–49)		 Viewers
(millions)		 DVR
(18–49)		 DVR viewers
(millions)		 Total
(18–49)		 Total viewers
(millions)
1 "Pilot" July 24, 2017 0.9/4 3.57[9] 0.5 1.35 1.4 4.92[22]
2 "Bad Moon Rising" July 31, 2017 0.8/4 3.29[10] 0.5 1.62 1.3 4.91[23]
3 "Lemuel, Unchained" August 7, 2017 0.8/3 3.06[11] 0.5 1.66 1.3 4.72[24]
4 "Sexy Beast" August 14, 2017 0.7/3 3.19[12] 0.6 1.65 1.3 4.84[25]
5 "Unearthed" August 21, 2017 0.6/3 2.85[13] 0.2 0.70 0.8 3.46[26]
6 "Blinded by the Light" August 28, 2017 0.9/4 3.45[14] 0.4 1.72 1.3 4.74[27]
7 "Angel Heart" September 4, 2017 0.7/3 2.93[15] TBD TBD TBD TBD
8 "Last Temptation of Midnight" September 11, 2017 0.6/2 2.52[16] TBD TBD TBD TBD
9 "Riders on the Storm" September 13, 2017 0.6/3 2.45[17] TBD TBD TBD TBD
10 "The Virgin Sacrifice" September 18, 2017 0.8/3 2.72[19] TBD TBD TBD TBD

References

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  6. ^ Petski, Denise (February 17, 2016). "Bresha Webb Joins NBC Comedy Pilot 'Marlon' - Deadline". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved February 17, 2016.
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  22. ^ Porter, Rick (August 4, 2017). "'Midnight, Texas' premiere solid, 'AGT' at No. 1: Broadcast Live +3 ratings for July 24-30". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved September 12, 2017.
  23. ^ Porter, Rick (August 17, 2017). "'America's Got Talent' and 'World of Dance' dominate broadcast Live +7 ratings for July 31-Aug. 6". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved August 17, 2017.
  24. ^ Porter, Rick (August 24, 2017). "'AGT,' 'World of Dance' finale on top again in broadcast Live +7 ratings for Aug. 7-13". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved August 24, 2017.
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  26. ^ Porter, Rick (September 7, 2017). "'Weekend Update' finishes with big gains: Broadcast Live +7 ratings for Aug. 21-27". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved September 7, 2017.
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External links

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