The Haunting of Bly Manor review, Culture Whisper
Love is a special kind of horror. It can make you feel whole and tear you to pieces. It can provide a meaningful life and make it meaningless. It can fill you with delight, and then destroy you. It’s been difficult for this critic to articulate why he adored a returning haunted-house drama as much as he did. Turns out, it’s embarrassingly simple: The Haunting of Bly Manor captures the horrors of love in all its crooked forms.
Taking on The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, Bly Manor grapples with seductive romances, entertaining friendships, familial compassion, unfulfilled stares and abusive affairs. Showrunner Mike Flanagan ( Doctor Sleep ), and his team of mostly female writers, approach a classic ghost story populated with chilling phantoms with heart-piercing humanity.
