i need the world to know that i’ve been calling mike flannigan “micky flannie” in my head this entire time.
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i need the world to know that i’ve been calling mike flannigan “micky flannie” in my head this entire time.
im just wondering, is verna taking volunteers for the murder of froderick usher? because im ready and willing over here.
spoilers for episode 2 of the fall of the house of usher
the end of episode two is just a masterpiece kinda
before i get into the meat and potatoes, this show is very interesting just in the way its formulated. we have a plotline in 1980, when madeline and robert are young, a plotline in the recent past, following all of our tragic bisexual kids' deaths, and a plotline following dupin and robert's conversation. theres so many layers to every conflict in this show so far, and i love it.
we're told from the start of the show that roberts kids will all die. this is already interesting, instead of it being a twist, we're told from the get-go. instead of being surprised at a bomb going off, the writers tell us the bomb is there, making it all the more interesting seeing it go off.
towards the final moments of episode 2, perry is having a conversation with verna, and she warns him that its not too late to stop. this isn't perry's last warning, it's ours. more media-savy viewers couldve guessed perry would die at the end of the episode, but this is our confirmation.
perry's death is ultimately a tragedy. throughout the episode, we see his brilliance. he's smart enough to manipulate his peers into whatever he sees fit, clever enough to rewire a "watering" system, and cunning enough to get some of the most influential people ever into a single one-night orgy. his smarts, his intelligence could've gone towards anything. he could do anything he wants, napoleon says so. but he focuses his time into something this meaningless and inconsequential. but everything has consequences, thats something verna says.
after our warning, our premonition, we're pulled back into the party. wicked game by the newton brothers begins to play, and that is when shit goes nuts. the camera movement is fast, eccentric, making damien chazelle's camera quake in its boots. and on screen, hundreds of people fucking. its a moment without thought, people are consumed purely by carnal desire, and its simultaneously beautiful and disgusting. then the rain starts to fall, but its acid.
the people, previously connected by sex, are forced together as their skin melts together. their screams are unheard, they are simultaneously together and more alone than they ever were. perry's brilliance, consumed by desire for sex, is melted and conjoined with the other bodies in the room. its the scariest thing ive ever seen flannigan make. ive never felt this uncomfortable since a similar scene in nope.
its brilliant, poetic, tragic, and gory and fleshy.
sorry for my rudimentary pointless pretentious essay i literally couldn't sleep until i wrote this stuff down.
reminder: she wont sleep with you unless you got LEMONS
we’re getting ofmd season 2 and the fall of the house of usher only six days apart??? literally dying rn.
just found out the the fall of the house of usher is co-directed by the same guy who directed the “to all the boys i’ve loved before” movies.
i can’t comprehend this right now. my world is upended. i don’t know what’s real or fake anymore.
at this point two of my most popular posts are about lemons: one involves sentient lemons forming a fascist totalitarian city state and the other involves creating a mega corporation that redefines pop culture to revolve around lemons
so yeah idk what to make of that.
watching the fall of the house of usher and im only two episodes in but i already feel like writing an essay about this so.