Roderick Usher’s prodigy befall a series of gruesome fates in Mike Flanagan’s adaptation of The Fall of the House of Usher and various other Edgar Allan Poe tales, but one particular death seemed to strike a chord with Netflix audiences.When a fan on X barbed Flanagan for the demise of Pluto the cat, The Fall of the House of Usher creator redirected their criticism to the Gothic author and poet from whom the series drew its initial inspiration. Flanagan garners an impressive track record of wholistic adaptation in series such as The Haunting of Bly Manor and The Midnight Club in which he incorporated many elements of the inspiring author’s bibliography beyond the series’ central tale. The Fall of the House of Usher proved no exception, offering fresh twists on many Poe classics including the short story “The Black Cat” which led to Flanagan’s social media exchange.Though Flanagan extracted the central themes and imagery from Poe’s short story in his take on “The Black Cat,” he added his own distinct flares including a twist ending that unveiled Pluto the cat had never died in the first place. Not only did this pepper-in a level of irony and bittersweet futility to the downfall of Rahul Kohli’s Napoleon Usher, Flanagan argued that this twist came with the added bonus of obfuscating audience backlash over any dead pets. In his post on X, Flanagan pointed out that he never actually killed Pluto as Poe intended, concluding: “so who hates cats?”RELATED: Mike Flanagan Updates Fans on The Dark Tower’s Status: ‘We’re Making Enormous Progress’
Roderick Usher’s prodigy befall a series of gruesome fates in Mike Flanagan’s adaptation of The Fall of the House of Usher and various other Edgar Allan Poe tales, but one particular death seemed to strike a chord with Netflix audiences.
When a fan on X barbed Flanagan for the demise of Pluto the cat, The Fall of the House of Usher creator redirected their criticism to the Gothic author and poet from whom the series drew its initial inspiration. Flanagan garners an impressive track record of wholistic adaptation in series such as The Haunting of Bly Manor and The Midnight Club in which he incorporated many elements of the inspiring author’s bibliography beyond the series’ central tale. The Fall of the House of Usher proved no exception, offering fresh twists on many Poe classics including the short story “The Black Cat” which led to Flanagan’s social media exchange.
Though Flanagan extracted the central themes and imagery from Poe’s short story in his take on “The Black Cat,” he added his own distinct flares including a twist ending that unveiled Pluto the cat had never died in the first place. Not only did this pepper-in a level of irony and bittersweet futility to the downfall of Rahul Kohli’s Napoleon Usher, Flanagan argued that this twist came with the added bonus of obfuscating audience backlash over any dead pets. In his post on X, Flanagan pointed out that he never actually killed Pluto as Poe intended, concluding: “so who hates cats?”
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