Discuss The Haunting of Hill House

After a stunning season of amazing acting, direction, cinematography, writing, set design, and over all creepiness (not necessarily scary or insomnia inducing as some critics have said) the show becomes in it's final episode, a LIfetime Made For TV movie.

It has a HAPPY ENDING!! Mother reunited with children! Dad and mom together forever! Mrs. Dudley gets to be with her dead kids forever! All the people whose lives were tainted and ruined by their time in Hill House are now all set. All problems seemingly gone. The junkie is two years sober. The infertile couple is pregnant. The scared of commitment one in a relationship. They even changed the ominous words from Shirley Jackson's novel to read "and whatever walked there (in Hill House), walked together" instead of the original "walked alone"!!

Now I am all for a nice happy resolve but Hill House simply does not allow for that. It is a house "born bad". Nothing good comes from within its walls. So to suggest dying in the house where family has died will unite you with them forever is just simply anti-Hill House! What should happen is the dead are in torment, separated from all others, forever searching for a connection but unable to find it; and taking out their rage on whomever lives in the house onward.

With the ending they did, I would not be surprised if every one in the cast manages to be moved to Hill House in their dying days just so they can see mom, dad, and Nell again!! Pity if they die suddenly!!

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I agree wholeheartedly Oldnewbie. THANK YOU!!!

Until now, Hill House has been one of THE most notoriously-evil mansions in modern literature and filmdom, but by the last episode this series turned it into an "event center" where those who are either dead or even still living can happily and safely commune with departed loved ones. SMFH. That it received SO many very high user ratings on another popular movie forum now seems suspiciously bogus to me. Simply put, this show - unlike the beloved book and 1960s film version - elicited no lingering terror or spine tingles.

Indeed... instead it was a bit of a tearjerker!

I read they plan on more seasons ala American Horror Story only with different casts living in Hill House. NOw that we who watched season one know what we know I cannot fathom being interested in what happens next or what happened 100 years prior, etc.

That ending sucked. The last episode felt that it was building to something huge. The let down was that the Dudley's knew all along about the house and it's "secrets". Which really isn't that hard to figure out.

That ending essentially wrapped up the series in my view. Why should there be another season?

@terriecoleman said:

That ending sucked. The last episode felt that it was building to something huge. The let down was that the Dudley's knew all along about the house and it's "secrets". Which really isn't that hard to figure out.

That ending essentially wrapped up the series in my view. Why should there be another season?

From what I read in Variety the next season and any others after will feature new families living in the house. I imagine they'll go back in time or forward since it was established no one had lived there for many years\decades.

Yes now that we know the "happy secret" about the house it loses it's chill. This is not what Shirley Jackson wrote nor what the original film, in 1963, or even the CGI filled remake alluded to. The house was evil. Born bad. Whatever walked there did not walk together it walked alone. Apparently only some ghosts walk alone... or there is a _special club _for good people like the Dudley's to be together with their dead children or...

Still way too early to know if there will be a second season. I read an article where several of the actors in season one say they'd love to come back for another one.

But their tale has been told.

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