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The Haunting of Bly Manor

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Generally favorable reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews

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Generally favorable reviews based on 111 Ratings

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The Haunting Of Bly Manor

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The Haunting of Bly Manor

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Netflix | Release Date: October 9, 2020

Summary: Set in 1980s New England, Henry Wingrave (Henry Thomas) hires a new American nanny (Victoria Pedretti) to look after his orphaned niece and nephew (Amelie Bea Smith, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth) at Bly Manor after the death of their au pair in this gothic horror series created by Mike Flanagan.

Creator: Mike Flanagan

Genre(s): Drama, Horror

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S1:E10. Episode 10
Air Date: November 30, -0001
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S1:E9. The Beast in the Jungle
Air Date: November 30, -0001
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S1:E8. The Romance of Certain Old Clothes
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Critic Reviews

91

Consequence

Jenn Adams

Oct 5, 2020

Season 1 Review: 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. Read full review

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The Detroit News

Tom Long

Nov 30, 2020

Season 1 Review: The nice thing is it pretty much works. Oh, there’s a great deal of silliness and some false notes — it is a ghost story, after all and some explanations add up while others just drift away. But in the end “Bly Manor” dares to make at least some sense (which is likely blasphemy to Henry James fanatics). Read full review

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TV Guide

Sadie Gennis

Oct 5, 2020

Season 1 Review: The Haunting of Bly Manor is an entertaining and evocative followup to Hill House, despite never quite reaching the heights of its predecessor. Read full review

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Vox.com

Aja Romano

Oct 12, 2020

Season 1 Review: Some pointed and strategic tonal shifts throughout the series’ nine episodes also help keep the pace from flagging, though I’d argue that nine episodes was a few too many. Conversely, given proper attention, the series’ climax could have been significantly expanded and dramatized. Read full review

60

Vanity Fair

Richard Lawson

Oct 6, 2020

Season 1 Review: 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. Read full review

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The Hollywood Reporter

Dan Fienberg

Oct 7, 2020

Season 1 Review: Flanagan has taken one of the most elegantly simple and enigmatic of novellas and found a way to over-explain everything from plot mechanics to theme, producing a nine-episode season that's sensuous, spooky and evasive one moment and cumbersomely obvious the next. You may want to wallow in this evocative world, but probably not as much as Flanagan does, which ends up being a real problem for long stretches. Read full review

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The Telegraph Ed Power

Oct 9, 2020

Season 1 Review: Flanagan is to be applauded for his ambition. However, the mannered entertainment that results feels like a waste of the raw materials assembled. Read full review

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camsdnlt

Mar 12, 2021

Loved the show. A bit less scary than the first season, yet the acting and the story are both incredible.

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Brunoyudi

Oct 15, 2020

A tier script
B tier scares
I really liked it, its not an horror story, its a really good love story with some horror elements, really liked and really recommend

2 of 5 users found this helpful23

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Idk1

Oct 10, 2020

Easily one of Netflix’s best shows. Great characters and great storytelling. It’s not that scary but still better than most mainstream horror movies.

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Mr_Bigoted

Oct 14, 2020

Holy hell. Definitely a downgrade from the tight direction and creative scares presented by Hill house. One thing I will say, however, is that this has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the lesbian plot.

It seems a decent number of the reviews here cite the lesbian plot as the crux of theHoly hell. Definitely a downgrade from the tight direction and creative scares presented by Hill house. One thing I will say, however, is that this has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the lesbian plot.

It seems a decent number of the reviews here cite the lesbian plot as the crux of the show's problems, which kind of boggles my mind. The lesbianism is totally unrelated to the show's failings. Sure, that relationship is handled in a pretty ham-fisted way, but I fail to see how the same-sex nature of the relationship is relevant to the faults in its presentation.

My main problems with the show are with certain dialogue choices and plot decisions, uncreative and repetitive scares, as well as an emotionally constipated lead performance from Victoria Predetti. Oh, and the accents. My God! Are there no Brits available? Do they cost too much? Are they too busy drinking tea? Which, by the way, the writer seems to have a major fixation on the tea-based elitism of certain Brits.

Some more comments on Predetti's performance: Predetti, who plays Dani, was GOOD in Hill House. This is why it's such a shock to watch Predetti's face and it's doomed attempt to squeeze the entire spectrum of human emotion into a single expression. And squeeze is the word. She looks like she's performing kegel exercises. And all of this isn't helped one bit by the director's penchant for close-ups, which seem to take Predetti's performance's biggest flaws and magnify them for the audience.

Anyway, the main reason I wanted to comment was because some of these 'anti-PC' takes are just downright dumb. I'm not the kind of guy to stand on soapboxes and wave the progressive flag, but I really feel I need to stress that any problems with the show's lesbian relationship have nothing to do with the lesbianism and everything to do with the acting, the directing, and the writing. I'm almost 100% sure that the 'preachiness' some people seem to have taken issue with is just a scapegoat for the general discomfort certain audience members feel when exposed to scenes and storylines that are non-representative of their own experiences.… Expand

6 of 8 users found this helpful62

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JohnnyMangoes

Oct 27, 2020

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" andBoring, 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.… Expand

2 of 3 users found this helpful21

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MikeB618

Oct 14, 2020

I wanted to like this show, I really did. But Netflix again shoved another lesbian soap opera down our throats. After watching Ratched and being thoroughly let down by a lack of substance replaced by an overbearing lesbian love story, here we are again. This show has 0 substance and isn'tI wanted to like this show, I really did. But Netflix again shoved another lesbian soap opera down our throats. After watching Ratched and being thoroughly let down by a lack of substance replaced by an overbearing lesbian love story, here we are again. This show has 0 substance and isn't even slightly frightening which is odd because it's advertised as a spooky show.. Oh well. Maybe one day we can have shows that aren't centered around the main characters sexuality. The back and forth cut scenes are frustrating as well.. At first it feels like ok, they put in a couple filler episodes for character development.. Then you realize, wait no, that's what the show is now. It's boring and tedious. It's a shame really. Prime keeps pumping out quality and Netflix is stuck in "let's make another show about lesbians"... do yourself a favor and watch Utopia on Prime instead of this convoluted mess… Expand

3 of 6 users found this helpful33

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maximazi

Nov 2, 2020

"The only thing Americans care about is money"

"Americans are savages"

*lesbians kissing*

*Roll Credits*

0 of 2 users found this helpful02

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 1

63
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: October 9, 2020
- tbd
  S1:E10. Episode 10
  Air Date: November 30, -0001
- 8.6
  S1:E9. The Beast in the Jungle
  Air Date: November 30, -0001
- 9.0
  S1:E8. The Romance of Certain Old Clothes
  Air Date: November 30, -0001
- 8.6
  S1:E7. The Two Faces, Part Two
  Air Date: November 30, -0001
- 7.3
  S1:E6. The Jolly Corner
  Air Date: November 30, -0001
- 9.2
  S1:E5. The Altar of the Dead
  Air Date: November 30, -0001
- 9.5
  S1:E4. The Way It Came
  Air Date: November 30, -0001
- 7.2
  S1:E3. The Two Faces, Part One
  Air Date: November 30, -0001
- 8.0
  S1:E2. The Pupil
  Air Date: November 30, -0001
- 8.6
  S1:E1. The Great Good Place
  Air Date: November 30, -0001