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Postby super gas » Wed Oct 21, 2020 1:32 pm

i really wanted to like bly manor. good acting and nice 70s mystery vibes but plot was a real snoozer. and the ending was dumb. are we supposed to believe that the gardener of bly manor was invited to the wedding when the bride has no memory of ever living at bly manor?Toggle Spoiler
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Postby deadwolfbones » Wed Oct 21, 2020 1:57 pm

super gas wrote:i really wanted to like bly manor. good acting and nice 70s mystery vibes but plot was a real snoozer. and the ending was dumb. are we supposed to believe that the gardener of bly manor was invited to the wedding when the bride has no memory of ever living at bly manor?Toggle Spoiler


They mentioned that the uncle remembered everything.
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Postby Annie May » Wed Oct 21, 2020 2:11 pm

Am i the only one who liked this
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Postby quinine » Wed Oct 21, 2020 3:08 pm

Annie May wrote:Am i the only one who liked this


I liked it! except for the awful ending. actually following dani + jamie I though was fine, they're an adorable couple. just the Old Jamie/rambling wedding story stuff sucked and unlike yung jamie was terribly actedToggle Spoiler

wait was the bride at the end supposed to be adult flora? she had an american accent and looked nothing like her? whatever I couldn't bring myself to care about the interminable framing story regardlessToggle Spoiler
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Postby jack » Wed Oct 21, 2020 3:12 pm

i watched the first 3 episodes of this and i didn't hate it but i fell asleep during all of them
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Postby davideotape » Wed Oct 21, 2020 3:15 pm

if forced to choose between like an dislike i’d go like. if not forced to make that choice id probably just say it was worth a weekend binge
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Postby a falsetto child » Wed Oct 21, 2020 3:16 pm

Pretty much.
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Postby super gas » Sat Oct 24, 2020 1:57 pm

deadwolfbones wrote:
super gas wrote:i really wanted to like bly manor. good acting and nice 70s mystery vibes but plot was a real snoozer. and the ending was dumb. are we supposed to believe that the gardener of bly manor was invited to the wedding when the bride has no memory of ever living at bly manor?Toggle Spoiler


They mentioned that the uncle remembered everything.


Eh still. Who invites people that they don’t know to their rehearsal dinner?Toggle Spoiler
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Postby grace cathedral park » Sun Nov 01, 2020 1:11 am

goddammit all of the posts in this thread about bly are so good i want to stay up way too late and react to literally everything people said haha.

in case i never do that, i will say i loved watching an episode here or there right before bed every night this past month. i feel like very few spooky things take the road of just melancholy haunts bc cheap thrills is such an easier route. it was really lovely just watching one of those languid ass episodes then falling asleep and having some weird gloomy dreams. the martha stewart living ass cinematography really boded well for that.
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Postby auspice » Sun Nov 01, 2020 1:59 am

I loved Hill House immediately from just watching the first 2 eps jointly but I'm 2 eps into this and struggling. I have a 3 ep rule for new seasons of television of if the third ep doesn't do it for me I'm just gonna call it. I also hated the ending of Hill House despite loving what led up to it, so if it's the same shit again this time around I don't see the point.

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Postby Annie May » Sun Nov 01, 2020 2:14 am

grace cathedral park wrote:goddammit all of the posts in this thread about bly are so good i want to stay up way too late and react to literally everything people said haha.

in case i never do that, i will say i loved watching an episode here or there right before bed every night this past month. i feel like very few spooky things take the road of just melancholy haunts bc cheap thrills is such an easier route. it was really lovely just watching one of those languid ass episodes then falling asleep and having some weird gloomy dreams. the martha stewart living ass cinematography really boded well for that.

Feel this post. Flanagan doesn't think about plot holes at all but i love it anyway
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Postby FourLegsGood » Tue Dec 29, 2020 9:37 pm

It's around the time of year that I like to throw on slow Victorian-style ghost stories so I thought this was pretty perfect for a before-bed Winter's watch. I think this one was more emotionally affecting than the first season, actually, even if it wasn't as towering a technical achievement.
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Postby Self Destructive Zone » Fri Sep 24, 2021 2:07 pm

Annie May wrote:Am i the only one who liked this



I really liked it apart from the origin story for the lady of the lake. Excited to watch his new shit on Netflix
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Postby quinine » Fri Sep 24, 2021 2:09 pm

I have no memory of this show
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Postby Self Destructive Zone » Fri Sep 24, 2021 2:37 pm

I only remember Nell’s death from Hill House but that rocked. The second season was a long story about lesbian love told at a wedding rehearsal and then at the end the people listening were all like “I wanted a ghost story not a love story!” I hope that helps
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Postby auspice » Fri Sep 24, 2021 2:41 pm

The only episode of Bly Manor I actually liked was the last one.
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Postby Buzz Fledderjohn » Sat Sep 25, 2021 11:31 am

there’s a new Flanagan joint on Netflix - Midnight Mass - with a lot of the cast from the Haunting Of… shows and a similar tone (through 2 eps at least)

hamish linklater is fun to watch though I can’t watch the lead without thinking of the Bedtime Stories jizz tornado ep
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Postby deadwolfbones » Sat Sep 25, 2021 12:59 pm

First ep was pretty rough
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Postby Self Destructive Zone » Sat Sep 25, 2021 10:52 pm

I’m four episodes in. It’s a slow burn but has gotten increasingly violent and unsettling. I don’t know if I’d recommend this to someone who like hill house though. Unless you think a long vampireToggle Spoiler allegory about the pedophilia crises in the Catholic Church and long discussions of faith and doubt and guilt might appeal to you as they do to me
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Postby banquo » Sat Sep 25, 2021 11:46 pm

that last sentence of yours is wild
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Postby Self Destructive Zone » Sun Sep 26, 2021 1:30 pm

Just watched episode 5 and can confirm that like episode 5 of hill house, it’s a fucking gut punch
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Postby pzadvance » Sun Sep 26, 2021 2:09 pm

This entire show is written in didactic monologues and neither the writers nor the actors are skilled enough to pull that off
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Postby Ampersand » Sun Sep 26, 2021 4:31 pm

pzadvance wrote:This entire show is written in didactic monologues and neither the writers nor the actors are skilled enough to pull that off


YUP
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Postby deadwolfbones » Sun Sep 26, 2021 5:39 pm

Flanagan putting his company actors in oldface was a bad choice too
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Postby Buzz Fledderjohn » Sun Sep 26, 2021 5:49 pm

we got a dedicated thread for this on this page ICYMI
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Postby Self Destructive Zone » Sun Sep 26, 2021 5:59 pm

pzadvance wrote:This entire show is written in didactic monologues and neither the writers nor the actors are skilled enough to pull that off



It must be tough being too smart to enjoy a Netflix vampire show
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Postby bugsbunnyseance » Sun Sep 26, 2021 6:02 pm

I like the idea of vampire churchToggle Spoiler, but I don't like listening to people talk.
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Postby Buzz Fledderjohn » Sun Sep 26, 2021 6:02 pm

IMO criticizing a "netflix vampire show" for being overly reliant on poorly written and poorly acted didactic monologues is pretty fair
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Postby auspice » Sun Sep 26, 2021 6:37 pm

should I be mad about the vampire spoilers above even though like 20 minutes into the first episode I was saying to myself "this is gonna be 'Salem's Lot but on a fishing island, isn't it?"
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Postby odilon redon » Mon Sep 27, 2021 9:21 am

acting in bly manor was ridiculous bad like across the (ouija) board
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