Lifting Up ’The Fall of the House of Usher’
The new miniseries on Netflix, ‘The Fall of the House of Usher,’ is many things all at once: a love letter to Edgar Allen Poe, a gothic horror masterpiece, and a biting social commentary reminiscent of HBO’s ’Succession.’ Loosely based on a Poe story of the same name — and brimming with references to other Poe masterpieces — ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ follows the demise of a wealthy family that had built its fortune on human suffering. Rabbis Knopf and Olitzky get right to the “tell-tale heart” of the matter, discussing the morality of wealth, the dangers of privilege, the…
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