Yeah, of all of them hers was the worst. Mr Wyngrave was hammy, Carla’s was shaky for a regional accent, even Peter’s dropped off a bit at times. But Viola’s was properly am dram.

There was a carriage clock on the (tiny) mantlepiece. I nearly turned it off there and then.

This episode lost me when they expected me to believe that the massive, clearly Edwardian steel-framed house was supposed to be a Tudor-era manor. Those thin walls! Those huge rooms! Those tiny fireplaces! 

And, to be honest, ‘Irish’ food isn’t much different to traditional British food either. It’s just easier to market in the US if you say it’s Irish.

...I’ll be in my bunk

A Barrister is a catch all term for a court lawyer, basically, as opposed to a Solicitor who does legal desk work rather than trials.

“everyone is casually hanging out all over the property at all hours, drinking, carousing, making tea”

The racial dynamics are interesting in this show because Hannah is black and British. Her being a housekeeper in the US would have pretty clear racial significance, whereas in the UK it’s probably the other way round. Housekeepers were about as high status as a working class maid could get, and was a very sought-after…

The Merlin has to be the least intimidating bird of prey ever. Speak softly, carry a big stick, I guess.

Well exactly, especially considering how heavily Peter’s view of himself and his place in the world is influenced by class hang-ups, it seems like Becks’ race is the elephant in the room.

Yeah, I can imagine that being an ambitious young black woman trying to break into the legal industry in the 80s would have been exponentially harder, which you’d think would be relevant.

Yes, I think so. The ghosts live like that almost all the time, hopping about through their own memories, only getting to experience the present in Bly Manor very occasionally. Hannah seems to be an exception to this, for reasons I’m sure will be made clear.

Don’t finish their damn sentences!

It’s a shame that Becks doesn’t get a proper backstory, though I assumed that the reason she’s so keen to trust and keep hold of Peter is because of what she said about her dad. He was always putting her down and telling her that she couldn’t succeed in various things, as a woman, so she’s desperate to prove to anyone…

Yeah, it’s proper gothic horror rather than jump-scare horror that has a gothic theme. The ghost stories of MR James and Henry James rarely had explicit ghosts in them, though many of the events could only be explained by something paramormal.

I often wonder with examples such as the ones you have given, why don’t the actors just say something? It’s a fairly easy mistake to correct, and the British actors will be well aware that ‘math’ sounds wrong being said by an English child.

In my opinion, the Polish should have called in a British bomb squad to deal with it. Their country left a goddamn bomb down there, and let’s be honest, this could’ve been one of the easier messes on the docket for the former empire to clean up

Our corrupt MP’s what? Heads?

I mean, it also sounds suspiciously like the English Civil War, too.

Yeah, I’ve read a fair bit of criticism that it’s not scary enough, which I guess is fair if you’re expecting Hill House 2 which is a more conventional horror. However, I’d say it’s a gothic horror in the most traditional sense, being based on the works of one of the big names in the gothic horror world, and in those…