No doubt Mike Flanagan’s Haunting of the Hill House is a better show but Haunting of Bly Manor ended well.
Both of Mike Flanagan’s shows in the Haunting series received some great positive critics for their supernatural and gothic horror, where Haunting of the Hill House delivered a super story there Haunted of By Manor ended well.
It’s really difficult to choose whether Haunting of The Bly Manor is the show-stealer. As both installments feature slow-burn, character-driven elements of gothic fiction. Haunting of the Hill House made its debut in 2018 and adapted one of the best hauntings of Shirley’s Jackson’s novel with the same name. Bly Manor got its story from Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw but adapted more works from other American Authors as well.
Some of the Hill House faces made their comeback in Bly Manor, adopting the framework of other massively popular horror anthologies such as Ryan Murphy’s American Horror Story. But the thing that draws a line between these shows is the tone and ghosts that haunt their respective Houses.
The Haunting of Hill House delivers better, deeper haunts to the audience and focuses the light on inherited trauma and familial disarray. The Crain siblings saw a lot since their childhood and suffered a lot in their journey to develop in an adult from Theo’s commitment and intimacy issues, Nell’s depression, and Luke’s drug addiction, everything was just solid but somewhere missed how Bly Manor ended well.
The Haunting of Bly Manor wasn’t what we are seeing as horror or ghost stories and it has the spotlight on the romantic relationship between Peter and Rebecca, Owen and Hannah, and Dani and Jamie instead. The show is about heartbreak, loss, and how dead never leave.
Haunting Of Hill House Delivered Better Story But Bly Manor Ended Well
Even the Bly Manor ended well, Haunting of The Hill House still the scarier. The Crain siblings have become estranged from each other, at least in part, as adults after experiencing traumatizing hauntings in their childhood home, which led to the death of their mother, Olivia, who was sensitive to the supernatural influence and evil of the house. Unlike Bly Manor, Haunting of Hill House focused on evilness and horror and the ghost in Haunting House was scarier than Bly Manor too.
Ghosts shown in Bly Manor seemed too familiar were in Hill House ghosts came out from nowhere that scared a lot. Though in Bly Manor there was some love, some drama that held the audience all in all Bly Manor delivered a different kind of ghost story.
The Crain problems and relationships built a different kind of connection between the audience and the actors. Bly Manor too much focus on relationships can out as a negative point for the show. Hill House doesn’t skimp on the scares, and even manages to land a few satisfying jumps scares, but it’s the neat, tidy narrative and shifting perspective of each sibling, who feel fully fleshed out and three-dimensional, that adds to its strengths. Hill House juggles characters and perspectives more seamlessly, and nobody feels left behind or forgotten.
