The Fall of the House of Usher (Netflix Original)

[staylor26]

Has anybody checked this out yet?

Another drama/horror hybrid from Mike Flanagan.

This one is like Succession meets Flanagan.

I'm 4 episodes in, and it's probably my favorite of his since The Haunting of Hill House.

[Stryker]

Was kinda hard to watch at first but if you stick with it very good!

[Aries Walker]

Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

But again, Poe has a very dark and semi-biblical sort of storytelling approach. I mean FFS, she's the devil; of course religious allegory is going to come into play. And you can go straight to citing scripture if you want to get to 'Capitalism is bad'.

You think she's ...

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the devil? The devil lies to steal souls. Verna, if anything, was the only one to speak any kind of truth to these horrible people who were, let's face it, going to hell before she even showed up. If anything, I saw her as the balancing point on the see-saw between good and evil.

[Aries Walker]

I saw the show as ultimately being a statement on society rather than being political. The Trump line is ultimately a throwaway, but it would have been weirder if ...

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they had ignored him, or danced around him after establishing Verna's relationship to all of those gazillionaires going back to 1901. The show is about how the top 1% dominate the rest rather than working for them; she was around in Egyptian times, too, and she was *definitely* in the pocket of the Pharaoh. The whole point is how they could work together for everyone, but the People In Charge have always — in all cultures and throughout time and long before our Ds and Rs ever existed — been elitist and self-serving and could solve everything but don't.

I think it's brilliant, not just as a horror but also as an insight. Anyone who steers clear because someone said "Oh, it's so political!" is really missing out.

[ThaVirus]

Originally Posted by Aries Walker

You think she's ...

Spoiler!

the devil? The devil lies to steal souls. Verna, if anything, was the only one to speak any kind of truth to these horrible people who were, let's face it, going to hell before she even showed up. If anything, I saw her as the balancing point on the see-saw between good and evil.

I just assumed she was some sort of demon. At least up until she seemed reluctant to take the grandchild because she was actually a decent person.

Still, the deal seemed like a pretty standard crossroads demon type of stuff.

Kind of bullshit that you can damn someone else’s soul, though..

[BigBeauford]

Finished House Hill. A nice ending with a nice message. The overlong monologs where it felt like the characters weren't talking to each other but rather just delivering something worthy of a stage play for the audience in the back to hear was a bit too indulgent for my tastes.