Netflix`s The Haunting of Hill House is available now on Netflix, so you can start streaming whenever you want. Keep reading if you want to know what we thought of the full 10-episode season.Horror movies often save their biggest scares for the latter half, building up tension before exploding into all out terror. Extrapolate that over 10 hour-long episodes, and you have Netflix`s newest horror show, The Haunting of Hill House. It makes for some fantastically scary final episodes and a relatively slow early half. If you can get invested in the Cranes` family drama, it`s worth sticking through.That family drama can at first be hard to follow. The Cranes are a big, unhappy family, and The Haunting of Hill House jumps frequently between their childhood and adults selves. That means there are young and old versions of Nelly Crane (Violet McGraw/Victoria Pedretti), Luke Crane (Julian Hilliard/Oliver Jackson-Cohen), Theo Crane (Mckenna Grace/Kate Siegel), Shirley Crane (Lulu Wilson/Elizabeth Reaser), and Steven Crane (Paxton Singleton/Michiel Huisman), not to mention their father, Hugh Crane (Henry Thomas/Timothy Hutton), their mother, Olivia (Carla Gugino), and various other characters like Hill House`s dual caretakers, the adult characters` various spouses, and more. Especially at first, it can simply be hard to follow which young character corresponds to which adult character, despite the show`s sometimes half-hearted efforts to give them similar mannerisms or otherwise connect the young and old versions visually.The Haunting of Hill House follows the Cranes throughout their strange, cursed lives, from the moment they move into Hill House--meant to be a single summer spent remodeling the house so they can sell it--to, in some cases, their bitter ends. Hill House`s first victim (among the Crane family, at least) is the mother, Olivia, whose mysterious death haunts the family for the rest of their lives. In the present, they wrestle with another death while fighting ...
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