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While Miles comes off demon-like at times, Flora is mostly just disoriented, always finding herself tucked away in bed to sleep off whatever trauma she found herself reliving on the property. Throughout the entirety of the series, we watch the orphaned siblings Miles (Benjamin Evan Ainsworth) and Flora (Amelie Bea Smith) exhibit disturbing behavior. This is where one of the insidious components of this ghost story takes hold. If we're stuck there, the repetition of that, I think, is about as hellacious as anything I can imagine." Flora (Amelie Bea Smith) and Miles (Benjamin Evan Ainsworth) | Netflix It's not a lake of fire, it's that when we're dead, we live in our moments of the most shame or regret. "I think as a proper little atheist (like I am), that, to me, is hell. "Interestingly, Peter Quint is only being stuffed back into the worst memory of his life," Flanagan revealed. She gets to pop into some of her best ones, while Peter is stuck replaying a low point of his life over and over again. But for those who have been dead longer, like Peter Quint (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) and Rebecca Jessel (Tahirah Sharif), their experience finds them bouncing all over the place from one memory to another.
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Going through the motions or re-enacting these moments is something we see Hannah do throughout the episodes until she finally realizes she's dead. So the idea that a ghost is subject to that deterioration, that as their own memories fade and people's memories of them fade, the ghost 'physically' fades, all the other stuff goes away, but that their memories become less and less reliable." "They say we each die twice - that we die when our body ceases to be and then we die when we're forgotten. "What was really fun to play with here was that idea of the decay of memory," Flanagan explained. And they transpire not necessarily as they actually happened, but as each of these characters remember them. Once you're on the other side of death, your entire life falls around you like rain or like confetti." In other words, the afterlife becomes a collection of memory fragments, dreamlike recollections of the best and worst moments of each spirit's life. For Hannah, Peter Quint, Rebecca Jessel and the rest, this bouncing around has a term: "dream-hopping." Tahirah Sharif as Rebecca Jessel | Netflixįlanagan fills in those blanks of what the young Crain sister meant: "You're kind of involuntarily bouncing back-and-forth between what is the present, what is the past, and what is the future. Nell in The Haunting of Hill House described it as confetti. When a dead person at Bly Manor actually realizes they're dead, the reality they experience becomes non-linear and their lives begin to fall around them. Coyote running off the cliff, a whole bunch of the rules immediately change." But once you accept the fact that you're dead, like Wile E. They're putting up this effort because of muscle memory and denial, basically. "They could dream up new clothes for themselves, which Hannah does, which is why she keeps changing her outfits and seems to physically interact with the world and appears to people. "The idea was that this first stage of it was this dreamed life that people could still carry on," Flanagan continued. Coyote metaphor that's used by the boy which illustrates the concept of self-awareness (something the ghosts tend to be lacking here) that's both cartoonish and downright violent. She's simply dead this entire time, pushed by a possessed Miles into the property's well before Dani Clayton (Victoria Pedretti) arrives to look after the kids. It's what happens to Hannah Grose (T'Nia Miller) throughout the entirety of the series. "If you die on the grounds of Bly Manor, the first thing that happens is you go through a period of intense denial," Flanagan explained. Some of these ghosts don't know they're ghosts