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The Fall of the House of Usher (2023)

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Show title: The Fall of the House of Usher

IMDb score: 7,9 (132.359)

Episodes: 8

Playing time: 8 hour and 16 minutes

Developed by: Mike Flanagan

Stars: Bruce Greenwood, Carla Gugino and Mary McDonnell

Origin: United States

Releasedate: Thursday 12 October 2023

First aired on: Netflix (Nederland)

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The Fall of the House of Usher plot

The ruthless Roderick Usher and his sister Madeline have built Fortunato Pharmaceuticals into an empire of wealth, privilege and power. Their lives are turned upside down when secrets from the past come to light. At the same time, heirs of the Usher dynasty begin to die at the hands of a mysterious woman from their childhood.

Episodes Season 1 (2023)

  1. 1. A Midnight Dreary

    12 October 2023 (57 minutes)

  2. 2. The Masque of the Red Death

    12 October 2023 (1 hour and 01 minute)

  3. 3. Murder in the Rue Morgue

    12 October 2023 (1 hour)

  4. 4. The Black Cat

    12 October 2023 (1 hour and 03 minutes)

  5. 5. The Tell-Tale Heart

    12 October 2023 (1 hour and 01 minute)

  6. 6. Goldbug

    12 October 2023 (58 minutes)

  7. 7. The Pit and the Pendulum

    12 October 2023 (59 minutes)

  8. 8. The Raven

    12 October 2023 (1 hour and 17 minutes)

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lang pee

  • 3203 messages
  • 1387 votes

Flanagan has made wonderful series and films, and I and the wife were ready to enjoy a drink and a snack, especially because he already received good reviews. But sorry, we were very disappointed, we didn't find it interesting at all and it didn't appeal to us at all, to each his own, but this wasn't for us....

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remorz

  • 2497 messages
  • 2738 votes

Flanagan.

First things first: I'm a big fan of Haunting Of Hill House and in fact there isn't a Flanagan product that I couldn't enjoy. The man always knows how to change the atmosphere. It is no different here.

The interweaving of Edgar Allen Poe's short story with the rest of his oeuvre produces a somewhat colorful collection of characters and storylines, making the whole feel less compact than Hill House. Once again, a family dynamic is central, with individual family members all receiving their own bit of attention, roughly speaking per episode, which was also the case with Hill House; it just fits together a little less nicely than the aforementioned. I wouldn't call it contrived, at most it is a little less organic.

I can't help but think that the casting is also largely to blame: 90% of the cast is a familiar face from Flanagan's previous work, and not every actor can transcend their previous character. In fact, the acting of some remains substandard and at those moments the momentum of the series noticeably falters, which I thought was perhaps the biggest flaw in the series.

Nevertheless, Flanagan once again builds up a nice bit of atmosphere, and although he does not surprise much narratively, he manages to translate the literary elements that make Poe's work so attractive, although he sometimes puts some ostentatious poetic quotes in the mouths of (flat) characters. Especially at the end the cryptic monologues take over, but I still found it quite enjoyable.

Hill House seems to have had a little more attention and time for details, in that respect Flanagan seems to be running more on autopilot cinematically and aesthetically, but the man is skilled enough to still deliver a fascinating and atmospheric end product. 4*

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Corcicus

  • 2806 messages
  • 3910 votes

It started promisingly as a kind of anthology series, with vague threads. Now I have to start to conclude that this series is mainly painfully uninteresting and at no point scary or fascinating. Yet another missed opportunity in the horror genre.

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