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I have many questions......

posted 4 years ago by lelomufo (18)
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Please help me understand the following

"Being tucked away" when that happens to the kids it means the adult ghosts are possessing them but it was also happening to Mrs Grose, why is that? Is it just because she hadn’t accepted that she was dead yet?
I am also confused about what parts of her interacting with Owen were when she was alive or dead? (I know the kitchen table memory loop was not him)

The whole 2 personalities/demon thing with Uncle Henry what was happening there? Was he being haunted by a ghost or just split personality (because of the brother saying what he had inside him). Also why was he calling the house every night trying to reach Flora but on the other hand ignoring calls from Dani when the kids were having troubles? He could have easily talked to Flora on the phone

I don’t really get the Miss Jessel and Peter being super intense in love after what seemed like 1 night, it wasn’t a believable love story to me. Also if they possessed the kids then the brother and sister would be committing incest??

[–] mr159 (136) 4 years ago

Many questions is what this terribly written show will leave you with.

Why can't the ghost of Peter and Jessel even touch anything, while the ghost of Mrs Grose can do housekeeping for the entire house?

Why is there a sub-plot about Flora and Miles' mom having an affair with her husband's brother?

How did the gardener and the cook have a bad dream simultaneously?

Why does the Lady of the manor leave footprints walking into the bungalow but no footprints walking out?

What happened to Flora using voodoo dolls to seemingly control the ghosts?

What was the point of Dani and Henry having their own personal ghost haunting them?

Why did I sit through this dumb show?

[–] exatera (3942) 4 years ago

Why is there a sub-plot about Flora and Miles' mom having an affair with her husband's brother?

Well, obviously to convey to the viewer that Flora was Henry's daughter.

This wasn't pointless at all - an entire story line in the later part of the show depended on this information.

[–] mr159 (136) 4 years ago

That reveal changed nothing in the show, except to give Henry something of a character arc. Except his character did not add anything to the main storyline.

[–] exatera (3942) 4 years ago

As you wish. [shrug]

I thought it was a highly nuanced and superbly acted show.

In fact, I am rewatching it right now to see what I may have missed the first time.