The Fall of the House of Usher is another gothic horror hit for Mike Flanagan. All eight episodes of the series are streaming now on Netflix.
The Fall of the House of Usher Score Details “The Fall of the House of Usher is a grisly, deliciously venomous horror drama from filmmaker Mike Flanagan.” Pros Cons When it was originally announced that writer-director Mike Flanagan’s fifth Netflix series would be based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe, few could have predicted that the resulting show would be a gruesome, gothic take on the modern-day horrors of the Sackler Family and the opioid epidemic.
Based loosely on a number of Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories and poems, The Fall of the House of Usher focuses on the fictional Usher family. Led by brother-sister duo Roderick and Madeline , the Ushers are the powerful dynasty behind a corrupt pharmaceutical company that is believed to be responsible for the deaths and drug addictions of millions of Americans.
As far as narrative devices go, using Roderick’s confession as the foundation for the series’ ongoing voice-over narration and flashbacks is undeniably contrived, but it also has a basis in its namesake Poe story. What’s less defensible is the repetitive nature of The Fall of the House of Usher‘s episodes, nearly all of which follow the same set of plot beats. Each focuses on one of Roderick’s children and uses a Poe short story as the inspiration for their eventual demise.
Behind the scenes, Flanagan continues his now-famous commitment to his ever-growing stable of actors by using The Fall of the House of Usher as an excuse to reunite with an impressive number of his past collaborators. Not all of them fit in as well as others.
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