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Mike Flanagan's The Fall of the House of Usher - Netflix (Available 10/12) (Spoilers)

Posted on 10/12/23 at 12:31 pm
Posted by Sl0thstronautEsq
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Posted on 10/12/23 at 12:31 pm
All 8 episodes dropped today on Netflix. Who's binging it this weekend??

Official Trailer

Synopsis:
Loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story, this adaptation tells the tale of a CEO of a corrupt pharmaceutical company that faces his questionable past when his children start dying in mysterious and brutal ways.
This post was edited on 10/13/23 at 7:03 am
Posted by GoCrazyAuburn
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Posted on 10/12/23 at 12:35 pm to
Yep
Posted by Henry Jones Jr
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Posted on 10/12/23 at 12:43 pm to
As long as it doesn’t have multiple 5 minute long monologues that only teenagers think is deep and insightful every episode like Midnight Mass did.
This post was edited on 10/12/23 at 12:44 pm
Posted by LSUZombie
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Posted on 10/12/23 at 1:02 pm to
I’m here for the ride and love all of Flanagan’s stuff but how many interracial, homosexual siblings can one cram into one family?

I swear I think they checked off every race for one family.
This post was edited on 10/13/23 at 1:03 am
Posted by ipodking
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Posted on 10/12/23 at 1:07 pm to
Mike split directing duties with Michael Fimognari on this one

His best stuff has been written, directed, and edited by Mike
Posted by LSUZombie
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Posted on 10/12/23 at 1:17 pm to
First episode down. Solid as always. Can’t wait to see all these awful characters get bumped off.
Posted by Locoguan0
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Posted on 10/12/23 at 3:19 pm to
Trailer looks very "bad white people"... Hope not. I've liked his shows.
Posted by Midget Death Squad
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Posted on 10/12/23 at 4:20 pm to
Hopefully this is more Hill House than Bly Manor in terms of quality. HH was incredible, but damn BM was a hot mess.


ETA: I haven't seen Midnight Mass, so I'll need to get to that soon.
This post was edited on 10/12/23 at 4:23 pm
Posted by Brosef Stalin
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Posted on 10/12/23 at 5:45 pm to
I like Flanagan's movies but his series have been slow and boring and really hard to get through. I like the idea of doing a Poe adaptation but not a modern version. Probably gonna skip this show.
Posted by athenslife101
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Posted on 10/12/23 at 8:25 pm to
“The house of usher is not in the business of blowjob whiskey bars”
Posted by athenslife101
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Posted on 10/12/23 at 8:30 pm to
I didn’t get the quote perfect but close enough
Posted by athenslife101
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Posted on 10/12/23 at 8:42 pm to
Huh?

There’s lots of bad people of all races. Rich, all one family. But multiple races
Posted by Sl0thstronautEsq
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Posted on 10/12/23 at 8:57 pm to
Just finished the first 3 episodes and it's interesting how many references there are to Poe's other works (much more than just the titles of each episode). So Poe fans will probably get a kick out of that.

I'm not sure how much I'm enjoying a modern adaptation of The Fall of the House of Usher since I think the original setting lends itself to a much creepier tale, but the series definitely has some good moments so far. I think this is the type of series that'll be tough to form an opinion on until it's over (but I guess that's true for most of Flanagan's work).

Finally, props to Carla Gugino who is doing some VERY heavy lifting in this series!
Posted by athenslife101
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Posted on 10/12/23 at 10:28 pm to
The speech by the sister in episode 2 really annoyed me. These people all annoy me other than the grand daughter
Posted by athenslife101
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Posted on 10/12/23 at 10:47 pm to
Jeez, the end up episode 2 is gnarly as frick
Posted by lionward2014
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Posted on 10/12/23 at 11:35 pm to
How gory has it been? Trailer looked a lot bloodier and gory than his other series. Wife was a little dissuaded by the trailer since that isn’t really her thing.
Posted by athenslife101
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Posted on 10/13/23 at 12:25 am to
Eh, well, there’s at least one very very very gory scene
Posted by Sl0thstronautEsq
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Posted on 10/13/23 at 5:26 am to
quote:

Jeez, the end up episode 2 is gnarly as frick


I thought it was awesome!
Posted by athenslife101
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Posted on 10/13/23 at 6:56 am to
It was a bit predictable
Posted by Sl0thstronautEsq
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Posted on 10/13/23 at 7:02 am to
For sure and that's one of my complaints so far. So many different things are hinted at (including jump scares) that it takes away from the impact when those things actually happen.

I wish Flanagan didn't reveal so much (e.g., early on Roderick Usher has some dialogue about what's in the basement. People who know Poe's original story might have guessed that, but why mention it in like the first episode?), but I still think the ending to E2 looked really cool, even if it was sorta obvious what was going to happen.
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