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Critic Reviews
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.
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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).
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The PlaylistOct 5, 2020
Season 1 Review:
“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.
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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.
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Oct 9, 2020
Season 1 Review:
While Hill House excelled in its early, grounded episodes before devolving into chaos at the end, Bly Manor only gets going in a second half that, despite some distractingly soapy twists, thrives on productive confusion. And it offers a more satisfying conclusion than the first season.
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TV Guide MagazineOct 9, 2020
Season 1 Review:
This Haunting is often a blast, even if I wish the storyteller (whose identity is a spoiler) had sustained a bit more mystery. [12 - 25 Oct 2020, p.8]
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