{"id":87379,"date":"2020-10-12T18:00:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/haunting-of-bly-manor-spoiler-review-film\/"},"modified":"2020-10-12T18:00:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T15:00:31","slug":"haunting-of-bly-manor-spoiler-review-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/haunting-of-bly-manor-spoiler-review-film\/","title":{"rendered":"#Haunting of Bly Manor Spoiler Review \u2013 \/Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4062d31e6ba\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4062d31e6ba\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/haunting-of-bly-manor-spoiler-review-film\/#What_Happens_in_The_Haunting_of_Bly_Manor\" >What Happens in The Haunting of Bly Manor<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/haunting-of-bly-manor-spoiler-review-film\/#What_Works\" >What Works<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/haunting-of-bly-manor-spoiler-review-film\/#What_Doesnt\" >What Doesn\u2019t\u00a0<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Haunting of Bly Manor Spoiler Review \u2013 \/Film<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>                            <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/haunting-of-bly-manor-spoiler-review.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-640912\" src=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/haunting-of-bly-manor-spoiler-review-700x321.jpg\" alt=\"haunting of bly manor spoiler review\" width=\"700\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/haunting-of-bly-manor-spoiler-review-700x321.jpg 700w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/haunting-of-bly-manor-spoiler-review-360x165.jpg 360w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/haunting-of-bly-manor-spoiler-review-768x352.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/haunting-of-bly-manor-spoiler-review.jpg 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve already given a traditional, spoiler-free assessment of\u00a0<strong><em>The Haunting of Bly Manor<\/em><\/strong>, in which I delved into how the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> felt like a bit of a step-down from\u00a0<em>The Haunting of Bly Manor<\/em>. Part of that review abided by embargo notes \u2013 Netflix sent out a list of details they\u00a0<em>really<\/em> didn\u2019t want covered in reviews, for the sake of protecting spoilers.<\/p>\n<p>But now that\u00a0<em>Bly Manor<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>has been streaming for a few days, I\u2019m returning to touch on some of the more <strong>spoiler-centric<\/strong> elements haunting the new Netflix horror series.<\/p>\n<p><!-- SlashFilm_300x250_In_Post --><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Victoria-Pedretti-bly-manor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-640913\" src=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Victoria-Pedretti-bly-manor-700x321.jpg\" alt=\"Victoria Pedretti bly manor\" width=\"700\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Victoria-Pedretti-bly-manor-700x321.jpg 700w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Victoria-Pedretti-bly-manor-360x165.jpg 360w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Victoria-Pedretti-bly-manor-768x352.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/Victoria-Pedretti-bly-manor.jpg 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_Happens_in_The_Haunting_of_Bly_Manor\"><\/span><strong>What Happens in The Haunting of Bly Manor<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Having firmly wr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed up the story in\u00a0<em>The Haunting of Hill House<\/em>, <strong>Mike Flanagan<\/strong> and company decided to take an anthology approach to their\u00a0<em>Haunting<\/em> series and tell a completely new story. Several of the\u00a0<em>Hill House<\/em> cast members have returned \u2013\u00a0<strong>Victoria Pedretti<\/strong>, <strong>Oliver Jackson-Cohen<\/strong>, <strong>Henry Thomas<\/strong>, <strong>Kate Siegel<\/strong>, <strong>Carla Gugino<\/strong> \u2013 they\u2019re all playing new characters. And while\u00a0<em>Hill House<\/em> stuck with Shirley Jackson\u2019s iconic tale of terror,\u00a0<em><strong>The Haunting of\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><strong><em>Bly Manor<\/em><\/strong> adapts several different stories from Henry James \u2013 most notably\u00a0<em>The Turn of the Screw<\/em>, which provides the framework for the season.<\/p>\n<p>Things kick-off at a rehearsal dinner for a wedding where a mysterious woman (Carla Gugino) offers to tell a small gathering of people a ghost story. And hopefully, the listeners all have plenty of free time, because it\u2019s ultimately takes\u00a0<em>nine-hours<\/em> to tell the whole thing. The story told jumps back to the 1980s, where we meet Dani (Victoria Pedretti), an American in the UK looking for work. After an incredibly awkward job interview with the wealthy, rather jerkish Henry Wingrave (Henry Thomas), Dani lands a gig as a nanny looking after Henry\u2019s orphaned niece and nephew \u2013 Flora (<strong>Amelie Bea Smith<\/strong>) and Miles (<strong>Benjamin Evan Ainsworth<\/strong>) \u2013 in the family\u2019s sprawling home, Bly Manor.<\/p>\n<p>Dani isn\u2019t alone in caring for the kids at the house. There\u2019s also housekeeper Hannah Gross (<strong>T\u2019Nia Miller<\/strong>), chef Owen (<strong>Rahul Kohli<\/strong>), and gardener Jamie (Amelia Eve), who just happens to have an accent that sounds\u00a0<em>very<\/em> similar to the accent of the mysterious storyteller.<\/p>\n<p>And oh yeah \u2013 Bly Manor is haunted.<br \/>\n<!-- SlashFilm_300x250_In_Post_2 -->Before Dani, the children were looked after by Rebecca Jessel (<strong>Tahirah Sharif<\/strong>), who drowned herself in the lake on the property. But her ghost is still sticking around, as is the ghost of Peter Quint (<strong>Oliver Jackson-Cohen<\/strong>), Rebecca\u2019s lover, and an employee of Henry. But there are other specters haunting the halls of Bly \u2013 far scarier creatures with featureless faces. And it seems Dani has brought a ghost of her own: a figure who is always seen wearing a pair of glowing round glasses.<\/p>\n<p>Through flashbacks, we learn that this ghost is Edmund, Dani\u2019s childhood friend whom she grew up to become engaged to. But Dani has a secret: she\u2019s gay. Dani\u2019s pent-up sexuality boils over into a fight with Edmund that ends with Edmund is killed after being struck by a truck. Edmund\u2019s ghost has been haunting Dani ever since she was gifted with the dead man\u2019s glasses.<\/p>\n<p>The guilt over Edmund\u2019s spills over into more conflicting feelings as Dani finds herself attracted to scrappy, no-nonsense gardener Jamie \u2013 and it becomes clear that Jamie has feelings for her as well. The two will eventually act on their attraction, but first Dani is able to free herself of Edmund\u2019s spirit by tossing his glasses into a fire. Unfortunately, that\u2019s just one ghost down and many more to go.<\/p>\n<p>Flashbacks and twists prevail throughout the season. We learn that Hannah is\u00a0<em>also<\/em> a ghost, although no one seems to realize it \u2013 not even her. The ghosts that haunt Bly are able to possess living people, and the ghost of Peter Quint possessed Miles and pushed poor Hannah down a well. Ghosts have a bad habit of bumping people off at Bly, because it was another ghost \u2013 the Lady of the Lake \u2013 who killed Peter. Through yet another flashback \u2013 this one jumping far back in time \u2013 we discover that the Lady of the Lake is\u00a0Viola Willoughby (Kate Siegel), one of the original occupants of Bly and the root cause of all the hauntings going on in the house over the years. Viola\u2019s actions \u2013 spurned by her anger at coming down with consumption, which in turn caused her husband to grow romantically attached to her sister \u2013 have triggered a whole slew of deaths, with all those killed on the grounds stuck at Bly, forever cursed to haunt the grounds.<\/p>\n<p>After his demise, Peter, in ghost form, possessed Rebecca, his lover, and forced her to drown herself so they could be together in the afterlife.\u00a0Rebecca is, understandably, not very happy with this turn of events \u2013 but Peter has a solution. He and Hannah will possess Miles and Flora. They even manage to convince the kids to go along with the idea, but things are further complicated with Dani the mix. It all culminates in a big finale in which Dani is almost killed by Peter, and then almost killed again by the Lady in the Lake.<br \/>\n<!-- SlashFilm_300x250_In_Post_3 -->Henry shows up in the nick of time to help. Henry has his own problems \u2013 he\u2019s haunted by his own grinning, evil doppelganger, and he\u2019s\u00a0<em>also<\/em> haunted by the fact that he had an affair with his sister-in-law (<strong>Alex Essoe<\/strong>), which resulted in the birth of Flora. Flora is unaware that Henry is secretly her father, but Henry wants to rectify that. Unfortunately, he gets killed by the Lady in the Lake. But don\u2019t worry \u2013 he gets to come back to life.<\/p>\n<p>The same can\u2019t be said for all the other ghosts at Bly, however. But they can be set free \u2013 and they are, when Dani invites the Lady of the Lake to possess her in order to stop the ghost from drowning Flora. With the Lady in the Lake in her new host body, all the other ghosts \u2013 including Peter, Rebecca, and Hannah \u2013 are free to go\u2026well, wherever it is ghosts go when they\u2019re not haunting big, spooky houses.<\/p>\n<p>The children forget all about their trauma, and Dani and Jamie try to start a life together, with the Lady in the Lake lying dormant within Dani\u2019s body. For a while, Dani and Jamie have a happy life together \u2013 but it can\u2019t last forever. The Lady in the Lake starts to rouse from her slumber, and Dani is afraid she\u2019ll be forced to hurt Jamie as a result. Dani\u2019s solution: she goes back to Bly and drowns herself.<\/p>\n<p>Back at the rehearsal dinner, all the pieces come together: the storyteller is an older Jamie, and the bride about to be married is Flora. And while Dani may be gone, Jamie keeps hoping to be with her again, because as the adult Flora says, this isn\u2019t a ghost story \u2013 it\u2019s a love story.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/bly-manor-hannah-and-owen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-640915\" src=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/bly-manor-hannah-and-owen-700x321.jpg\" alt=\"bly manor hannah and owen\" width=\"700\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/bly-manor-hannah-and-owen-700x321.jpg 700w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/bly-manor-hannah-and-owen-360x165.jpg 360w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/bly-manor-hannah-and-owen-768x352.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/bly-manor-hannah-and-owen.jpg 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_Works\"><\/span><strong>What Works<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><em>The Haunting of Hill House<\/em>\u00a0floored me. I was already a fan of Mike Flanagan, who directed that entire season, before watching, but I was still completely unprepared for how great the Netflix series would be. With that in mind, I was eagerly anticipating\u00a0<em>Bly Manor<\/em>, which might have been a mistake. It is, perhaps, unfair to constantly compare\u00a0<em>Bly Manor<\/em> to\u00a0<em>Hill House<\/em> since they\u2019re technically different shows. But the connection between the two \u2013 similar actors, similar behind-the-scenes talent, similar scenario \u2013 makes that difficult. As a result, I spent this entire season feeling slight off-kilter. All the pieces were there to make\u00a0<em>Bly<\/em> as good as\u00a0<em>Hill House<\/em>. And yet\u2026something was amiss.<br \/>\n<!-- SlashFilm_300x250_In_Post_4 -->But that\u2019s not to say there isn\u2019t plenty to enjoy, either. While Flanagan isn\u2019t behind-the-camera for the entire season this time (more on that below),\u00a0<em>Bly Manor<\/em> fits in nicely with the filmmaker\u2019s emotional-driven approach to horror. And in many respects, the emotional elements of\u00a0<em>Bly Manor<\/em> actually surpass\u00a0<em>Hill House<\/em>. All of the romantic elements click, and it\u2019s interesting how they\u2019re contrasted.<\/p>\n<p>There are three distinct different love stories here: the romance between Rebecca and Peter, which is passionate but doomed; the romance between Dani and Jamie, which is awkward but sweet; and, more tragically, the would-be romance between Hannah and Owen. The housekeeper and the cook clearly had feeling for each other, but they never got a chance to act on them. This is underscored in the final episode, where the dead Hannah flashes back to the moment she first met Owen. It\u2019s not the\u00a0<em>real<\/em> Owen, of course \u2013 just her memory of him. But the two discuss the great romance they could have had, if only they had just professed their feelings for one another. If only.<\/p>\n<p>T\u2019Nia Miller is remarkable in the role of Hannah. She\u2019s able to make the character both stoic and melancholy, and these final moments, with Hannah finally confessing her love for Owen, are so powerful due to Miller\u2019s performance that they brought tears to my eyes. And I\u2019m not talking a single tear rolling down my cheek here, gang. I\u2019m talking copious amounts of tears.<\/p>\n<p>Miller is backed-up by a strong cast across the board. I\u2019ll say there\u2019s not a wrong performance in the bunch, although some of the accents \u2013 I\u2019m looking at you, Henry Thomas and\u00a0Carla Gugino \u2013 are a bit touch and go. Standouts include\u00a0Oliver Jackson-Cohen, who has the market cornered at playing sexy-yet-evil guys at this point; and child actors\u00a0Amelie Bea Smith and\u00a0Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, who are both precocious and twee without it becoming annoying.<\/p>\n<p>But the real standout here is\u00a0Victoria Pedretti. What a find Pedretti is \u2013 virtually unknown before\u00a0<em>Hill House<\/em>, Pedretti has fast become one of those performers worth watching in anything, no matter what the role. Here, Pedretti\u2019s Dani is the glue that keeps\u00a0<em>Bly Manor<\/em> together, and it\u2019s a tricky role. Dani is full of conflicts, forever betting herself up for the death of Edmund and for her own sexual orientation. She\u2019s afraid to give voice to it, and when she and Jamie finally kiss, it causes even more conflict. Pedretti nails all of this perfectly, playing Dani as a fidgety, awkward, slightly neurotic bundle of nerves \u2013 constantly fidgeting with her words, and her hands. This type of acting could tip into gimmicky in the wrong hands, but Pedretti knows exactly how to play it so that Dani feels like a\u00a0<em>real<\/em> person, not just a character.<\/p>\n<p>Which makes the ending almost unbearably heartbreaking. Some may take issue with Dani\u2019s demise \u2013 is it yet another case of the unfortunate <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/BuryYourGays\">Bury Your Gays<\/a> trope? \u2013 but in the context of the story, it works. That doesn\u2019t make it any less tragic, though, and there\u2019s an oppressive melancholy that settles over the final moments of\u00a0<em>Bly Manor<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>As much as I loved\u00a0<em>Hill House<\/em>, I\u2019ll contend that the final episode tipped into schmaltzy territory, and I wasn\u2019t very happy with how they altered Shirley Jackson\u2019s famous \u201cwhatever walked there,\u00a0walked alone\u201d line into the cringeworthy \u201cthose who walk there, walk together.\u201d\u00a0<em>Bly Manor<\/em>, in sharp contrast, is the complete opposite. While the episodes that come before its finale aren\u2019t as good as\u00a0<em>Hill House<\/em>, it sticks the landing perfectly, closing the story on a far-less-positive note. Yes, the show gives us a sweet final image of Dani\u2019s ghostly hand on Jamie\u2019s shoulder as she sleeps. But Dani is still gone \u2013 just as Hannah is gone, and Rebecca, all the other unfortunate souls lost at Bly. With its final moments,\u00a0<em>The Haunting of Bly Manor<\/em> is reminding us that life is fleeting. That none of us really gets a happy ending. We only get happy moments. Some of those moments may stretch on for years \u2013 decades, even. But eventually, they will end, our bodies will return to the dust, and our spirits will go off to wherever it is spirits go \u2013 assuming they go anywhere. It\u2019s an ending tailor-made to emotionally destroy you, and it works oh so well that I can only respect it while also comically blowing my nose after weeping so damn much.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/henry-thomas-bly-manor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-640914\" src=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/henry-thomas-bly-manor-700x321.jpg\" alt=\"henry thomas bly manor\" width=\"700\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/henry-thomas-bly-manor-700x321.jpg 700w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/henry-thomas-bly-manor-360x165.jpg 360w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/henry-thomas-bly-manor-768x352.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net\/wp\/wp-content\/images\/henry-thomas-bly-manor.jpg 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_Doesnt\"><\/span><strong>What Doesn\u2019t\u00a0<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><em>The Haunting of Bly Manor<\/em> has a serious pacing problem. Over the course of its nine episodes, I never grew tired of\u00a0<em>The Haunting of Hill House<\/em>. I was never in a hurry for the story to wrap itself up. As far as I was concerned,\u00a0<em>Hill House<\/em> could stretch on as long as it wanted to. I can\u2019t say the same for\u00a0<em>Bly<\/em>, which jumps around in time so much that it begins to grow tedious.<\/p>\n<p>Shifting timelines is a Mike Flanagan staple \u2013 he did it notably in\u00a0<em>Occulus<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Bly Manor<\/em> cuts back and forth between past and present as well. But\u00a0<em>Bly<\/em>\u2018s digressions into the past all feel like filler. The fact of the matter is that while I was invested in the story of every member of the Crane family in\u00a0<em>Hill House<\/em>, I was indifferent to most of the supporting players of\u00a0<em>Bly<\/em>. The episode focusing on Henry\u2019s doppelganger is perhaps the worst offender here. Henry Thomas\u2019 performance is fine, but watching the actor bicker with himself for almost a full hour stops the show\u2019s momentum in its tracks.<\/p>\n<p><em>Bly Manor<\/em> is primarily pulling inspiration from\u00a0<em>Turn of the Screw<\/em>, but that story \u2013 and its several film adaptations, most notably\u00a0<em>The Innocents\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 is a story of seclusion. The nanny in that story is alone with the children and Mrs. Gross in the big, sprawling estate \u2013 which makes things all the more disturbing when she starts spotting ghostly figures. In\u00a0<em>Bly Manor<\/em>, however, Dani is\u00a0<em>constantly<\/em> surrounded by people. It robs the show of its potential for horror, and saps away some of the story\u2019s strength. It\u2019s hard for us to be so concerned for Dani when she\u2019s forever in the company of other adults and not just mischievous children who may or may not be playing mind <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>s with her.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t help but think that ultimately,\u00a0<em>Bly Manor\u00a0<\/em>would\u2019ve worked better as a film rather than a series. There\u2019s such great material here, and it\u2019s frequently getting lost in the shuffle. Even a shorter season \u2013 say 6 episodes instead of 9 \u2013 could\u2019ve helped things out. Did we\u00a0<em>really<\/em> need an entire flashback episode to show us where the Lady in the Lake came from? I\u2019ve seen some people trying to compare that episode \u2013 episode 8, \u201cThe Romance of Certain Old Clothes\u201d \u2013 to\u00a0<em>Hill House<\/em>\u2018s game-changing sixth episode \u201cTwo Storms,\u201d and that comparison isn\u2019t warranted at all. Sure, it\u2019s neat that\u00a0\u201cThe Romance of Certain Old Clothes\u201d is in black and white, but\u2026so what?<\/p>\n<p>TV, like film, is a collaborative art, and it takes many people working behind-the-scenes to make things happen. But\u00a0<em>Hill House<\/em> had the benefit of having Mike Flanagan behind the camera for every episode. With\u00a0<em>Bly<\/em>, Flanagan only directs the premiere. And while the directors working this season \u2013\u00a0<strong>Yolanda Ramk<\/strong>e &amp;\u00a0<strong>Ben Howling<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>Cargo<\/em>),\u00a0<strong>Ciar\u00e1n Foy<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>Sinister 2<\/em>),\u00a0<strong>Liam Gavin<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>A\u00a0<\/em><em>Dark Song<\/em>),\u00a0<strong>E. L. Katz<\/strong>\u00a0<em>(Channel<\/em>\u00a0Zero), and\u00a0<strong>Axelle Carolyn<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>Tales of Halloween<\/em>) \u2013 all do good work here, I still yearned for one authoritative voice guiding the narrative. Had Flanagan \u2013 or even another filmmaker on the list \u2013 helmed all the episodes this season, the full narrative might feel less jumbled and more guided.<\/p>\n<p>The pros seem to far outweigh the cons in\u00a0<em>Bly Manor<\/em>, but it\u2019s hard to shake of the disappointment. Perhaps if I had been able to completely divorce myself from memories of\u00a0<em>Hill House<\/em> I\u2019d be more won over by\u00a0<em>Bly<\/em>\u2018s charms. But different story or not,\u00a0<em>Bly<\/em> clearly inhabits the same galaxy as\u00a0<em>Hill House<\/em>, and separating the two is easier said than done. I hope Flanagan\u2019s experiment continues into a third season \u2013 lord knows there are plenty of ghost stories to adapt. But I also hope that next time more of that\u00a0<em>Hill<\/em> House magic returns. 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