Horror Movie Talk

Man, what a great show! On this episode we talk about what worked and didn’t work for us about Netflix’s, The Haunting of Bly Manor.

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In this final episode we see the fate of the inhabitants at Bly Manor, and have a lengthy Epilogue for those that survive the Lady in the Lake.

• (1:02) – Intro
• (2:16) – Synopsis
• (3:18) – Spoilers
• (41:29) – Outro

This is an episode where we get to learn a bit about Viola, AKA the lady of the lake. Almost the entire episode takes place in a time long lost to history, and frankly, this is my favorite episode in the series. It’s sad, mournful and has some wonderful storytelling.

Episode 7 starts to weave all the story lines together as Rebecca and Peter are revealed to Dani, and the story of Rebecca’s death is told. We learn of Peter’s motivations in the afterlife and how it may have dire consequences for the living.

• (1:02) – Intro
• (2:45) – Synopsis
• (4:20) – Spoilers
• (48:15) – Outro

We pick up the second episode of The Haunting of Bly Manor as if no time has passed between the last episode and now. Dani has just come out of the closet (wink, wink) and the kids are apologizing like they didn’t just very intentionally shut her in there to begin with. 

This episode is one where Miles is much more fleshed out as a creepy character, and we get to learn a bit about why he is the way he is.

This is a very Dani and the kids heavy episode, we are properly introduced to the gardener, Jamie, played by Amelia Eve.

This also contains the spookiest scene in the first three episodes, with a rousing game of hide-and-seek before bed.

In this opening episode we are introduced to Dani Clayton played by Victoria Pedretti an, American who is hired to be an au pair to two perfectly splendid young orphan children. They live in a spacious estate in the countryside called, you guessed it, The Hill House, oh wait, Bly Manor. The children’s only surviving relative is Uncle Henry played by Henry Thomas, hired Dani, but he shows no interest in being involved with them. 

Flora played by Amelie Bea Smith is the precocious 8 year old girl, and her 10 year old brother Miles played by Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, is… in need of structure and discipline.

There are other staff at the Bly Manor, including the cook Owen played by Rahul Kohli, the housekeeper Hannah played by T’Nia Miller, and Jamie, the groundskeeper played by Amelia Eve.

As Dani gets to know the children and Bly Manor, strange and unsettling things start to happen, and the children begin to act strangely.

• (0:57) – Intro
• (2:25) – Synopsis
• (6:04) – Spoilers
• (36:47) – Outro

In this episode we are given the backstory of the previous au pair Rebecca Jessel played by Tahirah Sharif, and Uncle Henry’s assistant Peter Quint played by Oliver Jackson-Cohen. 

Peter and Miss Jessel have an affair, and soon the charming facade put on by Peter cracks and reveals a manipulative sociopath underneath.

• (0:57) – Intro
• (2:10) – Synopsis
• (5:51) – Spoilers
• (41:15) – Outro

In this episode we get to learn a little more about Dani and her background with the man in the mirror. 

Overall, this episode had a sad vibe of regret and loss, which was hard for me to watch. There wasn’t a ton of scares in this one, but it did do a great job of telling us why Dani is the way she is.

This episode is the Hannah Episode. This episode keeps the audience off-balance by jumping back and forth through time and between memory and reality. As confusing as it can be, there are also a lot of revelations.

We finally learn what that crack is all about, we see more about how Rebecca gets entangled with Peter, and we even see why the lady in the lake is so dangerous.

• (1:02) – Intro
• (3:30) – Synopsis
• (6:05) – Spoilers
• (40:36) – Outro

In episode six we learn quite a bit of backstory about the family as a whole, but mostly about Henry. There’s a decent bit to learn about Flora in this episode as well, and she is kind of the B storyline here, which I found very sad. 

While this is a long episode at over an hour, it’s also the most full of intrigue and depth of any of the series so far.