This show made me lose my mind...
(no spoilers)
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I'm standing in line at the gas station holding my soda completely zoned out thinking about what the h*** I just saw on Netflix new thriller THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER. I'm only half way through the season, and my mind is gone. I feel...reprogrammed. The horror has taken over.
I'm in that somewhat fantastical, mostly dark, all mysterious world. There, entangled in the twists of what seems to be the predestined fate of brother and sister Usher, indeed their entire family line, I didn't/couldn't know what to think. Are they wicked? No, too easy. Are they normal like all of us just trying to make money while sadly getting corrupted along the way? No, too neive. Is all the death just some kind of karma finally coming due to les miserables, and all at the same time? That seemed as close to the truth as anything.
The show introduces small bits of drama in the first scenes and masterfully flushes them out bit by bit over the next several hours of...entertainment I guess you'd call it. It's all interwoven episodically, but each of USHER's episodes do still stand as their own unique dreamscapes. Speaking of dreams, this maelstrom will put you in one. I know because I am in one as I stand in line at the gas station with my soda in hand blocking the crowd in a fantasy of mind fog...and I can't stop. I need to keep watching. I'm...addicted. Addicted to that feeling you get when you get back from a rave at 1 o'clock in the morning and all you can remember is the black lights in your eyes and the strobes flashing off all the bodies swarming you, and all you can remember hearing is the booming of the loud speakers. That's where I'm at right now, and it's all USHER's fault...and I...I think I love it.
When you want to be inspired to write great mysterious fantasy, or feel like you just got off of a bender, or just want to close out the world as if caught up in a coffin of someone else's mind, this terse artistic visionary masterpiece is your drug.
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RATING: 10 out of 10
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(Watch on VidAngel to avoid the needless cursing)