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So I just finished the Haunting of Bly Manor and I really enjoyed it. The way it built the story lines, the folk tale aspect of it really struck a chord with me and I found myself becoming really attached to the story and characters. I think that, while not the most scary per se, it did build the horror in a very gradual, very effective way, that, at least for me, didn’t die until the final episode. Now I’m going to talk about my interpretation of the ending. So, spoilers I guess.

So that final shot. My understanding is that the general consensus is that this shot of Dani’s hand on Jamie’s shoulder shows that Dani is still watching over her from beyond the grave. I disagree, I think, or at least, what I took away from the series is that life should be for the living, you shouldn’t hold out hope for ghosts and the supernatural, because they aren’t real. This calls back to the fireside conversation after the Owen’s mother dies.

I interpret Dani’s end to be the death of the last ghost, there are no more dead people walking, she does not walk the halls, and she does not visit her wife. Here’s what I said just after I finished the series:

“and she is there, only in the quiet moments when she's hovering next to sleep, drifting into memories, she can feel her hand on her shoulder”

So that is my interpretation, not that the ghosts of the dead will watch over you, but that you should hold the memory of the ghosts close to you, treasure them, for their memory is strong. That’s why I think that Flora and Miles loosing their memories of what happened, while a net positive, is also tragic, the memory of these ghosts, of these people, of Ms. Jessel, of Hannah Grose especially, is gone for them.

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til that Agatha Christie probably planned to kill herself and frame her husband because he was cheating on her but didn't go through with it at the last minute

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My sister drew some Clark Art

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Is Silas the Thief Khoshek? Thinking about how Silas is imprisoned in a place that smells like piss and scratched someone who tried to pet him.

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I love that whenever you start reading a Truant footnote you never know if it’s going to be pure dread or him ogling women or BOTH

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tabloidtoc · 3 years

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TV Guide, January 18-31

You can buy a copy of this issue for your very own at my eBay store: https://www.ebay.com/str/bradentonbooks

Cover: Jared Padalecki is the new Walker

Page 1: Contents, Editor’s Letter, Your Feedback

Page 4: Ask Matt -- Star Trek: Discovery, Aidy Bryant and Saturday Night Live, The Great Christmas Light Fight, Coming Next Issue -- The Hot List with Outlander’s Sam Heughan on the cover

Page 6: TV Insider -- 25 top shows

Page 7: First Look -- Cynthia Erivo as Aretha Franklin in Genius, The Show We’re Talking About in the Office -- WandaVision, The Big Number -- 10 is the number of NCIS episodes that landed in the 100 most watched broadcasts of 2020 more than any other scripted series; Chicago Fire was the No. 2 scripted show with eight episodes making the list

Page 8: Family Room -- shows both adults and kids will love

Page 10: The Roush Review -- midseason sitcoms look to the stars for laughs with mixed results -- Mr. Mayor, Call Me Kat, Call Your Mother

Page 11: Coyote, Trickster, The Watch

Page 16: Cover Story -- Supernatural’s Jared Padalecki reboots a Chuck Norris action series as the Texas family drama Walker

Page 17: Genevieve Padalecki on her role as Walker’s dead wife Emily

Page 18: Gina Torres suits up as a heroic paramedic on Season 2 of 9-1-1: Lone Star

Page 20: The Unicorn’s scene stealers -- Rob Corddry and Michaela Watkins match wits on the hit comedy

Page 22: What’s Worth Watching -- Week 1 -- Ty Pennington on Ty Breaker

Page 23: Monday, January 18 -- Folake Olowofoyeku on Bob Hearts Abishola, The Bold and the Beautiful, All American, 9-1-1, The Clown and the Candyman

Page 24: Tuesday, January 19 -- Finding Your Roots with John Waters and Glenn Close, Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, NCIS, Prodigal Son, Unpolished

Page 25: Wednesday, January 20 -- David Eigenberg on Chicago Fire, Presidential Inauguration, The Alps, Riverdale, Nancy Drew, When Disaster Strikes

Page 26: Thursday, January 21 -- Craig Ferguson on The Hustler, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Legacies, The Rev

Page 27: Friday, January 22 -- Hisham Tawfiq on The Blacklist, The Wrong Prince Charming, The UnXplained, Blue Bloods, Painting With John

Page 28: Saturday, January 23 -- Sandra “Pepa” Denton on Salt-N-Pepa, A Wild Year on Earth, A Winter Getaway, Sunday, January 24 -- A Discovery of Witches, Bridge and Tunnel, Agatha Christie’s England

Page 29-45: TV listings

Page 46: Stream It! Your guide to the very best streaming available now -- Netflix -- Ralph Macchio and William Zabka on Cobra Kai, The Dig, Penguin Bloom, Pieces of a Woman

Page 47: Last Tango in Halifax, Lupin, Monarca, After Life, The Crown, The Haunting of Bly Manor, Hollywood, Ratched, Space Force, Netflix Top Ten, What I’m Bingeing -- Outlander

Page 48: Prime Video -- Vikings, 5 British mysteries to watch now -- Grantchester, Endeavor, Fearless, Silent Witness, Unforgotten, Roush Review -- A Discovery of Witches

Page 49: Hulu -- Russell Tovey on The Sister, True-Crime Intrigue -- Torn From the Headlines: New York Post Reports, Who Killed Jeffrey Epstein?, Streaming Service Spotlight -- Discovery+

Page 50: New Movie Releases

Page 51: Series, Specials & Documentaries

Page 52: What’s Worth Watching -- Week 2 -- Sean Bean on Snowpiercer

Page 53: Monday, January 25 -- America’s Hidden Stories, All Rise, World’s Most Unexplained, The Salisbury Poisonings, The Good Doctor, Lucille Ball: Life Death & Money

Page 54: Tuesday, January 26 -- Tika Sumpter on mixed-ish, To Tell the Truth, This Is Us, black-ish, Big Sky, The Proof Is Out There, The Terror

Page 55: Wednesday, January 27 -- The Big Interview With Dan Rather -- Randy Travis, Resident Alien, For Life

Page 56: Thursday, January 28 -- Vanna White on Celebrity Wheel of Fortune, Mr. Mayor, Rehab Addict Rescue, Go-Big Show, Friday, January 29 -- The Ray Bradbury Theater, Little Women: Atlanta

Page 57: Saturday, January 30 -- Wendy Williams on Wendy Williams: The Movie and The Wendy Williams Story: What a Mess!, Snowkissed, Heartland Docs DVM, Saturday Night Live

Page 58: Sunday, January 31 -- The Long Song, Love Is a Piece of Cake, American Gods, The 63rd Annual Grammy Awards, All Creatures Great and Small, Cal Fire

Page 59-78: TV listings

Page 84: Cheers & Jeers -- cheers to Mr. Mayor’s national treasure, Bling Empire, The Rookie, Name That Tune, jeers to The Masker Dancer, The Stand, The Office

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quickie spoiler-free-ish re-reviews of the hauntings of:

Bly Manor: we love the gay story, i was just disappointed by the final episode. after 8 tense episodes, it just didn't fit. and I have way higher standards for shows that focus on white people Oops so imma nitpick.

Hill House: better final episode but so confusing. I do love time travel. also generally, it irks me when the "scary" thing is...someone hallucinating? so overall I liked this show less but it was probably better.

but yeah if you like spooky stories, I would absolutely recommend these shows for the season I just will never watch them again myself

#i guess my thing is i can watch a show like Pose and look past what sucks about it because how many shows about trans woc are there #whereas there are a million pieces of media about white families being terrorized by ghosts lol so you better get everything right #but again thats just my feelings on it

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low-budget-korra · 3 years

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The Haunting of Bly Manor - Review

So, now after watching for the third time (not kidding) and saw so many good and terrible coments about the show, I've decided to make a proper review and trying to show you guys that even if the show had some flaws (like every other show) it still is one good show.

First of all, well, i will start with the obvious: Bly Manor is not Hill House. And almost all the bad coments about the show would be avoided if the people who wrote that had this in mind. Bly Manor suffers from the same thing as The Legend of Korra , The Last of Us part II and so many others. And this is the thing , people watched Bly Manor expecting to see Hill House. The problem wasn't the show itself but people's expectations on it.

So this makes Bly Manor a perfect without flaws show? No. I think the show miss Mike Flanagan direction, because at some points the rithm of the show was to slow, and this makes the series some kind of inconsistent.

Ep 1, 4, 5, 8 and 9 are amazing but the episodes 2, 3, 6 and 7 are good but also, i don't know, i felt like it misses something.

And I know that most of the tv shows has different directors per episode but in Hill House as far as I remember , was all Flanagan and we get used to have 10 episodes with kind of the same rithm e consistency. Remember when I write about our expectations being a problem? Yep.

After watching a 2 time I've realized that the rithm of the show was the rithm that the shows needed, it's okay to have some good slow episodes to tell us something important. But i understand if it was too slow for some people, that's why for me this it's still is a valid argument.

The type of horror is different, is something that I think everyone has but we don't see much of it in the media: The horror of lost someone we love. And I think that's one of the few and maybe the biggest horrors in real life.

EveryBody in the show lost someone they loved. Like, literally, even the lady in the lake, even fucking Peter.

And Bly Manor portray not only that type of horror but also make a great coment on love itself, the types of love. The toxic, the "wrong", the innocent, the beautiful heartbreaking once in a lifetime...argh the feels.

Bly Manor also make great parallels like Dani running away from her ex fiancee ghost while Jamie spends the rest of her life trying to see her fiancee's ghost.

The characters are great. Seriously, everyone . Everyone is complex. And I think they deserves their own review/comentary, which I will do later

The monologues are wonderful, my fav was Owens when he was talking about his mom.

The soundtrack I've didn't liked in a first watch but after I ended up loving it because it looks like Hill House ost but different, the tones and chords, i don't know. It feels more hauntingly heartbreaking, i dont know.

#bly manor #the hauting of bly manor #the Haunting of Hill House #dani x jamie #review

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monstermonstre · 4 years

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October Spookathon 2020

Like every year, I’m gonna try to watch at least one horror movie (or episodes of shows for lazy times) per day in October.

I will update this post every five entries.

I completed the challenge for the first time ever!

1. In The Mouth of Madness (1994)

Lovecraftian story directed by John Carpenter, written by the guy who wrote Freddy’s Dead (controversial opinion but I really liked that film, OK? it was fun), and with an unhinged Sam Neill? Sign me up! That was a lot of fun and a lot of very cool shots.

2 to 4. The Haunting of Hill House (2018)

I decided to rewatch the show over the course of three days to prepare for The Haunting of Bly Manor and because I wasn’t in the mood for movies. This confirmed the season has great rewatch value: knowing all the sequence of events doesn’t spoil the fun at all, it just gives you a different experience. The ending still got to me, I’m glad they decided last minute to give their characters a break.

5. Christine (1983)

Another Carpenter movie and another great one. I really need to watch all of his filmo. Doomed love story with a serial killer, except the serial killer happens to be a car. With a side of homoeroticism I seem to see in every American 80s horror movie. It’s slow and not scary at all but it’s great. File in the category “CisHet Men Are Just Like That”. That “show me” scene lives rent free in my mind.

6. The Craft (1996)

A classic that needs no introduction. I’ve seen this movie regularly since I was a teenager. I find that I was more into the first part of the movie when they’re all having fun before it inevitably turns to shit. Can’t wait for the awful looking remake/reboot.

7. The Cell (2000)

A horror/thriller by the director of the beautiful The Fall. Last time I watched it I was a teenager and I only remembered the aesthetic parts. Turns out that’s all that’s worth remembering. It feels like two wildly different movies wrapped into one and like Tarsem Singh had a movie in mind (the trippy mind palace sequences) and the producers had another (conventional boring American thriller).

8. Night of the Comet (1984)

Realistic zombie apocalypse movie with a character that inspired Buffy the vampire slayer. In the year 2020, the way this post-apocalyptic world becomes the new normal so fast rings very true. It’s a fun movie, it’s very quotable (”You were born with an asshole, Doris, you don’t need Chuck!”), and it has strong female characters.

9 and 10. The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020)

This one was way messier and less consistently good than Hill House. I feel like starting this review with the negatives first since it’s likely you all will have seen mostly rave reviews: There are two full episodes that could have been removed altogether, some of the accents are painfully distracting, and there is often too much telling us again and again what is going on. But there is also a lot of good in it, notably four characters I would die for (won’t mention their names as it could be considered spoilers but those who have seen it probably know who I mean), some award-worthy performances (most notably T’Nia Miller and Rahul Kohli who break my heart with each micro expression), and a lot of tear-jerking moments that I’m a sucker for.

[Rest of the list under the ‘read more’ to avoid clogging dashes]

11. Evil Dead II (1987)

Needs no introduction. This was a rewatch and I found myself very easily distracted. I think it’s the type of movie I can only really enjoy with other people unfortunately.

12. The Fan (1981)

I think I added this because I saw the excellent podcast Attack of the Queerwolf did an episode on it and I wanted to listen to it. In the movie category “gay AND homophobic” with Lauren Bacall and a very young Michael Biehn (Terminator, Aliens, ...). It was...bad. I thought it would be fun bad but past the intro which I really liked it drags on. I was also really surprised (or maybe I shouldn’t have been) that Bacall and others said the movie was so graphic when there’s barely anything (also in this universe, a superficial razor cut around the torso kills instantly).

13. Poltergeist (1982)

First time watching this classic and I really enjoyed it. Spielberg makes fun movies, there’s nothing else to say (yes I know Tobe Hooper technically directed it but it bears Spielberg’s mark more than Hooper’s). I love how the parents smoke weed and go with the haunting at first like, the mother sees objects sliding across the floor on their own and she’s like “fantastic! what else can it do? dance for me, ghost, dance!”. Like you just know if this was set today, she would have a wacky YouTube channel where she reviews weird snacks and dishes on celebrities or something.

14. Lake Mungo (2008)

This review from @beetledrink sums it up for me:

15. The Addams Family (1991)

@abigaylhobbs had never seen it so I HAD to show it to her (that’s the only reason I rewatched it, I swear it has nothing to do with being shaken by Lake Mungo and needing something light to rewatch and loving the Addams family with all my heart since I was little).

16. Addams Family Values (1993)

See above.

17. Easel Kill Ya (Tales from the Crypt S3E8)

What’s Halloween month without an episode of that show. This episode stars a pre-fame Tim Roth which is why I picked it. His performance is great, the end twist is classic TftC and easy to predict but still fun to watch. The best part is always the cryptkeeper though, I could watch him make macabre puns for hours.

18. Tales from the Hood (1995)

Learned about this movie watching the excellent Horror Noire documentary (which was free to watch on Shudder for a while). An anthology movie of 5 tales of black (specifically African-American) horror. Great watch, every story is solid, the special effects are super fun. Unfortunately, all the themes are still very relevant.

19. American Mary (2012)

Watched for Katharine Isabelle. I didn’t like this as much as other people it seems. Fortunately Katharine’s performance is amazing and she’s in every single shot of this movie so nothing’s wasted and I still had a good time. Felt super male gazey to me but written and directed by two women (but I’m not always the best judge of character, throwback to the hot second when I thought a straight man made Hellraiser, shame on me).

20. Evilspeak (1981)

Described as a “male Carrie but with satanism and computers instead of telekinesis”, I thought I was in for a fun campy time (like that early Buffy episode with the internet demon). Unfortunately I was so bored I gave up after an hour. I could not finish this, I did not care at all, not for the characters and not for the plot.

21. Mom and Dad (2017)

Exactly what it says on the box: One day, every parents are suddenly filled with the violent need to kill their children. Nicolas Cage and Selma Blair play parents. Fun.

22. The Slumber Party Massacre (1982)

Slasher directed by a woman and written by a queer woman. Apparently originally written as a parody of slashers but directed as a straight-forward slasher so the final product is classic slasher but with way more jokes than usual. Fun (and short!). I know the sequel is in the collection of many queer horror fans so I’m looking forward to it.

23. Excision (2012)

One of the best movies I’ve seen this month. Unhinged Teenaged Girl subgenre, up there with Raw and Stoker. Traci Lords and John Waters guest star. Strong recommend.

24. Fear, Itself (Buffy the Vampire Slayer S4E4)

One of my favourite Halloween episodes from this show. I have nothing to say about it, if you watch the show you know and if you don’t nothing I say will make any sense anyway.

25. Rebecca (1940)

Reminded me a lot of Jane Eyre. But with more lesbians.

26. Bride of Re-Animator (1990)

I still love Herbert West so much. This sequel wasn’t as good as the first movie but it was still a good time.

27. Final Destination (2000)

This movie being partly responsible for my fear of flying, I’ve avoided rewatching it for over a decade. But I recently learned the writer is gay + it’s not like I’m gonna take the plane anytime soon. Anyway, it wasn’t as fun as I was hoping (except for the ending, top notch last scene) but if you like really convoluted ways for people to die, go go go.

28. The Odd Family: Zombie on Sale (2019)

Super stylish zombie comedy with a lovely side of living/dead romance. Kick a dead man in the balls and he’ll become a friend for life.

29. The Dead Body (R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour S1E4)

I learned about this RL Stine series from a Jenny Nicholson video. Goosebumps but for older kids (I think the target audience is probably mid to late teens), with a nice budget, and a mix of happy/sad endings. Some episodes are genuinely creepy. This episode I watched just because it was the next chronologically since I started watching the show and it was incredible how none of the characters looked straight. The performances were fun and the ending was really mean. The whole show is on YouTube.

30. His House (2020)

Black horror with the great Wunmi Mosaku (In The Flesh, Lovecraft Country). A story of African refugees in the UK. Some genuinely scary moments and strong performances.

31. Night of the Living Dead (1968)

I wanted to end the month with a certified good movie. The movie is still unfortunately relevant. Everyone should watch this, really. Especially horror fans (but not just).

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kiradurbin · 3 years

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Super Short Reviews: Halloween TV 2020

If you watched something I didn’t review and think I should see it let me know! And if you think I left anything off the Recs list please add. Thanks!!

Locke & Key (Netflix) – Canada. Really great YA Halloween choice, although too scary for the wee ones. A ‘haunted’ house and tons of keys that do super cool things – that naturally uninvited guests would love to get a hold of. As much an adventure as it is s supernatural story. Based on the comic book series. Check out the Wikipedia page for a list of all the keys.

Ares (Netflix) – Netherlands. College Secret Society with a supernatural monster that needs to be fed. Yes that was the plot of a Charmed episode which was only 42 minutes long. I recommend watching that instead. (see not new Recs below.)

Swamp Thing (CW) – Fall TV on the CW = anything that pairs with the last and final episodes of Supernatural. (tears of mourning) I can’t imagine it has anything to do with the original DC comic character, but it sure is fun to watch people tromp around in the swamp... and plus Virginia Madsen!!! I heart her. Get out the Bourbon and enjoy some Louisiana time.

The Haunting of Bly Manor (Netflix) – Not nearly as scary or interesting as Hill House, plus a story line that makes little sense until an entire origin episode near the end. Still the cast, especially Amelia Eve and T’Nia Miller give beautiful, heart wrenching performances.

Spectros (Netflix) – Brazil. If you have time to sit and read TV, these characters are fun and there is some good humour in this YA mash-up of Japanese spirits and Brazilian witchcraft.

Monsterland (Hulu) – Not all monsters are the Halloween-y kind. This is more about the monsters in your head which is too close to real life to be any fun. Kaitlin Dever rocks the first episode with the super creepy mustached Jonathan Tucker... but the next episode in the anthology was just more super depressing slice of life. Next!

Warrior Nun (Netflix) – remerber Alicia Viklander? What happened to her? The lead girl, Alba Baptista (from Portugal but barely an accent) reminds me of her. The rest of the cast is from all over Europe, and yes as the title suggests these are bad ass, demon hunting, warrior nuns. And their little priest too. The Billie Eilish song at the top lets you know this everything a teenage girl could want. Filmed in beautiful locations all over Spain.

Luna Nera (Netflix) – Italy. Witches have to live in hiding in a secret part of the woods because the powerful men of the church want to burn them all. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. While it was delightful listening to the Italian period lilt and watching the high period production value, the recycled themes couldn’t hold my attention.

The Walking Dead: World Beyond (AMC) – Even the Walking Dead franchise needs a YA arm. I gather from ads that this takes place somewhat after the original series timeline ends. Super fun cast and a super fun adventure – you know, avoiding all those walking dead people who somehow made cars disappear.

Vampires (Netflix) – France. Yet another YA show!! Can you guess from the title what it’s about? (I feel like one of every 2 shows on Netflix is YA. I guess that’s their audience.)

Helstrom (Hulu) – Marvel meets the Omen. YES PLEASE. Extra points for using a Peter Gabriel song (Ok its a cover but Gabriel does it completely differently.) Dark and entertaining, Elizabeth Marvel as the mom (and others) is fantastic. Watch it!

Bloodride (Netflix) – Norway. Much like Monsterland (see above) this anthology series is far more about mental illness and shitty lives than the supernatural. No thank you.

Barbarians (Netflix) – Germany. The show we all need to be watching to prepare for election night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Are the shops in your neighborhood being boarded up?)

NOT REVIEWED:

To The Lake (Netflix) – Russia. Plague / End of the world.

Until Dawn (Netflix) – France. Haunted places mockumentary.

Ratched (Netflix) – American Horror Story meets One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

Kissing Game (Netflix) – Brazil. Deadly disease.

NOT NEW RECOMMENDATIONS:

American Horror Story (all 9 seasons on Hulu)

Castle Rock (2 seasons on Hulu)

Motherland (first season on Hulu)

Salem (all 3 seasons on Hulu)

Scream Queens (all 2 seasons on Netflix)

Evil (first season on Netflix)

Supernatural (14 seasons on Netflix)

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (3 seasons on Netflix)

The Originals (all 5 seasons on Netflix)

Stranger Things (3 seasons on Netflix)

Penny Dreadful (all 3 seasons on Netflix)

Haunting of Hill House (Netflix)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (all 7 seasons on Amazon)

Lore (2 seasons on Amazon)

Charmed (the original) (all 8 seasons on Amazon)

#locke and key #virginia madsen #ameliaeve #t'nia miller #helstrom #elizabeth marvel #marveltv

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unnursvanablog · 3 years

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The TV shows I watched in 2020 / part 2.

Episodes I finished: 😊

Snowpiercer: I wasn't sure if it could live up to the movie and in my opinion it didn't even get close to it. I wasn't into the murder mystery. After a few episodes I was just watching it with one eye.

The Last Kingdom: What can I say, I'm incredibly fond of period shows. The Last Kingdom managed to tell a very contained story within each series that always managed to grab me and I had to know what happened next, while also raising the stakes for the next seasons and so on. I found this part of British history new and exciting and I liked the strategy and the comradery that we got to see here. This show is incredibly male centric tho and does fall into the traps that can come with that, which can be annoying.

Maximilium: Epic and sad. I really want to watch more period shows, and just shows in general, that is not contained to like British history or medieval fantasy inspired from that part of Europe. I really liked this show, I found it really pretty to watch and really well excecated.

Was it Love?: In my opinion this drama started of well. It was just some fluffy comedy with a ridiculous plot and I was just having a great time with it. But then over time, the episodes just got more frustrating and boring and so did the characters. It takes a bit of a skill to have four guys fighting for the attention and love of the main character and none of them end up being a good option.

It's Okay not to be Okay: unfortunately I thought the story here was stretched a bit too far, even though the basic story was cool and interesting. And that led to me not enjoying it. Most of the supporting characters were boring to me and therefor I got bored watching their filler scenes and product placements just so these episodes could be over an hour long. The story was not long enough to fill in every episode and it just dragged on.

Flower of Evil: I was amazed at how much I ended up loving this drama. It normally not the type of thing I go for. They were dramatic, dark and very emotional and I never knew what was going to happen, it kept me on the edge of the seat all the time. I loved it.

Cursed: this show had a really great idea, it tried to do something new with the Arthur legend. But they just weren't well written at all and just end up being a pretty big fantasy cliché.

The Medici: Masters of Florence: Neither the second nor the third series reached the same heights as the first one did for me. But still, this is a good period show. I just do not find the main character in the second and third series that interesting. He kinda irks me.

Ottoman - Rise of an Empire: A really fun and informative tv show / documentary. I knew little about the Ottoman Empire so I found it very exciting. And I do like battle strategies.

Record of Youth: I wanted to get so much more from this drama than I got. I cared so little about most of the character and even the ones I did care about didn't seem to do much towards the end. A little too slow for me, the plot wasn't interesting and I'm tired of some kdramas saying that they are about these two or more characters, but then just focus on the male character and the female lead is just there for the romance. It was a waste of both my time and Park So Dam's time.

The War of the World: A very interesting sci-fi period piece. Really well done, would have liked a better ending that answered all the questions I had, but I enjoyed the ride a lot.

The School Nurse Files: These episodes were so weird, but I mean it in a good way. I felt like I was watching a long and weird Doctor Who episode from the Russell T Davies era. They sometimes felt a little bit confusing and would have liked if the story was a bit more concise.

Lovecraft Country: This became this odd blend of horror, fantasy-adventure tale and then some sci-fi - Some of these episodes gave me a little Indiana Jones feel, which I enjoyed. At times it felt all over the place, yet it did serve a purpose. I expected more horror if anything, as I had been told it was really scary, but then I didn't really get scared. Maybe because I'm not the targed audience for these shows, as a white person from Europe. Really interesting show tho. Well worth the hype.

The Haunting of Hill House: Very cool show. I really enjoyed how each episode just raised the bar and you could start to see the story more clearer and better with every passing episode. And seeing how the house affected this family throughout their lives while we got to know the characters and their backstory was brilliant. You hate and love and understand almost every single character, as they all have their own baggage to carry. Really well made horror.

The Haunting of Bly Manor: eh, I felt like they never reached the same heights as the previous series. The story wasn't as captivating, the horror not that great, and I had already seen where the story was going long before it happened.

La Révolution: The story started slowly, but there was a really cool mystery at the center of it and this escalating tension that really just grabbed you and pulled you along. I also just really like a lot of the character. I thought it was a very interesting take on the French Revolution, and the horror elements surprised me in a really good way. I like period dramas that have horror elements to them. It's just a mix of two things I like. Visually it was stunning, it was well crafted, well acted and I'm excited to see more of there is more.

The Tale of the Nine Tailed: There was something about this drama that just didn't capture my heart, although I think the idea is cool and I really enjoyed how myths and other things were woven into the story. It always felt like it was trying a bit too hard to be like Goblin, you could see the influence there, and it just left me a little cold. The second leads and their story were also just a lot more interesting than the main ones. I got quite bored like half way through it.

Private Lives: I really liked this drama in the beginning. I loved how much it centered around the female characters and the story seemed cool. It sometimes jumped between timelines, which I did not like and I don't think it helped too much with the mystery. And once the more political aspect of the mystery started to creep in I found myself not as into it. And I wanted more comradery.

Birthcare Center: Cute and quite silly, but in a good way. It's really short, only 8 episodes in total, so it never dragged. I loved the whole cast and the dynamics that the character had and I felt like it did talk about some important topics about motherhood and the expectations set on women - says I who is completely childless. I enjoyed it, but I was not incredibly into it either.

The Crown: I don't think I have enjoyed this show as much as this season. In this season I had someone to root for and someone to emotionally connection to. A lot of the characters in this show are interesting, but very cold and distant, and I find it hard to relate to them, which can make it hard for me to fully get invested. But Diana was absolutely the heart and soul of this season and I loved her. The show needed her.

Queen's Gambit: I've never found chess interesting until I watched it in this show. I found it amazing how these episodes managed to create a whole story about chess tournaments and how it affected all of these characters. Amazing story, the characters were complex, and each episode just became more and more exciting and interesting.

Barbarians: I shall say it again! I love historical shows and period dramas. It isn't anything new under the sun, it feels a bit like other period shows such as Vikings, but I enjoyed it. I felt the story grew with each episode, with the first episodes being a bit more formulaic as they were setting up the story. But each episode always ended in a way that I just wanted to know more, there was something that grabbed me and I had to watch the next episode.

Sweet Home: quite a fun horror, and I usually really like how Korea does horror so while it did hit some sweet spots it also does follow some of the common apocalypses and horror tropes and I did think it brought too many new things o the table when it comes to these stories. I felt like a lot of episodes sort of lacked tension and just fell a bit flat.

Bridgeton: I love a costume dramas, especially like these romantic ones, with a hint of humor and a whole lot of yearning. I have a tendency to fall into such stories and people's lives, although it seems rather frivolous and unexciting to people who don't enjoy this romance. I sympathized so much with these characters and their ridiculous lives. I couldn't stop watching this show and it became all I thought about over the days I was watching it. There is something new about it, but it still rather familiar and maybe not as progressive as you might want at all times. For me, the main romance lost me a bit towards the end, but it was a great fun.

Show I did not finish: ☹

OCN Train: I am sure it was a well made show, I have not heard any bad review about it, just not the kind of drama that is really for me or to my taste. If I am suppose to watch and enjoy these types of show it sort of needs to do something amazing for me to be hooked into a murder mystery.

The Devil Punisher: I decided to try watching a drama from Taiwan again, since I had not done so for years and year. And although I thought the idea was cool, the first episodes were rather long-winded, all over the place and really about everything and nothing at the same time. So I just gave up.

Run On: I could actually feel it from the first episodes that this drama was not for me. Just not the kind of story that I am into at the moment. Mostly just about the lives of the people in it, but there is no bigger plot that pulls you forward. Too slow and light and not really about that much.

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Shows I watched in 2020

ranked and reviewed!

8. Avatar the Last Airbender

Yeah, yeah, finally got around to watching this show (although we do still have to watch the finale) with some friends, and I can’t give my final verdict until I finish the finale, so I’ll just say that while I enjoyed some parts of it, it was overall pretty underwhelming, and i was kind of surprised that it’s so massively acclaimed by everyone. It was good, just overrated in my opinion. I could also talk about the racism and ableism but I won’t.

7. Marvel’s Runaways

Technically we’ve only seen the first season, but I’m putting it on here bc I was surprised by how much I liked this show so far! This was also the latest show we watched in 2020. The storyline absolutely drew me in, and I also felt like while there was some annoyances, the characters were really interesting, and I appreciated the diversity of the cast! I kept forgetting it was Marvel bc I liked it so much asodifhasdoifhsdoih

6. Killing Eve

Again, only watched the first season so far, so I almost didn’t put it on the list, but I’m super excited to continue, and this show just. Really has it all. The Silence Agenda vibes were what made me start watching, but I love enemies to lovers, and it kind of has all my favorite tropes. I just like hot assassin characters, what can I say? Also Sandra Oh is incredible.

5. The Babysitter’s Club

Gotta preface this by saying I never read the OG books, but the show was super fun! I thought the young actors did incredible jobs, (and man I appreciate having actors play the ages they’re supposed to be), it was funny and heartfelt and the casual queer and disabled rep was 100000/10, particularly the main diabetic character which we pretty much never see positive rep of.

4. The Owl House

Okay, as a longtime fan of Gravity Falls, I can’t say I was surprised that I freaking loved this show, and I’m so excited to watch it in the future! The characters are amazing, the world is incredible, it was funny, had wlw characters, and Alex Hirsch like what’s not to like. I can’t even pick a favorite character, I love them all.

3. Julie and the Phantoms

The only reason this show isn’t higher on the list is because the other two are just SO GOOD, but holy shit this was hands down one of my favorite shows of 2020. It was such an unexpected gem, that I almost didn’t even watch but I’m so glad I did. I still listen to the soundtrack on a daily basis (literally it’s been on my spotify repeat since I watched the show), the music is incredible, there’s queer rep, there’s diversity, actual teenagers playing teenagers, heartwarming and emotional but also hilarious, the humor is perfect, I just can’t sing this show’s praises enough, if you haven’t seen it, please please please watch it!!

2. Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts

Y’all know I’m obsessed with this show, but I gotta plug it one more time because the fact is that tumblr is sleeping on it and that’s just ridiculous. The animation is vibrant and incredible, the MUSIC is absolutely boppin (I also listen to its soundtrack a lot), and pretty much everything about this show is almost perfect, from the characters to the humor, to the mlm rep which makes me cry, to the voice acting, to the music, to the worldbuilding, to the heart of it. I only have one complaint but that’s a spoiler so I’ll just leave it to say that enemies to awkward siblings is my new favorite thing. Anyway please watch this show if you haven’t on Netflix, it will change your life.

1. The Haunting of Bly Manor/The Haunting of Hill House

And it’s no one’s surprise that this show is my top show of 2020, mainly because it was the first major hyperfixation I’ve had on a piece of media in a LONNG time. I’ll try not to talk about it too much, but this show literally changed me, it’s the perfect blend of a bit of scariness with EMOTIONS and the characters and writing and filmmaking are just absolutely superb. Honestly, all I really need to talk about is the long take in episode 6 of Hill House because that alone is enough to put this show on the top of this list.

#i like how my reviews get longer as i get to the ones i liked more #i didn't even intend to do reviews it just sorta happened #anyway here's to some awesome media discovered this year!!! can't wait for more next year!#win rambles

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If you love gothic horror/gothic romance and are looking for a spooky Halloween treat, The Haunting of Bly Manor will certainly satisfy your spooky sweet tooth!

Spoiler Free Review (followed by representation statics that may be considered a bit spoilery by some):

Themes: What I loved about this show was that it wasn't just jumpscares like Boo! 👻 BE SCARED! It was so much more, it's themes as deep as the rippling waters of the lake it centered around. At it's heart, it's really about love. It's about falling in and out of love, different types of love, and the grief and loss we go through trying to stumble on in life after losing our loved ones. Individuals take many paths in love and grief, and even amongst the joy, ecstasy, and pain, these paths can lead to heaven or hell (I mean this semi-metaphorically, no brimstone here). In a way, love and grief arent so different.

Story structure: The other thing I loved was the fantastic foreshadowing/payoff pacing. As an audience I had a lot of fun making predictions and observations and getting satisfying payoffs, and sometimes I was right, sometimes wrong, but it was all satisfying. The writers really kept your interest stringing you along with these breadcrumbs. Everything was connected, no throw away lines or random scenes or unnecessary characters. It was a lot of story to tell in only 9 episodes with an ensemble cast, so it had to be tight and didn't have any wiggle room for meandering, especially because there were some different time lines.

Characters: I found each one crafted thoughtfully and with care, and loved every single character. Even the most sinister were pitiable or sympathetic in some manner, they felt like real people. Some redeemed themselves, some not, some you just were never sure if their motives which was super fun. Each had an individual character arc that was interesting and fully fleshed out, growth, struggles, and satisfying endings.

Scares: As for the scares, I will preface this by saying even if you aren't a horror fan, don't judge it just by it's genre. You will enjoy this if you like mysteries and that gothic atmosphere of foggy English gardens and beautiful old manors (just watch during the light of day if your chicken like me lol). There were some jump scares, but not as many as other horror I've seen, that wasn't the focus. The mystery and gothic ambiance was where most of ominous feeling came from, in otherwords the imagery, which was absolutely gorgeous. There wasn't buckets of blood or gore, the effects were simple but effective. And I also have to really applaud the physicality of the actors and stunt doubles (idk how many scenes were done with doubles, but if there were the physicality was consistent for the characters and the stunt ppl did a great acting job too). A lot of the horror came from the reactions of the actors to their surroundings.

Representation statistics:

Definitely passes bechdel test!

1: adapted and written by a woman, with 7 female main cast members and 6 male main cast members! The focus was definitely feminine, with a large variety of ages (7- 50 something in the main characters), and the male characters were just as varied (age ranged 8- 60).

2: The cast had 5 white main female characters and 2 black, and 4 white male main characters with one Indian. Not the most colorful, but the poc had plenty of screen time and were major players, their ethnicity wasn't their whole character. I think the casting felt fairly colorblind, and two relationships were interacial, one white and black, the other both poc.

3: There was one major gay relationship and 3 straight relationships central to the story.

Bly Manor is the second season in Netflix's horror anthology The Haunting series. The first season was The Haunting of Hill House, but these two stories are completely separate, you do not have to watch Hill House before tucking into Bly Manor. I thought both were excellent though. I have some friends who thought Hill House was a bit confusing but said they found Bly Manor easier to follow, so if you're also in that camp, give Bly Manor a try even if you weren't a fan of Hill House. Also, fans of AHS season 1 will definitely love this.

Have a fun and spooky Halloween everyone! 🎃

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haunting of bly manor on netflix review -

i tried not to put big spoilers in it. its about like.. a lady from america who becomes a live in nanny to two young siblings, in a big old mysterious? house in england.

overall - 8 /10 , maybe im just biased cause it had some of my fav parts of scary movies in it/personal fav parts of genres

[cons] -personally - i dont like when supposedly scary movies are about ppl dying sadly/theres characters who are actually nice who you actually get attached to and thenn, they suffer! (although technically i guesss that is what causes “haunting”, in its title. its like, im looking for a Scary which is secretly supposed to be found to be scary[-fun], not scary-Sad!. sad deaths/characters make me sad. like when cute kids in it are also sad and upset and they surely dont deserve it :p. bums me out. i guess i dont mind so much, if, -if youre gonna have to harm someone, that id rather theyre someone im not so attached to in the first place lols. id rather not feel sentimental whilee watching a movie thats also scary lols. too many feelings at once for me lols . also, i appreciate a movie tryingg to explain things well or make it interesting, but sometimes it cann get too complicated . thats where ya lose me. [thats kinda not that personal that can also be a critique in genderal.] its like if you keep it clear enough even if its simple, it could be a better story.

pros objectively - good characters, and gd chemistry between characters - they were all pretty distinct and interesting enough, had their own styles and mannerisms and personality. gd dialogue - relateable enough and realistic enough - heh ilke when the gardener tries to cheer the nanny up, that was like kind of a well thought out specific unique and still funny joke lols. or when the nanny uses her teacher-voice to say relateable things to the kids or to discipline them well and properly and fairly/justly and calmly - those were awesome and accurate like real life, very familiar in a specific, recognizable way. nicely done visually/cinematically - made everything look good, didnt make anything too confusing, clear enough. like it let us explore all the interesting places and no scenes were too dark to see whats going on or anything lols. which is good because sometimes a show takes place in what lookss like wouldd be an interesting setting, but we never really get to use the space much or see its details [well], or look at any of the cool parts about it, very well! plot was good - got stuck a couple times in a few ways, but atleast it did have good closure. thats hard to nail in spooky/scary stories. its also good that there was diversity representation in the characters’ races and kinds of romances so thats always important to diversify in the media so people arent ignorant and plus its less predictable and ^realistic.

cons objectively- really lost me in the episodes w hopping and flashbacks a lot, even though i guess it explained a few things. idk i think we couldve done without the entire dream bit cause it went over my head and i dont see thatt well how it fits with the rest of things very much anyway. i think it couldvee stuck with just the first owner’s story which seems to explain most of the mysteries anyway, and still be a great plot overall. also its not much of a big deal but in the end, that was supposed to be whats her name, the gardener but she wasnt even consistant in her style it was so out of character. like whats that hair style?? its too modern and boring/basic-betch , shes a chill, grounded, rough person so i think she shouldve kinda had a softer wavier hair style at least like she usually had . doesnt have to be the same, but atleast better match her character. i guess there were a few kind of minor plot pieces that i didnt hear/understand their explaination . but maybe if i thought about it more, or figure that those were just idk symbolic details or something lols, then id get it. -atleast the most important plot points have been explained. or if they kept the confusing plotline to help explain things, i wish they couldve made it a bit simpler to be more understandable . aint nobody tryina think that hard about it to understand things in a show ha . idk i think the wind up leading to the end , through the middle of the last episode when we werent sure if the girl was doomed yet or not [is that what it was that dragged on for me?] , dragged on a bit too somehow. or i wouldve been happy too if it ended like 10 minutes into the last episode when everything was at peace, even though thats too peaceful of an ending for a spooky story lols. also the bride in the beginning and ending who hears the story is a kind of bad actress or has awkward lines so it makes things corny lols. which its hard to not cross that line in spooky stories, from believeable and relateable and genuine enoughh to spook ya cause its barely believeable/relateable, - into corny.

pros personally- love big old gothic houses, theyve got character. love love stories, and mixing genres in a show or movie! like love, sad, and spooky. love it being more spooky and a thinker kinda rather than gory which could always be too easy of a scare. and lots of botony heh [in the romance] which i always love. in real life heh. i also dont really like body horror lols even though it couldve been worse here i guess. i know its supposed to be like, symbolic though :p. i like how - there wass a specific message/themes they were trying to be about in this show, but - idk, before we realizedd that, it was kind of amusing how the random suspicious jumpscares/problems that happen aree kinda like, making you/trickingg you to thinkk, that the story could justt be any of the clichee scary stories - but thenn its a pleasant surprise that even though you thought it was gonna be a cliche predictable plot, its actually much more elaborate in a good way lols. i also like “”gothic”“ and kinda spooky but not likeee verY scarY ha. cause gothic is likee, a lookk/mood!!

so yeah, i liked this in general, and would recommend it in general and might watch most of it again in halloween season lols. i like it because its sophisticated and relateable enough, graceful, cute enough - balanced so its not tooo much of anythingg and just enoughh of different things that would make any show enjoyable enoughh, i thinkk . good in all the ways it matters, in all the important ways. generally doesnt get campy in the parts of the show where that would matter lols. i liked it better than the other series apparently also by this director or whatever, “haunting of hill house”. i think “bly manor” was better in nearly every way lols .

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162 "The Romance of Certain Old Clothes" (The Haunting of Bly Manor E8)

This is the ultimate review of Netflix's TV Show The Haunting of Bly Manor Episode 8 "The Romance of Certain Old Clothes"

Join Rima and Pake as they break down their top five from the episode as well as share notes about the episode. Tune in to hear the News from Bly Manor and Streaming Show News. Then listen to the Letters from the Manor as Rima and Pake share listener feedback.

Where are the hidden ghosts? No hidden ghosts in E8!

Follow Rima and Pake to the manor in Episode 162 "The Romance of Certain Old Clothes" (The Haunting of Bly Manor E8).

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TV Guide, October 26-November 8

You can buy a copy of this issue for your very own at my eBay store: https://www.ebay.com/str/bradentonbooks

Cover: NCIS -- the untold story of how Gibbs met Ducky -- Mark Harmon and David McCallum

Page 4: Contents, Your Feedback

Page 6: Ask Matt -- Fargo, Judge Judy, Mom, Coming Next Issue: Supernatural

Page 8: SNL’s strong return, executive producer Susanne Simpson on what’s next for Masterpiece, what we know about Game of Thrones spinoff House of the Dragon

Page 9: Series Scoop -- New Gigs -- Amy Carlson and Terry O’Quinn joining FBI: Most Wanted, Kate Mulgrew joining Star Trek: Prodigy, Andie MacDowell and daughter Margaret Qualley in the drama Maid, Morgan Freeman will host and executive produce Great Escapes with Morgan Freeman, Canceled -- Glow, On Becoming a God in Central Florida, They’re Back -- CBS announced season premiere dates

Page 10: Good Medicine -- meet the new M.D.s on The Good Doctor, Virus Hunters, That Animal Rescue Show, My Feet Are Killing Me: First Steps

Page 12: The Roush Review -- The Undoing

Page 13: Star Trek: Discovery, Equal, Roadkill

Page 14: Cover Story -- NCIS: secrets of the 400th episode -- how Jethro and Ducky became fast friends and their first disastrous case and why Shannon almost lost out on being Mrs. Gibbs -- Mark Harmon and David McCallum

Page 16: 13 Halloween treats -- Shriek Week, Roald Dahl’s The Witches

Page 17: Mr. Mercedes, A Nightmare on Elm Street marathon, Exhumed: A History of Zombies, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Munsters Marathon, Married...With Children, Hocus Pocus, Hubie Halloween, Bad Hair, The Osbournes: Night of Terror, The Conners

Page 21: What’s Worth Watching -- Week 1 -- My Big Italian Adventure with Lorraine Bracco

Page 22: Monday, October 26 -- Luther, Dancing With the Stars, L.A.’s Finest, Pawn Stars, Killer Carnies, NFL Football -- Chicago Bears at Los Angeles Rams

Page 24: Tuesday, October 27 -- Justin Hartley on This Is Us, Star Trek, Let’s Make a Deal Primetime, The FBI Declassified

Page 25: Wednesday, October 28 -- The Goldbergs, Married at First Sight, Martha Knows Best, American Housewife, Big Brother, Coroner, Property Brothers: Forever Home, The Con

Page 26: Thursday, October 29 -- City So Real, Superstore, Top Secret Videos, Deutschland 89, Friday, October 30 -- Emma, The Dick Cavett Show -- Stephen King and Ira Levin and Peter Straub and George A. Romero on a 1980 episode, The Graham Norton Show -- guests Matthew McConaughey and Bruce Springsteen and Sam Smith

Page 27: Saturday, October 31 -- Aaron Tveit on One Royal Holiday, Croc Terror: Man Eating Monster, Secrets of the Zoo: North Carolina, Saturday Night Live, College Football -- LSU at Auburn

Page 30: Sunday, November 1 -- Killer Competition, Alaska the Last Frontier, Fear the Walking Dead, Saint Frances

Page 31-50: TV listings

Page 52: Stream It! Your Guide to the Best Streaming Available -- Netflix -- Anya Taylor-Joy on The Queen’s Gambit, Barbarians, Dolly Parton: Here I Am, Holidate

Page 53: Prime Video -- Get Shorty, The Lie, Hulu -- Homeland, 24, Deutschland 83, Burn Notice

Page 54: New Movie Releases

Page 55: Series, Specials and Documentaries

Page 56: What’s Worth Watching -- Week 2 -- The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2020 Inductions

Page 57: Monday, November 2 -- Eden McCoy on General Hospital, The Voice, The Price Is Right at Night, Filthy Rich, Soulmates

Page 58: Tuesday, November 3 -- The Young and the Restless, America’s National Parks, Election Night Coverage, All in the Family, Wednesday, November 4 -- Secrets of the Dead, Primates, American Ninja Warrior, black-ish

Page 59: Thursday, November 5 -- Alec Baldwin on Match Game with Horatio Sanz and Ali Wentworth and Justin Long and Mike Colter and Drea de Matteo and Marilu Henner, Young Sheldon, Mom, Supernatural, Braxton Family Values, The First 48 Presents Critical Minutes, NFL Football: Green Bay Packers at San Francisco 49ers

Page 60: Friday, November 6 -- One Man Two Guvnors, The Simpsons, The Christmas Yule Blog, Gold Rush, How to With John Wilson

Page 61: Saturday, November 7 -- The Dead Don’t Die, The Fall, AMC Visionaries: Eli Roth’s History of Horror, The Johnny Cash Show, College Football

Page 62: Sunday, November 8 -- John C. Reilly on Moonbase 8, The Real Murders of Orange County, NCIS: Los Angeles, NCIS: New Orleans, NASCAR, NFL Football -- New Orleans Saints at Tampa Bay Buccaneers with Tom Brady

Page 63-78: TV Listings

Page 84: Cheers & Jeers -- cheers to Supernatural, American Ninja Warrior’s hosts, The Young and the Restless, Ashley Park, jeers to Devils’ hellacious ratings, The Real Housewives of New York City, The Haunting of Bly Manor

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Episode 268

August Sales

Comics Reviews:

Batman 100 by James Tynion IV, Carlo Pagulayan, Jorge Jimenez, Guillem March, Danny Miki, Tomeu Morey

American Vampire 1976 1 by Scott Snyder, Rafael Albuquerque

Legend of the Swamp Thing Halloween Spectacular by James Tynion, Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Vita Ayala, Ram V, Julian Lytle, Emma Rios, Christian Ward, Domo Stanton, John Timms, Mike Perkins, Jordie Bellaire, Gabe Eltaeb, Andy Troy, Jeremiah Skipper

Super Sons Escape to Landis by Ridley Pearson, Ileana Gonzales

Amazing Spider-Man 49/850 by Nick Spencer, Kurt Busiek, Saladin Ahmed, Tradd Moore, Aaron Kuder, Ryan Ottley, Mark Bagley, Chris Bachalo, Humberto Ramos, Cliff Rathburn, Victor Olazaba, John Dell, David Curiel

Champions 1 by Eve Ewing, Simone Di Meo, Federico Blee

Marvels Snapshots: Spider-Man by Howard Chaykin, Jesus Aburtov

Getting it Together 1 by Sina Grace, Omar Spahi, Max Struble, Jenny Fine

Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology 1 by Neil Gaiman, P. Craig Russell, Mike Mignola, Jerry Ordway, Dave Stewart, Lovern Kindzierski, Galen Showman

Sonic the Hedgehog: Bad Guys 1 by Ian Flynn, Jack Lawrence

Star Wars Adventures 1 by Michael Moreci, Nick Brokenshire, Ilias Kyriazis

Transformers/Back to the Future 1 by Cavan Scott, Juan Samu, David Garcia Cruz

Penultiman 1 by Tom Peyer, Alan Robinson, Lee Loughridge

American Ronin 1 by Peter Milligan, Aco, Dean White

Carmen Sandiego: The Chasing Paper Caper

Riverdale Diaries: Hello, Betty! by Sarah Kuhn, J. Bone

Bolivar by Sean Rubin

Dear Rodney by Cris Trout, Peter Dalkner

Over the Garden Wall: The Benevolent Sisters of Charity by Sam Johns, Jim Campbell

Hollywood Trash 1 by Stephen Sonneveld, Pablo Verdugo, Exposito, Birch

Space Battle Lunchtime vol 3 by Natalie Riess

Additional Reviews: Fant4stic, Friday the 13th (2009), Haunting of Bly Manor, Being a Cosplayer

News: Janeway returns to Star Trek, Doc Strange in Spider-Man 3, Marvel Action Captain Marvel returns - guest starring Spider-Gwen, Tom Taylor graphic novel series with Random House, Eternals delayed to January, Doc Shaner nonsense, NYCC news, Ottley off Amazing, Green Lantern Corps series details, Venom 200, Hellstrom and Marvel TV in review, two new Cates comics, Soul directly to Disney+, Gal Gadot

Trailers: Mank, Invincible

Comics Countdown:

Decorum 5 by Jonathan Hickman, Mike Huddleston

Space Battle Lunchtime Vol 3 by Natalie Riess

Batman 100 by James Tynion IV, Carlo Pagulayan, Jorge Jimenez, Guillem March, Danny Miki, Tomeu Morey

Die 14 by Kieron Gillen, Stephanie Hans, Clayton Cowles

American Vampire: 1976 1 by Scott Snyder, Rafael Albuquerque

We Only Find Them When They're Dead 2 by Al Ewing, Simone Di Meo

Bang 4 by Matt Kindt, Wilfredo Torres

Black Widow 2 by Kelly Thompson, Elena Casagrande, Jordie Bellaire

Thor 8 by Donny Cates, Aaron Kuder, Matt Wilson

Check out this episode!

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Haunting of Bly Manor (And Hill House) Mini Review

Mike Flanagan is a genius. Let’s get that out of the way -the man’s filmography is some of the most consistent, fantastic work in years. What makes his films and shows special is that he understands, fundamentally, you must care about the characters first for the horror of the situation to really land. I haven’t quite finished Bly Manor yet, but I feel safe in that I’ve watched enough to give it a proper assessment. Unsurprisingly, it’s rich, textured and has depth.

Slightly though, I would give the edge to Hill House here. Mostly for the one-two punch of The Bent-Neck Lady and Two Storms (Episodes 5 and 6 respectively from the first season). That’s not to say this season doesn’t have standouts episodes, for many that will be episode 8, for me it was episode 5 - The Altar of the Dead. It comes down, simply, to the fact that Hannah Gross was a well-drawn character and the episode and it’s many flashbacks was almost a 2-person act, by the way both T’Nia Miller and Rahul Kohli both deserve standing ovations for their work here (also shout out to Kohli coming off his stellar work in iZombie). Beyond the performances was more exceptional writing - I loved the metaphor for ghosts being like memory loss/decline. The camera-work here is solid, especially with how many sudden cuts to different exteriors were required. The sound design is obviously stellar.

The only downside again, is in light of the first season having the single-best hour of television the year it premiered (Two Storms), this episode and the season as a whole only marginally suffer by comparison. Watch it - you’ll thank me later.

That said, season one (Hill House) is standalone, tightly-written and acted and just an absolute delight. It does justice to Shirley Jackson’s masterpiece and then-some. The same standouts of Bly Manor are here as well, Oliver Cohen-Jackson, Kate Siegel, and Victoria Pedretti absolutely dominate their roles. Two Storms must have been a nightmare to shoot, but I’m glad they did. Season one is terrifying, tragic, and heart-wrenching in equal measure. Watch this anthology series, it’s everything American Horror Story wants to be. Affecting and unforgettable.

Hill House achieves this so many times over -and Flanagan, rewards the viewers by implanting miss-able scares - which makes the viewing experience like that of the characters, one of pure terror (there could be something hiding just on the edge of a frame waiting to get you-and there often is-like the cellar ghost)

The key difference between each season/series of this anthology is that Hill House is like a family drama with sudden bursts of pants-shitting fear interspersed

Bly Manor feels like a slow-burn, but rewarding pay-off-it takes it’s time and is even more of a character study. The same-sex romance between Dani and Jamie by the way, is handled superbly. Both of them are supremely likeable protagonists who you grow to care about (haha! A plant pun!)

Do yourself a favour and watch either series this halloween season.

10/10 for Hill House

9/10 for Bly Manor

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How The Haunting of Bly Manor Adapts The Turn of the Screw and Other Henry James Works

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The following contains spoilers for every episode of The Haunting of Bly Manor.

Henry James (probably known as Hank Jim to his friends) is one of the most prominent and prolific writers of his era. Originally appreciated for his novels like The Portrait of a Lady and The Ambassadors, James is now best-known for his 1898 work The Turn of the Screw, an eerie, ambiguous ghost story novella that would become one of the most enduring Gothic horror texts ever.

The Turn of the Screw has been adapted dozens of times into films, operas, ballets, and more. And James’s classic story forms the basis for Netflix’s Haunting of Hill House follow up The Haunting of Bly Manor. Just as Hill House uses Shirley Jackson’s horror story as a jumping off point, so too does Bly Manor liberally borrow from The Turn of the Screw. But that’s not where the Henry James party ends for this series. The Haunting of Bly Manor puts several other Henry James stories to good use as well.

The Turn of the Screw, and short stories “The Jolly Corner”, and “The Romance of Certain Old Clothes” all play crucial roles in building the spooky tale that showrunner Mike Flanagan is out to tell this time around. And here is a helpful breakdown of what each James story brings to the proceedings.

The Turn of the Screw

Given that this is the Hill House/Bly Manor franchise, perhaps it’s helpful to use housing terminology to discuss The Turn of the Screw’s contributions to the series. The Turn of the Screw makes up the foundation of The Haunting of Bly Manor. Hell, it might just make up the walls and roof as well for as the show takes just about every base level detail from James’s seminal work.

The Turn of the Screw opens up as a frame story. A group of Victorian-era aristocrats has gathered together to share ghost stories with one another Mary Shelley-style. One guest has a story that is sure to blow everyone else away and begins to tell it to the enraptured audience. Bly Manor borrows this frame story technique but replaces the unnamed aristocrat with Carla Gugino’s character (who is later revealed to be Jamie) sharing a story at a wedding.

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Once both the novella and the show’s narrators launch into their stories, we can see that there are plenty of similarities. The Turn of the Screw deals with an unnamed Governess (a fancy British word for a live-in schoolteacher at a mansion) who gets a job teaching two children at an English countryside manor following the deaths of their parents. Though the Governess (a.k.a. Victoria Pedretti’s Dani) doesn’t get a name in the novella, all the other names are the same. The children are Miles (Benjamin Evan Ainsworth) and Flora (Amelie Bea Smith) and their caretaker is Mrs. Grose (T’Nia Miller). And then when the spooky stuff hits the fan it’s revealed that the kids’ previous governess was named Miss Jessel (Rebecca Jessel in the show, played by Tahirah Sharif) and she had a close relationship with another one of the estate’s employees, Peter Quint (Oliver Jackson-Cohen). In terms of characters, the only major additions for the show are Amelia Eve as the gardener Jamie and Rahul Kohli as chef Owen.

As the story progresses, it’s clear that The Haunting of Bly Manor intends to stick closer to The Turn of the Screw than The Haunting of Hill House did with its namesake. There is something clearly off with Miles and Flora and it likely has to do with the dead Peter Quint and Miss Jessel. The Governess repeatedly sees the shade of Peter Quint on the grounds of the manor just like Dani does in the show. Miles acts out at his boarding school and is sent home early. Flora one night even gets out of bed and wanders out to the lake on the property where the Governess is convinced she is communing with the ghost of Miss Jessel.

Beginning around episode 6, The Haunting of Bly Manor begins to deviate from The Turn of the Screw’s plot and eventually concludes with a wildly different ending. That’s partly because The Turn of the Screw doesn’t have much of an ending (what is it with Gothic writers and their penchant for having people randomly drop dead) but also because the show is drawing from two other Henry James sources.

The Jolly Corner

Episode 6 of The Haunting of Bly Manor is called “The Jolly Corner” for a reason. This is the hour in which we catch up fully with Henry Wingrave (Henry Thomas), the current owner and executor of Bly Manor, who is wracked with guilt over an affair he had with his brother’s wife before their deaths.

That guilt eventually takes on a metaphysical component as Henry is quite literally haunted by the worst version of himself. The evil version of Henry continually taunts the “normal” one each night, reminding him of all his mistakes and misdeeds. Whether this is a hallucination or some kind of evil shade is left deliberately vague. But the arrival of the second Henry is preceded by the last words Henry’s brother ever spoke to him: “I pity you because you have to live with him. You have to live with yourself.”

Ouch.

“The Jolly Corner” borrows its name from a Henry James short story, which features a similar doppelganger phenomenon but in a vastly different context. The story follows Spencer Brydon, a man who returns to his childhood New York home on the “jolly corner” after decades spent abroad.

Spencer gets to work renovating his childhood home and comes to find that he has a real knack for it. He’s so good at it in fact that he begins to wonder what his life would have been like if he had stayed in the U.S. and dedicated his career to the construction business. This thought quickly turns into delusion as he imagines that he is being haunted by the version of himself who truly did stay behind in the U.S. and put his talents to good use. Spencer finally confronts the ghost of himself and in the true Henry James-style promptly dies…or does he?

The Romance of Certain Old Clothes

While “The Jolly Corner” makes up an exceedingly small portion of The Haunting of Bly Manor, the final Henry James contribution, “The Romance of Certain Old Clothes” is of enormous significance to the show’s plot. Going back to our housing metaphor, if The Turn of the Screw is the foundation of Bly Manor, then “The Romance of Certain Old Clothes” is nothing less than the people inside the home. The plot of this short story is crucial to understanding the context of what’s really happening at Bly Manor.

First, an abbreviated summary of the short story. “The Romance of Certain Old Clothes” is set in 18th century Massachusetts. It follows two daughters in the aristocratic Wingrave family: Viola and Perdita. Both Viola and Perdita fall in love with rich suitor Mr. Arthur Lloyd and Arthur eventually chooses to marry Perdita. Despite promises not to get jealous…Viola gets pretty jealous. The sisters’ relationship becomes strained and only worsens when Perdita falls ill.

As Perdita slowly dies, she makes Arthur promise to hide away her beloved gown in a chest so that her daughter can have it once she comes of age. Arthur does so and Perdita dies. The Lloyd and Wingrave estate then begins to crumble due to Arthur’s mismanagement. Viola urges Arthur to open the chest either for herself or to sell off its contents. When Arthur refuses, Viola takes matters into her own hands and heads up to open the chest herself. Arthur later heads up to find Viola on her knees and dead, with wounds visible from ghostly hands.

If all of this sounds familiar, that’s because it is almost the exact plot of The Haunting of Bly Manor episode 8. The only major change at the outset is the switching of the roles of Viola and Perdita. In the show it is Perdita who is killed by a ghostly Viola. Then Mike Flanagan and the series take the story a step further and imagines what would happen after Perdita’s death.

Viola “lives” on as a ghost inside the chest. It’s not until Arthur disposes of the chest in the lake on the grounds that Viola is eventually freed. But even then hers is a sad afterlife. She resides under the water by day before coming out at night and prowling the grounds in search of…well, she’s never quite sure what. Over time, whatever was left of Viola’s appearance and personality begins to fade. She becomes the faceless Lady in the Lake and her stubbornness creates a “gravity” at Bly Manor so all who die there stay on as ghosts.

It’s the Lady in the Lake who kills Peter Quint, seemingly only for the crime of him being out and about at night in her house. And just like that The Haunting of Bly Manor ties one of Henry James’s more obscure ghost stories into his most famous one in The Turn of the Screw.

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Many properties have tried their hand at The Turn of the Screw, but none of them until now have thought to tie in the ghost from “Certain Old Clothes” as the gravity of it all. Not a bad day’s work for The Haunting franchise.

The Haunting of Bly Manor is streaming now on Netflix.

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