History Fridge / TheHauntingOfBlyManor

* Viola is kept away from her husband and daughter after she gets sick with her IncurableCoughOfDeath, for fear of spreading her illness to them. But Perdita, who nurses her for years, doesn't mind to be around her, and Andrew doesn't try to stop them being together in the way that Perdita insists on keeping her away from him and Isabelle. Her conclusion that Perdita and Andrew were having an affair, though (probably) incorrect, was actually a lot more reasonable than it might sound. Why else would Perdita be so insistent on keeping Viola and Andrew apart but not shy away from contact with Viola herself?

* Did Andrew ever tell Isobel what was in that chest they threw in the lake?

* Peter despairs at only ever reliving being blackmailed by his mother while dream-walking, openly wondering by the end doesn’t get to relive happier memories like the others do. The audience is left to realize on their own that the answer could be that he simply doesn’t have any happy memories.

* In "The Jolly Corner," Henry mentions at the end that Bly's phone line suddenly disconnected. He specifically mentions that it shouldn't be because it worked minutes earlier. Why was the phone line suddenly down? [[spoiler:Because Peter decided to murder Dani. He probably disconnected the phone sometime between knocking Dani out and her waking up. With the phone disconnected, Hannah, unable to leave Bly, wouldn't be able to call for help even if she realized what was going on. Doubly so if Peter's plan to make Hannah realize she was dead succeeded, thus sabotaging Hannah's remaining grip on the physical world--which explains why he suddenly decided to give her that brutal reality check after all this time. Without Hannah's only way of reaching the outside world, Dani was cut off from outside aid, and without Hannah acting as a living person, there are no acceptable witnesses to testify to whatever was planned to be done with Dani that night.]]

** This also might explain the odd coincidence of [[spoiler:Henry, Owen, and Jamie all showing up at the end because of bad dreams/feelings. We know Henry went because he had a bad feeling after all Dani's increasingly alarming phone calls that he brushed off was followed by Bly's phone line disconnecting. Jamie and Owen probably also tried to call Bly to make sure everything was all right after their upsetting dreams, but found the phone line suspiciously down. Knowing Flora was exhibiting alarming behavior and Peter Quint was hanging around, and already disturbed by their dream, this is probably what spurred them to take the short drive from the village to the manor to check in.

* In "The Jolly Corner," Henry mentions at the end that Bly's phone line suddenly disconnected. He specifically mentions that it shouldn't be because it worked minutes earlier. Why was the phone line suddenly down? [[spoiler:Because Peter decided to murder Dani. He probably disconnected the phone sometime between knocking Dani out and her waking up. With the phone disconnected, Hannah, unable to leave Bly, wouldn't be able to call for help even if she realized what was going on. Doubly so if Peter's plan to make Hannah realize she was dead succeeded, thus sabotaging Hannah's remaining grip on the physical world--which explains why he suddenly decided to give her that brutal reality check after all this time. Without Hannah's only way of reaching the outside world, Dani was cut off from outside aid, and without Hannah acting as a living person, there are no acceptable witnesses to testify to whatever would have happened to Dani that night.]]

* Every moment in the first few episodes where Miles and Flora look behind Dani's shoulder at nothing suddenly becomes a lot creepier after its revealed that Rebecca and Peter can choose whether they want to be seen or not.

* Peter coercing Miles feels weirdly reminiscent of sexual abuse: he pushes Miles into doing something that makes him feel violated and uncomfortable, disregards Miles' feelings on the matter, insists that it's just part of a game, and the result makes Miles do some disturbingly un-childlike things. This gets even worse when considering that Peter was implied to be sexually abused by his father, so it's likely he learned these tactics from him.

** The lives and fates of the two au pairs are a study in contrasts. Rebecca Jessel was an ambitious young woman working towards a career that saw Bly Manor and her job there as just a stepping stone, and who ended up losing everything because, once there, she fell in love with a selfish, cowardly person who blamed their own character failures on their class and their upbringing, and who dragged her down with them when things got bleak. Dani Clayton was a directionless young woman who saw Bly Manor and her job there as a way to really help children who needed her, and who, despite falling in love with a selfless, brave person who overcame their class and upbringing to give her all the support she needed when things were bleak, lost everything because she refused to drag them down with her.

* Every moment in the first few episodes where Miles and Flora look behind Dani's shoulder at nothing suddenly becomes a lot creepier after its revealed that Rebecca and Peter can choose whether they want to be seen or not.
* Not so much horror as somewhat disturbing, but given that Creator/GregSestero, the Groom, is over ten years older than Creator/ChristieBurke, the Bride/Adult Flora, and looks the part, assuming he is the same boyfriend Owen mentions when Flora was in her teens, then no wonder Henry was so unnerved by their romance.
** A: Why assume the boyfriend she had at seventeen is the one she is now marrying, B: Why is now the moment when We start freaking out over Real Life Age Differences between Actors (In Roger Moore last Bond Films he was older than that films Bond Girls Mother and that went to screen without anyone being supposed to freak out about it), C: The Fiancée is played by the C-list actor that is the RealLife best friend to the director and who co-starred in the film Film/TheRoom and who then wrote the book that became the Oscar Nominated Film Film/TheDisasterArtist and that made him enough as an celeberts so that it a reason to cast him in this nothing part as anything else. and D: (is this Edit you being annoyed that the fact that he is the Guy from Film/TheRoom not bring a reason for him being concidered a WTFCastingAgency that for like 90 minutes ago was deleted because the Edit Reason: "He has like 3 lines, and you recognise him from Film/TheRoom"

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* Miss Jessel is characterized in most versions of "The Turn of the Screw" as being perpetually somber and tearful, with the explanation being that she is mourning for her lost love, Peter Quint. In this version we realize that she was mourning for ''herself'' and the years of life that Quint robbed her of.
* During a Bible class with Father Stack, Miles is shown to be especially affected by the part where the pigs are possessed without their consent. After TheReveal that Peter Quint has begun possessing Miles by this point, his sadness definitely starts to make more sense.

* Not so much horror as somewhat disturbing, but given that Greg Sestero, the Groom, is over ten years older than Christie Burke, the Bride/Adult Flora, and looks the part, assuming he is the same boyfriend Owen mentions when Flora was in her teens, then no wonder Henry was so unnerved by their romance.

** A: Why assume the boyfriend she had at seventeen is the one she is now marrying, B: Why is now the moment when We start freaking out over Real Life Age Differences between Actors (In be of Roger Moore last Bond Films he was older than that films Bond Girls Mother
And that went to screen without anyone being supposed to freak out about it, C: The Fiancée is played by the C-list actor that is the RealLife best friend to the director and who co-starred in the film Film/TheRoom and who then wrote the book that became the Oscar Nominated Film Film/TheDisasterArtist and that made him enough as an celeberts so that it a reason to cast him in this nothing part as anything else.

* Not so much horror as somewhat disturbing, but given that Greg Sestero, the Groom, is over ten years older than Christie Burke, the Bride/Adult Flora, and looks the part, assuming he is the same boyfriend Owen mentions when Flora was in her teens, then no wonder Henry was so unnerved by their romance.

* Every moment in the first few episodes where Miles and Flora look behind Dani's shoulder at nothing suddenly becomes a lot creepier after its revealed that Rebecca and Peter can choose whether they want to be seen or not.

* Miss Jessel is characterised in most versions of "The Turn of the Screw" as being perpetually somber and tearful, with the explanation being that she is mourning for her lost love, Peter Quint. In this version we realise that she was mourning for ''herself'' and the years of life that Quint robbed her of.

* Hannah had a few hints that she was a ghost in episode q before it was revealed:

* Miss Jessel is characterised in most versions of "The Turn of the Screw" as being perpetually somber and tearful, with the explanation being that she is mourning for her lost love, Peter Quint. In this version we realise that she was mourning for 'herself' and the years of life that Quint robbed her of.

* During a Bible class with Father Stack, Miles is shown to be especially affected by the part where the pigs are possessed without their consent. After TheReveal that Peter Quint has begun possessing Miles by this point, his sadness definitely starts to make more sense.

* Miss Jessel is characterised in most versions of "The Turn of the Screw" as being perpetually somber and tearful, with the explanation being that she is mourning for her lost love, Peter Quint. In this version we realise that she was mourning for 'herself' and the years of life that Quint robbed her of.