The Haunting Of Bly Manor: Ranking Every Character Worst To Best
Some Of Them Are Good, Others Are Bad - You Can't Deny, All Are Memorable.
With superb acting, excellent characterisation and brain-rending reveleations, The Haunting Of Bly Manor stands out as one of the best shows to come out of 2020 and one of Netflix's better original series to stand out amongst a repertoire that includes House Of Cards, The Crown and Bly's predecessor, Hill House.
Dani Clayton (Victoria Pedretti) takes on an au pair role for two orphaned children of the wealthy Wingrave estate after leaving America for... complicated reasons, and coming to cloudy Britain. Soon enough, she, the kids Flora (Amelie Bea Smith) and Miles (Benjamin Evan Ainsworth) and all the residents at Bly Manor come to experience spooky happenings and they must figure out the source and find some way to deal with it all. Leaving it intentionally vague like that should hopefully entice you to watch it, if you haven't already. For some reason.
The show has received significant praise, especially for the characters and their portrayals. Each one is portrayed flawlessly, with their motivations clear and their quirks charming. Some are better inherent characters than others, but there's no denying that every single character is one to remember. So, let's round off every Bly Manor character, from the worst to the best.
8. Peter Quint
The catalyst for Rebecca's death and the reason for Dani's ghostly near-death experience, Peter Quint is definitively the worst character to stalk the grounds of Bly Manor. Cool, charming and handsome with a devilishly warm Scottish drawl, Quint being dead does little to deter his scheme to exist forever on the Bly estate with Rebecca and the kids.
It should be said that just because Quint is an overall bad guy, that doesn't mean he's totally without redemption. Ultimately, he wants Rebecca to live for herself, even though the pain he causes as a result is unimaginable. He desires them to have a "life", or as much of one as he can, with Rebecca Jessel and the Wingrave children in the manor, where they will be free of the pain they experienced so much while living; he wants to remove the agonies of life, with a willing death and transition into the dream-like world of Bly's dimension.
However, this does involve the deaths of two kids, and more than a few adults, therefore his position here is warranted. Sorry Quint: much as you might yourself not to be, you're still ultimately a villain with selfish motivations in both the before and afterlife.