I've noticed this too and I think it has something to with this term I've heard called "viral-logues".

The idea being right now there are scenes in tv shows being written and framed in a specific way that they are easily screenshot able and shareable over Twitter and tik tok etc. The idea being people share them and make wild exclamations like "So true", "This speaks to me", "louder for the people at the back".

Oof I think midnight mass may have more monologues, but they are at least better acted.

Like midnight club has multiple monologues from the main character which are really poorly acted and is her saying the exact same thing every time about how they "need to fight with everything we have to survive".

I did, I didn't adore it like some people did, but I overall liked it despite excessive monologues happening in that too.

At least with Midnight Mass the series had a definitive end.

I loved Haunting of Hill house, and I've genuinely loved his movies, but this really was an absolute miss for me.

I remember seeing an article before this came out saying that Midnight club was going to be "Less monologues and more scares".

I don't know what happened because it felt like we had more monologues and less scares than ever.

It felt like no one could say they were upset about something without going into an extremely long extended monologue.

Not only that but most of those monologues just felt so pointless. It felt like you could cut half the minutes of each episode and nothing of value would have been left.

As well as that the construction of the overarching story felt so cynical. Every episode was about 5 minutes of story advancement at the start of an episode, and the 5 more minutes at the end which ends on a cliffhanger so that you watch the next episode.

And then the overarching story just ends with a bunch of unresolved plot threads even though season 2 isn't confirmed.