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⌈ Secret Post #5038 ⌋

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[fscom]

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[sparklywalls]

I re-watched Hill House first and now am on episode 3 of Bly Manor. So far it's not gripping me as much and I don't think the child actors are as good as the Crain kid actors were, which isn't really helping considering the kids are a huge part of the source material for Bly Manor.

Definitely noticing the wandering accents as well, though they're not the worst I've ever heard. They're just not great either.

[(Anonymous)]

I watched Bly Manor first and really liked it, and then I watched Hill House because of it and liked that too. But I can see your point! To each one's own.

[(Anonymous)]

Huh, I'd be the reverse. I enjoyed HoHH for sure, but HoBM was so much better to me.

I never notice accents to be honest. I've had people tell me my dad still has an accent (he emigrated in '71) and I don't hear it at all.

[(Anonymous)]

Same. I never finished Hill House, but I'm really enjoying Bly Manor. I never noticed the accents, either, lmao.

[(Anonymous)]

It's a bit slow but episode 5 is really cool. The last two episodes dragged for me. It didn't have to be nine episodes long.

[(Anonymous)]

Same

I made it through 4 episodes and was just.. so bored. There were a few creepy bits but that's it. I don't care about the characters much and actively just *sigh* at Miles. The creepy 10 yr old boy shtick is overdone and uninteresting. (I've read some spoilers, a few do sound semi-interesting but not enough to turn it back on and watch another 5 hours of this show)

[rivia]

i think it's hard to really compare the two, they're by largely the same people with the same cast, but i think the show had a very different feel compared to hill house. i do wish they'd stop marketing the show like some SCARES EVERY MINUTE horror fest when it absolutely is not that show and then folks go in expecting that and find what the show actually is super boring.

i absolutely adored both and didn't find much of it scary, in the jumpscare kind of way, but there were certainly horrifying things that happened in the show. both of them had me ugly sobbing by the end, possibly more for bly manor because the story about owen and his mom and his grief after she died from dementia hit hard since that's something i'm still going through.

i almost never pick up on terrible accents though so maybe that's how i stayed invested in it.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like no one is capable of marketing a Gothic Romance correctly. It's always SCARES SCARES SCARES which no, the scares serve the story and a lot of the time they're more sad or poignant than scary.

[rivia]

yeah, and frequently that's what sticks with you more, like luke going down the dumbwaiter like a dummy and getting the jump scare of his life was like, scary but him unknowingly feeling his sister's body die after she's killed (him talking about his neck hurting and feeling cold and stiff) is something i find much more horrifying.

[(Anonymous)]

Wait, it had the same cast?!

(Also, ugh so much of it had me crying. Like, I hated Peter so MUCH for what he did to Miss Jessel, but at the same time, that scene with him and his mom had me ugly crying.)

[rivia]

victoria pedretti (dani and nell), carla gugino (the narrator and olivia, henry thomas (henry and hugh), oliver jackson-cohen (peter and luke), kate siegel (viola and theo) are in both.

right? hill house has been my go to for when i just wanna ugly cry, like everything with nell just fuckin hurts and then in bly i feel like it was dialed up even more, like i can't even explain why some of it makes me cry but oh man.

[sparklywalls]

I love Gothic Horror/Romance and am tired of it being done incorrectly or marketed incorrectly (see also: Crimson Peak) - as I said above I’m not as gripped yet (though I am only a little way into Bly Manor) but am totally wtf about the slowness complaints. That’s the last thing I’d complain about at this stage.

There is nothing wrong with a slow burn that builds dread and tension slowly and that’s what Hill House mostly did. Yet even then all anyone seems to go on about is that bloody car scene so I think it means people who haven’t watched it yet expect some big scary thing. The trailer for Bly Manor perhaps created a similar impression. Idk.

[rivia]

If you're still just on ep 3, there's a few upcoming ones that are just wonderful and mostly self contained but very interesting. It's honestly kind of baffling why Netflix has failed at marketing both shows correctly, I guess sad, melancholy horror is harder to convey in a trailer.

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't hate it, but I resent it for hurting me with feelings when I just wanted some creepy horror stuff.

The tone was definitely more what I'm used to with British series. It had more of that cosy mystery vibe, and it reminded me a little of one of my favourite horror movies, The Awakening, which is also British.

The pacing could have been better though and I think maybe it had too many episodes for the story it was trying to tell? It was a bit confused when it was trying to be complex.

[(Anonymous)]

I totally forgot this was already out. I'm gonna watch it during the weekend and see if I hear any wandering accents.

[(Anonymous)]

My main problem so far is that rather than creepy, I mainly think it's really really sad most of the time.
I also watch it on a tablet in bed and the screen is too small to spot all the hidden background ghosts.

[(Anonymous)]

It was so dull. The Narrator’s accent is an abomination and (although she’s thankfully not putting a stupid voice on) I also thought Victoria Pedretti was really bad in this whereas she seemed fine in Hill House.

[(Anonymous)]

Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Rahul Kohli are fucking hot! Did that alleviate your pain at all? ;)

[(Anonymous)]

honestly, yeah. i like the characters just fine and there are some that i genuinely love, but the method they've chosen to tell the story in isn't really compelling to me and i find myself tuning out more often than not. i've heard someone refer to it as gothic romance over horror and i think that might have to do with why it's not grabbing me? i really liked hill house, i even really like the other work by flannigan i've seen, but nothing in bly manor is giving me that 'i'm absolutely terrified but i can't look away from this' feeling.