The Haunting of Hill House (Netflix) TV Show • Page 17

I don't really think pointing out that your description of the episode straight up ignored massive parts of it is the same as ridicule but ok

I mean you're entitled to your opinion, but in this case it's like your opinion is only taking into account the first 5 minutes of the episode

 

I liked Hill way more. I guess this was fine but I was pretty bored throughout. I'm fine with slower horror if it pays off but this didn't for me, and emotionally didn't hit me like Hill did. I think it was a combination of the characters not being interesting and just drawn out events that didn't really seem to matter much.

 

Finishing production at the end of the year so still a while to wait, but this is cool .

 

He was so great in this.

 

Spoiler alert for Bly Manor (and I guess Hill House too if you haven't seen it)

Dani is gay! Theo was gay! Yay gay!

I love Nell and Dani so much, I'm so glad Victoria Pedretti had so much more screen time this time around.

Henry Thomas was pretty weak in Hill House but he's great in Bly Manor (and Doctor Sleep). Carla Gugino was great in Hill House (and Gerald's Game) but pretty weak in Bly Manor.

I love Luke, but Peter is such an asshole. I guess that's a testament to Oliver Jackson-Cohen's range.

I knew Alex Essoe (Charlotte) was Wendy in Doctor Sleep, but I didn't recognize that Katie Parker (Perdita) was Poppy. Also, I thought Martin McCreadie (Arthur) was Michael Huisman (Steven)...

Flanagan's kids are consistently good. Both kids from Bly Manor, all the kids from Hill House, Kyliegh Curran in Doctor Sleep, and Jacob Tremblay in Doctor Sleep/Before I Wake. (Well, Jacob's good in everything, we've known that since Room, but that's beside the point.)

The fifth episode of each season contains neck trauma. This is like Ari Aster's Hereditary and Midsommar both containing head trauma.

Much like how the fifth episodes were similar (in more ways than I mentioned), Viola's episode functioned the same as Olivia's. It's only a bit jarring because it's in a different time period. I can see why it didn't work for some people, but it worked for me.

Flanagan has a way of making a scary thing, then taking what makes it scary and turning it into something sad. The initial images of Eddie and Viola, like that of The Bent Neck Lady, were so horrifying, yet their stories were so tragic.

There's always one or two ghosts that don't adhere to the rules of the house. Dani being haunted by Eddie and Henry being haunted by... himself? was really reminiscent of Hugh being haunted by his very own ghost of Olivia.

Both seasons tell their stories through lots of flashbacks/memories. What's interesting about that this time is that when we first meet Hannah, we don't know that she's already dead. I kind of figured it out, before the reveal, but it didn't take away from how sad it was, the realization that she and Owen couldn't have a life together.

Bly Manor felt a lot more disjointed than Hill House, which I guess is understandable considering it's an adaptation of several different stories rolled into one. I'm not familiar with Henry James' work (or Shirley Jackson's, for that matter), so I won't speak on it. I will say, while Hill House was "scarier," I think Bly Manor affected me more strongly.

 

there’s .... a spoiler tag lol

 

some people don't like when it's used on a post that big

 

totally forgot Henry Thomas was in Doctor Sleep too damn. it's weird how off he was in Hill House, he was definitely great in the other two Flanagans he's done

I wonder who has the most Flanagan collabs, apart from Kate Siegel? Catherine Parker seems pretty high up there

 

i'm here for season three. I didn't personally like season two but I don't think it was bad. Hope they do more.

 

Rewatching the first season for the first time and man...
the part where the bent-neck lady is hovering horizontally above nellie muttering "NO NO NO NO NO NO NO" in that low pitched voice is one of the most terrifying things eeeeveeerrrr

 

S01E06 is the still the high point of this series and is one of the best episodes of TV I’ve ever seen. The way it all looks like one continuous shot is so brilliant.

 

Did I miss why henry haunted himself?

 

guilt over the affair and Charlotte's death

there's a suggestion that Dominic kinda cursed him in their last conversation by saying he'd be haunted by his "real self", but it's unclear how literal we're supposed to take that. I'm on the side of it not being a real haunting, just Hugh's conscience

 

We just finished and I liked the season and how things ended. My heart broke during the last episode but I think they wrapped it up nicely.

 

i think it’s less dominic literally cursing henry and more putting the idea in henry’s head that he’s his own worst enemy

 

We finished yesterday, and yeah that last ep wrecked me. Love the last 10 min.

 

agreed, I think that's what happened too, but I think they left it just ambiguous enough that something outright supernatural is a possibility

 

Finished Bly Manor and wow that was utterly beautiful

 

Thought you were going to say "perfectly splendid".

 

Learned she was peppa pig and now that's all I hear

 

the kids absolutely destroyed it, acting-wise.

 

man how brain poisoned are you to make fun of that lol

 

Flanagan/his casting director have always been ridiculously good at casting child actors. Jacob Tremblay, Lulu Wilson and the kid who played Miles especially are just extraordinary

 

Yeah the child actors have always been great in this - the perfectly splendid thing was cracking my gf up while watching though lol.