i feel similarly about fall of the house of usher that i feel about bly manor; there are several aspects that i like a lot but on the whole it really feels flat and lackluster. i guess a big part of it is flanagans trademark lack of subtlety or ambiguity, which i think is the downfall of a lot of his work. i just feel like this show tells me peoples motives and relationships, tells me about capitalism and pharmaceutical companies, tells me exactly where its gonna go from the start, but i never really Feel it, im never invested in it. mike flanagan takes rich gothic source material and often flattens it into straightforward human drama; and i like drama, and i think his hill house series is the best of his adaptations (ironically when not compared to its source material), but the more of them we get the more i am bored by his simple hamfisted themes wearing the mask of gothic literature.
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i feel similarly about fall of the house of usher that i feel about bly manor; there are several aspects that i like a lot but on the whole it really feels flat and lackluster. i guess a big part of it is flanagans trademark lack of subtlety or ambiguity, which i think is the downfall of a lot of his work. i just feel like this show tells me peoples motives and relationships, tells me about capitalism and pharmaceutical companies, tells me exactly where its gonna go from the start, but i never really Feel it, im never invested in it. mike flanagan takes rich gothic source material and often flattens it into straightforward human drama; and i like drama, and i think his hill house series is the best of his adaptations (ironically when not compared to its source material), but the more of them we get the more i am bored by his simple hamfisted themes wearing the mask of gothic literature.