I don’t think the issue with a faithful adaptation is the number of episodes—I think it’s the budget. The first part of the story involves jumping between several characters in unrelated subplots, but those are the best parts of the book—ordinary people fending for themselves as their friends and families die,…

Ha I mean you’re not really wrong...  In the behind the scenes featurettes I have to remind myself that English isn’t is first language but some of the things he says... (and if he goes on about that Russian beach house being “a teenage Eden” one more time...)

“Are there 14-year-old alcoholics who can and do down whole bottles of liquor?”

Yes. 100% yes, and, this sounds pretty sad to say, I knew or know of more than a few examples (including for one year of my life, when I was 16, where I could chug a sixer of hard booze every weekend at parties and be mostly fine during the…

Until you mentioned they were 14 in one of your comments earlier, I had no idea they were supposed to be that young. I thought they were 16-17. 14 is in damn middle school, and ain’t no white kid at 14 have a dirtstache like Fraser has.

Boundaries. These characters need boundaries.

So I’m not pushing back on the grade, these are always subjective opinions which is allows for discussion. What I will push back on, though, is the argument that the people happy with the episode is because they are just happy with what they got instead of thinking on how things could have been better. These things…

-Rebecca possessed Flora so that Flora wouldn’t have to experience the horror of death. Like Rebecca literally explains that while asking Flora to let her in.

I think Rebecca did this as a mercy to Flora. She remembers what it was like to die in the lake because Peter left her body when it happened. But here Rebecca’s saying she’ll tuck Flora away and feel it for her so the kid doesn’t have to experience her own death.

Yeah, such a shame about Hannah. Only things of significance she did here were to alert Owen and Jamie - although Flora’s screaming would have done the job alone - and to tell an unconscious Henry of her body in the well and her love for Owen.

Its weird because emotionally its what I wanted to happen to the characters.  But logically it didn't come together so it felt like cheating.  But I'm not unhappy at the conclusions for the cast, its a strange feeling, complaining about the ending I somewhat wanted?  The darker ending Flannigan had in mind would have…

I just learned that Greg Sestero is the actor playing Flora’s fiancé. Another missed opportunity to cast Tommy Wiseau as a faceless ghost. "Oh Hai Dani!" 

“this is supposed to be scaryyyyy!” shut the fuck up.

OK, I’ve been waiting days for this, so it is going to be a long read.

“hits like a truck" - Dani's fiancee, shortly before being hit by a truck 

the bulk of this finale, pretty much everything after the first 15 minutes, was wonderful to me. I guess that’s not really a surprise, I’ve been super invested in Dani and Jamie from the start, but it basically all worked (and that scene when Jamie comes home and finds Dani with her face centimetres away from the…

I appreciated that Bly Manor was different in tone from Hill House, and quite enjoyed it overall. I honestly didn’t mind that the ghosts didn’t get a proper send-off; the afterlife is only conjecture and so on.

Jamie remarks that ghost stories and love stories are the same thing really, and that’s an interesting sentiment, to be sure

I enjoyed this finale better than Hill House, but overall I think the entire season needed a bit better directing. I did enjoy the slow realization as to whose wedding they were attending. 

Few quick notes on the finale:

I keep thinking about how Hannah was absolutely useless in the finale and yet she was built up as someone that might save the day. Even the official synopsis for this episode alludes to her being heroic. That pep talk Owen gives her is pointless. Whether she left the room or not, she would have been freed from the…