Believe the hype, this time. Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House is possibly the best horror series I’ve seen on television in a long time. Maybe since The Twilight Zone, way back when. And even Twin Peaks, strangely.
It begins like a typical horror story – Hugh and Olivia Crain and their five children move into a sprawling but dilapidated old house which the couple plans to remodel and flip. Hugh is a builder and Olivia, an architect, and as professional flippers, the family have lived nomadic lives, moving from one project to the next.