YMMV / Edgar Allan Poe's Murder Mystery Dinner Party

• Cliché Storm: From people being killed off in thematic ways to the survivors deciding to separate to everyone initially being a suspect...and it is glorious.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: All the characters have their fans, but both Oscar Wilde and H.G. Wells are by far the standouts. Wilde ultimately survives the story, and the epilogue has Wells comes back as a ghost.
• Epileptic Trees: Since it's a murder mystery, this was somewhat inevitable. The series itself seemed to anticipate this reaction, since the characters all indulge in doing their fair share before the culprit is eventually revealed. One of the more prevalent theories, for example, was that Eddie would turn out to be Edmond Dantes and/or that Alexandre Dumas would therefore be somehow implicated in the murders.
• Fan-Preferred Couple: H.G. Wells and Lenore, thanks to the pair's interactions while H.G. is constructing his cameras.
  • Official Couple: Shipwrecked ended up rewriting their own canon from the Tell Tale Vlog series to canonize the Wellenore pairing; Lenore no longer abandons the Poe house to look for John Proctor's ghost because, in the epilogue, Wells' ghost appears at the house.
• Friendly Fandoms: With Team Starkid, Tin Can Brothers, and The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, thanks to sharing several cast members.
• Genius Bonus: The entire series practically revolves around this. For example, Jane Austen's final two novels, Persuasion and Northanger Abbey (the latter of which is directly referenced as being about to be published), were published posthumously. Also, if you're at all familiar with the Brontë sisters' publishing history, you'd probably be able to figure out the twist far before its reveal.
• He's Just Hiding: Many in the audience successfully predicted this about Eddie.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The Scooby-Doo references in this show, like Hemingway saying Let's Split Up, Gang! or Brontë's You Meddling Kids rant at the end, considering Joey Richter (Ernest Hemingway), Ashley Clements (Charlotte Brontë), and Lauren Lopez (George Eliot) — as well as Brian Rosenthal, who played Ralph Waldo Emerson in the prologue — all appeared in Scooby-Doo parody The Solve-It Squad Returns! by the Tin Can Bros a year later.
  • This would not be the last time Sinead Persaud's character would end up in an unexpected, Fan-Preferred Couple in a Shipwrecked series.
  • The J.M. Barrie prologue features Christopher Higgins in a Vague Age role, where Sean Persaud's character thinks he's actually 14 (the real Barrie was 44 by the time Peter Pan came out and Higgins is a contemporary of the rest of the adult cast). Six years later, Christopher Higgins would play another Vague Age character in Headless: A Sleepy Hollow Story, whom everyone but Ichabod mistakes for being 14.
• Portmanteau Couple Name:
  • Poebel: Edgar Allan Poe / Annabel Lee.
  • Wellenore: H.G. Wells / Lenore.
• The Woobie: Poor Emily Dickinson ... No one (except for Annabel Lee) ever remembers her, not even in death.