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Centuries ago, the owner of Bly Manor, Willoughby, dies, orphaning his two daughters, Viola and Perdita. Viola marries their distant cousin, Arthur Lloyd, to Perdita’s chagrin, who has feelings for Lloyd.
After having a daughter Isabel, Viola falls ill with a lung disease. She refuses her last rites, insisting she “will not leave”. She becomes bitter and angry as her disease worsens, and she is isolated from the family, frequently searching for her daughter.
Perdita, no longer able to tolerate her sister’s worsening condition, smothers Viola to death and marries Arthur herself. Viola’s spirit is trapped in a chest in the manor, filled with dresses and jewelry she bequeathed to Isabel.
Arthur’s finances dwindle and, at risk of losing the house, Perdita opens the chest, hoping to sell Isabel’s inheritance to keep them afloat. Viola’s spirit kills Perdita.
Finding Perdita’s corpse, Arthur fears the chest is cursed and sinks it into the lake on the property before leaving with Isabel. Viola becomes the Lady in the Lake, searching the manor for her daughter at night, and killing anyone in her path, her memory fading along with her face over the centuries.
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The Haunting of Bly Manor is an American drama-gothic romance streaming television series created by Mike Flanagan, and released on October 9, 2020 by Netflix. It mostly acts as an adaptation of the 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, but also includes other elements either based on James’ other works or created for the show; it is also the second entry in Flanagan’s The Haunting anthology series, acting as a follow-up to 2018’s The Haunting of Hill House. It features much of Hill House‘s crew and some of the same cast, but the two series’ narratives are not connected.
Like its predecessor, the series follows a nonlinear narrative; The Haunting of Bly Manor follows the events occurring in the eponymous countryside manor in the United Kingdom, mostly upon the arrival of a young American hired as an au pair for the two children living at Bly, and who is unaware that the manor is haunted. It stars Victoria Pedretti, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Amelia Eve, T’Nia Miller, Rahul Kohli, Tahirah Sharif, Amelie Bea Smith, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, and Henry Thomas; Pedretti, Jackson-Cohen and Thomas returned from Hill House as different characters, as did Kate Siegel, Carla Gugino, and Catherine Parker in recurring roles. It received positive reviews from critics.
“The story tells of a young au pair hired by a man to look after his niece and nephew at the family country house after they fall into his care. Arriving at the Bly estate, she begins to see apparitions that proceed to haunt the premises.”
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