An anthology of gothic horror rips some of its biggest ideas straight from modern headlines.
Can you have it both ways?
Most of the deaths you’ll see throughout the show are satisfying on some level or another.
Grisly as they may be, some of these characters absolutely have it coming.
The bodies pile up, though, and the seriesdoescome to an end.
The Fall of the House of Usher isn’t about the deaths of the Usher family.
Instead, it’s about the deaths sparked by them.
It’s not until the very end that we understand fully what went down.
The Ushers made a deal with something supernatural.
They’re not even being punished for how bad they were.
Roderick stands in his boardroom one last time, having driven there in his pajamas.
Elsewhere, she sits across from Arthur Pym, the family’s longtime lawyer/muscle/one-man clean-up crew.
This is a direct reference to something Donald Trump said.
In the last episode especially, this happens repeatedly.
Flanagan isn’t wrong about the messages being expressed in the finale.
However, in doing so in such an explicit way, he distracts from his own work’s climax.
It certainly doesn’t ruin the experience of The Fall of the House of Usher.
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