Racked with guilt, Dani is haunted by her own heartbreaking loss, Hannah Grose becomes lost in time and Henry Wingrave pays for his sins.

A strong trio of episodes, The Haunting of Bly Manor picks up in its middle third, and is at its best when it doesn’t cling too closely to the Henry James source material, The Turn of the Screw. Each instalment focuses on a single character, going backwards in time to share their secrets and tales of woe and crucially why they are where are now.

In The Way it Came we discover that Dani’s breakup with her childhood sweetheart led to his accidental death and hence her desire to escape from her past – we also realise who the spectre is with the shiny discs for eyes. But it’s The Altar of the Dead that really opens things up, with housekeeper Hannah Grose stuck in some temporal loop and dated to relive the same key moments from her past, deviating occasionally but ultimately returning to the same fixed point.

Finally we begin to understand why Flora is scared of the women in the lake, just what happened to Peter Quint, and why Miles’ behaviour can be erratic. Finally, in The Jolly Corner, Miles Wingrave comes in to play and we discover how he betrays his brother, Garth Merenghi’s Matthew Holness. Manifesting a Doppelgänger, Wingrave’s evil side knows of the fatal car crash, but has he somehow caused it? Henry Thomas’ Prince Charles accent though…

Verdict: Once you’ve made your peace with the fact that isn’t meant to be as terrifying as Hill House, and you let the story gradually unfurl, there’s plenty of surprises and twists to hook you in. 8/10

Nick Joy