#madeline usher

[cerayanay]

The scene where the deal was made changed my perspective on both Roderick and Madeline. We see the entire show that Madeline is the harder, colder and more ambitious of the two, but Roderick hardly even hesitating with making the deal to sell his children’s lives. Madeline hesitated greatly, and based off her body language in that scene, if Roderick had turned down the deal she would have as well.

On top of that, Madeline says she did not have any children her entire life because of the deal, Madeline puts security guards on all the remaining Usher children, and Madeline tries to preserve Lenore as an AI. Roderick seemed completely resigned to his families fate the entire show.

Also seeing that it was Madeline who had the plan for to make Roderick the head of Fortunato, lure Grus to the basement, and planned their alibi for the murder it’s ironic that all she wanted was to not be chained to some man, who dictats her life and ended up being chained to her brother and constantly having to work for his successes

[kitxvoss]

"And we're the problem?"

[flung-out-of-asgard]

[taiturner]

Willa Fitzgerald as Madeline Usher in The Fall of the House of Usher (2023)

[zara2148]

I also like how House of Usher quietly calls out Madelines delusions of AI immortality. How Roderick is also fully suckered into this, saying that Madeline was close to cracking it despite at least one other instance (the heart mesh that needed more tests, more modifications, before it could possibly be ready) showing that his estimates are more wishful thinking than anything.

... But her final product, the Lenore bot, built upon thousands of questions Lenote answered, only offers a single word upon activation: "Nevermore." Lenore is dead, the bot will never recapture the spark that fueled her.

[florestrellas]

"Women are the natural leaders of the species. Ancient Egypt had it right." THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (2023)

[doyouwanttoseeabug]

oh OOOOOOH their deaths mirror each other. Tamerlane and Leo are both driven to what looks like suicide chasing hallucinations around an apartment that architecturally represents their psyche (as they destroy it), shortly after leaving/planning to leave their loving partner. (Both of them invite her in, at first. Both of them want her there. But now she's in the mirrors. She's in the walls.)

Vic and Camille are both killed/driven to death by Vic's experiments, their rivalry leading to both their deaths (Camille to prove it doesn't work, Vic to prove it does), immediately after they get left by people they are using in professional/personal ways - Camille hires Toby and Tina to sleep with them, Vic dates Ali to get her to work with her on the heart mesh.

Perry and Frederick both die in the same warehouse, looking at the ceiling, waiting for death to come to them - Perry with a look of ecstasy, Frederick in terror. Both of them are in that warehouse because they've been humiliated by Roderick and are now determined to prove themselves. Both get led here by drugs. Both involve the mutilation of an innocent, Morrie. Both of them see Verna not as another character, but something like her true self. And there's the parallel between all the mercy that Verna offers Perry - the most she offers any of them, other than Lenore - and her glee in explaining to Roderick exactly why he deserves to die like this.

And then you get the final pairing/quartet of deaths - Eliza Usher + William Longfellow vs Madeline and Roderick which is obvious but oh my god. oh my god you guys. Eliza's wall of crucifixes and clinging to Christian faith and the sanctity of pain as a way of hoping for reward after death vs Roderick putting Madeline through the agony of vivisection to 'honour' her + grant her Egyptian immortality. Both William and Roderick eat their young. Fuck.

[softavasilva]

cheers to you, cleopatra

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER EPISODE 5 | The Tell-Tale Heart

[spiderliliez]

They will live a blessed, privileged life, and depart the stage together. [+] CARLA GUGINO 🥀 [+] ..more on “The Fall of the House of Usher” 🎬

[stevenrogered]

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER | 1x08 "The Raven"

[80sghosts]

Willa Fitzgerald as Madeline Usher in The Fall of the House of Usher (2023)

[tamerlanes]

I thought you only existed in the movies. Willa Fitzgerald as Madeline Usher in The Fall of the House of Usher

[church-of-lilith]

madeline usher is actually great sapphic rep the more you think about it because who among us hasn’t found themselves in a messy situationship with the personification of death?

[cluelessrebel1988]

I'll admit I was initially surprised that it was Roderick, not Madeline, who was the first to say yes to Verna's offer of a consequence-free rise to the top of the company they viewed as their birthright (largely because Roderick never came across as that ruthless unless he was playing a part in Madeline's schemes), but the more I thought about it the more it makes complete sense.

Of course Roderick Usher, who never thinks beyond the moment in front of him and always rushes head-first at any problem that presents itself, jumps on a deal that gives him everything he wants and kicks the consequences of his actions down the road and onto the next generation (and then continues to add to that generation despite the memory of the deal still existing in the back of his mind). And of course Madeline Usher, who always sees the bigger picture and plays the long game to get what she wants, is hesitant to accept a deal that would end with that entire legacy falling out from underneath them (and then takes measures to ensure that she can't have children just in case she didn't imagine it).

[endotoxic]

watching an extremely manipulative woman kiss the personification of death on new years 1980 >>>>>

[florestrellas]

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (2023) 1x07 "The Pit and the Pendulum" | 1x08 "The Raven"