The Haunting of Hill House Aftershow

This is the final episode of the series, and it focuses on the Red Room and how everyone finally escapes the pull of the dreaded Hill House. … [Read more...] about The Haunting of Hill House Aftershow Episode 10: Silence Lay Steadily

In this episode we finally learn what happened “that night” with Liv and the Red Room. … [Read more...] about The Haunting of Hill House Aftershow Episode 9: Screaming Meemies

This episode marks the beginning of the end of the series. Luke has gone missing, It’s Halloween, and while Steve and Hugh try to find Luke, Theo and Shirley deal with some nefarious goings on at the mortuary. … [Read more...] about The Haunting of Hill House Aftershow Episode 8: Witness Marks

In this episode Hugh Crain tries to slowly make amends with his estranged family and we learn more of the history of the Hill House from the groundskeeper. Also, black mold is bad. … [Read more...] about The Haunting of Hill House Aftershow Episode 7: Eulogy

In episode six, Two Storms we get to witness the most impressive technical achievement of the series, the long-shot cinematic cuts of this episode. … [Read more...] about The Haunting of Hill House Aftershow Episode 6: Two Storms

As the title of this episode states, we witness the origins of the Bent-neck lady, and learn more about Nell leading up to her death. … [Read more...] about The Haunting of Hill House Aftershow Episode 5: The Bent-Neck Lady

In this episode we learn quite a bit about Luke and his bond with drugs, the Hill House ghosts, and his twin sister, Nell. This episode really helped me to see the humanity in addicts, and those who have suffered a loss. … [Read more...] about The Haunting of Hill House Aftershow Episode 4: The Twin Thing

In this episode we are given Theodora’s back story and are shown how keenly perceptive she is as a therapist as she helps a young girl being haunted by “Mr. Smiley”. … [Read more...] about The Haunting of Hill House Aftershow Episode 3: Touch

This is the story of how Theo became the funeral director that she is today. It also does a good amount of setup for many episodes to come. … [Read more...] about The Haunting of Hill House Aftershow Episode 2: Open Casket

In the first episode of the series, we are introduced to the Crain family, both past and present. First we are shown the young Crain family being awoken by the young Nell (Violet McGraw) who apparently had seen “the bent neck lady”. Her father Hugh Crain (Henry Thomas) explains how her dreams spilled over and that she was just imagining seeing the scary lady.Jumping forward, we see all the children now as adults with adult problems and an extreme amount of baggage in relation to the Hill House. Something terrible happened in the past that led the family to flee from the house, and now in the present, it seems it is calling back to them. … [Read more...] about The Haunting of Hill House Aftershow Episode 1: Steven Sees a Ghost