The Haunting of Bly Manor
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The Haunting of Bly Manordoesnt waste any time before it gets to the haunting.
Whatever is waiting for her inside Bly Manor, shes bringing her own ghosts with her.
From the very beginning,Bly Manorsignals that the season will be consumed with the tragedies of the past.
And with that,Bly Manoris off to London in 1987, where were swiftly introduced to Dani.
Dani, by contrast, seems to view caring for them as both a privilege and a moral duty.
Shes confident, however, that she can do it with these two.
But the purity of her motives remains an open question.
But much of the episode focuses on the children themselves.
After one episode, I am very confident in saying: maybe!
His sister, 8-year-old Flora (Amelie Bea Smith), is mostly precocious and cheerful.
As the episode ends, that remains another tantalizingly open question.
Flora found Jessels corpse, and theres no telling how and when that kind of trauma may manifest.
Yes, something is wrong at Bly.
Maybe the real question is: Does it matter?
Ghosts or not, everybodys haunted by something.
And whatever these houses bring out in their residents, it will need to be dealt with.
In addition to the original Henry James novellaThe Turn of the Screw,there aretonsof options worth exploring.
Theres a literary sequel that wasreleased to a mixed receptionin 2012.
The Fixx song One Thing Leads to Another is playing in the pub.
It wasmemorably used in another horror story about a big spooky house.
