As always, the opening title/credits sequence is the best part of this show.
This was just such an unnecessary episode. Leaving it at ep 19 would have been acceptable, instead they conjured up a quasi happily ever after that they pulled out of their ass. Leaving more questions then a wrap up should.
No reference to the reappearance of the people they “cared” about, not even a phone call? What killed dean? They couldn’t go to the hospital? Jack brought everyone back but not Cass? Wait cass is back just dgaf about them anymore? Is Sam with Eileen or some rando? No check in to see how old god is going. Not catch up with jack, is he alone now he’s god or what? No reunion of the whole family
Plus we’ve seen the long teary speech between brothers and drive in a car a thousand times before so don’t tell me they just ran out of time to show it all.
Like a lifetime movie all emotion no substance nor sensical to the story line.
SRYSLY?! WTF?! What a cringe episode... :thumbsdown:
Here’s an unpopular opinion for y'all.
Very excited to finish The Haunting of Bly Manor, because watching it has been a boring experience. There's a difference between a slow burn and watching an unlit candle. I honestly couldn't get into this one. I mainly continued watching it hoping it would get better. I should have known that it wasn't going to be as good as The Haunting of Hill House from the first episode and how it didn't seem to intrigue me at all.
Plot was terrible, so many plot threads unfinished. They changed the main bad guy 3 times:
First - the fiance. He disappeared after showing himself at the end of the episode and never talked about again, no further explanation;
then - Quint and Rebecca. They dropped them as if they were any other random ghosts. If you spend so much time building up characters at least give them a meaningful ending;
then finally - lady in the lake. Speaking of which, the black and white episode was annoying as hell. The entire episode was a narrator telling you everything, felt like an info-dump episode, and that goes against the “show don't tell” mantra. You can fast forward through about 90% of it and still get the whole story. I found myself repeating “get on with it already!”. I didn't get that “shay wood slipe, shay wood wawck”? until they repeated for the 50th time! It stopped being poetic quickly and just started getting old for me. And I was hoping for something a bit more substantive than a 1700s ghost story. So predictable. I believe this was an attempt to create a second outing of a story similar to the bend-neck-lady, and I think it could have worked if I had already known more about Viola. To have an entire story about two characters the viewer have never met on the penultimate episode of the show just feels out of place.
Other major problems with this season:
The first half was episodes that were just backstory on each character and droned on and on. The characters kept making predictable and dumb decisions that are typical of cheesy Hollywood films - “Why don't I go in the closet alone at night....oh, look at that, the kids locked me in! Wow, how surprising.”; :rolling_eyes:
The uncle haunting himself was pointless. I was expecting something more sinister about how the parents died, instead we got no explanation about what happened;
How the hell had no one in the family ever heard of Viola or the other ghosts before? The Wingraves are just so lucky to have never been up at the same time that Viola was visiting;
Why the lady in the lake didn’t immediately kill Dani when she grabbed her neck? Peter got killed in two seconds, meanwhile Dani’s being shown a house tour;
There are no rules around who is able to see ghosts and who isn’t. I also couldn't understand how Flora seemed to know so much about the ghosts. She even says the other ghosts told her to stay away from the lady in the lake but how did they tell her? The ghosts have no faces and can't speak;
How didn't adult Flora connect the dots? Sure, Owen said the kids don’t remember much but even still Flora knows that her rich parents died in a tragic accident, her uncle took care of them, and they moved from England to America when they were kids. This is incredibly specific, how doesn't that ring any bells?;
There is so much useless dialogue that just goes absolutely nowhere. I felt a strong urge to stab my ears watching that first interview scene with Hannah and Owen over and over again. Every character was given a 10 minute monologue about their complicated feelings. Jamie’s plant monologue stood out to me as the most unnecessary one;
Speaking of which, there is so much exposition and explaining. So much repetition. The flashbacks while the characters are trying to figure out if they’re dead are an absolute bore to watch. There wasn't enough content for 9 episodes, could’ve easily been reduced to 5 episodes and still kept the emotional impact. And SO many scenes dragged on forever. There were a lot of points where I was just thinking, "get to the obvious point and move on". I get that the Scottish guy is going to take Becky into the lake, he doesn't need to keep alluding to it for 10 minutes. Same with them about to take the kids, while Dany was whining in the background. Why she was even there … so that she can hear the magical phrase, “it’s me. it’s you. it’s us.”. How convenient;
I don't like any of the characters. Dani annoyed me to new extremes, her character was just so dramatic. How many shots of Dani’s mouth kinda open do we need? I swear this was her only face expression during the whole season;
The ending felt so forced, rashly thrown together, with the unnecessary and convoluted time shifts leading to the most obvious, overly sentimental and corny reveal, with some more terrible dialogue, written to tug at the heartstrings of people. Flora’s quote at the end about how, “you called it a ghost story, but it’s a love story” just seems like a huge cop out. And people agreeing are just regurgitating the horrible ending. It was not just a love story until the end. If it wasn’t for the LGBT representation, people would have been more honest and called it what it is. :nail_care:
For the people (especially the Brits) complaining about the accents and asking for English actors. Where were you when you LOoOOvED Chernobyl? A show without even one Ukrainian actor? You guys are such big, fat, dumb hypocrites. :face_vomiting:
Overall, Bly Manor is aimless, dragged out, and sloppy. Not even close to being as good as its predecessor.
Carrie girl what are you doing!! These endings. They're trying to break a record for most cliffhangers at end of episodes.
I hope the president is still alive, though it might be too unrealistic for this show. Maybe if we were in 24!
8 seasons in and the writing on this show remains high quality.
These fillers are getting out of hand.
Boring, predictable and... goddamn awful. In what could have been an interesting episode despite the once again obvious parallels to what we once called "Real Life" this completely, but not unexpectedly, missed the ball.
A hole in one? Nope, not by a long shot Mister Peele. On the contrary... Cause like said in the episode "that's not how it works". You can't just make something "topical" and expect it to be good... There needs to be effort and talent. Again... the subliminal message in this show swings both sides but all I'm seeing is a preacher whose preaching to the choir even though he's being sucked off in the process. "Cause Jeebus he knows me, and he knows I'm right. I've been talking to Jeebus all my life."
I'm starting to think we are living in the Twilight Zone cause if this drek is considered good I don't see how it possibly can't be true.
Inside I feel a bit like I'm in the first few seconds of a moment when an anxiety attack occurs... It's not quite there yet, and it can go away but it's gonna hit if you don't stop thinking of it. The fear will overwhelm you and the dominoes will fall... I'm reading reviews and there are actually people who defend and like this stuff... Liking it to the best episodes Sterling ever made. Propaganda anno 2019. If it weren't just "entertainment" it'd be scary... Domino.
The opening was fantastic but the rest of the episode sent me right the fuck to sleep. The closing scene gave me back some hope though so I guess we'll see if this'll be another AHS season I skip or not.
Trump bashing is getting old.
Nooooooooooooooooo they killed Chad! Now I have 50% less reasons to watch this!
This was actually going decent... until that cheap predictable twist.
The "real exorcisms" were so cringy :poop:
Wow. Well that sucked even more than I was expecting for a season finale, and I had low expectations in the first place with how disappointing this entire second season has been. I can maybe guess it was probably better in the LN, but all the arcs in this second season were pretty bland to begin with story-wise. I don't see how they would be that much better in the novels. I love isekai light novels but Overlord is definitely one series that I never really liked too much (even the first anime season), and I will definitely not be reading the LN any time soon.
As for the third season, I'll probably still watch it when it airs in the summer as 20 minutes a week for 13 episodes isn't that much time. Still, I'm definitely not going to invest any more time in this series than that though.
I am really not feeling this story so far at all. Everyone's out of character except for Skinner. Thankfully not this episode but the one before there was this weird expository voice-over by Mulder (LAZY WRITING). All in all, so far it feels like a badly-done episode of Black Mirror.
I didn’t like this season as much as season one, but it was still good. Some things felt rushed while other things seemed unnecessary (Nancy/Jonathan romance, Max’ crazy brother). Let’s see what awaits us in season three.
The addition of maids and lolis can never be a bad thing. Science.
It deserves a big fat zero for continuity, but the new developments are really exciting nevertheless.
5 minutes of Boyd > hours of this Raylan
Yeah you know you're not getting renewed when you're not invited to the after parties. Lol.
Where Supernatural very much seems to be the Generation X of this franchise, this seems to be very much the Millennial spin off - set a generation before Sam & Dean.
Check an all inclusive barrage using stuff from the "later" seasons of Supernatural (such as the Men of Letters)
Going from point a to b to c to d to find and open the mystery box all while talking about feelings complete with quiet guitar music. The actual plot flies by but the scenes connecting them drag on relentlessly.
I saw someone call this the Scooby Doo version of Supernatural and after seeing the van I can agree with that. Except Scoobs and the gang didn't spend this much talking about their feelings. Sure, it's the pilot and time will tell but atm they'll have to step up their game to keep me interested - and I can't even guess how they will avoid 15 years of canon.
Tonally inconsistent. The climax, which was drawn out as a cliffhanger over three episodes only had about five to ten minutes of content in it and after that we had forty minutes of denouement.
I think at some point it’s best to ask: what, precisely, are we gaining from episodes like this? The origin story for a ghost, yes. But ultimately, is this a satisfying way to fold the lady of the lake into the central plot of this season? Nah dude. The idea that the lady of the lake is that disconnected, that indifferent to the struggles of Dani and Co brings out something that may have been ultimately a more interesting approach for this series post-Hill House: bring a more episodic based anthology akin to The Twilight Zone. Even if sometimes those stories would be two to three episodes long, I feel like the impact of the project would be much more profound.
This final pretty sucks. Silver linin: I won't see Lena Dunham naked in the future
I'm really no fan of going back and forth, staying on one point in the story.
Something this show does with the Rachel character, started to bore me at the beginning of this season.
Hence I was relieved that Coleman was there to stir this up a lot, a shining ray of hope for her character.
The whole episode was pretty strong - until the end. Totally stupid and out of character af for Jeremy.
Yes, he still loves Rachel and wants to protect here, especially after hearing about her past, but that is literally overkill.
I really hope this was a red herring to get Jeremy back in as a "trusted" member. There are several indicators pointing to that possibility. If it's not a red herring, then this show took a serious hit in my book.
Moreso than it did by using such a shitty season cliffhanger already.
5 out of 10 is gracious here.
Wasn't going to watch this as the story was complete in just the 1st season. Gave it a look though & have to admit, it doesn't look like it will have much/ anything interesting to add to the original premise.
Mother. F'n. LEGEND. Sakamoto is "the man". End of story. A true gentleman and a scholar. I died at the part where Acchan says, "I think... I'll make this my wallpaper."
http://i.imgur.com/XqGTe3u.jpg
Next week's episode looks great. I always love the uppity hot girl who tries to seduce the legendary bro. This will be epic. Studio DEEN is saving anime once again.
As if I needed more reasons to drop this boring show.
Consider this:
You wake up in a room. You are bound together with a guy on a chair, back to back. There is a door and a control panel located at one end of the room, a corrugated plastic sheet on the other. What would you do to escape?
A) Try to shift over to the door, headbutt the console and yell for help in the corridor.
Or
B) Anything else.
Yes, you can't make this shit up.
Harsh end to that story, but we kinda knew that was going to happen based on the fact the other two weren't in the series proper.
Still, a decent couple of OVAs about Levi the badass. Makes me want S2 all the more now.
