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#Spooktober 19 – The Fall of the House of Usher

The show is a new and much anticipated one since it marks the return of Mike Flanagan, author and director of the acclaimed Midnight Mass. Loosely based on the homonymous short story by Edgar Allan Poe and taking inspiration from other stories as well, it brings the plot to a contemporary setting and shows us the CEO of a pharmaceutical company being confronted with his guilt as his children start mysteriously dying.

Roderick Usher is played by Bruce Greenwood, who briefly played Pike in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek reboot, while his twin sister Madeline is Mary McDonnell, a.k.a. President Laura Roslin in Battlestar Galactica. Carla Gugino, who also starred in The Haunting of Hill House by Flanagan plays Verna, the haunting raven from Poe’s famous poem.
The show spans across 8 episodes and covers different timelines, with young Roderick and Madeline played by younger actors alternatively seen in Midnight Mass and/or The Haunting of Hill House. Mark Hamill guest stars as Arthur Pym.

List of Episodes

  1. “A Midnight Dreary”
  2. “The Masque of the Red Death”
  3. “Murder in the Rue Morgue”
  4. “The Black Cat”
  5. “The Tell-Tale Heart”
  6. “Goldbug”
  7. “The Pit and The Pendulum”
  8. “The Raven”

 

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