#roderick usher

[ronon-dex]

how to recognise a mike flanagan show:

1. people saying 4 pages of dialogue to another person who will stare back at them, looking devastated

2. mike flanagan's wife looking unbelievably hot

3. gay activity

4. carla gugino scaring the shit out of someone

5. just the worst gore you have ever seen. only for a few seconds. but christ it will stay with you

[eggsaladstain]

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (Netflix, 2023)

[caraslefteyebrow]

mike flanagan this october:

[kitxvoss]

"And we're the problem?"

[flung-out-of-asgard]

[redgillan]

roderick usher rambling about lemons for 5 minutes straight

dupin:

[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.

[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"

[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).

[lokidokeyartichoki]

Spoiler free screen redraw from episode 8 of The Fall of the House of Usher. If you’ve got the stomach for it, I highly recommend watching this masterful adaptation of multiple of Edgar Allan Poe’s poems and short stories. (19/31)

[uncertified-disaster]

Yeah ok I love them 💀🕷️🩸

[ronon-dex]

I'll be honest there are a LOT of hard-to-watch moments in this show but for some reason that scene where roderick blatantly lies under oath while auggie stares at him, having put his entire career on the line, trusting him, having built a friendship, having been in his home with his kids, having promised his wife to take care of roderick's family..... goddamn. ushers are all monsters, indeed

[cockyroaches]

"hey did you at least check she was dead when you shoved sapphires into her eye sockets."

"haha, oh I guess I forgot!"

[transjudas]

The Fall of the House of Usher 1.01 / The Haunting of Hill House 1.01

[vandetramp]

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER ,   1x7 / 1x8   :   the pit and the pendulum / the raven.