Take the recent pharma-scandal series “Dopesick” and “Painkiller,” mix in an equal amount of “Succession” and stir it all up in a giant vat of Edgar Allan Poe, and you’ve got the gory and bloody and wickedly funny Netflix horror soap opera “The Fall of the House of Usher.”
Dread master Mike Flanagan (“The Haunting of Hill House,” “The Haunting of Bly Manor,” “Midnight Mass”) has created a series that goes over the top at times and stops the momentum dead in its tracks on a handful of occasions with preachy social/political monologues — but this also is a great-looking slice of horror entertainment with brilliant performances from an extended ensemble that includes a number of Flanagan regulars, including Henry Thomas, T’Nia Miller, Rahul Kohli, Samantha Sloyan and Kate Siegel.
