The hotly anticipated The Fall of the House of Usher marches ever closer, and each step is dripping with intrigue and blood. To tide you over until the series release on October 12, we’ve got the exclusive clip above featuring a conversation between Carla Gugino’s Verna and Sauriyan Sapkota’s young Prospero. Of course, that clip mostly raises more questions than it answers. But that’s half the fun, right?
“Things like this, all things in fact, have consequences,” Verna warns the youngest Usher. Prospero, as you see in the clip, is insistent that there are no consequences at his party. That’s the whole point, after all. But something tells us that Verna might be a little more knowledgeable than little Prospero on the issue at hand. Ah, to be young with a wallet bursting with daddy’s cash.
The real question is, what consequences is she talking about? Who is Verna? In the trailer, she answers Prospero’s very same question with “consequence. And tonight is consequential.” But what is she a consequence for, why is Prospero the one to pay the price, and will it be the ultimate price? Bruce Greenwood’s Roderick Usher — the patriarch of the family — will later tell Carl Lumbly’s Auguste Dupin in the trailer that he is ringside for his reckoning, but this new clip has brought up a whole host of questions as to what that reckoning may be and if the line of gravestones we see in the very first scene of the trailer hold the answers that we’re looking for.
Verna seems to be at the center of this Usher family drama. Here, at whatever Prospero’s event may be, she appears at ease. She’s fully in control of her situation and most definitely knows more than she’s letting on in her cryptic messaging. In fact, Verna seems to be perpetually in her element in the few minutes of the series that we’ve seen so far. She’s got an eyeball hanging out of her face in one of the trailer scenes and she’s just vibing, licking her hand like a cat and stalking… something. Unbothered! Moisturized! And honestly? Good for her.
“The House of Usher. May it rest in peace,” Verna says with a raised glass in her umpteenth costume and look of Netflix’s trailer for the series. We don’t know who she is, but she’s got style, some nice crystal drinkware, and a vendetta to settle with Roderick Usher and his family.
The Fall of the House of Usher hits Netflix October 12.
source https://www.ign.com/articles/who-exactly-is-paying-the-consequences-in-this-the-fall-of-the-house-of-usher-exclusive-clip