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- 2020
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 2020
- TV-MA
- Netflix
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.
- 2020
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 2020
- TV-MA
- Netflix
The Haunting of Bly Manor
Season 1 Premiere: Oct 9, 2020
63
6.3
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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.
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
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61% Positive
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39% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
63
61% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
39% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
0% Negative
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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.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 229 User Ratings
6.3
59% Positive
135 Ratings
135 Ratings
15% Mixed
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34 Ratings
26% Negative
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60 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 229 User Ratings
6.3
59% Positive
135 Ratings
135 Ratings
15% Mixed
34 Ratings
34 Ratings
26% Negative
60 Ratings
60 Ratings
For me, this is the best series from Mike Flanagan. The characters are developed so well, the storyline and the acting are both incredible. Made me cry. This series is perfectly splendid.
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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.
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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.
Great show, though I liked Hill House more. Horror is more like the top layer to both series, which have deeper meanings than I was expecting.
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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.
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Production Company:
- Amblin Television
- Intrepid Pictures
- Paramount Television Studios
Initial Release Date: Oct 9, 2020
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
Online Film & Television Association
• 7 Nominations
Critics Choice Super Awards
• 3 Nominations
Gold Derby Awards
• 3 Nominations
