The Haunting of Bly Manor

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Tv & Film, Tv Reviews, Film Reviews

3.6 • 724 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Slate staffers Sam Adams and Laura Miller spoil The Haunting of Bly Manor. An American governess (Victoria Pedretti) signs on two care for two orphaned children in a remote English mansion. But she finds the house is haunted by a malevolent presence, and the children may be as well. Sam Adams and Laura Miller break down Netflix’s followup to The Haunting of Hill House, which takes its inspiration from Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw and his other classic ghost stories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I want to tell you my secret now.
0:02.0	I see dead people.
0:05.0	Silent Green is people!
0:09.0	No, I am the father.
0:13.0	Oh, Rushberg.
0:17.0	What's in the box?
0:20.0	You maniac! You blew it up! What's in the box?
0:22.5	You maniac!
0:24.5	You blow it up!
0:27.6	Damn you all the hell!
0:31.8	Hello, and welcome to Slate Spoiler Specials.
0:36.5	I'm Sam Adams, the senior editor at Slate, and today we are spoiling the haunting of Bly Manor,
0:37.9	the Netflix adaptation of Henry James the Turn of the Screw. Joining me to talk about it is Slate's book critic Laura Miller.
0:42.7	Laura, hello.
0:43.4	Hi, Sam.
0:44.2	Let's start off in traditional fashion. What did you think of the haunting of Bligh Manor, Laura?
0:49.4	I didn't love this. There were parts of it that I admired. I thought that the performance of the
0:58.4	little boy who plays Miles, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, was really remarkable because he had to
1:06.0	switch between being a child and being a child sort of possessed by an adult man. And I do like Victoria
1:12.5	Pedretti, who plays the Danny governess character. But I just, I don't know. I feel like my
1:20.5	ability to assess it is so dominated by my love of the novella, the Henry James novella, turn of the screw that it's based on.
1:30.4	And I had a hard time getting past the ways that it wasn't quite as interesting as that book.
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