We get glimpses at the Lady, and the lake, throughout the season. But all those threads tie together in the story of the Lady in the Lake, a figure that looms large in the menace of Bly Manor from the first episode, but only truly reveals her full form and function in the penultimate episode, The Romance of Certain Old Clothes. Grose ( T’Nia Miller) and the many faceless spirits trapped in Bly's spiritual "glue trap". Mysteries and spooky happenings abound in the dark corners of the manor, staging an intricate tapestry of overlapping ghost stories, from the ill-fated lovers Rebecca, aka Miss Jessell ( Tahirah Sharif), and Peter ( Oliver Jackson-Cohen) to the devoted housekeeper Mrs. Following the basic narrative of Turn of the Screw, Bly Manor stars Victoria Pedretti as Dani, an American woman who takes a job at a manor in the English countryside as the au pair to two orphaned children, Flora ( Amelie Bea Smith) and Miles ( Benjamin Evan Ainsworth). While the show does borrow heavily from James' particular brand of Gothic horror, Bly Manor also weaves a sprawling, haunting narrative all its own, well-populated with specters and apparitions, each one with their own tragic backstory. As the episode titles make abundantly clear, Bly Manor draws from The Altar of the Dead, The Beast in the Jungle, The Jolly Corner, and many more of James’ spookiest tales, but it’s The Romance of Certain Old Clothes that proves perhaps the most obvious and essential inspiration for Bly Manor’s central ghost story: "The Lady in the Lake." It might just be the best ghost story of my lifetime.Ĭultivating from the collected ghost stories of Henry James and folding them into the broad strokes of his seminal haunted house novel The Turn of the Screw, Mike Flanagan’s nine-episode follow-up to his Netflix breakout The Haunting of Hill House is a knockout in its own right, and a tremendous gothic ghost story for modern audiences, built from the DNA of James’ works. It's also might just be the best original piece of Gothic storytelling since people were still wearing petticoats. The Haunting of Bly Manor is a sweeping, epic love letter to Gothic romance, but it's not just an adaptation.
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