🚨Warning: Spoilers ahead!🚨
If you've finished binge-watching Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House, then you know that the series ends with the remaining Crain family members celebrating Luke's two years of sobriety.
For once, all of the Crains are finally happy. Steve has a baby on the way, Shirley and her husband seem to have mended things, Theo married Trish (look at those rings!), and, of course, Luke is sober.
But that's not how the ending was originally supposed to pan out. According to an interview with Thrillist, showrunner Mike Flanagan revealed that the original ending was going to have — drumroll, please — a narrow, vertical window in the background of the scene!!!
If you're anything like me, then you might have chills running down your arms right now because we all know what that window means...
Basically, Flanagan's initial plan was to reveal that this "happy ending" was actually taking place in the Red Room...which means it wouldn't have been a happy ending at all.
And though that ending would have been unnerving (and amazing), Flanagan realized that it was just too cruel to do that to the Crains.
One thing I can say is that we talked for a very, very long time about putting the Red Room window, that weird vertical window, in the background of this shot. And I ultimately decided not to. It was too cruel. But there was a lot of talk that this peace might not be real. In the version we ended up going with, I think it absolutely is real.
So all is well for the Crains...for now.
