Greenwood and Lumbly have each been in Flanagan films (both appeared in Doctor Sleep, and Greenwood was Gugino’s husband in Gerald’s Game), but this is their debut in the Mike Flanagan Expanded Television Universe. It might be too much to keep a firm narrative grip on, if not for that framing device. So Flanagan is taking on a lot here, combining his Poe greatest hits mix with elements of both Succession and Dopesick. And some references are just Easter eggs, like Dupin being named after a recurring Poe character who is widely considered the protagonist of the earliest fictional detective stories. It’s just a bonus if you understand the importance of ravens, or why Roderick and his sister Madeline (Mary McDonnell) will at times stare meaningfully at a basement’s brick wall. But there are Poe works incorporated throughout, like a younger Roderick (played in flashback by Zach Gilford) writing the poem “Annabel Lee” as a tribute to his first wife (Katie Parker), or episodes getting familiar Poe-ish titles like “The Masque of the Red Death” and “The Pit and the Pendulum.” If you have only a casual history with Poe, or don’t know his work at all, the story still works on its own terms. Auguste Dupin (Carl Lumbly) the story of how his family came to ruin. The framing device roughly follows the titular short story plot, as wealthy Roderick Usher (Bruce Greenwood) tells prosecutor C. Like The Haunting of Bly Manor, the new show is a mash-up of the works of a particular author - in this case, Edgar Allan Poe. But in one notable way, it’s the first Flanagan project to not feel entirely at home on Netflix, because it would likely play much better as a weekly series than as a binge. It’s excellent in many ways, and fairly engrossing throughout. His latest show, The Fall of the House of Usher, brings back many of the familiar players, and revisits many of Flanagan’s pet themes about dysfunctional families and the way we’re all haunted by our pasts. In structuring his projects this way, Flanagan gets to keep telling stories season after season without having to worry about Netflix shutting him down, or even for any one particular idea to overstay its welcome. And collectively, they feel like part of a larger anthology drama, like a more literary, less aggro version of American Horror Story. The different projects - including The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, and Midnight Mass- aren’t always tonally identical, but all fit somewhere along the horror spectrum. Flanagan technically doesn’t make an ongoing series, but rather writes and directs various miniseries that tend to feature a lot of the same actors, like Carla Gugino, Henry Thomas, Rahul Kohli, and his wife Kate Siegel. The streaming giant has moved in recent years to making fewer seasons per series, and frequently canceling shows before they’ve finished telling their respective stories. p. 39.In many ways, Mike Flanagan is the perfect creator for the current era of Netflix. Recording Industry Association of America. ^ "American single certifications – Usher – My Way".^ "Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs – Year-End 1998".^ "Usher Chart History (Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs)".In 2016, Complex ranked "My Way" number ten on their list of the 25 greatest Usher songs, and in 2021, American Songwriter ranked the song number two on their list of the 10 greatest Usher songs. Due to the disappointment of the " Nice and Slow" single in the United Kingdom, "My Way" was not released as a single there. It features a dance competition between two groups, one led by Usher and the other led by Tyrese Gibson.ĭespite moderate airplay, the single sold well and reached number two on the U.S. It was filmed and released in 1998 at a broken down garage in a desert location. The refrain of the song samples "Wanna Be a Baller" by Lil' Troy from his debut album Sittin' Fat Down South, published officially one month before Usher's song. It features an uncredited rap and background vocals from Jermaine Dupri. " My Way" is a song from American singer-songwriter Usher's 1997 album of the same name.
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