Nell is kinda thick yet petite. I love that actress now
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I did catch that.

I expected this to be a really craptastic series based on the garbage Hill House movie from the late 90's/early 2000's. Was expecting it to be more goofy Netflix full of political commentary and terrible acting.

Wow. Couldn't have been more wrong. Acting, direction, story all were excellent. About 4-5 eps in I thought "this had to be a woman that wrote this." I looked it up and apparently is considered one of the best horror novels of all time.

How the fuck did I never hear of this?

Why can't Hollywood adapt material like this? Mostly true to the story and keeping the heart intact?

I have to read the book now.

And if ever there was a point they really get across it's "you can't really understand until you've lived it yourself." They use a mother being pregnant, a drug addict, the token psychic kid, ghosts, death of a child, etc to get the point home. There's some situation everyone can relate to in here.

This is, by far, my favorite horror series/mini-series ever. It borders on moments you think "oh damn, now it's going to get cheesy" and instead hits you with some really powerful moments. Some real "fuck man, I don't want to think about that" moments.

In fact when it was over me and my wife sat and talked for 2 hours, in quiet, about things we have never shared with each other. And we've been together for 20 years.

And the "re-watch" factor only goes up when you can pay really close attention the 2nd time through and look for all the ghosts.
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I honestly thought she looked creepy as hell normal...
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I thought the second last episode was so good it could have been the finale.

I'm a big fan of ending at the beginning anyway. Sort of Pulp Fiction meets Momento.

And again, the performances in this almost bring you to tears at times.
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Sounds solid to me. Man I hope there is more
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My understanding is, there will be more 'Hill House' but not centered on this 'Hill House.'

Kind of like how AHS anthologized their seasons, moving to other settings and subgenres to tell different horror stories.

So same writers and creative, possibly some overlap in cast. But a distinct new story.
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Sounds good to me and hope there knock another one out. Hope it doesn't become true detective s2
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As usual late to the Netflix series', but my youngest introduced us last weekend. Five episodes in and really hooked.
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This was such a great show and so well written I really hope they leave it alone.

If people want to promote interesting and deep female characters this show is a great example. Every character in this series is important to the story and they all have character arcs. God bless them for adding background hints and details instead of contrived jump scares every ten minutes.

I'm worried if they go for a season 2 they'll just infuse it with politics or ruin it with terrible writing.
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I've heard rumors there will be a s2 but i think this story is over or almost everyone involved won't be in it. Unsure though. I kindve feel that way now. It was great as-is.
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