Didn’t they say in an episode that the Wingreaves didn’t use Bly as a regular home? It wasn’t until the parents died that Henry sent the children to live there all the time.

I have to say I liked this episode, however I don’t think it needed to be a full episode and it shouldn’t have been the 2nd to last. It’s the same problem that happened with Stranger Things season 2. I think it could have been structured into another episode.

I agree with some of the points you made about horror. And that’s why I think horror tends to work better in shorter formats: short stories, short films, segments within anthology films, episodic anthology TV series, and feature films that shouldn’t be too long. Horror sequels also have a rather deserved reputation…

Nuclear families where people move out once they grow to be adults are relatively novel. I suppose it is an open question why she didn’t marry. Perhaps since she didn’t have property of her own fewer suitors were interested.

This entire season has been nothing more than a collection of character monologues and soliloquy’s... insaaaanely long ones, at that. I turned this episode off once the monologue reached a half hour; Gugino narrating endlessly as the characters emote and emote AND EMOTE for a story with no heart. I’ll finish the…

This bugged me the most. It looked pretty clearly out of time. Even bumping the year up by 50 would have helped. I think they were trying to go for the original time period that the Turn of the Screw was set in, but the set design didn't accommodate for that

Part of why I liked Hill House so much was there were so many random ghosts in the house who had history there but they explicitly didn’t explain it. Showing the origins of most of the ghosts here really killed any spookyness

This could have been a little ten minute aside that one of the kids or any of the residents of the manor could have told Dani in the first few episodes. It did not need to be a full episode. Also, the architecture of the house doesn't match the 1600's in the slightest. It's closer to an early 1800's style mansion and…

Perdita perplexed me. why did she stay in the house after viola got married? why didnt she marry someone herself? and yes, viola was not perfect, and it was probably exhausting to care for her for so many years, but killing her? really?

It really was a deadly (no pun intended) stop to the momentum. I skipped ahead to the final episode, and I don’t think it’s too spoilery to say they could have easily combined the two. They could have done so much more to introduce the backstory (besides just showing the ghosts and the graves). Maybe have Becs figure…

I wasn’t massive on this one either, for a lot of the stated reasons and some others. It really could have been safely half the length it was (we see the cliffhanger of Viola grabbing Dani no less than three times in two episodes! I get it’s a good scare, but c’mon, really?!). The basic explanation of Viola’s gravity…

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! 

“These things contextualize his behavior without excusing it.” Very well put. They did a great job of showing how Peter rationalized all his selfish abusive actions without sanctioning those actions. A lot of shows mess that up.

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…

You leave Hannibal out of this!

I have two theories on this:

I know I’m being picky, because I’ve enjoyed the show so far (I’m on episode 6), but is anyone else also deeply annoyed by Henry Thomas’ impression of Dick Van Dyke’s English accent?

I agree with your point about Hannah’s husband. They made such a point of calling her “Mrs. Grose,” so we knew that it was going to come up at some point, but, I still don’t understand why they needed to give her that particular backstory. To explain why she lived there? I guess? But I don’t think it was needed. 

I mean as someone who sometimes panics or freezes for social anxiety/skills reasons it definitely can get in the way of relationships. Even if you tell people “I get nervous when I make eye contact/move too fast/etc” a lot of people will give up on you really fast. Jaime seems really closed off from the world so I can…

I can’t decide if making a Free-Spirited Chimney Sweep Soft Butch Lesbian character is lazy writing or peak queer representation. Though I guess that ‘find something bad about something you’re mindlessly enjoying’ is itself an authentic gay experience lol.