Few seasons of television have such perfectly complete endings as the one you’ll find in the 10-episode debut season of Netflix’s “The Haunting of Hill House,“ which is so satisfying that it’s almost impossible to imagine the story of the Crain family ever continuing into a second season. Thankfully, director Mike Flanagan feels the same way.
Speaking with EW, Flanagan assured that he’s put the Crain family through enough, and that a potential second season would shift the focus to a new set of characters.
“I don’t want to speculate too much about season two until Netflix and Paramount and Amblin let us know if they want one. What I will say, though, is that as far as I’ve ever been concerned with this, the story of the Crain family is told. It’s done,” Flanagan told the site. “I think that there are all sorts of different directions we could go in, with the house or with something completely different. I love the idea of an anthology as well. But to me, I felt like the Crains have been through enough, and we left them exactly as we all wanted to remember them, those of us who worked on it. We toyed with a cliffhanger ending and we toyed with other ideas, but ultimately, in the writers’ room and with the cast and everything else, we really felt like the story demanded a certain kind of closure from us and we were happy to close the book on that family.”
He added, “That said, I think more than anything, the show is about haunted places and haunted people, as Steve says, and there’s no shortage of either. So, there’s any number of things we could do, in or out of Hill House.”
With other shows like “The Walking Dead” going on and on with no clear end in sight, it’s pretty damn refreshing to see one wrap things up neatly and commit to being finished, eh?
Now the anthology idea… that’s something we could get into!
