FEATURES
If there’s one thing we can learn from this show, it’s that if we don’t try to change and make up for our mistakes, we’ll be bound to make them again and live in a never ending cycle and be as trapped as the family.
Zooming in Speaking of Episode 6, if you pay enough attention during the episode, you can see a Doctor Who reference where the statues are moving everytime you look away from them. I also saw on YouTube that if you look closely at certain scenes, you can actually see that there are some ghosts hidden in the background.
I wouldn’t really call this show boring, but it does have some pacing issues I must address. For instance, I really think the whole sequence where each character has to confront each of their ghosts and secrets felt really half-baked. None of it felt climactic at all; it was just so repetitive that it makes it boring. It’s basically the final act of It Chapter 2, except all the fun was sucked out of it. Had this sequence been a cross cut like the climax of Everything Everywhere All at Once with better music, then it probably would’ve been so much better!
If there’s one thing Breaking Bad has taught me, it’s that if you lie on your back after having taken heroin, you will choke to death! But that is not the case in The Haunting of Hill House. Throughout the entire show, Luke’s “death” has been foreshadowed on multiple occasions, showing that he’s going to die of a heroin overdose, but when it actually happens, Luke just comes back to life a few moments later! And that’s another problem with the finale: all the dread is taken out. There’s no sense of danger anymore! The ghosts no longer feel threatening because they don’t do anything threatening! They just stand there and look or say something creepy and that’s just underwhelming!