'Despite its potential, the series sacrifices the wonder and awe of Edgar Allan Poe’s writing in order to tell a flimsy, unsatisfying story of power and greed'
” is one of the most famous short stories in American literature. A tale of illness, psychosis, and premature burial, the downfall of Roderick and Madeline Usher has horrified readers for generations.is an eight-episode anthology series by Mike Flanagan, the creator behind the streamer’s horror seriesFlanagan clearly has an intimate knowledge of the horror genre and a proven reputation as one of the foremost creative minds in the industry today.
For example, the names of each of the Usher children – Frederick, Tamerlane, Victorine, Camille, Napoleon, and Prospero – are taken from several tales and poems. These include “Metzingerstein,” “The Premature Burial,” “Tamerlane,” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “The Spectacles,” and “The Masque of the Red Death.” Beyond featuring in these stories, these references largely lack real sense of purpose.
I can only assume that these recitations were intended to show that, despite his lascivious disregard for humanity, Usher is still a vulnerable, disturbed, broken man worthy of our sympathy – sympathy which the series utterly failed to inspire within me. These episodes are hellbent upon comparing the Ushers with prominent, even infamous families such as the Rockefellers, the Trumps, and the Sacklers. Yet, in that desperation, these episodes ensure that the essences of Poe’s original stories are, at best, corrupted and, at worst, entirely lost.The only episodes that seem to successfully use Poe’s work are “The Black Cat” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” .
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