"While he isn’t a household name, Flanagan has quickly emerged as one of horror’s most proficient filmmakers," says Miles Surrey. "His movies and TV shows don’t always crack critics’ year-end lists, but they’re largely well-received; he’s like an NBA player who’s carved out a successful career in spite of never making an All-Star team. Bly Manor might not be Flanagan’s apex—in fact, having written and directed only the first episode, it’s a far less strenuous commitment for him than Hill House, for which he directed every episode. But Bly Manor is very good television filled with unmistakable Flanagan trademarks that plays to one of the filmmaker’s greatest strengths: a commitment to empathy in a genre that’s too often deprived of it."
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TOPICS: The Haunting of Bly Manor , Netflix, Amelie Bea Smith, Kate Siegel, Mike Flanagan, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Rahul Kohli