Midnight Mass: What Actually Happened To The Cats?
Midnight Mass’ mysterious deaths kick-off as dozens of dead cats wash up on the beach, but what was the deal with the acts in the first place?
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Warning: SPOILERS for Midnight Mass.
Mike Flanagan’s Midnight Mass kicks off the mayhem with a plethora of murdered cats washing up on shore, but what actually happened to them to cause this? The first victim of Midnight Mass’ horror isn’t a human resident of Crockett Island, but a cat. Warren sneaks off to the Uppards to smoke weed while Ooker and Ali drink, an area that they have to take a canoe to reach. When they get there, dozens of cats are roaming around as Warren briefly sees a mysterious figure with piercing inhuman eyes. The boys hear the feral animals apparently fighting in the distance, though this is just the beginning of the cat massacre on Crockett Island in Midnight Mass.
After Midnight Mass’ big storm heads for the Crock Pot, Sheriff Hassan and several of the island’s residents investigate the shore, where dozens of dead cats have mysteriously washed up. Warren and Ooker give a backstory for the cats on the island early on, stating those on the Uppards are all strays that came from the mainland. They say it started with just a few from back when people actually lived on the Uppards, slowly growing into an “army” of cats that are rumored to feed on the area’s dead bodies, but Warren says the bodies are all just bones. It’s still curious as to why so many cats survived on Midnight Mass’ island, but it makes no difference after they all washed up dead the next morning.
When Midnight Mass’ characters investigate the west bank, they at first believe the cats simply died from the storm, that is until they realize all their blood has been drained. It seems that once Father Paul brought the vampire to Crockett Island, he instructed it to not feed on humans, leaving its only hidden meals to be the herd of stray cats on the Uppards. Midnight Mass doesn’t explain why all of them would wash up on the shore or why there could still be so many without a significant food source (as Warren debunks the dead body theory). Warren says that storms typically bring the dead bodies to shore, so it seems once the vampire had fed on all of the Uppards’ cats, the storm brought all the bodies to the west bank.
It’s still curious why there were so many cats on Netflix’s Midnight Mass island in the first place. Warren says they’re mostly from the mainland, but that makes no sense for how they could come from there unless sneaking onto boats and ferries or being forgotten by any visitors. None of the characters in Midnight Mass besides Joe Collie even seem to have pets, so it’s odd that there would be so many unless just a few cats had plenty of litters. Even then, there’s no way to feed all of them unless they’re eating each other. People typically use the Uppards to drink, smoke, and hook up, so there’s nobody regularly going to the area to keep these cats alive.
Mayor Wade says that the Uppards haven’t flooded like that in 20 years, meaning there would have been a lot more than just the cats washing up on Netflix horror TV show’s beach. Unless Father Paul was making runs to the mainland and bringing back stray cats for the vampire to feed on, it seems highly unlikely that there could be hundreds of cats washing up like Sheriff Hassan estimated. Additionally, it’s hard to believe they would have all washed up right on the west bank outside of the Flynns’ house. Sadly, the cats are the only mysterious animal death in Midnight Mass, as the drama really picks up after Joe Collie’s dog is poisoned and public dies in episode 2.
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