“Hill House was on one stage, the funeral home was on another, and we had to build this hallway between the two stages so we could physically walk from one stage to the other and step into Hill House without cutting,” said Flanagan. “We rehearsed it with our second team stand-ins, who basically performed the entire episode as actors for about five weeks straight … After a month of that, we brought the cast in, and we were able to show them the episode.”