Netflix's The Pale Blue Eye uses a fictional whodunnit to explore the origins of Edgar Allan Poe

Netflix’s The Pale Blue Eye is an artist origin story with a difference.

The historical noir – set in a beautifully rendered wintry Hudson Highlands, New York – imagines what might have happened if the young Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling) had ingratiated himself into the investigation of the apparent suicide of one of his fellow cadets at West Point Military Academy.

Netflix’s The Pale Blue Eye trailer.