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The Fall of the House of Usher (TV Miniseries)

The Fall of the House of Usher

2023

Mike Flanagan (Creator), Michael Fimognari ...

Bruce Greenwood, Carla Gugino, Mary McDonnell, Mark Hamill ...

6.8

5,777

TV Series. Mystery. Horror TV Miniseries (2023). 8 episodes. To secure their fortune (and future) two ruthless siblings build a family dynasty that begins to crumble when their heirs mysteriously die, one by one.

	Author	Review
United States	Lili Loofbourow The Washington Post	"A morbidly entertaining ride that winks at least as much as it instructs"	POS
United States	Amelia Emberwing IGN	"A glitzy, gory Poe modernization (...) You’ll scream, you’ll cry, and once it’s over you might just start it all over from the beginning again.	POS
United States	Brandon Yu The Wrap	"Flanagan does partially get at what he broadly intended, creating a slick, gothic tale. The problem is that one has to indeed get to the very end for things to start clicking"	NEU
United Kingdom	Olly Richards Empire	"Before the House Of Usher comes crumbling down, Mike Flanagan builds a towering, dark-hearted horror story that’s horribly good fun (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Canada	Graeme Guttmann Screen Rant	"A tragedy, yes, but it's a stylistic, darkly humorous one, as riveting as it is contemplative"	POS
United Kingdom	James Hibbs Radio Times	"Mike Flanagan's latest features superb performances and impressively designed set-pieces, but extends its reach and offers few surprises. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Lacy Baugher Paste Magazine	"A story of the long tail impact of trauma, it is a darkly funny and emotionally rich tragedy that grounds itself in our universal longing for love and human connection"	POS
United States	Chris Evangelista SlashFilm	"It feels forced and at odds with the brooding, gothic nature of Poe's work. Tone is a serious problem here; the show is never as scary as it should be, nor is ever as funny as it wants to be."	NEU
United States	Niv M. Sultan Slant	"Mike Flanagan reimagines Poe’s oeuvre as a nimble, tonally capacious collection of fables (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Adam Lock Ready Steady Cut	"This is easily Mike Flanagan’s best work since 'The Haunting of Hill House', and a series I look forward to watching again and again (...) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"Wickedly funny horror soap opera (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Therese Lacson Collider	"The series successfully plays with everything from gore to psychological to body horror, making it feel not only like an adaptation of Poe's writing but also an homage to some of horror's best subgenres."	POS
United States	Belen Edwards Mashable	"'Succession' meets Edgar Allan Poe in brilliant horror series (...) Mike Flanagan's final series for Netflix is his most ambitious — and maybe his best."	POS
United States	Meagan Navarro Bloody Disgusting	"[It] eschews the familiar melancholy and dials up the gallows humor for a twisted tale that’s unafraid to get grisly (...) In the process, however, it’s less effective at organically adapting Poe. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
Canada	Andrew Parker The Gate	"A deliriously gory and ghoulish seasonal offering that adeptly straddles the line between the silly and the smart"	POS
United States	G. Allen Johnson San Francisco Chronicle	"The tonal difference between the books and the series? The makers of 'The Fall of the House of Usher' are having way more fun (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Ben Travers IndieWire	"[It] strikes a fine balance between batshit energy and grounded validity"	POS
United States	Rodrigo Perez The Playlist	"'House Of Usher' keeps the viewer in a spell of pitch-black deliciousness and frights (...) But it can only sustain this protracted pattern for so long (...) the narrative novelty grows repetitive and old."	NEU
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"In a month filled with surprisingly lackluster new streaming shows and films for horror fans, it’s a highlight (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	David Cote AV Club	"It never achieves the narrative momentum or emotional resonance of Flanagan’s finest (...) Still, it might serve as a Halloween binge with fellow Fanagans"	NEU
United States	Andrew Webster The Verge	"The mystery becomes more complicated and even darker than I first imagined. And there are some great individual performances that really sell it"	POS
United States	Kristen Baldwin Entertainment Weekly	"The strong performances help sustain Usher in its sloggier stretches, though I still maintain that all streaming series should decide how many episodes they'll need per season and then subtract at least one"	NEU
United States	Daniel Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter	"A bluntly entertaining exercise. It’s easily the most specifically topical of Flanagan’s Netflix minis, fueled by an often palpable anger"	POS

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