{"id":2004,"date":"2018-11-21T01:05:46","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T06:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/?p=2004"},"modified":"2020-03-08T23:57:54","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T03:57:54","slug":"recommended-series-the-haunting-of-hill-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/2018\/11\/21\/recommended-series-the-haunting-of-hill-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommended Series: The Haunting of Hill House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt6763664\/?ref_=nv_sr_1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"92\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/2015\/06\/16\/antihero-recommended-movie-solomon-kane\/recommendedbycbb\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/recommendedbycbb.gif?fit=125%2C75&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"125,75\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"recommendedbycbb\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/recommendedbycbb.gif?fit=125%2C75&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-92\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/recommendedbycbb.gif?resize=125%2C75\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><i>Reviews and recommendations on the Compelling Beasts blog are my honest opinion. I purchase the books, comics, and movies that I recommend and review and I do not accept free copies for review.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt6763664\/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">The Haunting of Hill House<\/a> starts out scary but with each episode it becomes more than a horror series. It&#8217;s a well told drama with characters you grow to care about. It deals with issues that are relevant to everyday people&#8211;death, addiction, and the different ways people cope with problems. The ghosts in this series aren&#8217;t only the kind that creep around a haunted house&#8211;they&#8217;re the figurative ones that everyone can relate to, even if you don&#8217;t enjoy horror or the paranormal.<\/p>\n<p>Some characters I liked right away, such as tormented Luke who struggled with his addiction. Others, in particular Nell and Mrs. Dudley, I didn&#8217;t like at first, but as they developed, they soon became my favorites.<\/p>\n<p>Some parts of the series touched on my personal pet peeves&#8211;mostly Shirley&#8217;s determination to convince a family that the best way to grieve is by participating in a wake. There is no single correct way for all people to grieve, and her agenda made her one of the more unlikable characters to me.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed the way the story shifted from past to present, and most of all I loved that we weren&#8217;t left with unanswered questions. You might not like all the answers, but the series is complete, which is always satisfying.<\/p>\n<p>Links courtesy of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/\">IMDb<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviews and recommendations on the Compelling Beasts blog are my honest opinion. I purchase the books, comics, and movies that I recommend and review and I do not accept free copies for review. The Haunting of Hill House starts out scary but with each episode it becomes more than a horror series. It&#8217;s a well&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,338],"tags":[309,281,26,308],"class_list":["post-2004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-reflections","tag-drama","tag-featured","tag-horror","tag-tv-series"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kq3e-wk","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2204,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions\/2204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}