The Crain family returns to Hill House.
I found it to be a strong finale that answers questions that need answering and after ten hours of psychological blackness we do get some hopeful rays of light shining through the walls of Hill House.
It works for me as it gives as much resolution as it can to the show's themes of fear, guilt, trauma, grief and mental health. Not every literal aspect of the story is explained which I thought was good as some things need to stay unexplained or it lessens their impact and takes the emphasis off the show's themes.
There is a great deal of bleakness in the overall narrative of the show so for me the positivity was not necessarily a bad thing. What I took away from the show as a father, son, husband and brother is how important family is and how I need to do my best to look out for each of them but also accept what is beyond my control.
Endings are tricky things that always cause division in opinion. I have never come across a series finale that doesn't either anger, frustrate, satisfy or make someone say "what the hell was that all about?". The difficulty is that viewers get emotionally invested in stories for different reasons and if an ending does not return the investment, whether that is to explain everything, resolve something or take a story or certain characters in specific direction it can frustrate. Creative control belongs to the imagination of writers and show creators and it is their prerogative to decide what happens. All we can do as viewers is express how a story impacted us. Ultimately the role of television is to entertain and distract us from the reality of a world in which there are far more important things to get angry about.
I found it to be a strong finale that answers questions that need answering and after ten hours of psychological blackness we do get some hopeful rays of light shining through the walls of Hill House.
It works for me as it gives as much resolution as it can to the show's themes of fear, guilt, trauma, grief and mental health. Not every literal aspect of the story is explained which I thought was good as some things need to stay unexplained or it lessens their impact and takes the emphasis off the show's themes.
There is a great deal of bleakness in the overall narrative of the show so for me the positivity was not necessarily a bad thing. What I took away from the show as a father, son, husband and brother is how important family is and how I need to do my best to look out for each of them but also accept what is beyond my control.
Endings are tricky things that always cause division in opinion. I have never come across a series finale that doesn't either anger, frustrate, satisfy or make someone say "what the hell was that all about?". The difficulty is that viewers get emotionally invested in stories for different reasons and if an ending does not return the investment, whether that is to explain everything, resolve something or take a story or certain characters in specific direction it can frustrate. Creative control belongs to the imagination of writers and show creators and it is their prerogative to decide what happens. All we can do as viewers is express how a story impacted us. Ultimately the role of television is to entertain and distract us from the reality of a world in which there are far more important things to get angry about.