The Fall of the House of Usher (2023)

Directed by

Mike Flanagan, Michael Fimognari

Genre

drama television series, Gothic fiction

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 8 episodes

Rated

TV-MA

Rating

7.6 of 10 from 827 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy CEO of a corrupt drug company and his sister deal with the sudden deaths of all six of his children. A mysterious woman seems connected to the family's dark past and their terrible fate.

gothicdarkunsettlingtensetragicbleakvisually lushatmospheric

What happens

The Fall of the House of Usher is an American gothic horror drama television miniseries created by Mike Flanagan, and based on the short story of the same title and other works by the author Edgar Allan Poe. All eight episodes were released on Netflix on October 12, 2023, each directed by either Flanagan or Michael Fimognari, with the latter also acting as cinematographer for the entire series. Loosely based on various works by Poe (most prominently the eponymous 1839 short story), the series adapts otherwise unrelated stories and characters by Poe into a single nonlinear narrative set from 1953 to 2023. It recounts both the rise to power of Roderick Usher, the powerful CEO of a corrupt pharmaceutical company, and his sister Madeline, the firm's genius COO, and the events leading to the deaths of all six of Roderick's children. It stars an ensemble cast led by Carla Gugino as the mysterious "Verna" who plagues the Ushers, and Bruce Greenwood and Mary McDonnell as an elderly Roderick and Madeline. The first two episodes of The Fall of the House of Usher premiered at Fantastic Fest in September 2023 before the Netflix release the following month, and the miniseries counted more than 13 million views in its first two weeks. It was met with positive reviews, with critics praising its production values, directing, and performances (in particular from Gugino, Greenwood, and Mark Hamill), although they were divided on its narrative, notably in relation to the source materials. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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