The Haunting of Hill House
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You see the marks, Hugh tells Steve, but you dont know how to read them.
Instead, it soon becomes clear that hes heading to the house, which finally!
we can place somewhere in western Massachusetts.
When Nell pulled up at the house, the lights glowed a warm, welcoming yellow.
When Luke gets out of the car, the lights glow red.
The house is angry.
Of course, we dont actually know that Nells intention was to commit suicide.
The house may have somehow called her home.
This show, it should be said, draws a dire picture of mental illness.
The idea that people can treat their disease and live with it peacefully does not find representation here.
Theres something wrong with our goddamn brains.
Wouldnt the trauma of his childhood be explanation enough?
Which brings me to this episodes real revelation, which is that the family psychopath is actually Steve.
What kind of person could do that?
But Theos speech is affecting because no one in real life ever talks that bluntly about death.
In fact, we know nothing about what it really is.
All we know is that it will happen to us and everyone we love.
But note that it takes place when Shirleys in a state of great emotional distress.
Could it be her own projection?
(Theres also a child who I dont recognize.)
Is she somehow at the root of it all?
That would be most appropriate.
How will Flanagan pack all this stuff in?
I take back what I said about Shirley having some of the characteristics of the real Shirley Jackson.
Whatever her issues, Jackson definitely wasnt a control freak.
But how could it be Steve and Lukes shared delusion?
Is it mold that Shirley finds on the pieces of her forever house, or witness marks?
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