#i get wanting more stuff like Hill House or Midnight Mass cuz I do love me a good cry

[lully-jo]

I think a creative choice I really like about The Fall of the House of Usher is that it FEELS more like a play than a television show. And that's PERFECT for adapting Poe's works. His writing is theatrical, overwhelming, flashy! If you go into the show expecting something more like Hill House or Midnight Mass, you'll be disappointed because TFOTHOU is not some emotional piece that asks you to be still in melancholy or human pain, it instead asks you to enjoy the spectacle.

The entire series, from the actors and their dialogue to the sets, is reminiscent of early theatre where the audience gets to laugh at the "plight" of the idiot, gluttonous elite. This is morbid catharsis, just as Poe would have wanted it.