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Seeing Olivia in the same motel room as Nell just broke my heart :( I don't know what people expected from "that night" but what I just saw was a mother desperately trying to protect her kids ... Using Olivia's mother instinct and care in order to haunt and manipulate her feelings was the smartest move Hill House could have made.

Heartbreaking ...

Such a simple yet powerful structural element when you show the first day in the house so late in the story. Wow!!! It's these simple ideas that make storytelling so profound. You juxtapose the scene where the family leaves the mother and the house behind with the scene of their first day in the house where the father tells the mother how could we go without you... Lovely!!! Lovely!!! And yaa my box of tissues are over... Gotta buy another one before I jump to the last one...

So much of this series is haunting and terrifying. Without the use of cheap jump scares, the audience is left to react to the true terror this family is living. This episode tied up so many unanswered questions about "that night." All of the misconceptions about their father being a deadbeat and possibly a murderer are laid to rest when you see that he saved his children while keeping their mother's memory as pure as possible by never telling them the truth about what she turned into. This was a satisfying and emotional episode for sure.

Well I've never seen a show like this one in my entire life, and im in my mid 40s. It's not just another ghost story or paranormal show. Its just so unique. It draws you in like nothing else. You're not just a viewer you're actively watching and feeling every moment of this horror story unfold. Your heart breaks for the entire family.

So, it can now go one of two ways, the surviving family members conquer their demons and survive or they join their lost loved ones either by choice or not. This show is something very special, well dobe to all involved!

We open here with young DAD and Mom conversing about how kids are so beautiful and cute when they are young.

+1 Star for the scene where Olivia is seeing dead Luke and Dead Nell in the future in her reading room......

And Then Olivia tells Hugh about this vision she had of the future, and Hugh casts it off as it must have been a bad dream she had after dozing off while reading....

But now we see Olivia is having conversations with OLD TIME SPIRITS. INSIDE THE HOUSE...we start to find out what was going on iwth Olivia that made Hugh take the kids and RUN......

In the Night... In the Dark

Olivia has a long conversation with Mrs Dudley. Dudley tries to explain to Olivia how dangerous it really is in the House, In the Night, In the Dark.

+1 Star for Mrs. Dudley at least trying to give Olivia a warning, while Olivia still has some hold still on who she is......

-1 Star for when Olivia is staying away, and calls Hugh, and the kids suddenly won't stop making noise during the phone call. Like all the kids were suddenly just not concerned about mother at all.... Nah, not believable and not consistent.

Then Shirley....meets Olivia in the middle of the night in the kitchen. Olivia asks , 'Are you Dreaming too??''

Then Olivia brings a tea party set to the Twins room, in the middle of the night, and who else is there? Abigail, Lukes imaginary friend. And where do they go?? Upstairs to the red door room. Finally the room is open. While Hugh stirs on the couch, Shirley wakes him. She says she just saw Olivia in the kitchen acting weird.

Hugh goes to the kitchen, sees that Olivia's overnight bag is there, along with an open bottle of RAT POISON! Hugh rushes around the House, finding Theo in her room, but the twins are gone!! Hugh rushes upstairs to find the TEA PARTY going on behind the RED DOOR! It is already too late for Abigail, she's drank her tea. And this is what happened that night that Hugh grabbed all the kids and piled them in the car and took them away! Chased by Olivia and a horde of ghosts in the HOUSE....

And the end, we see again the family when they first arrive in the House, and Olivia telling Hugh, 'You Guys Go On Without Me', and Hugh saying, 'How could we??'

Another hiccup in this episode really made it less than stellar. 9/10.

(S1. E9) My Live Reaction / Review for The Haunting of Hill House Season 1 Episode 9 ''Screaming Meemies''. The previous episode was good and I gave it a rating of 9/10. Let's see if this one is better or worse. Wait, how was Olivia able to see the adult Nell dead? Im confused, am I missing something? She saw Luke too? Even more confusing. I wanna see what happened to Luke and 20 minutes in all I see is Olivia talking to a ghost. 30 minutes in and I don't enjoy this episode as much as I enjoyed the previous ones. Olivia lied about going to visit her sister? Why though? Luke, Nell and Olivia can see Abigail? Interesting. Did Olivia poison the tea? Olivia tried to kill the children, she is nuts. So Olivia killed herself, that's so sad. Not as good as the previous episodes but still good. Overall this episode was good and I enjoyed it. My rating is 8/10.

Not a terrible episode, but not exactly a cliffhanger ending like we got the last two installments.

The show's problem was they gave us everything the first few episodes so it felt like they were killing time here until they get to their final point.