10 Best New TV Shows Of 2018

7. The Haunting Of Hill House

Taking on a horror classic is no easy feat, especially when it's a book as revered as Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, which has already had two film adaptations. Step forward Mike Flanagan, one of the best horror directors working today, who wisely chooses to make this more of a reimagining than a true adaptation.

Flanagan expertly captures the sense of sheer terror the permeates the pages of Jackson's novel. There are a few too musical spikes and people bolting upright in bed in the early episodes, and the pacing is a little off too, but once it all comes together there's something great going on here.

What makes Hill House work is that it isn't just a horror. It does excel at the scary elements - including a jump scare for the ages late in the season - with Flanagan doing a superb job of building the dread, meaning you're constantly on edge. It's a technical marvel too, including that one-shot-fuelled sixth episode. However, as much as it's a frightening ghost story, The Haunting of Hill House is even better as a family drama.

Going back and forth between two timelines, and with the Crain family brilliantly cast in both, their relationships, both with each other and also to the house, begin to coalesce in surprising, shocking, and affecting ways.