It’s Your Responsibility to Kill Yourself
and other interesting viewpoints in The Haunting of Bly Manor.
Before I get on with this review, I would just like to note that this will, of course, be incredibly spoiler-heavy for The Haunting of Bly Manor, Mike Flanagan’s spiritual sequel to the The Haunting of Hill House, and you should not read on if you want to go into it without any prior knowledge.
I would also note trigger warnings for themes of suicide and murder, particularly murder of sick loved ones, violence, mentions of CSA and societal attitudes toward it, and then some racism and classism.
If it hasn’t come across already, I found this series to be very poor, and while there are one or two elements to it I liked, as a whole, I thought it was a remarkable disappointment. The below is wholly my opinion, endorsed by nobody at all, I’m sure.
I’ll be honest, I forgot about Bly Manor.
I recall being sceptical but hopeful when its production was announced, because I love the Haunting of Hill House, its predecessor, to pieces, and have watched it several times over the way through, and would freely admit that — while they do serve different purposes, and while I do love both — I actually like it even better than the book.
