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Under the careful guidance of series creator and director Mike Flanagan (Oculus), The Haunting of Hill House skillfully balances real world scares with supernatural ones. Each timeline is impactful throughout the season, due to the strong performances from both the young and adult cast members.
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In terms of its narrative structure, The Haunting of Hill House resembles Lost, bouncing through time to offer different points of view from each of the children at various stages in their lives.
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It all starts with the kids (we begin with five), who, after growing apart, are tragically brought back together after one of them dies. Through 10 emotionally-charged episodes, the series centers on the Crain family, and the lifelong scars that come from growing up in America's most famous haunted house. The Haunting of Hill House, Netflix's adaptation of Shirley Jackson's seminal 1959 gothic-horror novel of the same name, avoids the blood and guts from most titles that we see this time of year, and instead, favors something that is perhaps more existential, but nonetheless terrifying - specifically, the difficult journey of a family trying to come to grips with the ghosts of their past. You can stream all 10 episodes on Netflix on Friday, October 12. This is an advanced, spoiler-free review of the first season of The Haunting of Hill House.