Line #25 YMMV/HemlockGrove


1	* BaseBreakingCharacter: Second season character Miranda, going by comments on the show's Wiki. She's either an interesting and sympathetic NaiveEverygirl, or an annoying snoop who sticks her nose into things that aren't her business. Her detractors also aren't a fan of her [[SlutShaming more]] sexually active lifestyle in contrast to Letha.
2	* EnsembleDarkhorse:
3	** Peter and Roman might be the leads but Shelley, Lynda and Destiny have their own strong fanbases.
4	** Alexa and Alyssa Sworn are fairly well-liked for providing some decent comic relief and undergoing more CharacterDevelopment than most of the tertiary characters.
5	** Michael Chausseur has his fans for his arc in season two and being an ultimately reasonable HunterOfMonsters.
6	* HoYay: Peter and Roman. In ''spades''.
7	** Roman slips Peter a note saying "Can I watch?" -- he's talking about the transformation from human to wolf, but the subtext is practically text.
8	** In the novel, when Olivia questions what Roman and Peter were up to in Roman's room, Roman answers, "homosexual acts".
9	** Roman also states that watching Peter transform back to human is "beautiful".
10	** Throughout the novel, the narrator interjects with various statements that play up the HoYay.
11	** In the third season, Johann admits to Roman that he has wondered about his relationship with Peter. Roman objects (a little ''too'' fiercely for one's liking), but Johann points out that it's not an unreasonable assumption.
12	* MoralEventHorizon:
13	** Olivia is a terrible person, no doubt. She'll screw over anyone for her own gain, including her own children. But several episodes in season 2 seem to give her a more sympathetic side. Roman doesn't buy it, but it's vague whether Olivia is being manipulative or if she's trying to change for the better. However, the event that puts her past the point of no return, that cements forever more what kind of character she is is when [[spoiler: she devours the artificial body that Shelley was having her mind transferred into, dooming her to her deformed body forever.]]
14	** Roman crosses it in season 3 when he actively starts hunting for victims to feed on.
15	* NarmCharm: [[spoiler:Christina trying to become a werewolf by drinking from a muddy paw print was just silly. But silly or not, ''it worked''. And this is based on actual folklore.]]
16	* NauseaFuel: The series has some of the most graphic and disgusting werewolf transformations in any media, which consists of the person's teeth, eyes, and other bodyparts being pushed out the body as the wolf quite literally bursts from the human carcass, even eats the shed remains of their human form. For the wolf to turn back to human, the same process where the human literally bursts out of the wolf.
17	* NightmareFuel:
18	** Peter's first on-screen transformation in the TV adaptation definitely qualifies. It includes Peter's flesh being flayed off, his teeth falling out and then his wolf form proceeding to ''eat'' some of the flayed off flesh. Suffice it to say that {{Creator/Netflix}} did not skimp on the special effects.
19	** And then there was the part where [[spoiler:Christina (in vargulf form) ate Peter's face...]]
20	** Baby Nadia's PsychicPowers.
21	** Olivia eats [[spoiler:Chasseur]]. Well, most of her. Even with most of her skin flayed off and her neck broken, she's still alive enough to know what's happened before she's put out of her misery.
22	* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/BillSkarsgard portrayed Roman Godfrey, a few years before his StarMakingRole as Pennywise the Dancing Clown in ''Film/It2017''.
23	* {{Squick}}: As if the vargulf eviscerating its victims wasn't bad enough, it had to go out and attack the victims by ripping apart their vaginas first.
24	* TearJerker: The second half of "Birth" is nothing but BreakTheCutie and BreakTheHaughty wrapped together into one giant ball of sadness.
25	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter:
26	** [[spoiler:Just when we were starting to know a great deal of information about Dr. Chausseur and the people she works for, she up and gets mortally wounded by Olivia and is forced to be [[MercyKill Mercy Killed]] by Dr. Pryce. Olivia even told Pryce that she wounded her simple because ''[[KickTheDog she felt like it]]'']].
27	** [[spoiler:The Sworn Twins. One of them dying but the other getting away could have still pushed Sheriff Sworn into KnightTemplar territory while giving the survivor an AngstySurvivingTwin arc. It would also have been interesting to see one or both them reacting to finding out their friend Christina was behind the killings, especially with CharacterDevelopment they'd been getting in the previous episodes.]]
28	* TooBleakStoppedCaring: Most of the characters in the series are already hard to sympathize with (being either criminals, monsters, assholes, or hypocrites), but a big problem with the later seasons in particular and perhaps a major contributing factor leading to the show's cancellation is the increasing hopelessness for everyone involved, as major characters keep getting killed off in brutal ways, and daily life for the rest of them gets progressively crappier with trauma and angst piled on top of more trauma and angst, almost to DeusAngstMachina levels.
29	* UglyCute: Shelley may be disfigured, yet somehow she manages to be adorable. It helps that she's TheWoobie.
30	* TheWoobie: Shelley and to a lesser extent Peter. Both of them get far more hate than they deserve considering they are generally good, helpful people.

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