The acting...

"You mention all this and not Oliver Jackson-Cohen? He was amazing!"

I agree. My comment about the powerful scene he shared with Benjamin Evan Ainsworth was meant to highlight the two of them. I singled out Ainsworth specifically because it's unusual for a child actor to pull off the range of emotions that he does in this series.

"Weakest actors"... it's a relative term. They were both competent.

I never really got a sense of what would attract Henry's sister-in-law to him, compared to her husband who seemed to be a much warmer guy with a deep affection for her. Chalk it up to poor writing perhaps. The affair simply shows up out of nowhere when Flora catches them waking up together. There's really no expanded back story to justify it.

I found the character of Dani to be as bland as white bread. Most of her emoting was reduced to a bunch of acting tics. Again I just couldn't see what would attract the gardener -- outspoken, opinionated -- to this mousy American girl with the always quivering voice. However, since she lived alone on this big property maybe it was initially an affair of convenience?

Minor sidebar: My wife and I thought Dani's style of running -- seen in the final two eps -- was the weirdest thing we had seen on a long while. Where we should have been in a state of suspense, we were just laughing and making jokes about it.

The old black and white movie? I know of it... slightly before my time. If you know of an online source, point me to it. Sometimes those older movies are better because more is left to the imagination.

As much as I liked The Haunting of Hill House, the original black-and-white is superior in some ways for that very reason.