The 43 Best Shows on Netflix Right Now: The Fall of the House of UsherThe Fall of the House of UsherWatch The TrailerTime for our favorite Halloween tradition: a new Mike Flanagan horror miniseries, a staple of spooky season since 2021's
Midnight Mass. This year, Flanagan treats viewers to not just an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's title work, but rather several of the master of macabre's pieces, brilliantly woven into a tapestry of terror. Like the title's source, this eight-episode event hangs on twin siblings Roderick and Madeline Usher, here reimagined as the rulers of a shady pharmaceutical empire, now with a sprawling family of descendants and squabbling heirs. The fun twist is that each member of the Usher clan is adapted from characters found in Poe's other works, including
The Murders in the Rue Morgue,
The Masque of the Red Death, and, of course,
The Raven. As they start falling victim to a variety of unsettling deaths, leaving the family founders to watch in despair as their empire crumbles, Poe fans will delight in spotting the references. It's not just for grown-up goths or erudite emos though—everyone will get a creepy kick out of this delectably gothic twist on Succession.
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