Whatisit about plucky American au pairs that makes them utterly incapable of following simple directions?
She’s later horrified to find out the comb belonged to the former late governess.
The children exchange looks…
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Miles slams the door shut and we hear a key turn.
Suddenly, the children are gone, and Dani is left alone inside the closet.
Well, alone except for…
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The man she keeps seeing in the mirror.
And there he is in the closet when she accidentally looks into a full-length mirror.
At this point, Dani begins screaming her head off, but no one comes.
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Dani sternly tells them to go to bed, and that they’ll discuss this in the morning.
Flashing back to six months ago, Miles has returned to school after his former governess committed suicide.
Father Stack says maybe so, but the Lord works in mysterious ways.
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Now, it’s here I note that, very often, Miles does not seem like a sociopath.
There, Dani finds a toppled over music box playingwhat else"O Willow Waly."
So the real question is: are cooperative ghosts scarier than potentially possessed children?
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He lets go just before she does, and runs off counting for another round of hide and seek.
And as it turns outshe never would."
And for better or for worse, Bly Manor seems to breed it.
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And while the structure of their arrivals is quite similar, their initial experiences differ.
and gives them to Flora.
And for a brief moment, that bit of romantic manipulation seems like it could be innocent enough.
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She’s got it, dudeit’sherplan.
However, when he comes back to work on a project for Mr. Wingrave, things escalate quickly.
Throughout the rest of the episode, the present acts as a mirror to the past.
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“Who the hell knew?”
Jamie says when she leaves the grounds the next day, after Dani briefly took her hand.
It’s dreadfully difficult to enjoy a sweet moment in a haunted manor.
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EPISODE 4: “The Way it Came”
“The au pair was tired.
She’d been tired for so long.
Episode 4 focuses on grief and mourning, and there’s plenty to go around at Bly Manor.
His glasses catching the headlights is the last thing Dani sees before Edmund is struck dead by the truck.
Dani is clearly cracking under the pressure of her inability to move beyond the guilt of Edmund’s death.
But he’s not there now.
So, Dani kisses Jamie…and then suddenly, Edmundisthere, glasses blazing.
As soon as Dani leaves her room, we see Flora’s eyes fly open in her bed.
Dani tucks Flora back in, and heads outside, tossing Edmund’s glasses into the still-burning fire.
She looks up as they begin to burn to find his reflective eyes still staring back at her.
Because grief, guiltand definitely ghostsare simply not that easy.
From the very beginning ofBly Manor, there’s been something strange about Hannah Grose.
Indeed, that last one proves to be fairly literal.
It’s a bold and stunning episode of television, but it’s also confoundingrightuntil it isn’t.
Unfortunately, it seems denial has long been a dominant trait of Hannah Grose’s.
But the meaning of those observances comes too late for Hannah.
EPISODE 6: “The Jolly Corner”
“Humans are organic.
It’s a fact that we’re meant to die, it’s natural, beautiful.
The mind is quite an expansive thing for the residents (and former residents) of Bly Manor.
“Nobody, just yourself.
And yourself, Henry… he’s a s grinning fing monster.”
It seems Miss Jessel is possessing Flora the same way that we’ve seen Peter Quint possessing Miles.
“Well, this is awkward,” he smirks.
A douche, through and through!
EPISODE 7: “The Two Faces, Part Two”
“It’s you.
It’s us.”
But those intentions and reasons don’t make him any less…the way he is.
He walks her body out to the lake and drowns her because that was his true plan all along.
And when it’s time, Flora and Miles allow the ghosts to take over their bodies forever.
We come back to Flora untying Dani and revealing that the last scene was a ruse.
EPISODE 8: “The Romance of Certain Old Clothes”
“She would sleep.
She would walk.”
The sisters of Bly are close, and sweet-natured Perdita loves Viola’s defiance.
If she says she will not go, she will not!”
Yet, there are things that come between the sisters.
Attempting to slap her sister becomes a frequent habit of Viola’s as she grows sicker and more resentful.
Perdita tells herself that it’s mercy, but the narrator tells us that’s a lie.
It was not mercy, but simply, “enough.”
It’s a love story.”
“Same thing, really.”
She drops Dani in favor of returning to the lake with Flora in tow for all eternity.
Along the way, many give a shot to stop her.
It’s us."
How do you unhaunt a house?
Well, it’s possible for you to’t exactly.
But you’re able to change the storyyou can change the ghost.
What followsisa love story, but it’s a haunted one still.
But, of course, Viola isn’t the Lady of Bly Lake anymoreDani is.
And unlike Viola, and unlike Peter Quint, Dani would never take anyone down there with her.
She doesn’t but her own reflection says that the love story was worth it.
