“The Final Country” feels like it’s breaking new ground showing teenage Becca Hays (Deborah Ayorinde) as Wayne drives her to college, his truck loaded down with furniture and boxes. The absence of adult Becca looms over the third season, starting well before Wayne lost her at Walmart. It’s one more thread tying Wayne…

“It’s terrible what this work makes you ponder, isn’t it?”

At a 1990 reading from Life And Death And The Harvest Moon, Amelia Hays concludes, “A lost child is a story that’s never allowed to end,” and her rapt audience nods along. New evidence (and fresh publicity) in the Purcell case means renewed interest in her…

“You shouldn’t have seen that. Try and forget it.” That’s what Roland West says after Tom Purcell walks in on photos of his dead wife and possible daughter.

For inveterate puzzlers, “If You Have Ghosts” provides some choice dates and details to enter into your spreadsheets or tack up on your bulletin board. Lucy…

In 2015, former detective Wayne Hays stands in his former police station, waiting for his son. He uses every tool in his possession to get what he wants from Henry, who is a detective just like Dad. He first tries charm (already demonstrated on the desk sergeant), asking his son, once so hungry for dad’s…

“Are you awakening to what you withheld?”

“It’s too dark, man!” “I don’t care.”

“Where are you now?”

“I am home,” Steven types onto a blank screen in the opening of “Silence Lay Steadily,” and pauses. “‘I am home,’ I thought, and stopped in wonder at the thought.”

“Are you awake now?”

Several episodes ago, I said that Hill House had done its worst to one of the Crains. And that was true then. But “Screaming Meemies,” which takes place long ago in the twisted timeline of The Haunting Of Hill House, does something so much worse.

It’s a sneaky piece of false logic that Hill House,…

“Witness marks tell the story of the piece if you know how to read them”

“You know it’s a mess, right?”

“I was right here. And none of you could see me.”

“We always believed you”

It’s not just the former inhabitants of Hill House who feel its sinister sway. The closer The Haunting Of Hill House takes us to Hill House, the more compelling the show becomes. The fragments of what happened that last night in the looming old house are coming together, and as “The Bent-Neck…

“They never believe me”

Still shattered from his ghastly encounter with the crawling figure in the bootleggers’ secret cellar, in “The Twin Thing,” young Luke Crain takes solace in the company of his “imaginary friend,” Abigail. Even with proof in the form of a ferocious rip in his pajamas, his parents tell him the…

“Whose hand was I holding?”

“I’m gonna fix her”

It looks like we’ll be treated to chapters focusing on the Crain children individually, weaving from past to present in an effort to show the traumas they each experienced in Hill House, and how those experiences shaped their characters and futures. “Open Casket” is a close-up on Shirley, the oldest…

Whatever walked there walked alone