Expect nearly every critic reviewing Netflix's The Haunting of Bly Manor to include an important caveat in their reviews: Mike Flanagan's follow-up to The Haunting of Hill House presents itself as a ghost story, but it's actually a love story.
It's not that we're being collectively clever in our genre analysis; acharacter late in the series literally explains that it's a love story and not a ghost story, just one of several points at which Flanagan's confidence in his audience wavers.
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