THE FALL OF THE HOUSE USHER made me sick in the best way | Explained

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  @AmandaTheJedi · 2 years ago (edited) · pinned

  Thanks for the patience on this one! I was out of town for family so this took a little longer than anticipated because of how long it ended up being. Hope you enjoy! I know there's a ton of stuff and references that got cut here so let me know your favorites that I missed! This wasn't supposed to be comprehensive Poe coverage but hopefully you learned something or get to teach me something!

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  @amandablii · 2 years ago

  I love how we got to see that every "powerful" thing that Roderick said was previously said by someone who he saw as powerful

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  @SpoookiePie · 2 years ago

  In fairness to Vic 'getting the easy death' with the heart stabbing, I kinda figured her suffering was less the death itself, and more the looming guilt/madness in the form of the beating heart noise that she can't escape from, since The Telltale Heart's horror is more in the torment of a guilty conscience. Similarly with Leo, the death itself wasn't the horror like it was with, say, Perry. It was the tormenting madness that led up to it.

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  @thehappyrecluse · 2 years ago

  I feel like Madeline choosing you are so small for the brick shows how much what Anabelle Lee said to her actually got to her. It was effective even if Madeline didn't really react to it when it was said to her.

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  @MahiMahi-yu5jo · 2 years ago

  In the show, it's obvious how strong Lenore's will was. But nobody talks about poor Juno, perhaps the one victim of Roderick that did heal and got better. Poor woman was used as a pawn but her reply to Roderick, 'I'll take three years of hell over a lifetime with you' is a testament to her strength. After a season of being humiliated and objectified, I was glad  to hear the end of the story where she wanted nothing to do with the Ushers and was doing well.

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  @Saruva_Eduardo · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sRYBmrAY64&amp;t=1876">31:16</a> Tammy&apos;s death is also linked to a Poe&apos;s tale: William Wilson. The tale of a guy who is haunted his whole life by somebody that looks exactly like him but more succesful and put together, at the end of the tale, when he kills this guy it is revealed he actually killed himself in front of a mirror. Basically Poe&apos;s twist on the impostor syndrome.

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  @Pagansong · 2 years ago

  What Froderick did to his wife was from Poes short story Bernice. This series really shows how gory Poes stories were despite being poetic.

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  @charischannah · 2 years ago

  Just that moment in the last episode where Dupin asks Roderick if he was sure Madeline was dead and Roderick pauses and says, &quot;You know, our mother was the same way.&quot; That just got me.

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  @EyeKahnography · 2 years ago

  Felt so bad for Julian. &nbsp;All he did was stay loyal, forgive his BF, lose a cat and wasn&apos;t even mad at Leo about it and watches his SO lose his mind and yeet himself at nothingness. &nbsp;While they don&apos;t really go back to Julian I do hope his situation improved after this. &nbsp;That&apos;s a lot to carry around for anyone.

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  @AdmiralKomodo · 2 years ago (edited)

  Juno actually does have a counterpoint - sort of. In the Gold-Bug mystery short story, there&apos;s a very badly stereotyped African American servant (possibly enslaved person?) named &quot;Jupiter&quot;, who is portrayed as bumbling and not very smart. They likely flipped it to be &quot;Juno&quot; the wife of Jupiter in Roman mythology, and made her storyline of &quot;slavery&quot; being more related to addiction and breaking it. It&apos;s also why she&apos;s more related to the Goldbug storyline sort of

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  @jellokids · 2 years ago

  Mark Hamill’s performance was perfection in this role! I loved how he turned down Verna and then she was there watching him as he walked into the police station.

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  @nomickeyno · 2 years ago (edited)

  I know Madeline seems the more sociopathic out of the twins, as she seemingly killed any iota of morality, humanity, and compassion a human can have (cause at least Roderick was grieve-stricken by Lenore’s death), but I think that Roderick is as sociopathic as her, he’s just more subtle at hiding it. When they made the deal with the Raven/Verna, she tells them that all they would have to do is sacrifice their bloodline. Roderick, who already had two living children, did not hesitate to throw them under the bus for wealth because he thought it was far better to die young and rich, than to live old and struggle. It’s along the lines of the reasoning some male narcissistic family annihilators commit their crimes; “It’s better to kill them so that they don’t suffer for my consequences”, instead of what it is, complete selfishness and willingness to sacrifice one’s own blood to achieve your desires. He also knowingly stripped Annabelle of their children, because he knew she was a far better human and parent than he was and he resented her for it, so he pulled them away and corrupted them with money until every essence of good their mother instilled in them was eroded by the greed of wealth.<br>This show, much like Hill House and Bly Manor, show how trauma, generational trauma, can turn people into the absolute worst of mankind

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