The Fall of the House of Usher (TV Mini Series) Murder in the Rue Morgue (2023) User Reviews

Just how versatile IS Carla Gugino?

[GregTheStopSign95 · 8/10 · 12 October 2023]

While I may have been wrong about getting an episode per sibling, it looks like I was kinda close and we are, instead, getting a death per episode. This time it's Kate Seigel's Camille L'Espanaye. Although it's not as epic as Prospero's death last episode, and even though we don't actually see anything of it until next episode, it's still pretty damn good.

This episode isn't even particularly focused on one sibling, we get a good amount of time with most of them, and a really good look at just how versatile an actor Carla Gugino is, with her playing three different characters. Well, maybe it's more accurate to say she plays three different aspects if the one character...either way, she's on FIRE here.

Getting better and better.

[Sleepin_Dragon · 9/10 · 15 October 2023]

Camille takes control of all matters pertaining to Perry's death, she uses her talents and skills to spin the situation into a positive, but all the time she's motivated by her hatred for her sister Victorine.

It's getting better and better with every episode, I didn't instantly warm to it, but now I'm genuinely hooked, loved this episode.

I was expecting a kind of horror And then there were none after the first episode, it's a little different, we're getting a good look at every monstrous member of that family.

I'm keen to see who's going to last until the end, I think my money is on Leo, I may be wrong.

The standout for me, the acting of Carla Gugino, I don't fully understand what's going on with her character, but boy is she delivering, talk about range.

Kate Siegel was spot on as Camille, keto thinking I knew the voice and face, but the hair made her look so different, just love Rahul Kohli, what a cracking actor he is, what on Earth happened to that cat?

9/10.

Details of your incompetence do not interest me

[HeiWaiRen · 9/10 · 27 October 2023]

The writers of this series are really to be commended and it's a good reminder that nothing replaces the human creativity. Camille is one of those Miranda Priestly-like characters we love to see on tv. Who doesn't love to see a powerful woman bossing around with little to no patience to other people's incompetence. Sex still to be have a central role in the series, as it should be: nothing else can describe better the relations of power.

But what do we all wait in every episode? The fall. Camille's fate relying on how she, herself, is incompetent while doing the dirty work. She really believes she's residing in the highest tower, but as Horace would say "the bigger the tower, the greater the fall thereof".

Yes, I proudly belong to the groupies of this series. In a world of fast-food cinema, endlessly expanding shared universes, with the cows running dry and anemic, everything being so shallow and overly-simplyfied it's so good to see things with a little depth and so well done.

a family

[Kirpianuscus · 21 October 2023]

Rivalries between stepbrothers, publicity around a presumed accident, selfishness in huge doses and a great speech about...lemons.

And, sure, the title of episode as guide in an univers of medical experiments, intrigues, power and a dead black cat.

Obvious, it is not exactly the series of a real story but the series of powerful scenes, fascinating, creepy, realistic for reflection of dark thoughts or obsessions, portraits of evil, admirable crafted because each represents fair exploration of its essence.

The great good point - no doubts, the acting.

A nuanced adaptation of Poe univers , far to be dessapointing.

S1.E3 - The Mysterious Woman [9/10]

[panagiotis1993 · 9/10 · 21 December 2023]

(S1. E3) My Live Reaction / Review for The Fall of the House of Usher Season 1 Episode 3 ''Murder in the Rue Morgue''. The previous episode was good and I gave it a rating of 9/10. Let's see if this one is better or worse. What is this mysterious woman? I want answers. Roderick's monologue about lemons was pretty brutal. Leo killed the cat? Why? We still have no answers about who the mysterious woman is, why she killed Perry? Does Roderick know her? Why she is doing what she is doing? Victorine wants to try her experimental new treatment on an actual person? That's not good. So now the mysterious woman is having dinner with Bill and Tamerlane? She is everywhere. Now she killed Camille too? What is she? The Devil? Overall this episode was good, my rating is 9/10.

the previous episode almost made me drop this show

[nerrdrage · 7/10 · 8 March 2024]

...but this episode is better so I guess I'll keep going. But there is something fundamentally wrong with this series. It can be amusing on a surface level, but this is from the guy who made The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass. I expect better.

Here's what's wrong. The best of Mike Flanagan's output takes something the audience can sympathize with and uses that as the source of horror. When people do "good" things and have "good" motivations but the results are horrific, that's deeply disturbing because it reveals the random, unfair nature of the cosmos where good intentions mean nothing.

The Haunting of Hill House was driven by siblings wanting to solve the mystery of their mother's disappearance. Midnight Mass was driven by a priest trying to end all suffering and death. "Good" motives that led to horror.

But with The Fall of the House of Usher, we don't have anyone with good motives. When a greedy corporate jerk or some entitled brats get their comeuppance, it's satisfying, not horrifying. It can be okay to watch but the genre is Horror, not Satisfaction. And that's why this series is so shallow and entirely un-scary and un-horrifying.