The Fall of the House of Usher (2023)

Watchseries; It's a fun show I guess. It's nothing like Haunting of Hill House which is an utter masterpiece. This show is modern, thus delves into garbage like orgies, "starfishing" which I had to look up.

You quickly learn how debased and garbage all the bloodline kids are, so you look forward to watching them die. It's kind of a play maybe on how trashy society is now, but I don't think that's the point.

The point was to modernize Edgar Allen Poe's work, which is a cool idea, but impossible to really do. Definitely a good show, the acting and cinematography was top level. I just lost my interest a little with all the 2023 trash.

Society is on the down slope, sexuality is being weaponized and exploited and I felt this show really didn't allow the stories to come through, but instead cowered down to the new normal of over sexualizing things with words and images.

Overall a good show, but kids shouldn't watch it. 7/10.

It's a fun show I guess. It's nothing like Haunting of Hill House which is an utter masterpiece. This show is modern, thus delves into garbage like orgies, "starfishing" which I had to look up.

You quickly learn how debased and garbage all the bloodline kids are, so you look forward to watching them die. It's kind of a play maybe on how trashy society is now, but I don't think that's the point.

The point was to modernize Edgar Allen Poe's work, which is a cool idea, but impossible to really do. Definitely a good show, the acting and cinematography was top level. I just lost my interest a little with all the 2023 trash.

Society is on the down slope, sexuality is being weaponized and exploited and I felt this show really didn't allow the stories to come through, but instead cowered down to the new normal of over sexualizing things with words and images.

Overall a good show, but kids shouldn't watch it. 7/10.

The Fall of the House of Usher watchseries. 1. Neutral: For Poe readers, this is Usher in name only. I am okay with adaptations being different, as long as it is good(remember The Shining?).

2. Bad: First problem, this is a 3 episodes series horribly stretched to 8 episodes. This means hours of filler. The filler? Having the main characters recite Poe poems as dialogue. Other scenes are rambling conversations about nothing.

3. Good: Outside of the lame actress playing the granddaughter, almost everyone else are good actors, which is very rare.

4. Bad: Problem is they had nothing to work with. With 8 episodes, there should have been some great character development, no. I barely knew the children's names or even that they were even children of the protagonist until episode 3. So there was little care when 'things happened'.

5. Good: Atmosphere. There was an effective use of lighting, sound effects and create the gloomy 'something about to happen' mood.

6. Bad: Everything else. The traditional horror cliches, multi-million dollar houses with no security, no police ever, story only exists with everyone making bad decisions, no logic or reasoning to people's motivations and people reacting in ways that are extremely over the top and nothing steeped in any sort of reality? Example, after things started 'happening' in the next scene, people are talking and acting like the previous scene never happened.

I absolutely loved Haunting Of Hill House and Midnight Mass, so I was REALLY looking forward to this. I am on episode two and I am not disappointed. Excellent cast (including Rahul Kohli, my crush), excellent story, and excellent scares!

Dark, mysterious, symbolic, and the perfect amount of light humor. I love that he uses the same actors throughout; it shows a lot of their versatility. And now Mark Hamill is part of the cast! I read somewhere that this might be his last show and I really hope that's not true. Mike is one of the few directors left making genuinely fantastic horror.

I recommend watching his other shows if you haven't already.

The bulk of the reviews seem to have this polarized Mike Flannagan hate going on. So you can really write off half the reviews. If you havent liked Flannagan's work, why are you people watching it?

What you need to know, is that this is a homage to all of Poe's work. Rating it poorly because it isn't a prevoius remake, seems extremely short sighted.

By now you've read the story is set around the house of Usher. Like many of Flannagan's stories, they are designed to be end to end stories. Which is what I prefer. The Usher house hold is the story of rich people, greed, and overall evil people.

Many people cite the parallels of Succession, and they feel like it's underwhelming by comparison. I, however, do not. I actually don't like Succession. Just like many of HBO's series they are drawn out wwwwaaaayyyy to long. This is not. You get what you get for the 8 episodes.

Mike gets a lot of the actors he continues to work with,and Carla Gugino absolutely kills it in this role. She uses a myriad of accents, and makes the central theme of the series take on a life of it's own.

Many persons point to predictability in the plot, but if you've read The Raven, or any of Poe's other works you'll know how things are going to go down. This is a homage again. Looking for something new and exciting other than story telling and visuals will set you up for disappointment.

This is a series that can be in the family drama genre rather than in horror and mystery genres. It's a good drama series that used only enough violence and nudity the story demands.

The fall of an evil pharmaceutical family company known as Usher Family, the death of each of the heirs of that company and the mystery of their deaths is the summary of the series.

The heart of this series is the characters and the actors performances. It really hooks the audience rather than the horror elements of the scenarios.

A binge worthy series created by Mike Flanagan, inspired from the gothic short stories written by the American writer and poet Edgar Allen Poe in the 1800's which Flanagan developed in a way that it is related to the things happening in the present world.

It's not scary it's a mystery that takes too many episodes to spin the web of integrated Edgar Allen Poe stories and poems into a retelling of the House Of Usher . Good idea but in the end it's long and a bit boring , Bruce Greenwood is fantastic as usual a great actor , the rest of the cast also good . I just found the plot to convoluted and contrived to fit in the stories of Edgar Allen Poe. Tale Tale Heart , The Cask of Amontillado, the Black Cat ,the Gold bug. The Masque of The red death , so in and so forth ...

Great idea but I found it too slow to binge I suppose it would be better as a non binge series .

Love the nod to the Saclker family and Purdue Pharma and the opioid deaths they caused globally .

The real evil.