The Fall of the House of Usher
Series, 2023, Directed, Set in The Usher family, 1953 to 2023
The Fall of the House of Usher is #12 of 16 in release order and #12 of 16 in chronological order in the Mike Flanagan.
The story
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.
The Fall of the House of Usher recap
The Fall of the House of Usher (2023) is Mike Flanagan's eight-episode Netflix series that folds Edgar Allan Poe's stories into one tale of a pharmaceutical dynasty. Roderick Usher (Bruce Greenwood), the head of Fortunato Pharmaceuticals, has lost all six of his children in two weeks. After the last funeral he invites C. Auguste Dupin, the prosecutor who spent his career trying to bring Fortunato down, to his childhood home and confesses everything: how he and his twin sister Madeline (Mary McDonnell) rose to power, and how each of his children died, every death shaped after a Poe story and attended by a mysterious woman named Verna (Carla Gugino).
The Fall of the House of Usher ending explained
On New Year's Eve 1979, after walling their boss up alive, Roderick and Madeline made a deal with Verna: wealth and power in exchange for their entire bloodline dying before them, with the twins dying together. Roderick had killed Madeline before calling Dupin, but she was only apparently dead; she rises from the basement and strangles him as the house collapses. Juno inherits Fortunato and dissolves it into a drug rehab foundation, and Verna leaves a token on each Usher grave.
Where to watch The Fall of the House of Usher
The Fall of the House of Usher is streaming on Netflix in the US.
Ratings
IMDb 7.9/10
Where it fits
- Release order: after The Midnight Club, before The Life of Chuck.
- Chronological order: after The Midnight Club, before The Life of Chuck.
Cast
- Carla Gugino as Verna
- Bruce Greenwood as Roderick Usher
- Mary McDonnell as Madeline Usher
- Henry Thomas as Frederick Usher
- Kate Siegel as Camille L'Espanaye
- Rahul Kohli as Napoleon Usher
- Samantha Sloyan as Tamerlane Usher
- T'Nia Miller as Victorine LaFourcade
- Zach Gilford as Young Roderick Usher
- Willa Fitzgerald as Young Madeline Usher
- Michael Trucco as Rufus Griswold
- Katie Parker as Annabel Lee
Created by Mike Flanagan.