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A consistent strength of We Are Who We Are has been its ability to give very high stakes to very low-stakes…

“You said it was a ghost story. It isn’t. It’s a love story.”

One of the many tricky bits of constructing effective horror is determining how much to explain. Things go bump in…

We have very little control over our memories. Remembering an event, a person, a place doesn’t always feel like a…

Henry Wingrave has mostly been a background character up until this point. He hires Dani in the first episode, and…

“The Altar Of The Dead” is a remarkable chapter of The Haunting Of Bly Manor. At the heart of it rests a perfectly…

“Surprise, I exist outside of your mind,” Caitlin says to Fraser after he says the moustache she’s painting onto…

I wish this were a more obvious statement, but good queer representation does not mean queer characters have to be…

“The Two Faces, Part One” opens with a great sonic transition from classic frenetic horror strings into “Tainted…

The most explicit connection between The Haunting Of Bly Manor and its predecessor The Haunting Of Hill House is…

The year is 1987, and a young American woman named Dani (Victoria Pedretti) takes a job at as an au pair in the…

“Right Here, Right Now IV” lives in the space of teenage fantasy. The school-less, parent-less, unsupervised,…

“Right Here, Right Now III” plunges us into the depths of Fraser and Caitlin’s friendship, which has grown quickly…

Episode two of We Are Who We Are retraces the steps of the pilot, situating us in Caitlin’s perspective rather than…

Anyone who’s seen Luca Guadagnino’s work, including his acclaimed adaptation of Call Me By Your Name, will find the…

Frayed—which previously aired in the U.K. and Australia and was recently picked up by HBO Max—tracks the sudden…

The hero of Xena: Warrior Princess perishes and is resurrected multiple times over the course of the show’s…

In the first half of its two-part season finale, Snowpiercer barrels toward an inevitable team-up: Layton and…

How many members of the Tail can you name? It is a part of my job to learn the names of television characters so I…

Snowpiercer’s Melanie Cavill problem is getting harder to overcome.