From the creators of The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor, still this show came completely out of left field since neither of us had even heard about it. Yet after two great shows ofc we had to watch it and it didn't disappoint.
Because each of the other two shows were based on one book each, I originally thought this would be a show based entirely on the eponymous work by Edgar Allan Poe, but I soon discovered that each episode was named after a Poe text, and each of the episodes was a retelling of a Poe story with the House of Usher as the overarching plot. It was brilliant.
I love Poe and I've read a bunch of his work so it was great to see how they transferred the plots of those stories into the overarching plot of the show and make it work.
There's very little of the "spot the ghost" game from Hill House, but it does happen. There are a few jumpscares, but nothing too bad and usually you can see them coming from a mile away.
All in all, this was absolutely brilliant.
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