“The Haunting of Bly Manor?”

After all the excitement I felt for a new haunting, following the “perfectly splendid” series we all know and love as “The Haunting of Hill House”, I still, three days after finishing the series, find myself scratching my head, with a wtf screaming from the primal part of my brain. Was the series bad? No. Absolutely not! It was well written, acted, directed and produced. In fact, it is quite an interesting story. I am simply hung up on the “haunting” part of its title.

Was there ghostly, chilly, spine-tingling entertainment in the series? Yes. What there was of actual haunting was quite well done. Jump scares and shivers existed in this work; there simply were not enough of those elements to reconcile the collective with its title. I am not sure if too much was explained or hinted at too quickly, or if, perhaps, someone forgot that this was supposed to be a haunting. In the end, it is a nice story, but it is too many parts love story to meet my expectations of a good, creepy haunting. For that reason, I gave it a thumbs-down mark. With a stars rating, I might have given it three out of five, because I did like it; it simply failed to shiver me until the end, as I had hoped and expected it would do.