The Haunting of Blythe Manor - Netflix

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Available today. DH and I will be watching tonight. Creating this thread in readiness!

I am stupidly excited as Hill House was one of my favourite series of all time. Is it too much to ask to hope this series is as good?!

Will update once watched the first episode...

Dreadful.

It’s like Hill House but with different actors.

The accents are terrible and the casting is off too.

In summary, there are naughty children and lots of apparitions. The end.

It's a slower burn than Hill House. But I think things get interesting around episode 5 (although my head is spinning a bit).

I like the gardener, and the actor who plays young Miles is really good.

I dont think it needed to stretch across 9 episodes. Whereas the other needed to as each family member had their own story. This less so. The 2nd half of episodes got a lot better and the ending got me lol.

i've finished all episodes now

loved last 2 episodes....agree stretched out too long and boring in the middle but i liked the ending which i didnt expect to be much good.

The bbc version was much better. Henry James would be turning in his grave. I adore a ghost story but this adaptation really was dire. Turned to Emily in Paris (also dreadful but in an addictively enjoyable way) with DD instead this evening and had a much better evening for it!

I can't stop hearing the voice of Peppa Pig.
Totally ruined it for me.

It's Bly for a start.
Perfectly splendid is pissing me right off.

I read the blurb and thought Henry James.
English ist not my first language so I can ignore accents and their appropriateness.
Apart from that about half the number of episodes would have been better and the Viola story felt 'stuck in' and not really integrated to me.
But apart from that it helped pass the time while I backed up files and updated PCs.

Do you have to have watched Hill House first?

Yes sorry for the spelling mistake, autocorrect on my phone and I didn’t notice!

Not gonna lie I was considering just giving up but if it gets better in the latter half then I’ll stick with it.

@Hippywannabe no they are completely stand alone. But I would recommend watching Hill House as it’s just outstanding compared to this drivel.

It's so shit

I watched the 2009 version with Dan Stevens and Michelle Dockery last year - absolutely terrifying in parts

Within 5 minutes of watching Bly (I hadn't googled it, had no idea it was the same) I thought 'oh I hope it's not the same as that one I watched a year ago with the possessions'
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I've watched 3 episodes won't be watching more

It was ok, not as good as house on haunted hill.
I thought there was going to be a reason why she kept saying 'perfectly splendid'.
Wouldn't say it was scary though, I found it quite sad.

Isn,t the "perfectly splendid" meant to be irritating though isn,t that part of the wierdness of it all.
Lots of atmosphere and not much else at the moment watched first two.

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Isn,t the "perfectly splendid" meant to be irritating though isn,t that part of the wierdness of it all. Lots of atmosphere and not much else at the moment watched first two.

Yes I think so.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

She does lay off it a bit a few episodes in.

You might think the English accents are bad but Oliver Jackson Cohen is the Dick Van Dyke of Scottish accents.
Gah I just can't get past it and focus on the plot.

Yeeee could've done without that. Especially episode 8 she narrates a lot.

Think its just her,girl who plays Dani and bloke who is Henry who aren't actually English.

Carla Gugino‘s accent was all over the place.

One minute she’s all received pronunciation, the next, she’s a proper Northern lass!

Beautiful though.

the trouble with this thread is I have now started hearing how wrong some things are.
wardrobe closet!! never heard that term used in England. also do English schools have flags in classrooms?

Well completed it and was such a disappointment. I expected more with the first one being so good.

I watched from start to finish over 24 hours (ill) - it was unexpected - I don't have anything to compare it to (but now want to go and watch the other ones mentioned on this thread)

at the end, the weirdness all makes sense - just wish it didn't drag in the middle because around episode 3 and 4 I almost gave up

there is one thing that makes no sense to me ... I will try to ask so as to not give away any spoilers .... when the American au pair goes through the gate, how is it that the woman leaves with her when before the man didn't get through the front gate when he left with the English au pair?

The accents really annoy me too.
I've found it a bit slow but not unwatchable. Currently on episode 6.
Dani's character is a bit annoying. She sounds like Jennifer garner and I can't stand how she walks/runs to different places, it's a weird granny shuffle.

Carla Gugino‘s accent was all over the place.

The accent matches the character she is supposed to be so it's not actually a terrible accent. Without a spoiler, there's another character that has a northern pronunciation with Us but a southern one with Is and As. Some people do gained mixed accents when moving.

I actually didn't mind the accents. The young girl is Peppa Pig, and the "perfectly splendid" is supposed to be annoying. The adults accept it because she's a child and children say annoying things.

Oliver Jackson-Cohen's accent isn't terrible. I thought he sounded like he was trying to mimic Richard Madden. Watching Outlander, I've heard a lot worse attempts at a Scottish accent.

Victoria Pedretti is putting on some sort of accent but I can't place it. I thought she was meant to sound like a California girl but I don't think that's the case based on her flashback episode.

Binged it all in a setting, spending a lot of time watching the corner of the screen looking for the ghosts in the background. A WWI ghost shows up a few times.

It's not as scary as Hill House but I've really enjoyed it once the whole story is put together. It reminds me a lot of the first season of AHS but without all the excess killing for shock value.

there is one thing that makes no sense to me ... I will try to ask so as to not give away any spoilers .... when the American au pair goes through the gate, how is it that the woman leaves with her when before the man didn't get through the front gate when he left with the English au pair?

@GypsyRoseGarden Viola was the original ghost. She was the "gravity well" holding all.of the other ghosts at bly manor through her sheer stubbornness. Dani saved Flora by accepting Viola into her body and taking her away. So the other ghosts then just disappeared.