History YMMV / HemlockGrove

* NarmCharm: [[spoiler:Christina trying to become a werewolf by drinking from a muddy paw print was just silly. But silly or not, ''it worked''.]]

* NauseaFuel: Werewolf transformations 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.

** [[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 and an interesting potential reaction to finding out their friend Christina was behind it and made better use of the CharacterDevelopment they'd been gettin in the previous episodes.]]

* WhatAnIdiot: Norman in the second season finale. [[spoiler: He had the perfect opportunity to kill Olivia and end her crimes once and for all when she's weakened, but decides not to. She recovers her strength, and then kills him herself.]]

* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/BillSkarsgard portrayed Roman Godfrey, a few years before his StarMakingRole as Pennywise the Street Clown in ''Film/It2017''.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/BillSkarsgard portrayed one of the Hemlock siblings before his StarMakingRole as Pennywise the Street Clown in ''Film/It2017''.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: 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.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: [[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]]'']].

** Perhaps that's exactly why they did it. Most, if not all, of the characters killed off at that point were only there to be killed off, you never got an emotional bond with them or knew them at all. Whether you liked [[spoiler:Chausseur]] or not their death was a slap to the face, no one saw it coming, but considering Pryce's surprising statement we might see them again.
** From the same episode where [[spoiler:Chausseur]] is first put in jeopardy there's [[spoiler:The Sworn Twins]] to a lesser extent. Their more of MauveShirt characters but had been getting some good development, and [[spoiler: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 and an interesting potential reaction to finding out their friend Christina was behind it.]]

* MoralEventHorizon: 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.]]

** [[spoiler: Roman raping one of his classmates and then dazzling her into forgetting all about it.]]

* JerkassWoobie: Roman is not a good person, not just snobbish and narcissistic but even raped one of his classmates before making her forget the whole event and by the end of the series starts murdering people to feed his blood addiction. His bizarre, abusive upbringing and his conniving mother Olivia's influence goes a long way towards explaining how screwed up he is, with Roman constantly seen wallowing in self-hatred. When he becomes friends with Peter, who later seems to betray him by packing up and moving out of town without warning, Roman seems to be genuinely hurt by it.

** [[spoiler: Roman raping one of his classmates and then dazzling her into forgetting all about it could be seen as this.]]