YMMV / Midnight, Texas

• Adorkable:
  • Despite being gorgeous and possessing superpowers, Fiji turns to complete mush around Bobo.
  • During his time as a human, Lem becomes a bit of a dork wearing some goofy outfits and trying to do as much human stuff as he can (like eating various types of food).
• And You Thought It Would Fail: A lot of people were skeptical about a network television Lighter and Softer version of True Blood from a less famous series by the same author. So far, ratings have been quite solid and the cast has gradually been warmed to. And it ended up being renewed for a second season. But no more.
• Complete Monster:
  • Colconnar, the Big Bad of season 1, is an ancient powerful demon, who seeks to break the veil to escape hell. Briefly succeeding a thousand years ago, the demons scorched the land, before a powerful shaman sacrificed himself to seal the veil. In the present as the veil weakens, Colconnar sets his sights on the powerful witch Fiji Cavanaugh, planning to harvest her power for himself. Getting a temporary foothold, he seizes and molests her, then spends the season stalking her dreams, almost driving her insane. As the veil weakens, more supernaturals are attracted to Midnight, and its starts to affect the locals, notably causing Lemuel "Lem" Bridger to attack his lover Olivia. Growing stronger, Colconnar sent his servant the Faceless to gather him a mass sacrifice, whilst he personally preyed upon the vulnerable and depressed of the town, trying to convince them kill themselves, almost causing an old woman to stab herself and Creek Lovell to slit her throat. Summoning a sandstorm and the wraiths to secure Fiji, Colconnar had one of them take the form and personality of her deceased lover Jeremy, to manipulate her. Once free Colconnar planned to open the gates to hell, bringing about Hell on Earth solely for him to rule over.
  • "Lemuel, Unchained": Zachariah, Lem's sire, is a charismatic but selfish vampire. Meeting in the 1800s, after turning Lem, they roamed the country together, leaving trails of bodies everywhere they went, Zachariah building himself a nest of vampires. By 1959 he settled down in Midnight and terrorized the town, slaughtering and feasting on the citizens. When Lem was granted the ability to feed off of energy rather than blood, he offered it to the clan as freedom from the blood lust, only for Zachariah to revealing that he loved the killing, seeing humans as nothing but prey, and tried to have Lem killed. Returning to Midnight in the present, Zachariah pretended to have changed to trick Lem into letting them settle in Midnight. When Lem refused, he poisoned his old friend and chains him up so that he will slowly die as the sun rises, whilst ordering his followers to kill everyone else in the town.
  • "Last Temptation Of Midnight": The Faceless is a mysterious beast who serves and worships Colconnar. Ordered by his master to provide him a great sacrifice to feed him enough that he may finally break free, the Faceless happily obliges. Introduced murdering a kindly old priest by slitting his throat, then cutting his face off whilst he was still alive,, the Faceless proceeded to go on a rampage, murdering numerous people for the sacrifice, all in his gruesome signature manner, at one point killing a friendly trucker simply cause he needed a larger vehicle to transport the bodies. The Faceless openly admits to only be serving Colconnar for the chaos he will bring, looking forward to a new world "where we find pleasure from pain, joy from suffering" and boasting about his role in bringing about the apocalypse.
  • "I Put a Spell on You": Grace Barrone is a cruel, greedy woman, who runs a gang that kidnaps supernaturals and force them to fight to death. Imprisoning them in cages and keeping them in line with shock collars, Grace allows people to bet on the outcome of fights, dismissing her captives as "animals", who she regularly abuses and electrocutes for no good reason, only caring about the money they can make her. When her daughter Shelia falls for one of her captives Mike, a Weretiger, and ends up impregnated by him, Grace declares her a traitor who tainted their "bloodline" and imprisons her in chains, keeping her alive only so she can use the child, her own granddaughter, in the fights. When the Midnighters try to rescue Mary and her father, Grace electrocutes all her captives threatening to carry on until it eventually kills them all. Despite being pure human, Grace was easily one of the most depraved things the Midnighters ever encountered.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Creek was a character few people were initially fond of due to being rather boring compared to the supernaturals around her. Turning her into Ms. Fanservice and then revealing her brother was a Serial Killer helped shift the opinion around her.
• Retroactive Recognition: Odelya Halevi appeared in one episode a few years before her big break on the revived Law & Order.

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