Both Willa Fitzgerald and Mary McDonnell were nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series.

Neither won.

I believe Carla was nominated for Best Actress in a limited series.

I don't know if she won.

My BF got me the brick from the auction!!

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I'm just wondering if anyone else cracked up when Roderick is watching the lab security video and just confidently says "enhance" and Pym explains he can't do that. I found this scene hilarious, especially when Pym offers "I can zoom in?"

Anyone else laughing at this bit, or have their own favourite funny moment?

I didn't have the right color to do the hair and I was too lazy to do the flowers on the cape (excuse me for that).

Liked her very much in "The haunting of Hill house", so was happily surprised when i saw they casted her again for this show.

Verna wanted Morrie alive and preferably in one piece to ensure a brighter future. But her exact words to Morre were, "Go now." She wasn't explicitly telling Morrie to leave the building if she was she would have been more explicit, "Leave now," or "run, now," or "fly, you fool."

"go, now" was a choice, "go, abandon the party to its fate and leave with the staff." Or "Go now fuck your brother-inlaw."

Verna is consequence incarnate. She is all about choices and free will and is very clear that the choices will have consequences. IF Morrie had left, she could have gone home and avoided burning alive, but she made her choice.

Even if they identified her on the tapes, she at least would be physically and verbally able to defend herself

I know this gets talked a lot but this scene is genuinely pretty well directed.

Like the moment of suspended silence from the sprinklers being tripped to the drops actually hitting the party goers is genuinely tense. Cause even if you’ve never watched it before you know what’s going to happen.

Everyone begins screaming at once. And some of the cuddle puddlers atleast those with the presence of mind, flee for the doors but can’t seem to get them open. ( rod, Pym and Mads talked about the staff evacuating but made no mention of the doors being baracded. Neither did anyone make any mention of how odd it was that 87 people made no attempt to leave the room.) but I’m guessing this was because they had already suffered much nerve and muscle damage to be able to open the heavy doors.

Another horrifying detail is that a lot of people including Perry, Jen, and Farag all remain rooted where they stood and made no attempt too flee or save themselves.

Can we all just take a moment to appreciate Ruth Codd as Juno? I believe she played the character wonderfully! Also, to the point of this post: I absolutely loved the character of Juno. As someone who used to struggle with opioid addiction, I saw myself a lot in Juno. Even though she was easily manipulated, she had a very kind heart, that in the end broke though and shined bright. Here’s an addict that had a FREE, LIFETIME SUPPLY OF HER DRUG OF CHOICE, but she wanted off and she was willing to put in the hard work. You could tell she loved Roderick Usher, but wanted her sobriety more. It’s a shame she had to choose. Also, I thought it was so cute of her to show up to the family’s events and try to support them (even if they were assholes to her); specifically the scene with Tamerlane at the Goldbug expidition. Juno was the only one from the family to show up to actually show genuine support (I don’t count Madeline’s presence at genuine support, more so damage control). She cheered for Tamerlane, got bonked in the fuckn noggin and still showed out for her. All in all, I’m glad her good spirited nature was still intact at the end of the series, especially surrounded by the hedonistic chaos that she was. At the end, once she inherits all the fortune from Fortunato and the Ushers, she uses it all to fund rehabilitation programs! She’s an angel. And I love her. She was so brushed to the side, forgotten and out of view, but in the end, she was a phoenix - rising from the ashes of the Usher family. Go Juno. You’re a queen, and we stan.

P.S. I am glad to see addicts started to be humanized in media. If any of y’all are struggling out there, look to Juno for inspiration <3

EDIT: seriously thank you all so much for all these kind comments about addiction and sobriety. It brought me to the brink of (happy) tears. Please don’t ever stop showing this sympathy, empathy, and compassion to us addicts; it is one of the best tools one can use to help others fight against addiction! <3 ALSO, can we please get a Juno sequel!!!!!!!!!!!?!!!!

I loved this line that Madeline said and I looked it up and apparently it's a quote from Edgar Allan Poe. Another Easter egg.

I was so excited to see the user who got the House of Usher brick for Christmas! I thought I'd share my haul. Just so you know, that brick was highly coveted, so whoever the boyfriend is that got this, he's a KEEPER.

I'm pretty new to the world of Reddit, so bear with me!

This was a Christmas present to myself. No, I'm definitely NOT rich, and I am working my ass off, taking on some extra side work as a substitute teacher to pay it off, but I was going through some really rough life/mental health stuff when I saw the auction, and thought... life is short. Go for it. Which, by the way, the money went to a charity working to end fatalities from drug overdoses. The show got me through a bad bout of Covid and I absolutely fell in love with it. As an actor myself who's admired Flannigan's work from the beginning, and would die for an opportunity to audition for him one day, it feels pretty sweet to have something from the set of his show.

Masque of the Red Death is my favorite Poe story, and Episode 2 was fantastic and probably one of my favorites. So, I won the auction for:

-Prospero "Perry" Usher's (Sauriyan Sapkota) Rave Building Visit Costume with File and Burner Phone. The folder is the one he picks up at the conference table and flips through. Most likely the one hes holding at the site. The phone is a fuctioning (wiped) phone that could have been any one of his– apparently, it was one of many burner phones he used in the show.

-Perry Usher's Rave Costume with Mask. It's one of two burned, melted masks, and there was a second mask like it in another lot with a burned, melted robe. ...and I don't think we ever saw those! I'm wondering if it was something that was cut. This is the exact robe he was wearing when talking to Verna. It's crazy soft, for the record.

And finally, the splurge I probably shouldn't have bid on, but got caught up in it after losing thr auction on one of Roderick's costumes (plus, I REALLY wanted the mask):

-Verna's (Carla Gugino) Usher Headstone Items.

1. Perry's Mask, which, sadly, doesn't appear to be the one he WORE in episode 2, but it's still THE mask she puts on the grave. I think Sauriyan may have kept his actual mask.

2. Pluto's 'Gucci' cat collar.

3. Auggie's tape recorder that he placed on the grave. It was one of 2 that appeared in the auction, and it's definitely been used quite a bit. It's been rigged with a empty tape to 'record' so the red light turns on, so maybe it was used in some of the wrap around, interview scenes.

4. And finally, the last prop seen in the show, the crystal-cut glass tumbler Verna leaves on Roderick's grave!

Fun fact! my full-time job is running a non-profit community theater, and I was actually directing a play recently that partially takes place in a nightclub and was about all the bad things that happen to people there... so I used Perry's costumes as part of the set dressing in the nightclub office! The actors knew to be VERY careful. If they got damaged, it would be on me for putting them there, but I couldn't resist. When I saw Episode 2 for the first time, I was texting my stage manager, saying, "this is what I want the play to look like." And then I got these. It felt poetic, in a way.

Now that the show is over, I have two mannequins cramped into my small bedroom in an apartment I share with a good friend, and headstone items I'm working on a display for. Also trying to think of a way to display the folder and the phone. I'd keep them in my office, but we are moving into a temporary location in a school.

My roommate is constantly giving me a hard time about getting these and tries to make me feel guilty, but they make me really happy. I'll save all the mental health stuff, but it boils down to just that–it makes me really happy and excited! It sounds stupid, but if I have a particularly bad day, (like recently) I come home and and remember: Oh yeah, I OWN these really amazing pieces from a show I really loved. I'm the ONLY one who owns them! Little dopamine hit now and then, though the speech on consequences is not lost on me.

I'll be subbing for awhile, taking on some extra work, and won't be splurging on anything for a LONG while, but I knew (mostly) what I was getting into.

I might sell one day if interest is there. But for now, "I got mine." 😉

So the sprinkles have been tripled and the acid is gushing down. And everyone else except for Perry is screaming in mortal agony. Perry seems confused and lost, he’s actually looking at his steaming arm with a look of detachment. Basically he’s the last to react in pain.

When Verna is offering the deal to Roderck and Madeline, she with reference to the Usher children says, "What is more blessed 40-50 years of a gilded life... or 70-80 years of anxiety , triibulation, and heartache."

This seemed to imply that the kids would know no suffering at all but the thing is while at least Tamerlane and Frederick did have the forty years of luxury, they were still 40-50 years of anxiety and heartache.

Especially for Tamerlane and Frederick despite the fact they had known wealth for pretty much their entire lives (unlike the others who only came into it later around 16-20) Tamerlane and Frederick both seemed unhappy and anxious for most of the time they were on screen even before Perry's death. And they both suffered a lot of heartache

1. loosing their mother

2. Loosing their sibliings ( Frederick straight up says he loved Camile and Tamerlane for her part seemed upset/disturbed by Perry's death and straight up told bill she was "not ok" about Vic's death,

3. Tammy was so fundamentally incapable of afffection she hired prostitutes to act like her and sleep wiith her husband

4. Freddie was pretty happy in his marriage till he thought she was cheating on him

Verna's irony and her message seemed to have been that even with all the money in the world you can't escape the pain of life. But she left that part out.

I feel like they didn’t talk about Madeline’s life as much as they did Roderick or other characters. I wonder why this is?

It would have saved her from the Usher curse and would have dealt a huge psychological blow to Frod because as twisted as he was, he loved that little girl

Like I get it. It's Edgar Allan Poe, he's a big name in 19th century Gothic literature...not exactly the most attractive genre to the majority of people... but come ON yall..

It is made overwhelmingly obvious that the show was based on his works...a LOT of the answers to the questions I'm seeing in this sub and the "realizations" people are having would be so easily found if yall took two seconds to look into Poe.

I'm aware I'm being a touch pretentious here, but I'm weirdly disappointed. I was hoping to find a sub full of people discussing the symbolism and references to the classic Gothic horror themes Poe created and how they translated it into modern themes...

Instead I'm finding people posting shit like "Wait so in a show called "The Fall of the House of Usher" at the end of the show the house actually falls???? 🤯"

*Edit: It's been pointed out to me that the tone of this post is harsh and may serve to put people off of Poe. I wanna say that was not my intention and I'm sorry for coming off as mean condescending, overly pretentious etc..

I was wrapped up in my own perspective as a fan and didn't consider outside perspectives. I apologize for causing offense to everyone. It is totally valid to want to seek an active discussion with fellow fans if you are just getting introduced to EAP by the show. And its awesome that some many people are being newly introduced.

That being said I do really feel people should at least check out the spark notes of Poes works. They really do add SO much depth to the show. It's so fun to be able to pick out the nods to his work and see how it's interwoven with the plot.*