A season about the house’s earlier residents sounds like a good bet, if a second season does happen. From the Entertainment Weekly interview:

I truly enjoyed bingeing this series...up until the very last 20 minutes. I guess this statement sorta explains why the first season ended the way it did.

I’m really in love with this show. I think the sisters relationship is still a little ‘not there yet’, but this should be solved after a couple of episodes. The one thing I’m not liking, however, is the absence of ‘How Soon is Now?’. But I also remember that time when WB did not renewed the rights to the song and the…

Without a doubt. The finale undercut so much that came before, not least being the menace of the house and how horrible being trapped there is supposed to be. Liv and Nell having so much power over the house didn’t make much sense. Nell was able to cut off the houses hold over her siblings. Liv made the red room open…

I was with it up until “the happily ever after” ending, which completely undermined the doom to which Olivia, Hugh, and Nell were consigned, and the intrinsic horror of Hill House’s existence and every spirit bound inside of it. If the intent was to show that love could carve out a safe state of being in the Red Room,…

...and I am so sorry for forgetting to put in my posting how much I love the show!

I am so sorry for what this ending could have been instead of ..this.

1) It’s not a direct adaptation of the novel or even really a loose adaptation so that isn’t the problem with the dialogue.

Scene with Steven was clearly the episode writers trying to goose themselves. “Writers are plastic eating machines who treat everyone like food,” etc. Self-indulgent. Nell can wake him up, because ... no reason.

You’ll be pleased to spot that mirror in the end of this episode then!

I teared up a few times, as I did regularly since ep 5, but in the end, I think I feel rather disappointed. I actually liked the first five eps a lot, they build up the family and characters so well, and then the last eps were all exposition and explanation and things happening TO them. There were barely any real…

I pretty entirely think people are missing the thing the show is trying to say, especially in the context of the last episode. Gonna try and explain my perspective.

I was very on board with this show ... until this episode. Tacking on this treacly, falsely happy ending not only undermines the excellent dread the show has been building so well for 9 episodes, but uncomfortably pushes a pro-murder/suicide message. I think a much stronger ending would have been having the remaining…

So I’m not going to read the article or the comments due to spoilers, but this seems like the best place to ask the question...

Murder House was the first thing I thought of with this finale, too. Same rush to get dying characters inside the house so they can turn into ghosts and everything. The imitation wasn’t exactly subtle (although Ryan Murphy certainly isn’t the first person to frame the allure of undeath as the opportunity to be united…

I got the Murder House vibe as well, but I didn’t see it as a happy ending, more like a tragic one. The Craines and Dudleys all spent so much time fighting the house and in the end, the house still won.

The last third of this episode is some of the most overwritten sentimental crap I have ever seen on TV. It’s what I imagine every episode of This Is Us looks like. I loved this show as a family drama and made peace with the horror element being secondary and pretty blandly executed at that (lazily-rendered CG ghosts…

B- may be a bit too generous. I was really bummed out with the way this episode was executed, finishing what i thought was a really entertaining show by spelling out everything for the viewer over and over again in a way that went beyond earnest and into a sort of sugary glop that was imo completely out of place. That…

In episode 5 I began getting this as a vague feeling, but by episode 7 (and the ending episodes) I am fully convinced this is unintentionally an AMAZING lowkey Dark Tower series.  The Red Room. The crimson dresses. The weird way the past, present, and future all exist in the house at the same time. It’s a trap built…

I don’t get the Oculus shade in the review. The author certainly doesn’t have to like it, but it was a pretty well received movie.