As a sidenote heading in to the final episode, I’m personally putting this show pretty neck-to-neck with Hill House, depending how it handles the landing of course. I mean the two shows are fundamentally different in many ways, but there is this thematic aspect and how they both play with it that is fascinating and…

I was utterly bewildered by this episode. I mean it was a neat story, but the length and placing of it was so absurd. If they really wanted to this, why not place it after the first Two-Faced episode where Peter dies? Especially since they already showed Peter coming back as the ghost there. Putting this right before…

I’ll be honest, I had to take multiple takes of that picture once I read that Barron was only 14. Jesus Christ.

On Peter trying to leave the grounds, there was a scene in this episode where he tried to run off the property while possessing Rebecca and it failed. He knows that they can’t leave like that, I think the plan is to possess the kids so that they don’t become like the faceless ghosts.

Warnock is currently up in the polls one-on-one against either Republican candidate.

I didn’t mean it as defensive, it was my error after all. Just tried to make a joke of it. Genuinely thankful for the correction.

Which, as I pointed out in another comment, is why the show’s refusal to seemingly have the characters acknowledge racial dynamics is utterly baffling.

To me, all British dudes are Hughs.

I agree that it was almost certainly color-blind casting, which I do applaud to a degree, but with Rebecca it somehow leads to them implying that the world is colorbind while being really closeminded about gender and class. What makes it so more baffling is that it would been really easy to acknowledge even if the…

Regarding the lack of a Rebecca story, I have theory on that that will probably never be validated or invalidated. Bly Manor only has nine episodes if you compare to the ten of Hill House or the general Netflix show order. Now while in itself it doesn’t mean much, I do wonder if when they were originally mapping the…

I’ve seen comments in the previous episodes how this show doesn’t have as many scary moments than Hill House did. While I agree with that, I also feel it is clearly be design. Hill House was build around this central mystery what happened to mess the children up and the House itself was a malicious force. Yet I’d…

As an additional note, time for more wild speculation. I still think that the bride at the wedding is Flora, that Gugino is Jamie and the British dude is Hugh. However, I no longer think it is about going back to the Manor, but rather that the point of the story is to make Flora realize how much she was loved as a…

Peter Quint is the worst on a level that is genuinely astonishing. And I mean that as praise as the way they crafted him to be that monster while making him so human at the same time is fantastic. Everything about him is so manipulative, yet I don’t think even he is able to understand that anymore.

For me, the bigger shock in Georgia is the absolutely wild swing in the Senate race polls from there. While there are other polls from the Perdue-Ossoff race favoring Perdue, Warnock is suddenly absolutely demolishing the special senate election polls.

On the children, I think they made it pretty clear that only Flora is Henry’s.

I was actually on thinking on the backlash against the Imagine thing recently as someone pointed out the inherent hostility there seems to be against symbolic acts almost in general. Like the Imagine thing, as cringy as it was, didn’t hurt anyone, it didn’t promote anything dumb. It was tone-deaf, but it clearly came…

If Collins manages to hang on to being a senator, I’m certain she will be certain that the President learned his lesson from the following uproar.

I also really loved the garden scene. Actually, after it I found myself chuckling as the show does lean on those monologues, but still they somehow made it work. And I think a part of the reason there was that while Jamie spoke, we saw Dani react and have that own journey to her words. There’s a lot of unsaid , as…

The way the show frames memories as prisons in themselves is kind of masterful. Henry lost in the guilt of his actions, Hannah wandering through them in a haze, Jamie actively refusing to trust humans because of her past. Even when Rebecca takes over Flora, the child is unwillingly imprisoned in her own memories.

Slight correction on the review. The dollhouse isn’t cursed because of the affair, but the small faceless ghost boy is the one moving the dolls around to indicate where everyone is. That was the indication of the last Flora memory.