Many critics believe that contrary to what fans think, “The Haunting of Bly Manor” is nowhere near the apogee attained by the first series.
The accent, dialogue, and manoeuvres spoil the fun as the series falls short of an epic scary. In fact, it’s a monumental fluster cuck if you can call it that way. Mike Flanagan though worked really hard to embed his “Hill House” ideas to the world of “The Turn of Screw”, but the truth is that he failed miserably. For the firsts, Henry James was not the one to use fancy extraneous words which the narration of the series clearly and unnecessarily did.
The diversion from Henry James’ ideas is what cost “The Haunting of Bly Manor” the precision it desperately required. The precision that you can get from “The Turn of the Screw” (if you have read it) stems from the fact that a singular vision was guiding the story all along.
“The Haunting of Bly Manor” looks as if Mike Flanagan decided to listen and follow too many people.
What had worked well for “The Haunting of the Hill House” was the fact that the story was interwoven with logical consistencies and the cinematic brilliance was accentuating a splendidly written script about family trauma and its ramifications years later. The “brilliant script” is absent in “The Haunting of Bly Manor” and what remains is Flanagan’s great work behind the camera but based on a world that had characters who do not actually converge up until the final acts of the series. The series lacked suspense apart from subjective tragedy emotions like sadness, regret, anger, and guilt which the “Hill House” had embedded perfectly with the spine-chilling horror.
The written dialogues echo some sloppy effort behind the scenes, and despite the best efforts, the creators could not converge all the characters because of their disparate nature. It can be said that we are not talking about a family in “Bly Manor” and the characters are supposed to be strangers to each other. But there was no real connection among them, and that took out the chemistry that the first series had it pervading throughout.
The acting, however, had no real issues. We knew after watching the first season that many of the actors had a lot of credibility and I am obliged to say that they didn’t disappoint in Season 2 either. What was lacking was the fact that the characters were not as compelling as the former series.
Mike Flanagan’s work behind the camera is again quite noteworthy. The engrossing dark atmosphere is pervaded throughout the episodes despite the fact that the script didn’t allow much for a sentimental undertone to add weight to the horror vibes.
The major criticism that the show is getting from left, right, and center is the fact that “The Haunting of Bly Manor” just takes a lot of time to get to the point. In “The Haunting of Hill House,” we were taking huge steps in every episode towards understanding the whole thing and the rare feat that the former series achieved was the fact as we got deeper into the psychology of the characters, we got closer to the origin of the trauma that had started it all. Though some fans can appreciate the second season, the truth is that it was just a confusing effort to recreate the “Hill House” which professional critics are yelling since 2018 that it is very difficult to do so.
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