The anthology is the screened version of round-the-campfire ghost stories: episodic, enticing and new at every turn.įrom there, it took on a life of its own, because they wanted it to be a bottle episode, so they knew that wanted it to stand out like 106 from Season 1. And I was like, ‘Oh I get to play! My friends haven’t forgotten about me!’ And this sounds very dramatic, but to be fair, I’m very dramatic - I wept. And then one day, Mike came in and he said, ‘Hey, you want to hear a pitch?’ And I went into the writers’ room and Leah told me the story of Episode 8. So, I’d come by and be like breastfeeding in Mike’s office, and they’d be talking about all the fun that Victoria was going to have, and Ollie was going to have, you know. There was a constant joking about who’s going to play what, and I was never in that conversation because I had just had my daughter Theodora. So, when the writers were in the writer’s room, there was always a sense that it was going to be an anthology, and at least some of the cast from Season 1 was going to return. When did you first find out that Episode 8’s black and white installment was going to be a part of the season, and when did you find first out you would be playing Viola? She nearly gets Flora, too, but in a harrowing moment near the end of the season, Dani volunteers to host Viola’s spirit inside her own body, and carries the looming threat away from Bly once and for all.īelow, Siegel, who also played psychic middle child Theo in the anthology’s first installment, The Haunting of Hill House, explains her thoughts on Viola’s “love story,” and the inspirations behind the feminist tale. These other ghosts were all created by Viola’s spirit, which haunts Bly as the Lady in the Lake, as she carves a pathway through the house to her bed, seeking out her long-gone child, and taking down anyone in her path. Grose) from the witch doctor to the faceless child Flora sees in her room.įrom Miles' smoking habit to Flora's sleep walking. The tragedy that befalls siblings Viola ( Kate Siegel) and Perdita (Katie Parker) when the former, also the head of Bly, takes ill, is an emotional tale, but it also explains the origins for nearly all of Bly’s other ghosts (with the exception of T’Nia Miller’s Mrs. In Episode 8, “The Romance of Certain Old Clothes,” viewers learn the origins of Bly’s ghosts (particularly the elusive Lady in the Lake) in a black and white fairytale-like flashback that tells the story of the Willoughby sisters who lived in the house long before it became the Wingraves’ summer house. During Dani’s time at Bly, she is challenged by her inconsistent charges, as well as the sinister happenings she sees on the grounds. The series, inspired by author Henry James’ classic story “The Turn of the Screw,” follows au pair Dani Clayton ( Victoria Pedretti) who is hired to watch over Bly Manor’s orphaned children, Flora (Amelie Bea Smith) and Miles Wingrave (Benjamin Evan Ainsworth), in the English countryside.
The Haunting of Bly Manor - an atmospheric, 1980s-set gothic romance, brimming with ghosts of all kinds - dropped on Netflix last week, to the delight of horror fans everywhere.
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