Netflix's "The Haunting of..." (Season 2)

[Heinz-Klett]

October 9, 2020

The Haunting of Bly Manor | Teaser Trailer | Netflix - YouTube

[Gretiem]

Originally Posted by Heinz-Klett

October 9, 2020

The Haunting of Bly Manor | Teaser Trailer | Netflix - YouTube

I never got around to watching the first one but I guess ill binge them back to back

[Scottie]

Oh hell yes

[tcripe]

gimmie it now!!!!!!

[Monterey Jack]

Perfect one-a-day Halloween viewing.

[BluProofie]

Hope this is good, but Flanagan being less involved and this story being done to death(and perfectly in The Innocents) made me lower my expectations.

[puddy77]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tykS...ature=youtu.be

[Monterey Jack]

Originally Posted by BluProofie

Hope this is good, but Flanagan being less involved and this story being done to death(and perfectly in The Innocents) made me lower my expectations.

Is Flanagan not directing every episode, then?

[Foggy]

Originally Posted by Monterey Jack

Is Flanagan not directing every episode, then?

Looks like only the first three episodes are credited on IMDB. He’s down as directing one of them, but has written all three, so I guess he’s written the series but stepped away to do his other Netflix series Midnight Mass.

The other guy listed for directing the other two episodes is the guy who did Eli last year, so we’re in...someone else’s hands.

Trailer looks good, better than the teaser. Big departure from the novel as with Hill House, so I’m not too worried, although it feels a little more sacrilegious than that one was. Turning of the Screw is pretty particular in what it does, where as Hill House just needs a spooky manor and a collection of central characters.

[MifuneFan]

I thought Flanagan directed all episodes like he did with Hill House, but I see now that last October he tweeted this list of directors for episodes:

I’m really excited to be collaborating with some of my favorite filmmakers on THE HAUNTING OF BLY MANOR. Yolanda Ramke & Ben Howling, Ciarán Foy, Liam Gavin, and Axelle Carolyn are all directing episodes.
@Yolanda_Ramke

@BenHowlingFilm

@citadelfoy

@LiamGavin

@AxelleCarolyn

[Underworld54]

Anyone finish Bly Manor yet?

[TheSweetieMan]

5-episodes in.

On social media, I've seen lots of fans of Hill House expressing disappointment in the new series.

I don't think it's poorly made, or anything to such an extent that I would call it 'bad'; However, I think they made a mistake by kind of marketing this as a 'horror'-themed series following the success of Hill House--as well as the expectation that comes from adapting 'The Turn of the Screw'.

It works well as a drama. It's well-written and directed, and carries a heavy heart -- but the horror undertones are extremely minor, and not particularly scary or frightening this time around.

I'm still enjoying it overall, though. Enough to still want a third volume.

[kevin87]

Originally Posted by TheSweetieMan

5-episodes in.

On social media, I've seen lots of fans of Hill House expressing disappointment in the new series.

I don't think it's poorly made, or anything to such an extent that I would call it 'bad'; However, I think they made a mistake by kind of marketing this as a 'horror'-themed series following the success of Hill House--as well as the expectation that comes from adapting 'The Turn of the Screw'.

It works well as a drama. It's well-written and directed, and carries a heavy heart -- but the horror undertones are extremely minor, and not particularly scary or frightening this time around.

I'm still enjoying it overall, though. Enough to still want a third volume.

Yeah, the show itself is fine, but the horror stuff is barely there and it's extremely drawn out as well, which doesn't help matters. Almost feel like this should have been 6 episodes. I've watched up to episode 7 personally and nothing really happens until episode 5 and 6 and even then, it was a very small fraction of the episode. Making it "present day" also kind of removes some of the spooky factor.

As for episode 6, I have no idea what's going on with the uncle...

[Show spoiler]did he have a breakdown and now sees another version of himself? Is it his brother haunting him and taking his face to mess with him further?

Maybe this iteration needs it's own topic, because it's not associated with Hill House. I'm surprised Netflix didn't retroactively name the show "The Haunting of..." and then put Hill House and Bly Manor as the season names like a real anthology would. They treat it as two separate shows, which they basically are, apart from sharing three actors.

[jan_tran]

This needed to be a movie of around 2, maybe 2.5 hours long. So much backstory for everything; Flanagan’s literally going into the opposite direction of “the less you know, the better.” The epilogue worked best for me, but I don’t know that’s the case because I appreciated the writing or just knowing the end was near.

[Gamma_Winstead]

On episode 4 now. It's certainly not poorly made, but it's also not clicking with me at all either. Episode 3 just really draaaaaggged.

[Show spoiler]I felt like I got absolutely nothing out of those flashbacks. They'd stated in the previous two episodes that Peter was a wormy dick who manipulated and twisted her. So here, watch him do it for 55 minutes.

. This just feels really dragged out, but where Hill House had fantastic characters I wanted to see their whole life stories for, these ones just aren't all that interesting. I honestly don't know if I'll finish this one out.

There's also a total lack not only of scares, but of creepy atmosphere. There's just genuinely nothing creepy about this season in the slightest so far. And it's not a case of "oh that doesn't scare me", it's literally just not trying to be a horror series, which may be part of the point, but it's very disappointing to me.

[y2jman]

I finished it last night I enjoyed it

[heebiejeebie]

I liked it but it really dragged in the middle. I really liked the ending too though overall I thought Hill House was better.

[Joey9775]

I liked it too but I really just didn't care about Rebecca and Quint. That made those eps DRAG.

[kevin87]

Originally Posted by heebiejeebie

I liked it but it really dragged in the middle. I really liked the ending too though overall I thought Hill House was better.

Personally I thought it dragged in the first 4 episodes, the 5th and 6th are when they started to develop some kind of story.

Originally Posted by Joey9775

I liked it too but I really just didn't care about Rebecca and Quint. That made those eps DRAG.

All the episodes with backstory felt the same, the show could've been 6 episodes and not been so backstory heavy, especially when it didn't need to go into so much detail.

I've watched all 9 now, and throughout I kept thinking this could've been told in February or something,

[Show spoiler]and then grown up Flora told older Jamie that it could be a love story

and that goes with what I'd been thinking. It's a fine story on it's own, albeit too many episodes, but being a followup to Hill House on top of premiering in October gives it a certain expectation that it just doesn't live up to because it's not that kind of story... more dramatic thriller than horror.

[TheSweetieMan]

I liked the first several episodes, but I agree the middle episodes dragged quite a bit.

I have one episode left, and barring something extravagant, I'll have to revise my initial thoughts and say that if they can't come up with anything more riveting for a third series, I think they should stop after this.

The middle episodes become sappy and melodramatic, with repetitive piano loops playing in the background, with never-ending time loops and boring dialogue.

This is a far cry from Hill House.

Again, not poorly made -- just... boring.