Netflix’s ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ Talks Horror to Death

The creator of Midnight Mass and The Haunting of Hill House, Mike Flanagan, comes to Netflix with a vicious horror series based on the writings of <a href="https://poemuseum.org/poe-biography/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Edgar Allan Poe</a>. The Fall of the House of Usher is a series of flashbacks held together by the present-day main storyline, which mirrors Poe’s short story by the same name. Big pharma billionaire Roderick Usher (Bruce Greenwood, The Resident) asks his long-time colleague/nemesis C. Auguste Dupin (Carl Lumbly, Alias) to the dilapidated house he grew up in to confess his sins. As the tale unfolds, Roderick reveals details about the lives of each of his many privileged children. Each Usher child’s story is based on an Edgar Allan Poe poem or short story, which tickles the brain of those of us who were introduced to Poe’s work when we were in Elementary school. Unfortunately, the premise is contrived, the script is overwritten, the jump scares are predictable, the gore is just disgusting, and for the most part, this series was boring. I kept falling asleep while watching most of the episodes, and I had to rewind to rewatch after getting some caffeine in me. <a href="https://medium.com/@visableblackwoman/netflixs-the-fall-of-the-house-of-usher-talks-horror-to-death-33f394b89e8c">Click Here</a>