Tamerlane's mirror sequence was visually stunning.

@tellmesummgood9889

6 ай бұрын

I mean…… Yes it was

@raidenmakoto7168

6 ай бұрын

Definitely something to reflect on

@zeyeskan

6 ай бұрын

​@@raidenmakoto7168I see what u did there

@agidieternal

6 ай бұрын

It's my best death.

@Xxsorafan

6 ай бұрын

The transitioned between the two in the reflections was smooth

Freddy was truly awful. His cruelty to his wife during her pain, his treatmet of Lenore....his comeuppance was truly deserved

@MM-hf6om

6 ай бұрын

Freddy is interesting because I was completely on his side in the beginning. What his wife did was foul. But he just kept getting worse....and worse....and worse

@SamAspden

6 ай бұрын

"I tend not to get involved. But then you took her home. And you picked up the pliers."

@KaiayaRules

6 ай бұрын

@@MM-hf6om Technically, she just went to a party, though. She was on her way out when the acid came down, so although we will never know, she probably wouldn't have cheated.

@lolshawk

6 ай бұрын

​@@KaiayaRulesI think she was just a bored housewife, doesn't mean she was going to be unfaithful. She was just there to look and not exactly touch. Fraudtrick didn't exactly give her much to work with when it came to romance as his interests laid more in pleasing his father than his wife... But he didn't see that as cheating, so her window looking at the club shouldn't be classed as cheating.

@MM-hf6om

6 ай бұрын

​​@KaiayaRules technically. She went to an orgy. She definitely didn't go there to try the glenfiddich. Him leaving her ( we all know she signed a prenup) was the route that that would be acceptable. He went Jeffrey dahmer instead

I wish they'd discussed Lenore's death in this video. Verna's speech about how her choice would enable millions of people to get the help they need legit moved me to tears.

@raspyswirly

6 ай бұрын

Honestly! And gave the Raven another powerful layer in the character too, whatever/whoever she is

@chwenhoou

6 ай бұрын

Out of all the deaths within the Usher family, Lenore's death hurt the most. She was the better person out of all of them. Yet her fate was sealed when Roderick and Madeline made their pack. A life of luxury at the cost of the next generation. Roderick never thought that debt would come due. Nor did he realize how terrible the cost would be until it was too late.

@sweetie_babie

6 ай бұрын

They didn't because that's a spoiler. All of the deaths were kind of advertised at the beginning of the show, all but hers. They also didn't touch on Roderick. They left what they felt wouldn't ruin the show in

@Xxsorafan

6 ай бұрын

She wouldn’t have existed if they didn’t make that deal it was inevitable for her to die early at least because of the short life she lived she helps save millions over if she never existed at all and her father amounted to nothing more than a poor but happy poet

@dan_38

6 ай бұрын

What makes it clear of Lenore's death was that the wording is exact. The Raven could easily have used the loophole of Lenore being of Morelle's bloodline, but being with the Usher blood meant Lenore's fate was sealed

Perry's death gave me literal nightmares, whereas Vic's creeped me out so much. The acting was magnificent

@nkechiwilliams995

6 ай бұрын

I literally can't listen to that song without thinking about all of them literally burning in acid, a master piece really

@orchidlover5137

6 ай бұрын

Yeah I couldn’t watch it for a whole day because I was traumatized. The others weren’t as bad but that was the worst one🫠

@kaleshabrown

6 ай бұрын

Ugh ikr, I felt bad for actually seeing it coming... I had a feeling the water was gonna be acid or something not safe... but interesting enough I will say it still did not take away from the result of what the scene intended, if anything it almost made the scene more intense and significant. This was a really well done show, would love to watch again 👍👌

@chasef89

6 ай бұрын

I think it was weird that they did Perry's like that first. It was by far the most memorable and most horrifying, and they should have saved it for last. The rest were kind of a let down in comparison.

@jojoaugustus1383

6 ай бұрын

​@@chasef89I completely agree. I mean, Tammy's death was also great. But the others, not so much. Had Perry died last, it would have been great. His death really was kinda traumatic. To me, at least

I have never been so disgusted by a sound like I was of the heartbeat. I really love how they never show too much of the gore and use other elements to play up the horror

@Louise-wk5yf

6 ай бұрын

Yes! It sounds like it was choking

@workittworkit

6 ай бұрын

I agree. The tell tale heart is one of my favorite of Poes works. But that annoying chirpy squeak after each heart beat was so disturbing.

@LoveliestSunflower95

6 ай бұрын

The sound sticks with you after 😖

@Wiantjie1989

6 ай бұрын

The sound Alessandra makes as she was dying really REALLY took me aback and it kinda stayed with me. In a bad way.

@user-jp5zj7hk6m

6 ай бұрын

thank edgar allen poe for that:) biggest part of his poem Telltale Heart

the acid rain scene had me SHOOK! at this point mike flannagan is horror royalty 👑

@user-wy2di2gj8f

6 ай бұрын

💯

@wearethechange128

6 ай бұрын

i thought it would be gasoline, Because of the Molotov cocktails earlier in the scene

@TheKanyinsola

6 ай бұрын

Flanagan is what Ryan Murphy wanted to be but he lost the plot.

@katemock8260

6 ай бұрын

I have big respect for Mike Flanagan for a few series now; I think he's at his best with a limited series. Gives him plenty of room for pacing and building.

@Evija3000

6 ай бұрын

@@katemock8260 Yeah. I still feel like Midnight Club could have been great if they had planned on having is as a one season thing. I liked it a lot, but it definitely lacked a proper horror climax and resolution.

Despite how extra and ridiculous it was for Tamerlane to jump for the glass ceiling, that scene was just TOO BEAUTIFUL! Haunting how the shards of glass just rotate in slow motion below her suspended body while bigger shards fall above her.

@looney1023

6 ай бұрын

I love the garish green light. Gave me Vertigo vibes, but just the green all over her apartment and her clothes. That death was the one that felt the most gialli to me; the glass gave me suspiria vibes

@BT-ch9gf

6 ай бұрын

That was a great scene

@thatfabulousbastard114

6 ай бұрын

@@looney1023 holy shit, you're right.

@AFIYINFOLUWA

6 ай бұрын

​@@looney1023I think the green shows envy

@Milkiia

3 ай бұрын

The scene is extra but it really sell the moment of calm she experience before death. I think the actress is right, she is the only one to be somewhat redeem

Prospero's death was horrifying. Camille's interaction with Verna before her death had me shook. Frreddy's death was the one I clapped for.

The acid rain was horrific because it was literally torture, a slow & painful death. The foreshadowing of their deaths were a nice touch, especially Tamerlane’s & Vic’s

@nexusplexus23

6 ай бұрын

What foreshadowing?

@juliakatzin

6 ай бұрын

@@nexusplexus23i could actually talk about this for hours, but my favorite example is Perry waking up in that big pile of people. it foreshadowed his death in a visually appealing way. there’s a lot of really good, smart foreshadowing in the series.

@devantulloch8015

6 ай бұрын

@@nexusplexus23 also when the little drop of water fell on Perry’s phone when they were planning the party

@ilonamagny4339

6 ай бұрын

​@@juliakatzinplease give more examples:)

@mikey_strange

4 ай бұрын

​@nexusplexus23 and in the meeting with the lawyers at the beginning, they mentioned all the chemicals in the ground and waters and Perry mentions that the sprinkler system is localized to the building and that they don't use the water from the city.

I love how much pleasure Verna took in killing Freddy. You know you’re a horrible person when death itself ensures you have a terrifying, painful end to your life.

@ikariiprince

6 ай бұрын

The fact that she straight up says she had to personally intervene to make sure he suffered was hilarious

@Unownshipper

6 ай бұрын

Freddy bothered me. And I don't mean that in the obvious way; ALL of the Ushers are meant to bother you with how twisted and unhinged they are, but him in particular. He just felt like he didn't make sense. For having the least amount of character development time on screen, I feel like I understood Prospero more than Freddy, who (being last of the 2nd generation Ushers to die) should have had plenty of time for development. But I get nothing from Freddy! I could almost understand (though of course not condone) his treatment of Morella after finding out she was at the orgy, but how could he treat Lenore the way he did? How did he become the weak, nothing that he is? Were scenes with him cut? What's with his fear of elevators? Was the scene with the Kit-Cat Klock supposed to mean something or was it merely foreshadowing the pendulum? So much just feels unexplored, and I wonder if that was on purpose. Depicting a domestic abuser as spineless and cruel without reason is thematic (who wants to plumb for deeper meaning or sympathy for a person like that?), but it's also somewhat disappointing in a character-driven miniseries like this. Maybe Henry Thomas was just too good at portraying him as repellant.

@ericconnor8251

6 ай бұрын

@@UnownshipperGood points. I was convinced that Freddy would most likely due in an elevator, for that matter, but the homage to the pit and the pendulum was a nice touch. Still, you are right, they could have fleshed his character out a bit more to get us from point A to B, and they didn’t need more than five or ten minutes of screen time to do that, or sacrifice something else that was a bit more extraneous, like one or two of the excessive hallucinatory ghost scenes with Roderick at the least.

@thomashayes3783

6 ай бұрын

"The humans will coin a new word to describe accurately the manner of your demise."

@xxxstellarxxx

6 ай бұрын

@@UnownshipperYou know, I completely agree. I wonder if his character not being fleshed out was intentional. I wonder because Verna was like “All you ever wanted was to be loved by your father. But it’s still no fucking excuse”. It makes me think that he was purposefully unexplored because nothing we could’ve been shown would’ve justified it in any way shape or form

I loved how they assigned a specific colour to each of the Ushers' death scenes. Very reminiscent of The Masque of the Red Death in how each room was a specific colour.

Victorine's death hit me hardest (aside from Lenore's) because of the interaction with Roderick before her death. I think he realized just how badly he'd screwed up his kids, and how Vic could've been the best of them all if she hadn't been warped by being an Usher. What she did was unconscionable, and that along with accidentally killing her partner drove her to madness, but there was a core there of a woman who could have done so much good in her life that all I could think was what a waste it was. My father died of congestive heart failure; a device like her mesh could've given him a longer, better life, and I think that's why I felt the most for her.

@cullenarthur8879

6 ай бұрын

Accidentally killing her partner? I'm not sure about that. Sure, I don't think she intended to hurt her as bad as she did when she hit her with whatever that was she threw at her, but remember, she had a guard waiting right outside the room. She could have told him to call for help or asked him to help if he could. But what did she do? She closed the door and told him to mind his own business when he asked if she was alright. Sure, her girlfriend may have died anyway, but she let her die intentionally.

@a.m.1528

6 ай бұрын

Vic was definitely the best of them. She was trying to do good things for selfish reasons, but at least she was trying to do good, unlike the rest of her siblings. She was the only one of the children that Roderick faced before their demise, so his reaction was compounded by the loss of his the other children. I think in that moment he truly realized he raised them wrong (and subconsciously knew that it was all his fault for making the deal with Verna in the first place)

@katherineheasley6196

6 ай бұрын

@@cullenarthur8879 her horrified reaction when the whatever-it-was connected makes me think she didn't intend it to. Might've even been one of Verna's manipulations to make her think Al was farther out the door than she was. It was on her that she didn't call for help, but I'm also pretty sure that it wouldn't have done any good, and she knew it.

@cullenarthur8879

6 ай бұрын

@@katherineheasley6196 I just think that there was no way she was going to let her out of there to tell on her. It may have seemed like a spur of the moment accident, but remember, her partner was going to walk out on not only her personally, but tell on her for her illegal experiments, which would have cost her everything. Remember what Vic told her as she laid there dying. She told her she had to stop her from leaving and telling on her. She even had the nerve as her girlfriend laid dying to say that she "knew she didn't mean it" (saying she was going to tell on her). And like I previously pointed out, she could have called for help for the bodyguard but she didn't. She closed the door and told him nothing was wrong. Vic was unstable, and couldn't face the truth of what she did, but that was not some accident.

@Dennis-hd4go

6 ай бұрын

Out of all the Ushers, she was the one who still could have had a moral center. Maybe Roderick saw that and thats also why it hit him so hard

Victorine is the ultimate medical irony of the series. The Ushers have made fortunes out of medicines and equipment that they have pushed through the acceptance system (trials, paperwork, FDA) illegally and unethically; yet now when Roderick so desperately needs a medical device that DOES work and that has gone through the acceptance process with greens lights the whole way, he cannot get it. His decades of skewing the system have come back to bite him; he has been hung by his own petard.

@abbhyt-nm9nm

6 ай бұрын

Most of the kids have ironic deaths. Perry is killed by the medical waste his father hid to evade environmental regulations, Freddy by his dad's attempt to destroy evidence of his crimes, Camille by the product of the Ushers' unethical animal testing

@Unownshipper

6 ай бұрын

*hoisted

@annwilliams6438

4 ай бұрын

@@Unownshipper Ah, yes. Ta.

@Juel92

3 ай бұрын

Not really. "Hoisted by his own petard" would mean he somehow caused the medical science issues which he didn't.

Madeline was absolutely the highlight of this show for me, Mary McDonnell is just so good

@drartemisa21

5 ай бұрын

Here for the Madeline appreciation!

I agree with the Tammerland dying with a little redemption because she's the only of the Usher's sons that acepts that she maded mistakes even when she causes her own death with the shards, she is surrendering by her own reflection of the persona she created... What a great end for that character

@UnboxingAlyss

4 ай бұрын

Do you mean children? She isn't an Usher son.

i ended up liking tammy's episode way more than i expected to. his delusions and sleep deprivation throughout the episode leading to the final death scene was just incredibly well done

@Evija3000

6 ай бұрын

And visually stunning with all the mirrors and green lighting.

@Unownshipper

6 ай бұрын

I agree, the only thing I'll knock it for is lack of connection with the source material. The deaths of Prospero, Camille, Leo, and Victorine all homage with extreme thematic fidelity The Masque of Red Death, Murder in the Rue Morgue, The Black Cat, and The Tell-tale Heart, respectively. Frederick's scene is a stretch as the protagonist and ending to The Pit and The Pendulum are quite different; regardless, the adaptation brought the inherent horror of the short story to life. But with Tamerlane, there is no connection to The Gold Bug... besides the name. The story is a treasure hunt with cryptograms and pirate gold; it even inspired Robert Louis Stevenson to write Treasure Island. It has nothing to do with mirrors, health and beauty, doppelgangers, sleep, etc. If you want to push it, you could say that Tamerlane's obsession with the launch is similar to the protagonist's fixation on the treasure, but once again, the endings are diametrically opposite. It's the one weakness amongst 6 otherwise brilliant modern adaptations of Poe's short stories (8 if you include The Raven and Fall of the House of Usher itself), but maybe that's okay. It might be nothing more than a lip service reference to the original story, but one can't deny that the cinematography, the acting, and the whole idea around the episode is so lush and captivating in its madness that Poe himself would be impressed.

@xxxstellarxxx

6 ай бұрын

@@UnownshipperI want you to know this was beautifully written

@Unownshipper

6 ай бұрын

@@xxxstellarxxx Thank you!

In this interview Mary McDonnell (Madeline Usher) made a comment which best encapsulates this entire story and, I may argue, all other Mike Flanagan Netflix series : “There is a theme of Grief : manifesting grief - unexplored and unhealed - can create horror in our lives. It’s deeply, deeply sad.” Definitely one of the most well-crafted Flanagan works yet right after “The Haunting of Hill House” and followed very closely by Midnight Mass. It deserves several Emmy accolades next year!

@peytonandamber9457

6 ай бұрын

Those are my favs in order also!

@Sun.Shine-

Ай бұрын

Yeah haunting in hill house is the best one, midnight mass and ushers in tier 2, bly manor in tier 3, midnight club in tier 4

As terrible as the characters are, I felt so much empathy not just for Napoleon but also for Tamerlane. Tamerlane acknowledging Juno in the end plus her anxiety and pressure to do her best? I just felt so bad for her. Throwing the mic to Juno made me laugh so much but man does it suck that Juno now thinks she still hates her.

@nkechiwilliams995

6 ай бұрын

Poor juno honestly I never understood why all kids hate her so much I mean I understand the thinking she's a golddigger and the "junkie" thing but juno was so nice to all of them and rod too

@a.m.1528

6 ай бұрын

​@nkechiwilliams995 I think Tammy (who hated her the most) took comfort knowing that no woman was good enough for her father to marry and essentially replace her mother. So she hated that Juno's presence was competing with her mother's memory. As for the other siblings, they were probably jealous that this random woman was good enough for Roderick to marry, but their own mothers weren't. Juno didn't deserve anything that the Ushers put her through, but I'm glad she ultimately got a happy ending.

@kaetispannbauer9082

6 ай бұрын

Napoleon?

@LeonorFiniCat

6 ай бұрын

@@a.m.1528I agree with this. I loved Juno and found myself thinking that she and Annabel would have liked each other. Apart from Lenore and Auguste they were the only truly honest and kind main characters. I think of how stupid Roderick was, what a sad waste, that he had two wives who genuinely loved him and he threw that away for money and power.

@WulfysGamingTidbits

6 ай бұрын

@@kaetispannbauer9082 Leo's full name is Napoleon.

At least Mary Mcdonnell's character wasn't the only one who dies. Madeline may have died but she comes back with a vengeance and kills her brother as well. I loved Mary’s giggle because she knows that her character comes back and kills Roderick as well. Because as Madeline said, "Into the world together, out of the world together."

@ACinemafanatic

5 ай бұрын

Or maybe Verna doesn’t let her die by Rodrick because they were supposed to die together to seal the transaction

@alanafowler3024

5 ай бұрын

@@ACinemafanatic If you are a Battlestar Galactica fan like I am. I prefer to think that after the house falls and Madeline dies she downloads into a new body on board a Cylon Basestar that was in orbit and then jumps away to Caprica and becomes the mother of all Cylons.

Rockrick and Madline reationship was beautiful and sad at the same time

@getmeouttahere3595

6 ай бұрын

I feel like they were just two toxic siblings who brought out the worst in each other.

@edisonlima4647

6 ай бұрын

​@@getmeouttahere3595Yeah, they enabled each other and portrayed the natural conclusion of the cliché phrase "us against the world".

@mirix1515

6 ай бұрын

Good for them. If we had more siblings just like them who did sacrifice for each other, we would have been living in better society@@getmeouttahere3595

@chwenhoou

6 ай бұрын

In the end, I felt more pity for Roderick than his sister. His life was dominated by his psychotic mother. Then Madeline took her place. He could've broken free from this abusive cycle at any time. He should've stood by his first wife. Instead, he was too weak to break the chains his sister bound him in. Madeline wanted to be a goddess among ants. So her brother stole the best present one could offer. A pair of dead eyes to match her rotting soul.

@getmeouttahere3595

6 ай бұрын

@edisonlima4647 i feel like madeline coaxed her brother with something of "it's us against the world." Roderick most likely trauma-bonded with Madeline because of their past, and he probably felt like he was her only lifeline, but he failed to realize that she was a sinking ship and that he was already on a stable boat (with his wife, the cop, etc). It's sad and ironic that you can see his downfall the more success he had. When he met Verna, it was already too late. His character reached a point of no return, no saving grace.

T’Nia Miller… love her!!!! This whole cast was amazing

I absolutely LOVE creative death scenes, and these were shot beautifully and really ended each characters' story well

This is an example of why Ryan Murphy and American Horror Story could never beat Mike Flannagan's content!

@l.j1295

6 ай бұрын

Ryan Murphy tries to be Mike Flanagan. I think that's who he want to be..

@CINEMATECO

6 ай бұрын

Ryan Murphy Misses in the most essential thing of horror and shows, HUMANITY and HEART. He creates characters, Mike Flannagan's recreate people we know and also our own ghost's and dark side. Ryan should ask for victorine some help to find one...

@AlexS-oj8qf

6 ай бұрын

Two different genre tho. AHS is HorrorFlick and Flannagan’s Gothic.

@Phenom0100

6 ай бұрын

@@AlexS-oj8qf They both have horror and have the formula of reusing actors for different roles.

@spotteddog1716

6 ай бұрын

YEEESSSS!

I find it so hard to find good horror movies/shows. But Flanagan always knocks it out of the park. This series was such a good mix of darkness, lore, references to literature (Poe) and gore. I felt like this was such a great way to modernise a classic story teller.

@herm712

6 ай бұрын

Don't forget humor! There were a number of parts that made me laugh, right on down to the end with Roderick's reaction after Dupin mentioned that Madeline might not be dead.

@curioushoodie

6 ай бұрын

​@@herm712Napoleon when handed the contract "is this also cake?" I was howling.

@curioushoodie

6 ай бұрын

A lot of horror movies uses gore or jump scares. Mike Flanagan style is more gothic horror, which is more poetic (though he can get carried away with monologues), so maybe gothic horror is more to your taste.

@Evija3000

6 ай бұрын

@@herm712 Every time Juno reacted to the kids' remarks. I mean Juno in general.

@herm712

6 ай бұрын

@@Evija3000They did her so dirty lolol! But yes, her reactions and the whatever she'd mutter to herself afterwards😂 She definitely got the last laugh in the end. I don't know the actress's name but I enjoyed her in this and in The Midnight Club.

*Spoiler* There was something poetic in every death. But if i had to choose only one of them, it would be Tamerlane's. Looking at her reflection as the mirror pieces rained upon her...Her death scene was beautiful and horrific.

I just can’t be the only one who loves Camille/kate’s wig you know she took that home , iconic she said the wig is based off the incredibles and that makes it all the more iconic

Vic's episode was my favorite. It was gruesome and sad and poignant T'nia's acting was out of this world. Some of the best "crazy" I've ever seen.

@Murdo2112

6 ай бұрын

I found that to be the weakest part of the entire show . I'd enjoyed her acting throughout the show , but when it came to the craziness it just felt like a poor Captain Jack Sparrow impersonation. Perhaps rewatches will bring different feelings , but that was the overall effect for me, first time watching, and it severely broke the mood.

@Rash23215

6 ай бұрын

​@@Murdo2112 okay???

@Murdo2112

6 ай бұрын

@@Rash23215 Do you have something to add?

Netflix when are trixie and katya reacting to fall of the house of usher???!!!

@that_cat_person3417

6 ай бұрын

They have to!!

Colour pattern for each of Usher children's death: Perry - Red Camille - White Leo - Yellow Vic - Orange Tammy - Green Freddy - Blue

@mentalhealthisimp

6 ай бұрын

Didn't observe it until you mentioned. Great observation 👍

Mary McDonnell played the role so freaking well, loved her performance and that last drink moment between her and fred was really moving in a way. Great series!

Oh this show is just perfect. Every scene is beautifully crafted and each story is brought to completion, Madeline says "if death wants me shell have to look me in the eyes" and the cruel irony of her brother removing those eyes so that in her final moments she would see nothing. Mike Flannagan has found a very interesting horror niche to excel in and I cant wait to watch more of his works.

It sort of makes me wonder if there were any Ushers offscreen that got collected by Verna as well. Children where their mothers didn’t tell them who their father actually was. That would have added an extra twist to the story.

@Evija3000

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, that seems very likely since most of them only learned about being an Usher after they were 18.

@snowglow5656

6 ай бұрын

They probably made better life decisions so they died in their sleep.

@Sun.Shine-

6 ай бұрын

I also thought the same. A deal's a deal, so she did collect them. They might've gotten painless deaths

@thomashayes3783

6 ай бұрын

@@Sun.Shine- In-keeping with Lenore's end, Verna probably gave these "secret" or "innocent" Ushers a similar deal and probably twisted their deaths into a sort of bittersweet victory. Obviously not to the scale that Lenore's choice affects millions, but something more "peasant" scale. If any of that made sense?

@jenem9618

7 күн бұрын

While they were in the pub making the initial deal, I think Verna said something about the children being able to enjoy the benefits of the lifestyle before their time comes. That would imply that all of the bloodline found their way to the wealth at some point.

This was masterfully acted across every single character. I mean, wow. I totally stan Carla Guigino--she was a freakin rock star in this one. And Madeline Usher

I feel bad for the children, to be honest. Their fate was re-woven the moment Rod and Mad made the deal. Freddie was supposed to be a dentist--a good one at that too. But clearly it got changed during the deal.

Mary is so well spoken, and her tone is so soft. I’ve always loved listening to her speak, especially during her BSG monologues.

Camilles was awful because you can see she was dragged all over the floor

This was truly amazing to watch. It was so visual. I love the fact that they ran Edgar Allen Poe throughout the whole thing. There’s all kinds of little references and especially Freddy’s death. The pit in the pendulum-it was great. I think I love this series the best out of the all of them that he’s done.

@daphneyandersen1235

6 ай бұрын

The fact Camille said they referred to Usher laboratories as the Rue Morgue.....

I would go out on a limb here and say Mike Flanigan is the next Alfred Hitchcock. His work in the Horror genre is SO unique and ground breaking and it just keeps getting better and better.

Spoiler alert, as my opinions on each death follow: Perry's Cuddle Puddle was kinda epic, Camille's last Line made me smile as it was very her("Fuck It,I Got Mine"),I was sad for Vic("Daddy?"),Leo's last moment made me feel some kind of way but im glad psycho kitty was alive,Tammy's was quite tragic as she always so alone,Freddy deserved worse after his behaviour towards Morella and Lenore,Poor innocent Lenore didnt deserve to die but at least hers was a thing of grace,Madds passing seemed like Roderick was trying to be merciful and his own death was the culmination of it all...as verna says "you came into the world together,so you'll be leaving it together" ...I adore this show

@kaetispannbauer9082

6 ай бұрын

It wasn't psycho kitty, it was the original Pluto. He never killed Pluto, it was a hallucination

The directorial style is incredible and the cinematography is visual wowing! It in many ways was a love poem written in appreciation to Poe and what his works gave the world. So many people see his works as death-fixated, but like Madeline said, the true story of Poe and his works is the way grief, not death, shapes the world. Excellent series all the way around

I love watching these people talk about how despicable their characters are and seemingly love that they got to die lol. Truly some incredible actors and actresses.

I love the actress who played Camille ❤😂

The fact that they all were still in character when they reacted to their deaths. I fucking love this show.

Anyone else thinks there’s a bit of a paradox in the deaths. Rodrick didn’t actually die of a natural cause, Madeline killed him, but he did that to her because of the death clause in the deal so does that mean it was a self fulfilling prophecy or was he going to die soon? His mom is shown to be in pain for weeks before dying and he’s never seen taking ligadon but idk

@kyle1137

6 ай бұрын

It was a self fulfilling prophecy once they made the deal with Verna

I loved everything about that show

Victorine creeped me out the most of the siblings, she was like a mad scientist, and Freddy was definitely the worst in the end.

I LOVE how Verna kind of tried to prevent *the painful deaths. Like Camille by repeating that she's not supposed to be there, Victorine by questioning if she should really start human trials and Tamerlane by telling her to calm down. Great acting, stunning visuals and killer writing 😩👏 *edit: oops yeah y'all are totally right, thanks!

@catcactus1234

6 ай бұрын

I don’t think Verna was trying to prevent their deaths, since their fates were already sealed by their father’s deal. I think she was trying to redirect them to less painful deaths. Verna mentioned that she can choose how they die during Frederick’s death scene, and she chooses more painful deaths based on the severity of their actions. E.g. Frederick gets sliced to death slowly because he tortured his lover, but Leonora gently fell asleep because she never did anything wrong.

@jesk743

6 ай бұрын

​@catcactus1234 correct, she tried to get both Perry and Camile to turn back from what they were doing so that they'd have less painful deaths but they were too stubborn/greedy and paid for those choices with horrible deaths. For Frederick's she made sure he was going to suffer in the worst way possible bc of him torturing his wife - I remember her saying he "had to bring out the pliers" and that's when she decided he wasn't going to get the choice to be spared a painful death.

@Evija3000

6 ай бұрын

@@jesk743 She also told Tammy to call her husband. If she had done that instead of listening to her jealousy, the whole mirror sequence wouldn't have happened. She probably would have found peace and just fallen asleep. And she tested Leo and Victorine. Leo didn't have to lie to his boyfriend, do all those drugs and try to kill the second cat. And Vic didn't have to go for the human trials behind her girlfriend's back when she knew they weren't even ready and the poor lady would likely die.

@jackselle4607

6 ай бұрын

There was an interview with Carla that she gave people an alternative but in the end their fate was already sealed because they would always choose as she predicted

@fallenwarlock2418

6 ай бұрын

Not exactly preventing their deaths, but making them less painful. Verna tells Camille that she could have died in bed, it would have been a peaceful death, probably like Lenore’s. Perry and Camille had the chance to leave when confronted by Verna, but they decided to stay where they were. Leon had the chance to adopt a stray cat/tell the truth to his boyfriend, but he chose to pay for a cat that wasn’t even available for adoption. Victorine was questioned if she really should move to human trials and insisted on doing so. Tammy could have called her husband and apologized. But Frederick lost his chance to have a peaceful ending when he hurt his wife

I liked Freddie’s death scene the best. He actually deserved it after how he treated his wife. Plus, Carla’s acting in that scene was so good.

One of the best series on Netflix I’ve watched in months! Clever writing, great acting.

Victorine's episode was a master class in acting and directing, oh man the final twist I was expecting something like a murder on the operation room but never that twist, and the color red at the end, it was marvellous T'Nia Miller outdone herself with her acting, by far the best death in the series not for the act itself but everything that lead to it

It wasn't till the end I realized Verna is an anagram for Raven! Loved this show

Without question Bruce Greenwoods AWARD winning performance of his entire career! And all the metaphors OMG, genius writing and performances all around.

This series actually surprised me, and I really enjoyed it. The actors were quite phenomenal, especially the actress who played Verna. As much as you want to hate them all, you end up liking aspects of them.

I was so sad Camille died so soooon 😭

Rahul Kohli is so beautiful! ❤

I just finished watching the show. I watched one or two a week and avoided so many spoilers and conversations. It was so madly worth it. If anyone has watched Major Crimes, I will now think of Sharon’s exit very differently.

This show was amazing. The fact that it was EAP driven made me love it even more.

After haunting of hill house, usher is the best work of flannagan

The Black Cat is one of my favorite Edgar Allan Poe stories :). I did like the way there were twists in the stories(at least the ones I read, plus the poems. I have not read the pit and the pendulum or the gold bug) I was wondering how they would portray Perry's death since before they show it he looks like he's been burned, so I was expecting fire until the whole water sprinkler thing. So the mask of the red death, instead of the plague getting prospero I guess it's him dying in acid rain(which was probably one of the most horrifying deaths), people were melting everywhere(no one was running, I'm guessing, because they were high). And then to think they brought this all on themselves with a deal they made so long ago offering their bloodlines up as collateral. The only one who was truly innocent and I hoped could have survived was Lenore(but she was still an Usher so I knew eventually she'd die too), at least her death was peaceful.

This is how I wanted the fall of the house of Lannister to be 👏🏻👏🏻

@rexibhazoboa7097

6 ай бұрын

Hell nah, Jaime and Tyrion are great.

@Evija3000

6 ай бұрын

@@rexibhazoboa7097 Not at the end though.

God this cast is phenomenal

Best show I've seen on Netflix in a while! Second only to Bly Manor in my opinion

@OdetteM00

6 ай бұрын

Bly manor is good, it’s a three way tie with midnight mass and midnight club to me

@tkaki6029

6 ай бұрын

What about Hill House. Still have that as number 1. House of Usher is 2 in my book.

@ScooterSkillsYolo

6 ай бұрын

Hill house number 1, midnight mass a close second and usher 3 for me personally but I only just finished usher so recenty bias may be at play. I did love Bly manor aswell

@shabnamkaun

6 ай бұрын

Bly Manor is a mess, especially when compared to Midnight Mass, Hill House and House of Usher

@LuisGustavoSO

6 ай бұрын

​@@shabnamkaunhow is it a mess?

2:11 i love how the actors don't know what Verna is. The people making the show cannot tell us what this thing is that's killing them. Its hilarious and terrifying.

@raspyswirly

6 ай бұрын

I still don't know what she is honestly haha but I appreciate that, it doesn't have to be explained

@bondfall0072

6 ай бұрын

@@raspyswirly my headcannon is she's from the cthulu mythos because she reads the city in the sea poem, though i do like the theory that she's a member of the egyption Pantheon.

@raspyswirly

6 ай бұрын

@@bondfall0072 My thing about it also is that Poe seems to exist in their universe, but Roderick doesn't seem to be aware that his family and their deaths are following the theme? There's some skewed meta things going on haha

@cl34939

6 ай бұрын

@@raspyswirly i don't think poe exists in this world. i thought Roderick wrote those poems himself. didn't Verna say he had a way with words and would have been a poet in another life? and verna claimed that she wrote city in the sea

Incredible cast - the *voices* of Madeline, Roderick and Verna are doing so much to add to the atmosphere.....

To die first was the best gift from Verna cause the last ones to die had the biggest breakdowns before their death

@Evija3000

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, there was mounting pressure and grief and probably anxiety that comes with living through the other deaths. Although I think she was just going by age, starting with Roderick's youngest.

This series really proves to me personally that what is inside really matters, not just physical looks. Freddie's actor in Haunting of Hill House was so handsome to me, as he was good man, a good person, but in this one, besides having terrible hairstyle, he played Freddie so well, he was so offputting as person and a man.

“Is the world mad, or is he mad? Either way you lose” I love that.

Mary and Bruce playing siblings was really good

Perry's death still haunting me. I think it was predictable but so cruel. So much suffering.

This series blew me away! ❤ I really hope this inspires younger generations to explore Poe’s work. He truly was a master.

I've watched this 2 times already. Its just a really good show! Love the actors and loveee Verna

Sound design was CRUCIAL in this show. Really made it what it is. All the individual elements were all tied together because of it.

tamerlane’s death was spectacular.. beautiful and tragic… the visuals 😍

Vic's scene was my personal favourite. The performances by everyone, Alessandra twitching as her brain realizes that she's actually dying and confused, Vic going insane, Roderick freaking the hell out as he realizes what he is seeing. My God, I felt like someone had their fist around my heart in that episode's finale. It reminded me of how I felt about the Bent Neck Lady reveal which is high praise.

Vic's episode creeped me out so hard. I kept hearing that *thump-chirp* noise in my head.

The saddest part of this was Lenore’s Death. A better twist would have been that she wasn’t Freddie daughter and as a result woke up and didn’t die after all.

@whiteshadow7584

6 ай бұрын

That would have been a better fate for such a good character. She didn't deserve to die.

For MADELYNS DEATH i also found it ironic how she died VERY SIMILAR TO HOW THEIR MOTHER DID. LIKE HOW THEY BOTH ROSE UP FROM THR GRAVES TO BOTH CHOKE THR GUY OUT THAT DID THEM WRONG

@Evija3000

6 ай бұрын

I don't think I'd call it ironic, but yeah it was well written. He got their mother's disease, she got their mother's death. And they died like their parents died. Full circle.

Tamerlane's episode is my favourite in the show. That was the episode that truly showed the side of the show that touches upon the family's mental disease.

Lenore’s scene made me cry she was the best out of all of them

Freddie’s death was giving Saw V but better. Tammy’s was the most visually intriguing to me. I wish i had more time with the first three to die like Camille who’s death seems to fit Vic more and who’s character despite everything truly seemed so far removed from a lot of the drama even though she conducted much of it. Leo and Tammy being driven insane also drove me mad. At the end we should all think “I got mine”.

Perry's death was the most brutal and amazing and really set the tone for the series. The whole sequence still lives rent-free in my head and I'm never gonna be able to hear Closer the same way again.

@TheF1na1Countdown59

3 ай бұрын

'Closer' was one of several "theme songs" that molded, and shaped my teen years in the best possible way! A wonderfully, stylistically graphic video, to accompany a killer track... And speaking of "killer", this newest association with 'Closer' was like getting together with an old, close friend for the first time in nearly 30 years... Just not "Cuddle Puddle" close, that is! 😉 My hat's off to Flanagan for crafting a scene so wonderfully disturbing, to a track so epic, and equally disturbing: This was nothing short of gruesome perfection! 👍👍

I was in love with every bit of this show! Watched it in one sitting like I do with all of Mike Flanagan’s work. I’m addicted to his style of storytelling & cannot wait to see what else he has in store for us 🐦‍⬛❤

This was an Amazing show-Love every single family member's arc and the most brilliant part for me was finding out during the Final episode that brother and sister literally brokered a deal when they were young to gain all of their life-long success in exchange for........Absolutely brilliant reveal.

I love how T'nia Miller says Alessandra!

Brilliant work with everyone absolutely at the top of their game. This amazing crew's special brand of classy, thoughtful horror is an auto-watch for us every time. So excited to see where they go next.

All of it was traumatizing in different ways

Vic's death was so amazingly plotted. I knew it was the device when it first started making noise but just couldn't get my head around as to how would they show it and the final reveal of her opening up Ruiz's chest and putting that device in was what got me like " the fuck"

As someone’s who’s renovated houses and a couple offices. It is quite exhilarating to smash through drywall

I’ve ranked their deaths from what I think is the most awful way to go: 1.Prospero(burned alive is just…damn) 2.Camille(getting attacked by a chimp…god no) 3.Freddy(paralyzed whilst knowing you’re going to die by the falling bits of a building you’re currently inside) 4.Tamerlane(ouch,just ouch) 5.Vic(can’t imagine the mentality of stabbing myself like that) 6.Leo(awful way but 10 seconds)

I still kinda think that they set themselves up for a downtrend with Perry's death, which was a truly horrible spectacle. You almost forget Camille's and Leo's--the ante could have been upped maybe with a chase sequence for Camille, and with Leo going a little crazy against his boyfriend (and perhaps they could have lived in a higher apartment?). Vic's was perfect and the saddest, with how everything played out, and Tammie's, as somewhat sterile as it was, was executed beautifully. Frederick's comeuppance brought it all back to speed too, thankfully. After the unfortunate misstep with The Midnight Club (which I still have a soft spot for), what a great addition to Flanagan's oeuvre.

I fucking loved this show and everything that Mike Flanagan touches. And I know that the seven sins theory has been debunked, but if we go with it. I would place it like this: Perry - Gluttony Camille - Envy Leo - Sloth Victorine - Pride Tammy - Lust Frederick - Wrath Roderick and Madeline - Greed

@rexibhazoboa7097

6 ай бұрын

how is Tammy lust?

@shanavrouletis1206

6 ай бұрын

I kept trying to work that theory out but kept coming back to the fact that they’re all pretty heinous individuals, and quite a few of them delusional too. Tammy was cold and had the need to control things, Perry could be lust or gluttony or greed/pride for desiring notoriety but also deluded about making the event work without looking at all the details. Leo could be sloth, as he was an escapist, playing his video games and doing drugs, not dealing with reality, also deluded. I could see Camille as envy and victorine as pride. Frederick definitely wrath and sadism.

@DkGamerYoutube

6 ай бұрын

@@shanavrouletis1206 Exactly my thoughts! Some of them was very easy to place and some could have several, and a few didn’t have any of them, like Camille. Probably why the theory isn’t real 😂

@DkGamerYoutube

6 ай бұрын

@@rexibhazoboa7097 She was very hard to place, same with Camille. But the whole thing with the sex workers that looks like her. I know it’s a far fetched one

@raspyswirly

6 ай бұрын

@@DkGamerKZread Camille totally made sense as envy though. Her pettiness with Vic was even explained by Verna herself. And she wanted everyone else's secrets because she didn't have any. Her life was cold and barren like her apartment.

This was fascinating! Great actors, I love to see their thoughts on these performances :)

Omg seeing Anish with an Edgar cut in an Edgar Alan Poe series was peak meta.

The heart beat TRIPPED ME OUT

So many talented people in the show❤❤

This series is brilliant. Wonderfully done.

As a fan of Poe I've never been so excited to see characters die in a show just to see which of Poe's short stories their deaths were based upon

Mary should get a emmy for this

@katherineheasley6196

6 ай бұрын

Emmys all around, especially for her, Bruce Greenwood, and Carla Fucking Gugino. If McDonnell and Gugino are competing for the same award, though, I think it should go to Carla. She was an absolute tour de force.

@user-lh7hb1ge7h

6 ай бұрын

Mary and Bruce should do another project together

@user-lh7hb1ge7h

6 ай бұрын

Mary look so dame good in this

@rexibhazoboa7097

6 ай бұрын

Aslo her younger version! Willa had that intimidating psychotic presence to her and her dialogue scenes were chef kiss

I love how this series had a message. ❤

I will be watching this again. It was so well made. Well done 👍