History Series / TheFallOfTheHouseOfUsher2023

** Frederick receives [[spoiler: the bag of cocaine he asked Napoleon for, and which caused his most vile tendencies to ramp up when he started using it. Fittingly, given Verna's admission of taking a more direct hand in his death, it's also very simply the method with which he was killed - that is, it also contains the nightshade powder Verna distracted him into filling it with that paralysed him before he was cut in two; and as a mark of Verna's distain for him, she simply drops the bag on his tombstone as opposed to being careful when setting it in place.]]

* PartingWordsRegret: It weighs on Roderick that the last time he saw some of his children alive was the family dinner he spent trying to flush out the informant.

* PracticallyDifferentGenerations: Many of the children have considerable gaps in age due to being from different mothers. For example, Frederick and Prospero, the oldest and youngest respectively, are played by actors about thirty years apart in age, and in-universe Prospero is barely older than Frederick's daughter Lenore.

* KarmicDeath [[spoiler:After torturing Morrie with a paralytic and torturing her while she can't fight back and peeing in the spot where Perry died, Frederick is paralyzed by the same paralytic and dies in the same spot as his brother in a puddle of his own piss, utterly powerless as he is slowly sliced apart.]]

** Camille L'Espanaye, [[RuleOfThree yet another one of Roderick Usher's illegitimate children]], shares her name with one of the murder victims in the first Literature/CAugusteDupin story, ''The Murders in the Rue Morgue''.

* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:What starts as the beginning of a sexy anonymous masked party filled with hunky men and beautiful women quickly turns into a horrific nightmare as acidic chemicals rain down on them from the ceiling, causing their skin, flesh and even ''bones'' to start burning, smoking and ''melting like candle wax'', all while they are screaming, crying and banging on the locked doors in a fruitless attempt to escape. It bears a disturbing resemblance to RealLife shootings and other horrific attacks on nightclubs and the innocent people whose lives were ended while they desperately tried to flee. Between this and the distressing sounds and visuals, one could argue this is the most dismaying and brutal death in the entire show, and can be triggering for anyone who has experienced an event turned violent. It's revealed in the aftermath of this tragedy that upwards of 78 people and counting had died this way, their flesh and internal organs melted into a bloody goo on the floor. The fact Verna took the time to evacuate all the wait staff, but none of the guests other than Morella, implies she considered them deserving of dying alongside Prospero, but without any exposition on this matter the audience is left to wonder [[DisproportionateRetribution what on Earth they could have possibly done to deserve such a scary and horrific death]].]]

** Roderick's boss Rufus Griswold exploits Roderick in a number of ways, but most egregiously, sets it up so that [[spoiler: the US government's case against Fortunato rests on Roderick's testimony, which Roderick then withdraws at the hearing; the case collapses, and Fortunato goes on to create the modern opioid crisis.]] When the twins [[spoiler: brick Longfellow up behind a wall in the basement of the new company headquarters]], it's hard not to feel some satisfaction.

** Madeline and Roderick's biological father Rufus Griswold. When, as curious children, they're caught sneaking onto his property, he threatens them; when their mother Elizabeth, who was his secretary, becomes mentally ill, he fires her; when they come to him begging for help because Elizabeth is dying, he laughs in their faces. [[spoiler: Elizabeth then [[KarmicDeath murders him during a dissociative episode.]] ]]
** Roderick's boss William Longfellow exploits Roderick in a number of ways, but most egregiously, sets it up so that [[spoiler: the US government's case against Fortunato rests on Roderick's testimony, which Roderick then withdraws at the hearing; the case collapses, and Fortunato goes on to create the modern opioid crisis.]] When the twins [[spoiler: brick Longfellow up behind a wall in the basement of the new company headquarters]], it's hard not to feel some satisfaction.

* AssholeVictim: TheSeries. It's probably easier to list the characters who ''don't'' deserve to die. The Usher clan is (with four notable exceptions, two of whom married into the family), a bunch of amoral and corrupt one-percenters willing to do anything to get to and stay on the top of the world, comfortable in the knowledge that their money and power [[spoiler:and a little bit of supernatural aid]] will keep them consequence free.

** There's a curious example with Creator/EdgarAllanPoe; his poetry does ''exist'' since it's quoted by numerous characters, but in-universe Roderick seems to have written at least two of Poe's poems himself and [[spoiler:in the alternate universe where he didn't take Verna's deal, he would have been a poet.]]

** [[spoiler:The audience never finds out what did the guests at Perry's orgy did to merit their dying gruesomely alongside him.]]

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Annabel[[spoiler:’s ghost]] to Roderick, raking him across the coals for his [[AbusiveParents neglectful, malignant parenting]] of their children. It’s notably one of the only times in the entire series that Roderick [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone shows genuine remorse.]]
-->'''Annabel:''' “He’s rich.” When people asked how you took them, how you convinced them away from me, [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney “he’s rich,”]] I’d say. “He’s rich.” And you don’t understand what that word means. They were young. They only knew appetite, and “Here,” you said, “come with me. Gorge yourselves.” ''How could I compete with that?'' You didn’t feed them, though, did you? You '''starved them.''' Less and less of them came back each time until one day, they were ''empty.'' They were ''siphoned.'' [[TheCorrupter You started filling them up with…]] [[ArmorPiercingQuestion What]] ''[[ArmorPiercingQuestion did]]'' [[ArmorPiercingQuestion you fill them up with, Roderick? What did you]] ''[[ArmorPiercingQuestion have]]'' [[ArmorPiercingQuestion to fill them up with??]] Because you weren’t rich, were you? I thought you were a rich man, all this time, but… I see you now. I look at you and I see… ''you.'' [[LonelyAtTheTop The poverty of you.]]

* CelebrityParadox: A character watches ''Film/GeraldsGame'', [[ProductionThrowback a prior work]] of Creator/MikeFlanagan. No word on who plays that film's protagonists while Creator/CarlaGugino and Creator/BruceGreenwood play Verna and Roderick here.

** Morella is a beloved wife and mother to Frederick and Lenore, who is often ridiculed by the other Usher family members, but not only is she invited to Perry's pop-up orgy just so that Perry can attempt to blackmail Frederick to get back at him, she becomes hideously burned and deformed by the acidic sprinklers. When she shows signs of recovery, to Lenore's joy, she's brought home by Frederick - but it's revealed that he didn't do this to get her better care. [[spoiler:It was to medically torture and abuse her with paralytic drugs to keep her unable to move and forcibly pull her teeth with pliers, because Frederick, deranged by cocaine, deeply believed that because of her mysterious phone and Morrie being at the party, Morella was cheating on him with his younger brother.]]
** Juno. She continues tries to be a part of the family and thoroughly mourns the death of each Usher, despite the kids' varying levels of hatred towards her. Roderick is essentially keeping her on Ligodone as a spokesperson and mocks her requests to stop taking it, despite her fears of becoming addicted once more and of suffering the side effects others have undergone.

* HollywoodGenetics: Victorine is Roderick's natural daughter, making her half white, but actress Creator/TNiaMiller clearly has no significant white ancestry at all.