The Fall of the House of Usher
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And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?
Edgar Allan Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart
Are the Ushers capable of love?
And Rodericks children have hardly fared better.
Perry and Camille were in explicitly transactional relationships.
You have to remember you cant trust people, he counsels his daughter.
Each of these partners, were reminded over and over again, have signed NDAs.
More than any of her siblings, Victorine is under serious pressure.
It should have been obvious where this episode was going.
She tries to ally with Freddie and Tamerlane but receives only disdain from her surviving siblings.
Rightly or wrongly, she has calculated that Usher money is worth more than Usher love.
Whatever the answer, it isnt enough.
Alessandra walks out, and its this breakup, we eventually learn, that leads to a crack-up.
This late-breaking twist is what makes much of the episode retroactively chilling.
This is the scene Roderick walks into when he shows up at Victorines doorstep.
And yet: Theres the beating of that hideous heart.
Events have already been set in motion; she can let Victorine take care of it this time.
Roderick, however, believes the killings would stop if he just killed himself.
Shout-out to the production designer who gave Tamerlane and Bill-Ts bedroom that very kinky mirror headboard.
Dont have to be smart to be dangerous.
I mean, Im not scared of rattlesnakes because theyre smart.
