I only noticed the 2nd time i watched that not just the murders are jumping in time but also other events like Dan waking up on the train with his hand cut and then showing it happening afterwards instead of before. I also missed that Kirby still has that horse statue on her locker as an adult

I really enjoyed it over all. Seems like Harper was a time travelling incel then, the connection that these women had was that they all rejected him and made him feel small and inferior. Kirby when he tried to chat her up with the ear rings trick, Julia when she refused the coffee and told him not to touch her in the nursing home, Jinny when he tried to show his star knowledge after the Planetarium show and she corrected him and of course Klara the original love interest. An interesting take on an insecure little man

…he was definitely misogynistic but inherently evil as well…maybe the house ‘summoned him’ because it could feel that evil even before his first encounter with it…the other common thing with his victims was that they were ‘shining women’…women who showed and had potential to excel …and that’s what we saw from the beginning on the doorstep…when he said to Kirby that it was about finding the shine and then removing it…as in taking their life away from them just as they were reaching a place of importance in their lives…and he had no interest in any girl that didn’t ‘shine’ which is why he didn’t kill the young girl who asked him to get the alcohol for her…she want any ‘challenge’…she wasn’t someone he could observe and find interest in her life and spend his time going back to different parts of her life etc…?…he found her very unremarkable and his victims couldn’t be that…he had to stalk them and taunt them and see how he was causing confusion/…chaos if you like…I thought that Kirby’s changing appearances with her hair/styles were interesting as well in showing time jolts…I’m going to read the book, I think…because it’s apparently completely different in the ending…I guess that’s because in the series, there is room to have another series…I mean, that was left possible, want it…I don’t know if that’s the reason for the different ending, though…but I read for instance that in the book, the house somehow directed Harper to his next victim and that he literally could see a visible ‘shining glow’ around the girl…hence the story title…

Do you think the house itself wanted to be used for evil though? There wasn't any indication the man Harper got the house from was evil or using it for evil, he just seemed fed up of it, he'd probably been jumping around for a very long time, probably same as the man previous to him who was hanging from the stairs. I don't think Harper would have ever wanted to kill himself and leave the house.

…this is a quote I read about the house…/…I’ll give you a really interesting link in a minute …this is what’s made me want to read the book because I rarely do it that way round, once I’ve seen a dramatised version…but I feel with this that there might be quite a bit lost in the telling specifically because it was intended to keep us guessing, like with Lost…but it feels as though the book explains a lot more and concludes the story with a different ending…

‘The house isn’t just a well-furnished time travel machine. It’s a malevolent entity that has existed for at least a few hundred years. It targets people who will use its power to sow pain and discord throughout time, then feeds off the resulting anguish - both from the victim’s torment and their death’…..

…and the interesting twist for the series is that the house didn’t target Kirby to do its bidding, it targeted her as a victim….and she took control, the control that Harper had on her through the house…so what power has she got now because she had no ‘evil’ in her like Harper had…would she use it to just travel to dimensions to keep people alive…to keep their living versions…

….I’m not sure because I don’t think that a second season is necessary…the only storyline really it could take would be…[YT]…how does the evil of the house impact and possibly change Kirby’s character…but she magnificently took the power/control back from both the House and Harper so I think for me, that’s the perfect ending….i guess we saw also that, that control means she effectively can avoid the killings…I do though want to read the book because I loved it but I do feel a bit cheated by the changes…how the part the house played was very much a key part of the book but we didn’t realise that…we didn’t see the house ‘choose’ the victims and actually show them shining with their auras…and the ending itself is apparently completely different, so I will read it…but yeah, I agree with you that Harper was effectively an ‘incel’ who the house chose to kill for it…because he was an easy person to choose, I guess…he already had that inbuilt misogyny….

Yeah, and to me just watching the show they kind of implied that he chose them both because of their "shine" and because they all rejected his advances so he punished them just like he punished his original "love" Klara.

I did read as well that by not killing Harper at the end she was doing an evil thing because he still may end being a serial killer, just in his own timeline. That Kirby chose to punish him by letting him experience what she had, the life changing constantly

…and also in not killing Jim, she could make him ‘relive’ that control that she had over him, whenever she chose…because that’s what he did to her and some of the others…Probably all of the other victims, it’s just that the storyline could only focus on a few…what wasn’t instructed by the house or didn’t appear to be is how much Harper enjoyed tormenting and torturing them by constantly appearing in every version of them and throwing them into confusion …always letting them know that he had the control to end their lives at any time…Kirby has turned all of that back in him, there can’t really be a more joyful ending than that…

haha yeah joyful for her but will the house now corrupt her into becoming an evil person who can only get joy from torturing people :think: