Jamie

Jamie tends the grounds at Bly Manor with a quiet self-sufficiency, more comfortable talking to plants than people. Guarded and dryly funny, she keeps her distance from the house's new au pair Dani at first, sizing her up with a skeptic's eye before anything like warmth creeps in. She's grounded in a way nobody else at Bly seems to be.

Amelia Eve plays Jamie without a trace of the gothic hand-wringing everyone around her indulges in, which makes her the story's steadiest pulse. The writing gives her a groundskeeper's plainspokenness — she says what she means, wants what she wants — and that directness becomes quietly radical inside a house full of people avoiding the truth.