Netflix has got in on the (gay) spooky season spirit with The Fall of the House of Usher. The final contribution to the streamer from filmmaker Mike Flanagan, creator of the Flanaverse, premiered on Netflix on 12 October.
Loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe’s poem of the same name, The Fall of the House of Usher is going viral online for how queer it is.
The show follows Roderick Usher (Bruce Greenwood), the billionaire head of a corrupt pharmaceutical company who is forced to face his past when all six of his children die in brutal and unexplained ways.
In similar vein to Flanagan’s previous series for Netflix, particularly The Haunting of Hill House and The Haunting of Bly Manor, queerness is normalised within the narrative.