Man Roderick dies the way his father does and his sister dies the way their mom does, and then the house falls down. The literal embodiment of the fall of the house of usher. Absolutely wild and amazing storytelling
He actually seemed amused almost, like not scared at all, not disgusted or guilty. He was so far gone at that point he was just like trippy. lol Did Poe’s version proud I think there.
@@trinabina3900 I just like to think he was burned out by all the apparitions, and was amused and nonplussed UNTIL he noticed that Dupin was looking right at her.
So remember how when Madeline tried to kill Roderick but the Raven wouldn't let him die? I get the feeling the Raven brought Madeline back the same way to kill Roderick because thats how the Raven wanted it to happen. God. what a fantastic show.
It has a wonderful cyclical fate as their own parents. Madeline is their mother - prematurely buried. Roderick is their father - being strangled after abandoning his children
Is that as terrifying though as Roderick mis-dosing Madeline with a poison and her actually being alive but paralyzed while he plucked out her eyes and possibly even her tongue (cause she seemed to be bleeding from the mouth and that ghastly wail makes me think she can’t speak) and the entire time he was telling the story, that thumping in the basement was Madeline fumbling around blind and in pain and trying to find her dirty rat brother who tried to kill her and failed so miserably until eventually…in that sightless darkness she finds the stairs and finally climbs up to find Roderick and wrap her hands around his throat…the man who took everything away from her when she was on the cusp of HAVING everything, her lifelong ambition???
@@MayTheOddsBeInYourFavor Not only that, Roderick is also shown to be using a tool Egyptians used to remove the brain during mummification! That means he didn't just blind and harmed Madeline without realizing she's still alive - he also removed one of her most prized possessions and one of her most defining traits (her smarts). It explains another reason why she was bumbling around the basement for so long - she's gotten the equivalent of a lobotomy... 0_0
His facial expression at 1:22 😂 It’s like a mixture of happiness that he’s finally not alone in seeing something and exhilaration over what’s about to happen
1:10 most unintentionally hilarious part about Roderick and Auggie's conversation all season was watching Auggie get jump scared a few times. I bust out laughing every time
A lot of people seem to miss the point, that they both die exactly how their parents died. Madeline died the same way get mother did, Roderick died the same way his father did. Did everyone in this comment section forget the first episode?
That was my thoughts as well when seeing the ending, and pretty much a perfect way to cap off the generational trauma themes in the series. Roderick even does the same thing his father has done by irresponsibly having some illegitimate kids. Part of me wonders if Roderick's acceptance of his illegitimate kids was his attempts to be better than his dad (as he and Madeline were disinherited), but because he never learned to better process his traumas and see what was truly important alongside Madeline, Roderick ended up going down a similar path as his dad (including mistreating his children/other people).
@@Scarshadow666 that was super the case. Roderick wanted his bastards to have a chance at his money specifically because he and her sister had a rough childhood no thanks to their father. Pretty sure he said it at some point in the show too.
I have to say give Mary McDonnell a frakkin award just for the performance in the end scene because she was awesome. I felt sorry for Mary McDonnell mainly because of the prosthetic on her eyes. But she was frakkin awesome. Mary McDonnell needs an award for all the scenes.
Mike Flanagan has done little wrong for them, or film media in general. Whether it's a movie or a miniseries, he is so damned consistent. Midnight Mass was awesome, the Haunting of Hill House was awesome, Gerald's Game was very, very good, the Ouija prequel was standard fare, but well crafted, and Dr Sleep is slept on, pun intended.
@@thedrewdog lol well good point but I don’t know about that. From the sound of his last “confession” to Auggie and just his general actions throughout the series, I don’t think he cared all that much. (Lenore’s death moved him the most but he seemed to be ok pretty fast thereafter. lol) Not enough for it to be satisfying comeuppance. But I mean it ended appropriately. And I truly loved every second of it.
@@trinabina3900 I think at that point he'd just accepted it. Plus, he'd just been forced back to life from an opiate overdose. He was in pure "fuck-it" mode until he realized that Madeline wasn't just another ghost.
@@thedrewdog well ok I mean it’s your viewpoint, and it’s valid, but what can I say, I’d have still liked to see more happen than his sister choking him only for the house to fall down on them and end his suffering. Lol you can probably imagine I was also none too pleased with Cersei’s demise on GoT. 😂
That may be one reason but the other is because in ancient egypt the pharaos got their eyes , tongue , brain and some organs pulled out before being mummified
Why'd he do that her? He knew she'd wake up and kill him and was still alive while talking the entire time. He was losing his sanity by the end I guess. It seems like an out of character cruel punishment.
My interpretation is more he’s trying to give her a twisted dignity in death. He didn’t expect her to survive. Remember the man is basically mad with grief and dementia at this point
@@AlehGea it's the trauma and losing his mind that made him do that most likely it definitely wasn't the dementia. Dementia usually doesn't make someone do something like that. Regardless we never see him actually experience the extreme effects of dementia yet. Every time so far his hallucinations were tied directly to Verna he just believed it was his dementia diagnosis.
I think that Roderick was in a coma because he collapsed outside of the church, while he was in a coma before he passed away without regaining consciousness he was watching all of his children one by one fade into darkness of his unconscious mind but when he finally succumbed and gave up the ghost he had one last imagine of himself and Auggie sitting in the darkness with him confessing the day before he collapsed outside of the church, and when it was time for him to finally die the image of a Zombie Madeline came and smashed through the door and snuffed out the last of his life and the house of his unconscious mind came tumbling down over them. When this happened, and Roderick was buried Augie left the recorder at the head of his tombstone, and his families gravestones were there as symbols of his mistakes and sorrows. But that's my theory and people may not agree with me on this.
But she also betrayed him, they were both the same basically back stabbing each other at the end, remember she made him kill himself thinking she would be safe from Verna. @@a.syafiab
This was the downfall of the Ugliest Family Dynasty ever known. the only one's to felt bad for are there victims who were killed by the Usher family members or abuse. Thank God, Auggie. was smart to get the hell out of there. Also was cool when he see a Dark Figure (Verna) on the collapse house. "Never More!"
Still mad that Madeline got to kill him. After watching her shit all over everyone and everything without one ounce of remorse, I wanted her to die humiliated and unsatisfied. But she just had to get one last win in and take her twin with her. Boo.
Well her 'final win' wasn't a win - She had stones jammed in her gouged eye-d face for hours and hours. Plus she was obsessed with immortality and died just before she could acheive it AND she never betrayed anyone who trusted her the way Roderick and his children did those to who trusted him/them (other when she tried to kill Roderick himself, but that was arguably more justified). Madeline was a more sociopathic and cold person in her manner, but she didn't sacrifice her family - she even avoided having a family of her own. Also she never got to be the head of the empire, it was her brother. Despite being the reason for their success she was only ever COO never CEO, so didn't truly get her wish (to never be controlled by a man) as he did.
Hate the acid scene that was horiffic i found that the most disturbing and how she was ripped by monkey and the monkey laughed after creepy af scene what people opinion off it
In her defense, she got tired of watching eagles fans. So I am on her side. And Netflix houses need to be built better. Too many homes and mold and creepy stuff growing in walls.
Yes even i couldn't understand, i thought maybe They hadn't died Yet before they got buried, her mom might have been alive before they buried her, so she came back but still that doesn't explain she was powerful enough to walk and Choke Usher,
@@bmabs35 CLEARLY, but another thing that’s bugs me with Madeline was the instruments Roderick was taking out, of course the eyes and the brain scooper or brain pick, if Roderick used it on her is death or whatever it is ways to kill Roderick too or what?
This is my favourite off all off then haunting off bly house midnight mass the haunting off hill house watched them all alk very creepy and different but scary as fuck great acting in them all but have to say this one was very very gory actually quite grotesque never mind gory
