#frederick usher

[ronon-dex]

how to recognise a mike flanagan show:

1. people saying 4 pages of dialogue to another person who will stare back at them, looking devastated

2. mike flanagan's wife looking unbelievably hot

3. gay activity

4. carla gugino scaring the shit out of someone

5. just the worst gore you have ever seen. only for a few seconds. but christ it will stay with you

#i am adoring the new spooky show very much thank you #the fall of the house of usher #prospero usher #frederick usher #tamerlane usher #victorine lafourcade #napoleon usher #camille l'espanaye #roderick usher #bruce greenwood? izombie reunion? beautiful women? familial doom? i am TUNED IN #tfothou #horrific acronym

[doyouwanttoseeabug]

oh OOOOOOH their deaths mirror each other. Tamerlane and Leo are both driven to what looks like suicide chasing hallucinations around an apartment that architecturally represents their psyche (as they destroy it), shortly after leaving/planning to leave their loving partner. (Both of them invite her in, at first. Both of them want her there. But now she's in the mirrors. She's in the walls.)

Vic and Camille are both killed/driven to death by Vic's experiments, their rivalry leading to both their deaths (Camille to prove it doesn't work, Vic to prove it does), immediately after they get left by people they are using in professional/personal ways - Camille hires Toby and Tina to sleep with them, Vic dates Ali to get her to work with her on the heart mesh.

Perry and Frederick both die in the same warehouse, looking at the ceiling, waiting for death to come to them - Perry with a look of ecstasy, Frederick in terror. Both of them are in that warehouse because they've been humiliated by Roderick and are now determined to prove themselves. Both get led here by drugs. Both involve the mutilation of an innocent, Morrie. Both of them see Verna not as another character, but something like her true self. And there's the parallel between all the mercy that Verna offers Perry - the most she offers any of them, other than Lenore - and her glee in explaining to Roderick exactly why he deserves to die like this.

And then you get the final pairing/quartet of deaths - Eliza Usher + William Longfellow vs Madeline and Roderick which is obvious but oh my god. oh my god you guys. Eliza's wall of crucifixes and clinging to Christian faith and the sanctity of pain as a way of hoping for reward after death vs Roderick putting Madeline through the agony of vivisection to 'honour' her + grant her Egyptian immortality. Both William and Roderick eat their young. Fuck.

#yeah sorry if this is obvious i only just realised #tfothou #the fall of the house of usher #mike flanagan #napoleon usher #tamerlane usher #victorine lafourcade #camille l'espanaye #roderick usher #frederick usher #prospero usher #madeline usher

[spiderliliez]

They will live a blessed, privileged life, and depart the stage together. [+] CARLA GUGINO 🥀 [+] ..more on “The Fall of the House of Usher” 🎬

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[yurtletheturtlehenderson]

these stupid shows won't let me rest

#literally they both did so fcking incredible i wasnt even entirely sure at first i was thinking of the right actors #they both embodied both characters so well and i was so caught up in this scene i didn't realize at first what it reminded me of #MR. FLANAGAN PLEASE NEVER STOP CASTING THEM #the fall of the house of usher #tfothou #tfothou spoilers #the fall of the house of usher spoilers #carla gugino #henry thomas #the haunting of hill house #olivia crain #hugh crain #verna #frederick usher #froderick #froderick usher #mike flanagan #flanaverse #feel its relevant to say this is the closest ive come to understanding people who say shit like 'im eating the drywall'

[uncertified-disaster]

Yeah ok I love them 💀🕷️🩸

#the fall of the house of usher #tfothou #the house of usher #roderick usher #madeline usher #frederick usher #leo usher #tamerlane usher #victorine lafourcade #camille l'espanaye #perry usher #art on tumblr #artwork

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

I love how death felt bad about killing everyone and tried to talk them out of violent deaths EXCEPT for frederick. he fucking FAILED the vibe check.

#fall of the house of usher #fothou #frederick usher #molly mumbles

[cockyroaches]

Rip Perry Usher, you would have Loved to know your actions drove your jackass brother insane.

#i think about him a normal about btw i think he would actually genuinely Enjoy that fact. #perry usher #prospero usher #frederick usher #tfothou #the fall of the house of usher #fall of the house of usher #tfothou spoilers #bitch mantis

[saturnandthewinter]

My thoughts about which deadly sin each Usher represents.

I would like to say that they all could easily represent more than one sin, but only one sin was deadly to them and that's what I'm using as a parameter.

Roderick and Madeline - Greed

The twins are Greed. For me it's pretty obvious they're Greed because even Roderick said so. No amount of money would ever be enough. Their greed for more was the beginning of their downfall when, decades ago, they decided to accept that deal.

Prospero - Lust

Another one that I find pretty obvious. His life was all about a luxurious and hedonistic lifestyle, but ultimately what caused his death was his decision to keep the orgy going.

Camille - Envy

I think Camille was envy because that's exactly what led her to her death.

Camille's resentment towards Victorine comes from having to deal with all the dirt from the family, but her sister who is just like her, as Verna said, gets to be their "Madre Theresa" just because she hid better. This is what led Camille to be so hateful of Victorine, her envy for her.

If Camille wasn't so envious of Victorine she wouldn't be so determined to bring her down, if she wasn't so envious she wouldn't be so personally focused on finding the dirty Victorine was hiding despise Verna giving her the chance to step back and not get inside.

Ultimately envy led Camille to her death.

Leo - Gluttony

Leo can easily be Gluttony because his over-consumption and over-indulgence of drugs and drinks it's exactly what led him to his death. Pluto was never dead, he was hallucinating because of all the drugs he took the night before. (I do believe the hallucination was especially so vivid because of Verna though. She disseminated the idea that led each Usher to their death but also gave them the chance to step back. She offers temptation and the chance to regret their choice)

Jules even let it clear, to us, the audience, the alarming amount of drugs he consumed. His drug-induced hallucination ultimately led him to his death. Had Leo not consumed too many drugs, he wouldn't hallucinated that morning and wouldn't have gone after a new cat that caused him to spiral into a deepening psychosis aggravated by the excessive amount of drugs he consumed on a daily basis.

Victorine - Wrath

Victorine for me represents wrath because that was her downfall.

She was rude to Verna when they bumped into each other for the first time, she was rude to her security guard after the conversation with her older siblings... That shows us how easily angry she was all the time.

She was angry that she needed to put more effort into her job because it was harder for her, a Usher bastard. She was angry that her older siblings got to grow up with her father figure around and with the "legendary Annabel Lee", the only woman Roderick loved enough to marry while her mother was just a nurse. She was angry that their father had thrown the food at them just to see them fighting for it. She was so angry at everything and eventually, that was going to blow up.

But anger it's not wrath. Wrath, by the Bible, it's when you get consumed by rage to the point of acting irrationally and immorally. 

And in a fit of rage, blinded by the wrath that bubbled inside her all her life as an Usher, she killed her partner, went mad with regret, and when she realized what she had done she killed herself consumed with remorse.

Wrath was the sin that led Victorine to her death.

Tamerlane - Pride

First of all the sheer amount of mirrors in her house, it's a huge clue that she's Pride, but there are others.

She considers herself above Juno and even calls her "it", refusing to acknowledge that she's a human too. And why? Because she's a "junkie"?

Tamerlane considers herself better than her siblings too. She only stopped texting at their funerals because her husband stopped her. Their funeral meant nothing to her because it wasn't about her or her launch.

She thinks of herself above her husband too. Could be anyone there, any face, the brand would be a success. And why? Because she, alone, is behind it.

Just before her death, she could have given up her pride and called her husband. But she didn't. And she died completely alone because of it while destroying the last mirror and the last way she could see herself, her ugly self.

Pride was Tamerlane's death through and through.

Fred - Sloth

Fred is Sloth because he didn't demolish the building as his father ordered, he procrastinated. What led his wife to the orgy was his lack of attitude in their relationship, his lack of proactively in their life.

Fred tried to be like his father but he couldn't keep up with his rhythm, he was a cover band off-key, always a little slower.

If you look closely, all things are always delicated interconnected.

Fred's sin caused Prospero's death and his own. A full circle.

Had Fred stopped procrastinating and started doing his job, the building would not be there. Had Fred stopped being accommodated in his relationship, Morrie wouldn't be tempted to go to Perry's orgy.

Poetically the consequences of the sin that ultimately led Fred to his death were the slowest. Sloth is lazy after all. He was the first to sin, but the last to die. And he died laying down, without moving, representing perfectly his deadly sin and exactly how he lived his life.

Obs: Fred and Prospero are so interconnected, they are like a double ouroboros. The end and the beginning of the Usher's heirs massacre.

#the fall of the house of usher #house of usher #the fall of the house of usher spoilers #the fall of the house of usher theories #house of usher spoilers #house of usher theories #the fall of the house of usher netflix #house of usher netflix #Roderick usher #madeline usher #frederick usher #tamerlane usher #victorine lafourcade #napoelon usher #Camille L'Espanaye #prospero usher #tfothou #tfothou spoilers

[ofhouseusher]

The Fall of The House of Usher + text posts

1/?

#the fall of the house of usher #tfothou #madeline usher #mike flanagan #mary mcdonnell #madeline x verna #tvedit #tfothouedit #mikeflanaganuniverse #carla gugino #bruce greenwood #roderick usher #henry thomas #frederick usher #tamerlane usher #camille l'espanaye #victorine lafourcade #prospero usher #rahul kohli #samantha sloyan #kate siegel #kyliegh curran #leo usher #text post meme #tv memes #funny memes #edgar allan poe #text post #quote #willa fitzgerald

[nepobabyeurydice]

the fall of the house of usher was a really a show TM. We keep on looking for the ‘good’ Usher for the innocent or the misunderstood among Roderick’s children. We think it’s Napeleon, Victornie, Tamberlane or Frederick. We convince ourselves that one of these children must be right must be good. But the show smashes those concepts into bit.

Próspero’s treatment of his…fuck buddies, Napoleon and his killing of Pluto, Camille sexually abusing her employees under contract, Victorine’s endless malpractice but also her instantly taking advantage of the woman when the opportunity presented itself, Tamberlane emotionally manipulating her husband but out of all of them she’s the ‘least’ harmful but the harm she does is emotionally scarring, Frederick and the fucking pliers.

Not a single child of Roderick is ‘the good usher’ like Augste but it ‘There was one’ but it was not Annabel Lee, it was Lenore. We were looking for the hero in all the wrong places all along and she died in the end and saves a million more because of it.

#fall of the house of usher #the fall of the house of usher #victorine lafourcade #camille l'espanaye #frederick usher #tamberlane usher #prospero usher #napoleon usher #lenore usher

[awkward-sultana]

Lenore Usher speaking to any member of her family

#the fall of the house of usher #TFotHoU #THe fall of the house of usher spoilers #mike flanagan #text #funny #awkward-Sultana #Madeline Usher #Frederick Usher #roderick usher #Lenore usher #tamerlane usher #camille l'espanaye #napoleon usher #Victorine LaFourcade #Arthur Pym #Horror #prospero usher

[cluelessrebel1988]

A not fully formed Fall of the House of Usher thought

I just binged the whole series yesterday, and I have a number of thoughts about things, but this is one that kind of just came to me, so it's not fully fleshed out.

But I found it interesting that Verna was largely hands off with Perry, Camille and Frederick, mostly leaving them to their own devices to play out the circumstances of their deaths which ultimately look to the outside world like tragic accidents. Perry's death was entirely of his own making, all she did with Camille was (maybe) open the cage to let the chimp out, and of the three, she was most hands-on with Frederick, pushing him to put the paralytic in his cocaine to trap him in the warehouse and then sending in the call to start the demolition. She even offered Perry and Camille the chance to stop what they were doing and not go forward, and I suspect she would have done the same with Frederick were it not for what he did to Morelle.

But for Vic, Leo, and Tamerlane...Verna gives them a push. She inserts herself in their lives in ways that are, on the surface, fairly innocuous (a substitute prostitute, a woman working at an animal shelter, a patient with a heart condition), but all of those things set in motion a torment that leads to their deaths. Deaths that appear to be suicides to the outside world (and in Vic's case, literally was). Verna doesn't actively take their lives like she does with Lenore, but she steers them to their deaths sooner than they likely would have otherwise gotten there.

And my thinking is that this is meant to be representative of Madeline and Roderick's approach to life. Roderick charges in headfirst and doesn't care about the consequences, or at least doesn't think about them in the moment, while Madeline plays the long game, manipulating the situation from within and not revealing herself as the threat until after she's already struck the fatal blow.

The part that's not fully formed for me is which set of Usher children is meant to represent which, or if they're each meant to be a combination of both. My initial thought is Perry, Camille, and Frederick are meant to be representative of Roderick's approach to a problem, while Vic, Leo, and Tamerlane are representative of Madeline's. And that's the one that makes sense on the surface, at least in the actions of the children themselves. But at the same time, it could be argued that Verna not really actively doing anything to Perry, Camille, and Frederick, only showing up to them in their final moments when its too late is like Madeline, while the more hands-on approach with Vic, Leo, and Tamerlane is more like Roderick.

So I don't know, maybe it's both, or maybe I'm overthinking it. But if anyone else has any thoughts on this, I'd love to hear them.

#the fall of the house of usher #the fall of the house of usher spoilers #tfothou #tfothou spoilers #fall of the house of usher #fall of the house of usher spoilers #Verna #Roderick Usher #Madeline Usher #Frederick Usher #Tamerlane Usher #Napoleon Usher #Prospero Usher #Camille L'Espanaye #victorine lafourcade

[yurtletheturtlehenderson]

Henry Thomas in any flanaverse project is wild. Sometimes you get Hugh Crain or Ed Flynn. And then sometimes you get whatever the fuck Froderick Usher is

#i need him gone I NEED HIM SO GONE #morrie i hope and pray you get his ass personally #WTF #i am pushing the panic button repeatedly #i am batting him away with a broom #we get it henry thomas you have the range 😭 #yurtle watches #the fall of the house of usher #the fall of the house of usher spoilers #tfothou #tfothou spoilers #house of usher #house of usher spoilers #henry thomas #flanaverse #frederick usher #froderick usher #hugh crain

[bebx]

Roderick Usher is insane for keeping having more kids with different women knowing with all his chest he’d made a deal with some goddess entity that when he died his entire bloodline died with him.

I know he brushed the whole thing off as a dream or whatever, but personally I would’ve known it was real if I walked out of some bar, after making a deal with a very spooky lady, only to look back at it 5 seconds later and see the entire bar turn into some run down abandoned place instead. like bro could’ve lived his entire life as the richest, most powerful man without bothering to have more kids when it was already morally questionable enough to make that deal when he already had 2 kids at home.

* all I’m saying is it’s a very interesting offer and I would’ve made that deal with Verna myself in a heartbeat if offered the chance. I just wouldn’t have had any kid? I mean I never want kids anyway so ummm Verna if you see this, dm me?

#the fall of the house of usher #mike flanagan #roderick usher #verna #carla gugino #edgar allan poe #tfothou #kate siegel #madeline usher #camille l'espanaye #mary mcdonnell #tamerlane usher #frederick usher #victorine usher #prospero usher #leo usher

[duchessofostergotlands]

Frederick Usher getting slowly cut in half by a pendulum. Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving guy

#I just wish he’d known his wife was safe #and everyone knew what he did #spoilers #the fall of the house of usher #frederick usher

[timlaughlin]

Freddie is the swing vote. Way I see it, he’s key to the play.

HENRY THOMAS as FREDERICK USHER THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (2023)

#horroredit #henrythomasedit #tvedit #tfothouedit #tfothou spoilers #mike flanagan #henry thomas #frederick usher #mine* #flashing tw