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* DisabledLoveInterest: He has one leg, and he becomes a love interest for Dee.
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* BeautyIsBad: [[spoiler:As Alma becomes more aggressive and manipulative, she goes from "frump" to a beautiful woman.]]
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* BeautyIsBad: [[spoiler:As Alma becomes more aggressive and manipulative, she goes from "frump" to a beautiful beautiful, vain woman.]]]]
* BeneathSuspicion: Invoked. Rita says that she never even looked twice at Alma, which Alma says was why she turned to the dark side.
* BeneathSuspicion: Invoked. Rita says that she never even looked twice at Alma, which Alma says was why she turned to the dark side.
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* EvilCostumeSwitch: Alma's clothing changes between dowdy, shapeless housedresses to beautiful, form-fitting dresses in luxurious fabrics and rich colors as she ascends through the Garden Club and becomes more sadistic.
* EvilIsPetty: As Dee lampshades, [[spoiler:Alma plots to kill several people, successfully killing a couple, because of getting into a Garden Club, which is "not a motive."]]
* EvilIsPetty: As Dee lampshades, [[spoiler:Alma plots to kill several people, successfully killing a couple, because of getting into a Garden Club, which is "not a motive."]]
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* {{Narcissist}}: What Alma transforms into. Even when she's talking to the clearly appalled (and pregnant) Dee, she only says in apparent hurt that Dee hasn't complimented her outfit for all her work.
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* RedIsViolent: [[spoiler:In the finale, Alma wears a fitted red silk dress when she's exposed as a SerialKiller and murders Rita.]]
* SayingTooMuch: [[spoiler:Alma saying that Isabel left "a postcard", rather than just a note, causes Rita to realize that Alma killed her, too, and Alma kills her.]]
* SayingTooMuch: [[spoiler:Alma saying that Isabel left "a postcard", rather than just a note, causes Rita to realize that Alma killed her, too, and Alma kills her.]]
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* INeverSaidItWasPoison: [[spoiler:Alma saying that Isabel left "a postcard", rather than just a note, causes Rita to realize that Alma killed her, too.]]
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* LoveForgivesAllButLust: Bertram worships Alma, and is only upset when meeting an old boyfriend of hers. He's also ''extremely'' adamant that he's never cheated on his wife [[spoiler:while confessing to multiple murders.]]
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* BeautyIsBad: Scooter is a dumb person, but he invokes this when he tells Dee that he hopes their baby won't be handsome, because it's better to be ordinary-looking and "not expect so much out of life."
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* SayingTooMuch: Because Scooter ThoughtTheyKnewAlready, he tells Dee that Alma told him about Dee's baby.
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* ManipulativeBastard:LadyMacbeth: Alma manipulates Bertram into doing much of the hard work, [[spoiler:such as killing Carlo by telling him about Rita's DomesticAbuse claims. She [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope jumps off the slippery slope]] by herself when Bertram falls into alcoholism.]]
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* ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife: [[spoiler:As Alma becomes evil, she starts to abuse whatever privilege she has, targeting Joan for her affair with Grace (as homosexuality was looked down upon in the 1940s) and condescends to the African-American Vern regarding his profession. Even if it hurts those closest to her, like her husband, daughter, and friend Grace.]]
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* ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife: [[spoiler:As Alma becomes evil, she starts to abuse whatever privilege she has, targeting Joan for her affair with Grace (as homosexuality was looked down upon in the 1940s) and condescends to the African-American Vern regarding his profession.profession, trying to arrange his murder. Even if it hurts those closest to her, like her husband, daughter, and friend Grace.]]
* StepfordSnarker: Rita has had a hard and sometimes sad life, but she responds to hardship with a snarky quip.
* BigFun: As implausible as it sounds, Bertram is murderous, but he's a genuinely kind and affable person who is kind to people and animals.
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* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Dee has blonde hair unlike the brunettes Rita, Catherine, and Alma, and she is the kindest character.
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* HumbleGoal: Alma's goal does lead her to more general success, her goal is really only to join the Garden Club (later to run it) and to become popular.
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* TookALevelInJerkass: Alma becomes progressively nastier and more villainous as time goes by.
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* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Rita has black hair and she's a pretty aloof, snobby person.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Rita is quite a ruthless women, but she genuinely does care for Isabel. [[spoiler:It turns out they're cousins.]]
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Rita is quite a ruthless women, woman, but she genuinely does care for Isabel. [[spoiler:It turns out they're cousins.]]
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* PredatoryProstitute: Her FreudianExcuse is that she was an impoverished prostitute in El Paso. She deliberately approached Carlos when she and Isabel found out he liked sleeping with prostitutes and was attracted to her. Isabel [[spoiler:also tried to kill Rita's first husband.]]
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* KindlyVet: Zigzagged. Bertram is a SerialKiller, but he's also unfailingly polite and genuinely kind. He genuinely cares for his family, animals, and his victims.
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* AlliterativeName: ''C''atherine ''C''astillo.
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* TheHeavy: While [[spoiler:Isabel didn't actually kill Rita's first husband, she's also the person who tried to shoot him.]]
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* LettingHerHairDown: Catherine after Scooter starts to woo her.
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* LettingHerHairDown: Catherine after Scooter starts to woo her.her starts to wear her hair long and hanging.
* PrimAndProperBun: Before her turn towards the sexual and significantly nicer, she wears her hair back in a tight bun.
* PrimAndProperBun: Before her turn towards the sexual and significantly nicer, she wears her hair back in a tight bun.
* DisabledLoveInterest: He has one leg, and he becomes a love interest for Dee.
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* TwoferTokenMinority: While this season is significantly more diverse, Vern is still the single black member of the cast, and the only disabled one.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Bertram is loosely based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bodkin_Adams John Bodkin Adams]], a British doctor who was accused of murdering 163 patients between 1946 and 1956 by giving them excessively large doses of routine painkillers.
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* ObliviouslyEvil: Bertram at first does not see anything wrong with involuntarily euthanizing people who have incurable, painful ailments. He's just helping, in his mind, and doing them a favor. Over time,mafter others learn about this and try to make him stop, he starts to see clearly.
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* ObliviouslyEvil: Bertram at first does not see anything wrong with involuntarily euthanizing people who have incurable, painful ailments. He's just helping, in his mind, and doing them a favor. Over time,mafter time, after others learn about this and try to make him stop, he starts to see clearly.
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* FriendToAllLivingThings: Despite his status as a SerialKiller, he's a veterinarian and is truly loved by his patients. His gentle and kindly demeanor makes him a very comforting presence for a sick or injured pet, and, morbidly, means he's genuinely very good at comforting both the pet and their owner when it comes time to put an animal down.
* IronicEcho: In his second scene, he gently persuades a woman that it's time to put her dog to sleep, as the poor thing is in a lot of pain and won't live much longer anyway. While he's doing this, he gives a nice little speech about how it's the merciful thing to do, and that the dog's life had meaning and he'll be missed. Later in that episode, he visits the woman at home... and gives her the same drug he gave the dog, since she's ''also'' old and very sick. And then gives an eerily similar speech, still meaning every word.
* IronicEcho: In his second scene, he gently persuades a woman that it's time to put her dog to sleep, as the poor thing is in a lot of pain and won't live much longer anyway. While he's doing this, he gives a nice little speech about how it's the merciful thing to do, and that the dog's life had meaning and he'll be missed. Later in that episode, he visits the woman at home... and gives her the same drug he gave the dog, since she's ''also'' old and very sick. And then gives an eerily similar speech, still meaning every word.
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* JerkassWoobie: [[spoiler:Rita eventually becomes this. Even the jerkass part becomes a question since she's obviously taking steps to make amends and refrain from selfish acts from which she would have benefited.]]
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* WhenSheSmiles: The dour Catherine, according to Scooter, has a very nice smile.
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* SmugSnake: Alma is indeed quick-thinking, can keep up quite the poker face, and spin on a dime a plausible story to deflect questions in the short run, but her lack of long-term planning makes [[spoiler:her murder spree spiral out of control and her cover stories hold little water upon further scrutiny.]] Her speech about how smart the new her is falls flat when the viewer knows the mess she's left behind is so bad it's already about to catch up with her.
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* TheSocialExpert: Bertram is quite sociable and likable in the community, an easy cover for his serial-killing.
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* TheSmartGuy: Vern was able to put together the clues that [[spoiler:Bertram and especially Alma were involved in Carlo and Isabel's murders. He has reasons to believe Alma was more likely to kill Carlo and Isabel based on his meeting with her.]]
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* ShirtlessScene: Scooter deliberately gets a stain on his shirt as an excuse to strip it off in front of Catherine, so she's enticed by his CarpetOfVirility and muscular torso.
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* SerialKiller: [[spoiler:Alma has her husband kill Carlo, and personally kills Isabel, Rita and Mrs. Yost (although the latter was an accident).]]
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* SerialKiller: Initially, Bertram didn’t want to be one but when his first victim asked him to do it and he saw the peace on their face, he believed he found his calling. While he didn’t ask for consent from his next victims, he selfishly believed he was doing it for their sake. He's killed 26 in total, and he takes souvenirs from their residences as trophies.
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Just as Rita tries to make amends with Scooter and learns to appreciate the people who have loved her, she is killed by Alma when she confronts her about Carlo's and Isabel's deaths.]]
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* PragmaticVillainy: Rita is one despite her quick revenge trips. Initially, she plans to kill Carlo and make it look like it was an accident, but she realizes it would cause too much trouble and is not worth it. She knows that he has family who will miss him and attention would be drawn to her as the culprit.
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* PetTheDog:
** When Rita finds out [[spoiler:Dee is pregnant, she seems genuine when she tells her not to let it ruin her life, saying she's too smart for that. She also offers to give her some money, possibly for an abortion or to help her get settled somewhere new. Dee doesn't take her up on it, but it was decent of her to offer.]]
** [[spoiler:Rita knew Joan was sleeping with Grace, but never told anyone or tried to blackmail her with it—even when she was in desperate need of help and Joan rather cruelly rebuffed her.]]
** When Rita finds out [[spoiler:Dee is pregnant, she seems genuine when she tells her not to let it ruin her life, saying she's too smart for that. She also offers to give her some money, possibly for an abortion or to help her get settled somewhere new. Dee doesn't take her up on it, but it was decent of her to offer.]]
** [[spoiler:Rita knew Joan was sleeping with Grace, but never told anyone or tried to blackmail her with it—even when she was in desperate need of help and Joan rather cruelly rebuffed her.]]
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* OnlySaneMan: Dee out of her family is this. When she stops being locked out of the loop, she often lampshades how ridiculous the whole situation is.
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* ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife: Rita is very entitled and takes offense when being told the truth, even getting Dee fired because Dee told her off for calling her fat.
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* ObliviouslyEvil: Bertram at first does not see anything wrong with involuntarily euthanizing people who have incurable, painful ailments. He's just helping, in his mind, and doing them a favor. Over time,mafter others learn about this and try to make him stop, he starts to see clearly.
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* NiceGuy: Vern treats Dee with genuine kindness and appreciates her strength of character.
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* NiceGirl: Very much so, not unlike her NiceGuy love interest Vern.
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* NoHeroToHisValet: Isabel, Rita's maid, having no issue with speaking her mind and pointing out how foolish or even dangerous Rita's scheming is [[spoiler:has become subverted in that Isabel is Rita's cousin all along.]]
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone?: [[spoiler:Rita is intensely regretful when she realizes her selfishness and cruelty has left her alone and friendless, and even isolated her one true friend, Isabel. When Scooter takes pity on her and brings her some clothes and money, she expresses particular remorse for not having treated him better.]]
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* MercyKill: This is how Bertram justifies his murders. All of the people he kills have some painful, terminal illness he doesn't want them to suffer from. This would be understandable... if he actually ''asked'' whether they prefer euthanasia (except in the first case). Instead, he just makes the choice for them. He explicitly compares this with putting down sick dogs (he's a vet), while apparently oblivious to this being wrong at all, believing that it's compassionate.
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* MrFanservice: Scooter is quite the handsome man, and he plays up his good looks to seduce Catherine, such as by stripping to the waist in front of her.
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** [[spoiler:Alma manipulates Bertram into killing Carlo by using Rita’s fake stories of beatings. Her grand plan is to pin it on Rita, planting the medicine herself while Rita and Isabel are undoubtedly drunk. After the body is discovered, she calls Catherine to tell her so-called witness statement. All for revenge.]]
** [[spoiler:Alma suggests killing Isabel to Bertram’s horror. When he refuses, she chooses to kill Isabel herself. Using the marriage reconciliation as her cover, she steals the euthanasia syringe and when both Bertram and Isabel are distracted, she strikes.]]
** [[spoiler:Alma manipulates Dee into not spilling the truth with no remorse, using her previous lie of Bertram's affair. What breaks her hold on Dee is Dee asking the right questions about her mom's conversation with Scooter, and realizing the horrible implications of what her mom actually wanted Scooter to do.]]
** [[spoiler:Alma manipulates Bertram into killing Carlo by using Rita’s fake stories of beatings. Her grand plan is to pin it on Rita, planting the medicine herself while Rita and Isabel are undoubtedly drunk. After the body is discovered, she calls Catherine to tell her so-called witness statement. All for revenge.]]
** [[spoiler:Alma suggests killing Isabel to Bertram’s horror. When he refuses, she chooses to kill Isabel herself. Using the marriage reconciliation as her cover, she steals the euthanasia syringe and when both Bertram and Isabel are distracted, she strikes.]]
** [[spoiler:Alma manipulates Dee into not spilling the truth with no remorse, using her previous lie of Bertram's affair. What breaks her hold on Dee is Dee asking the right questions about her mom's conversation with Scooter, and realizing the horrible implications of what her mom actually wanted Scooter to do.]]
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Catherine, who gets away with shooting Scooter and Bertram, and trying to ruin Rita's life, before going back to Texas with her chauffeur and her inheritance. She isn't even seen in the finale.]]
* LettingHerHairDown: Catherine after Scooter starts to woo her.
