A new season of the Haunting anthology series that began with 2018's The Haunting of Hill House mini-series (buy it HERE) is coming to the Netflix streaming service, and we've known for a while that the show was aiming for a fall 2020 premiere. Now Netflix has revealed exactly when the new season, titled The Haunting of Bly Manor, will be available to watch: October 9, 2020.
Along with the date announcement comes the release of a teaser trailer, which is embedded above.
Executive produced by Mike Flanagan and Trevor Macy through their company Intrepid Pictures, The Haunting of Bly Manor is based on the 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, and will also work in elements from, according to Flanagan, "a dozen" other James ghost stories, including The Jolly Corner, about a menacing doppelgänger, and The Romance of Certain Old Clothes, about two sisters and a mysterious chest of beloved dresses. Macy calls it a "literary remix".
Bly Manor is set in
1980s England. After an au pair’s tragic death, Henry Wingrave (Henry Thomas) hires a young American nanny (Victoria Pedretti) to care for his orphaned niece and nephew (Amelie Bea Smith, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth) who reside at Bly Manor.
They are joined there by the estate’s chef Owen (Rahul Kohli), groundskeeper Jamie (Amelia Eve), and housekeeper, Mrs. Grose (T’Nia Miller). But all is not as it seems at the manor, and centuries of dark secrets of love and loss are waiting to be unearthed in this gothic romance. At Bly Manor, dead doesn’t mean gone.
Kate Siegel, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, and Tahirah Sharif are also in the cast. Amblin Television's Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey executive produced the show alongside Flanagan and Macy.
I liked The Haunting of Hill House, so I'm really looking forward to The Haunting of Bly Manor.