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One of the most chilling and talked-about series to hit our screens this year is The Haunting of Hill House. Our writers have decided to turn over a few rocks and do some digging with in-depth profiles of the main characters in the show. Who knows what they might discover? So, draw the curtains, turn …
One of the most chilling and talked-about series to hit our screens this year is The Haunting of Hill House. Our writers have decided to turn over a few rocks and do some digging with in-depth profiles of the main characters in the show. Who knows what they might discover? So, draw the curtains, turn …
One of the most chilling and talked-about series to hit our screens this year is The Haunting of Hill House. Our writers have decided to turn over a few rocks and do some digging with in-depth profiles of the main characters in the show. Who knows what they might discover? So, draw the curtains, turn …
This October, without any fanfare or hoo-ha, there came a spooky story to Netflix, just in time for the Halloween season. Based on the novel by Shirley Jackson of the same name, The Haunting of Hill House turned out to be the surprise hit of the Fall, with a tremendously positive reaction from viewers. So what …
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In watching Maniac I continually found myself thinking that I enjoyed the frame more than the painting, that is, the world-building that the show engaged in---from the weird mix of a 1980s aesthetic with futuristic technology (about which I am tempted to coin a term in analogy with “steampunk”), to the idea of an “Ad …
Owen Milgrim (Jonah Hill) has schizophrenia, and one effect of that is seeing a non-existent brother. This brother assures him that he’s meant for greatness, and that he’s “going to save the world," if only Owen could trust him. To be sure, Netflix’s Maniac portrays a simplistic, cartoonish version of a complicated disorder, but that’s …
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Now, this is the show I thought I was going to get from minute one. The third and final part of Ghoul brings the tension, horror and bloodshed I was waiting to see, and even further enhances the parallels between it and The Thing. We already knew the characters in Ghoul weren't to be trusted …
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Episode 5: “Passionate Amateur” Episode 6: “Not The Only Freak in Town” Episode 7: “Will You Take Me Too?” Episode 8: “Everything. Anything.” So, something happened when I kicked off Episode 5: the show ceased to be something to impress my TV-soaked mind. It became a show that had impressed my TV-soaked mind. My biggest …
In my analysis of the first episode of Ghoul, I remarked how surprised I was by the little amount of on-screen horror we saw during the first 40 or so minutes. And while the second episode does bring Ghoul closer to the show I anticipated it to be, it is still very much keeping its …
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It's one thing calling your 18-part TV show an 18-hour movie, but can you imagine your actual movie becoming a Netflix miniseries during production? Well, Patrick Graham can because that's exactly what happened with his new show, Ghoul. In the past few years, Netflix has really committed to producing more and more non-English-language content in …
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