Poe's work is quite interesting and engaging if you spend the time actually reading and thinking things over. If you look at more recent works using his material: the pale blue eye, and the raven used the source much better.
There was many ways to use this material though the problem with modernizing written works is if you aren't careful you can lose much of its meaning and intrigue.
This was not the House of Usher I was hoping for. I stayed faithful and watched it through but this series never got off the ground. It's bland in several ways, yet straining in others.
Deciding to use a medical company as the family business in this time was not in my opinion the way to go since Netflix has painkiller, hulu has dopesick, and yet for some reason we needed more? The Ushers are not tied to a pharmaceutical company so there was other avenues to take with this but the band wagon was already rolling with this topic.
Flanagan has some interesting works but whatever he was trying to do here just doesn't work. I'm not entirely sure if the blame can 100% put on him because this is Netflix show. And this company has a history of hits and misses. If it was under HBO banner I'm curious if this wouldn't have turned out different.... Unfortunately some shows could've thrived if they were simply done under a different banner. I could be wrong and this whole thing could fall at Flanagan feet.
For me it's a miss but under a different name it might have been viewed differently.
There was many ways to use this material though the problem with modernizing written works is if you aren't careful you can lose much of its meaning and intrigue.
This was not the House of Usher I was hoping for. I stayed faithful and watched it through but this series never got off the ground. It's bland in several ways, yet straining in others.
Deciding to use a medical company as the family business in this time was not in my opinion the way to go since Netflix has painkiller, hulu has dopesick, and yet for some reason we needed more? The Ushers are not tied to a pharmaceutical company so there was other avenues to take with this but the band wagon was already rolling with this topic.
Flanagan has some interesting works but whatever he was trying to do here just doesn't work. I'm not entirely sure if the blame can 100% put on him because this is Netflix show. And this company has a history of hits and misses. If it was under HBO banner I'm curious if this wouldn't have turned out different.... Unfortunately some shows could've thrived if they were simply done under a different banner. I could be wrong and this whole thing could fall at Flanagan feet.
For me it's a miss but under a different name it might have been viewed differently.