Anyone else watch this on Netflix?
It's a 'follow-up' / 'second season' of The Haunting of Hill house, in the same way that American Horror Story seasons are not really connected.
I really enjoyed Hill house, but this was just.... pretty meh I thought.
While the story was simply 'OK', there were a lot of details that really took me out of it; for example, it's supposed to be in the 80's in England, but there was NOTHING 80's in sight. They also obviously didn't have anyone form that time period on set, as it's so obviously shot in Canada - even all the trees etc. aren't native to the UK. Plus, who lives in Essex where you have to travel 3 hours to get to a hospital??
The accents were atrocious from several key people as well, which certainly didn't help.
Disappointing overall - and the impact of the background ghosts was certainly not as eerie as Hill house.
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Its a very different ghost story to hill house, told in a different way. yes, it has a lot less jumps, but that's okay (and it clearly acknowledges this difference in the last episode.)
If they are doing more series, i'm glad they are willing to mix up the style a bit
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Then the titanic old lady ending was crap.
I was bored so I read the wiki on it. Predicted most of it.
Dull.
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I thought it was pretty cleverly done by the time it finished. Spent an hour or so discussing it after and decided I wanted to watch it again
Would everyone have been happier if they had just stuck to the formula of the first series?
I hope it is like AHS where they try to do different things in each series, but the downside of that is fans won't automatically love all of them.
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However, the trailer was shite. I know trailers give you a limited impression but if I think the trailer is poor, then I presume the series is poor. I will watch it, but it's not my my "list" for the moment. The trailer put me off.
To The Lake - Russian Netflix Original Series, is rather good however, despite the dubbing.
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Granted, Hill House was far better, but I expected that going in. I had not long become a dad again when watching Hill House, so the end episode destroooyyyedd me.
As for Bly, yes it was a bit slow but I really found myself invested in each episode. I think the timing of the throwback episode was a bit off, because it was just getting climactic, then reverted a bit. 10/10 would watch again... meep meep
I wouldn't expect it to be as good as hill house. That was like die hard, or ghostbusters, or raiders of the lost ark - perfect, lightning in a bottle art.
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Looks like it's not going to be as much a horror - totally fine by me. Great performances so far from all, too. Lots of atmosphere, beautiful sets and, as you'd expect from MF, beautifully shot and directed so far.