The Haunting of Bly Manor

Flanagan explores these relationships while delivering a powerful and poignant message about moving on in the face of grief. Bly Manor is not Hill House, but left to its own devices, this Haunting offers a beautiful examination of love and the ways we hold onto what we’ve lost.

“The Haunting of Bly Manor” feels like a natural follow-up to “Hill House” in the sense that it’s from a creator who has used the success of the first project to make something that’s intrinsically less eager to please, but that also makes it less thrilling. The immediate stakes of the first project are gone, but they’re replaced by something that’s still valuable and arguably more haunting.

The Haunting Of Bly Manor is entertaining to watch even during the times it’s not trying to scare the audience, and that’s something that not many horror series can do.

The Haunting of Bly Manor is an entertaining and evocative followup to Hill House, despite never quite reaching the heights of its predecessor.

The series attempts to link [the characters'] disparate dramas together as it builds, but gets awfully soapy in the process. Bly Manor plods along through its nine episodes, trying to find the reason for this grand convergence. It gets there eventually, but only after sifting through a lot of clutter.

[The Haunting of Bly Manor] shares with its predecessor a sensibility, a high-flying literary inspiration (the work of Henry James this time), a crisp and pristine visual aesthetic and some cast members, never takes flight in the way genre devotees might expect. For one thing, it’s too rarely really scary; for another, more important one, it gets confounded by its own story

If all you’re up for is a relatively plotless bit of atmospherics, enjoy your time at Bly Manor. Fans of Hill House will have to hope for a return to spooky form next time.

You can imagine how horror cinema personified as a contraption of good dialogues and an excellent plot, definitely this new season is an excellent and entertaining series of the best horror expectations of recent times.

Distracting accents aside, the production quality and casting are superb with a fascinating mystery at the centre of it. Worth a watch for Flanagan fans.

Still a well written show but lacks the scares of the first series to it's detriment

I had such high hopes for this series. It had some really good reviews. This show was so drawn out. Nine episodes were too many for this storyline. The group character conversations just droned on and on to my misery, not too mention all the repeated “tucked aways” multiple characters experienced. It took me a long time to finish the series because I dreaded each episode. I kept watching because I hoped it would get better. Some series I watch over and over. This is definitely not one of them.

Boring, pretentious and convoluted, and seems to follow the trend of Netflix writers throwing endless dialogue at a poorly lit set with thirsty actors and hoping that it comes off as "artistic, "thoughtful" and "deep" for any poor sods out there who want to pretend they are "thoughtful" and "deep" for 50 minutes of pure, agonizing boredom. First Season was at least watchable due to having actual horror. Season 2 throws the same glasses / mirror "scare" literally at least a dozen times in the first four episodes, to the point that you see a mirror and a face behind it and the same copy-pasted loud horror sound and say, "again? Really?" That, and the show is so poorly written and has so much filler dialogue that you can see them actually trying to save money through the use of thirty minute long conversations with the overuse of "flashbacks" (i.e., changing the actors' clothes and moving them to a different part of the house / compound). At one point in this so called "horror show," it was 54 minutes of dialogue, with a glasses scare in the last 30 seconds. Then credit.