The Haunting of Bly Manor | Netflix

2013 · 18 Oct 2020 at 23:42

Just started watching it, I thought its fantastic so far.
Not a full blown horror, no cheap scares.

great story, keeps you hooked

krooton · 19 Oct 2020 at 10:02

IvanDobskey said:
Loved Hill House and was hoping for similar quality here but sadly let down Way too much padding and full of woke political correctness and lesbianism. The scene doesn't make you believe its set in England one bit and everyone has a ropey accent. Oh and it really isn't scary at all. Very disappointing.

Haha, I specifically told my wife a few days ago "I bet someone on OCUK will moan about wokeness", sorry, didn't realise that lesbians didn't exist in the 80s :rolleyes:

Nitefly · 19 Oct 2020 at 10:06

krooton said:
Haha, I specifically told my wife a few days ago "I bet someone on OCUK will moan about wokeness", sorry, didn't realise that lesbians didn't exist in the 80s

.... or in Hill House :confused:

IvanDobskey · 19 Oct 2020 at 10:15

krooton said:
Haha, I specifically told my wife a few days ago "I bet someone on OCUK will moan about wokeness", sorry, didn't realise that lesbians didn't exist in the 80s

Thing is me and the Mrs were speculating from the start where they'd shove some lesbianism into the storyline. Just so predictable.

Shamikebab · 19 Oct 2020 at 10:18

I love how homophobes always make themselves so obvious

IvanDobskey · 19 Oct 2020 at 10:20

Shamikebab said:
I love how homophobes always make themselves so obvious

Seriously, I am no homophobe. Its just all a little bit forced and obvious.

But I guess that box needs ticking for every single TV show.

Shamikebab · 19 Oct 2020 at 10:22

IvanDobskey said:
Seriously, I am no homophobe. Its just all a little bit forced and obvious.

If your reaction upon watching a romance on screen is "uh woke political correctness and forced lesbianism" then I'm sorry to break it to you, but you're homophobic. Normal people won't react to these sort of things.

IvanDobskey · 19 Oct 2020 at 10:24

Shamikebab said:
If you're reaction upon watching a romance on screen is "uh woke political correctness and forced lesbianism" then I'm sorry to break it to you, but you're homophobic. Normal people won't react to these sort of things.

It's every single thing I watch though. That's the jarring thing.

Never used to notice it when it was there because the story needed it.

Shamikebab · 19 Oct 2020 at 10:31

IvanDobskey said:
It's every single thing I watch though. That's the jarring thing.

Never used to notice it when it was there because the story needed it.

Well you never used to notice it because it was 99.9% straight couples on screen...

IvanDobskey · 19 Oct 2020 at 10:40

Shamikebab said:
Well you never used to notice it because it was 99.9% straight couples on screen...

I can promise you I'm no homophobe and I don't like being accused of being one just because I feel its being forced into media to the detriment of the storyline.

krooton · 19 Oct 2020 at 10:54

IvanDobskey said:
It's every single thing I watch though. That's the jarring thing.

Never used to notice it when it was there because the story needed it.

A. Confirmation bias
B. If it is in "every single thing" you watch, why is it jarring?
C. How was it detrimental to the storyline? It was kinda the WHOLE POINT of her being in England

Shamikebab · 19 Oct 2020 at 10:57

IvanDobskey said:
I can promise you I'm no homophobe and I don't like being accused of being one just because I feel its being forced into media to the detriment of the storyline.

So having a gay couple is a detriment to the story but a straight couple isn't? You're right, you definitely don't sound homophobic :rolleyes:

IvanDobskey · 19 Oct 2020 at 11:04

Shamikebab said:
So having a gay couple is a detriment to the story but a straight couple isn't? You're right, you definitely don't sound homophobic

Wow you really are looking for something that isn't there aren't you?

You know exactly what I mean.

It's supposed to be an adaption of turn of the screw. Was there lesbianism in that?

Shamikebab · 19 Oct 2020 at 11:06

IvanDobskey said:
Wow you really are looking for something that isn't there aren't you?

You know exactly what I mean.

No I don't, why don't you explain?

Tell me how having a lesbian couple is detrimental to the show. Were the various straight couple in the show a detriment?

IvanDobskey · 19 Oct 2020 at 11:08

It's not in the original story.

It's been shoehorned in there.

Shamikebab · 19 Oct 2020 at 11:11

It's a loose adaptation of a number of his stories, so there is no 'original story' really. A lot of things have been changed.

IvanDobskey · 19 Oct 2020 at 11:13

It's been adapted for political correctness basically.

Shamikebab · 19 Oct 2020 at 11:16

So you have no problem with the other changes? Just the lesbians and presumably the POC right?

IvanDobskey · 19 Oct 2020 at 11:18

I have a problem with it being not a patch on hill house.

IvanDobskey · 19 Oct 2020 at 11:24

It's bloated, lazy and most of the characters are boring or annoying.

It gets a 5/10 from me, where hill house was an 8.