The Haunting of Hill House (Netflix) TV Show • Page 15

goddamn, episode 5. no one fucking warned me about episode 5

 

I have no idea what season anyone in here is talking about lol.

haven’t started S2 yet

 

Apart from the occasionally dodgy accents, that was perfectly splendid. Not at the level of Hill House, but still super engrossing, (watched all episodes in two sittings!)

Episode 5 was definitely the highlight.

 

Just finishing up 4, God dammit I’m so sad haha

 

halfway through Bly Manor, it’s good but not blowing me away like Hill House when I watched it the first time.
one thing I love is Dani is gaaaaaay!

 

Pretty much my exact thoughts

 

Just started Bly Manor and the plague doctor in the background is really freaking me out.

 

Yeah maybe I’m just a big baby but to the people who said this wasn’t scary at all...I must have been watching a different show??

 

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To me, it's a different kind of scary. Hill House was very upfront with the scares. So far, through episode 5 at least, the scares in Bly Manor really lean into paranoia. Constant shit lurking in the background of scenes.

For me, that's more unnerving than straight up scares...for others I suppose it's not.

 

I don't think it's really horror at least where I am (end of episode 6). for every spooky moment there's like 4-5 that are just character-building or romantic

thing is though I kinda love it? completely different beast to Hill House but I would've been disappointed if they just redid that season in a different house. this season is just so beautiful, visually and the way the characters are interacting, it's not at all what I expected but I love it

 

this season is incredible so far imo

really nails the aesthetic from James in the novel that almost every adaptation fails at

 

Yeah episode 5 of Bly Manor hit me good

 

I was fully in tears by the time she was screaming outside the manor at night, that wasn't halfway through I don't think lmao

 

Pretty sure that was in the first few minutes lol

 

man, episode 5

 

Just finished episode two of bly manor. Shit is so good so far. Really makes me want to read the novel.

 

Finished. What a beautiful series. Definitely not what I was expecting. I think I like Hill House better, but this was fantastic. If this can get more people into "horror," or show the effectiveness of supernatural entities tied to human emotion, the better.

 

I was a very vocal critic of Henry Thomas in Hill House - and pretty much fairly I think - but dude kills it in episode 6 of Bly Manor. that was a killer performance

 

absolutely loved Bly Manor, got emotional at the end a bit. Fantastic season.

 

Yeah I wasn’t really feeling Bly at first, but we’re on ep6 now. It’s so good. Love the characters.

 

Finished the season, really loved the back half especially.
I hope there are many more seasons of this!

 

just finished too. such a beautiful season of TV, even if it was sad as hell too. the ending with Owen losing Hannah and Jamie losing Dani broke me completely, and I saw the Fiona reveal coming a mile away but I was still crying like a baby. Jamie and Owen are two of my favourite characters on TV in a long, long time

that being said, I think the penultimate episode was a huge misfire. seriously doubt I'll watch that one again

 

@Rowan5215 re: episode 8 what makes it a misfire for you? I loved the backstory to the lady in the lake. I thought the whole “she said no to the horse and carriage so many times that it never came back” was a good explanation for why people who died at Bly had to stick around

 

appreciate what they were trying to do with it, and I usually love one-episode big departures, but it totally missed me. all the main actors felt really miscast, and because the narrator was doing all the heavy lifting anyway I found it hard to get engaged. some really overwritten and bad dialogue too all just meant I didn't really feel much for those characters at all, tbh just wanted to get back to Dani lol

the explanation of her gravity of will making the house haunted was really cool, for sure, but after a while it felt like they were just using the episode to tick off boxes backstory-wise which they really could have left open to preserve some mystery, like the Plague Doctor. also just think it went on wayyyy too long at the end, like by the 10th time Gugino said "she slept, she forgot, she woke up" I was like "yeah okay I get it"

I love the big swing though, can see why anyone would love the episode, I just came down on the wrong side of it

 

@Rowan5215 agree that some of it was over explained. with a bit of editing it could have been a really great ep. still enjoyable though!