Netflix’s ‘Fall of the House of Usher’ is gory, gruesome & gay AF
Spoilers ahead for Netflix’s The Fall of the House of Usher.*Forget the House of Extravaganza and the House of Balenciaga – there is a new house we are obsessed with this Halloween season: The House of Usher.Mike Flanagan’s latest for Netflix, The Fall of the House of Usher, adapts Edgar Allan Poe tales to tell the story of the wealthy Usher family (think of it like a spooky Succession).
The limited series premieres October 12, and it is the horror auteur’s queerest entry yet, with multiple LGBTQ+ characters — and like the rest of the cast, most meet gruesome deaths.Scroll through below for a refresher on queer characters from past Flanagan Netflix series, and what to expect from The Fall of the House of Usher, but warning: It’s not for the faint of (the tell-tale) heart!From the first episode, viewers learn that Theodora “Theo” Crain (played by Kate Siegel) is a lesbian when, in a nightclub scene, she forgoes a man for Trish, a woman whom she locks eyes with, and eventually brings home.
The Haunting of Hill House is filled with gruesome deaths, but luckily Theo is not one of them. She survives — and even ends up with Trish — thankfully allowing Haunting of Hill House to avoid the tired “Bury Your Gays” trope.It's been 3 years since The Haunting of Bly Manor and 0 days since the tears stopped flowing.
pic.twitter.com/yHpVYgzzxBWhile Bly Manor is a more uneven entry than Hill House, the series scores points for the central love story being between two women, the American au pair, Dani Clayton (Victoria Pedretti) and Bly Manor’s gardener, Jamie Taylor (Amelia Eve).
