Where to find it: Netflix
Length: Nine one-hour episodes
Synopsis: Young woman looks after creepy orphans in spooky manor house
Recommendation rating: 2/5
What I like about it: occasionally has excellent unsettling sequences, the child actors were great, as were the characters
What I don’t like about it: completely lost the plot by halfway, has an entirely skippable uninteresting penultimate episode
Review:
Mike Flanagan has a great formula for horror but there are better examples of it than this. What starts out promising, albeit with plenty of filler, soon evaporates and there’s an episode at the end that seems designed to kill the goodwill of anyone who invested their time in it
Content notes (may contain spoilers): general horror tropes, animal abuse, it’s very dark