The following episode, "Two Storms," takes the cake for me. The series of long single-shots throughout had me holding my breath. There's no safe distance between the past and present any longer: all the characters are trapped in the funeral parlour, and now Nell is the one that's haunting them. Brilliantly accomplished performances and technical work in that one.

HHH is a damn fine show about a haunted house, but even better for being about a family and their varied experiences of loss and trauma, and how they perceive and deal with pain in unique ways.

What Steven and Shirley went through was profoundly different to what Theo and the twins endured, and they all have misunderstandings about what happened to their parents. The eldest sibling's episodes set you up to perceive the younger children in a certain way, and then their individual episodes properly explain their behaviour.

Theo's not a cold, bitchy dropkick; she's got the same psychic condition as Olivia, and it's destroying her emotionally and defines how she interacts with others. Luke isn't just a junkie and the family fuck-up; he's being relentlessly stalked by a ghost and felt Nell's death through their twin-bond as if he had died, too. Nell has been haunted by her own painful suicide since she was a child, and it manifests as psychosis and sleep paralysis. Hugh is still talking with Olivia, which is why his behaviour is so odd and he's never really present.

My favourite moment in "The Bent Neck Lady" is when, after Nell's husband dies, she makes Theo touch the floor where he fell. Theo is the only sibling aside from Luke who could comprehend Nell's suffering, but doing what she did in her grief-stricken state was inexcusable once you know what it would feel like for Theo. All to show that pain makes people do vile, horrible things to themselves and others.

I love Bloodline for the same reasons. Danny was the only member of the Rayburn family worth redeeming and they bloody killed him. Still sad that show was cancelled, but glad it got Ben Mendelsohn critical acclaim. He's a national treasure.