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Why is ‘The Haunting Of Bly Manor’ So Bad?
Warning: This post contains spoilers for the Netflix show ‘The Haunting of Bly Manor’.
Having just finished watching ‘The Haunting of Bly Manor’ on Netflix, I find myself wondering why this show is so popular, and why exactly I thought it was so terrible.
I came across the show on the ‘Trending’ list for my country and, as a fan of horror films and series, I immediately clicked play. For the first two episodes, I was hooked and then, slowly but surely, I fell out of love with it.
To the show’s credit, I watched through to the end, stubbornly insisting to know how on earth they could tie all of the seemingly-unrelated storylines together. To that end, the characters — particularly those of Hannah the housekeeper and Flora, the little girl — were so endearing that I wanted to see what happened. Outside of the character writing, however, the show made little to no sense and struggled to keep my interest.
I understand that the first two episodes followed the book the series was based on very closely, and thereafter began to drift from the source material. This may explain why I, as a viewer, also began to drift around the same time.
