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We'll tell you if it's worth watching and if it is we'll review and spoil and discuss the entire season of the show today. We are discussing Mike Flanagan's The Fall of the House of Usher.

New eight part mini series available right now on Netflix. All episodes are available. We have watched all episodes.

We're going to start today by talking about our overall thoughts on the show and we'll do that in a non-spoilery fashion and then we are going to spoil the entire season and kind of go through episode by episode and share our thoughts on each episode of the show.

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So I do want to address the fact that typically on this week in streaming we cover like the first episode or the first few episodes of the show and then later on we cover the whole show.

I did consider doing that but as I started watching The Fall of the House of Usher it just became clear that it would just make more sense to do it this way.

Just watch the whole thing, talk about overall thoughts and then talk about, you know, spoil everything because it really does feel like a whole unit.

Sarah Mars, don't you think this is like an eight hour movie as they might say?

Yeah, it's so interesting to me. I think Mike Flanagan is really good at this.

I think this is one of his talents as a writer particularly when he writes four episodic television is people will talk about prestige drama series is like it's an eight hour movie and it never is.

It's eight hours of television but Mike Flanagan does have a way of making his stories like these are definitely episodes.

There are arcs contained within each of the eight episodes.

It is episodic and yet it the way it's paced the way it's edited with there's flashbacks there's kind of cross cutting stories of the different siblings.

It's edited the way it's paced the story elements that are parceled out in each episode.

It really moves like an eight hour movie.

It's a cognitive dissonance to me because it is an episodic show and yet it feels like a very cohesive like I piled through all eight episodes.

And didn't feel it didn't feel like I had just sat there and watched seven and what hour seven hours and whatever minutes of TV like it felt like it moved really fast.

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