USHER GIRLFRIENDS LIST SERIES

On the disgust side, Napoleon’s torture is a slow burn that starts with a scratch to the wrist, then to the cornea (they could have stopped there, frankly), then a slash to the throat before Napoleon’s demise, which comes after chasing the (ghost?) cat off his balcony. Not terribly different from Victorine, but the nuance is what puts Napoleon’s death over the finish line just ahead of his sister’s. Technically, this is a replacement cat, since Napoleon kills the first one. The family gamer is taken out after his boyfriend’s cat drives him crazy.

Four points.Ĭats are such assholes, so I love the inspiration here. Driving someone insane to the point of installing a fake heart in your lover before killing yourself? Kind of brilliant. It has neither set the tone, nor are we at the end of the list of heirs. Because madness is a tricky beast, we’ll include all details: the disgust score is a solid 4, due to the fact that (1) girlfriend stabs herself, and (2) she goes mad and takes her girlfriend’s corpse and installs a fake heart into it. But Victorine falls apart after an ideal surgical patient plagues her office with ambient noise that drives Victorine mad. Surgeon Victorine is so success-driven that she becomes consumed with a new prototype she and her girlfriend are working on (I wish I could give bonus points for other deaths characters are involved with because Victorine bopping her girlfriend in the head with a statuette from 10 yards away and then watching her blow an eye out as she dies? Chef’s kiss). We really do not shine a bright enough light on the effects of being driven absolutely fucking crazy by ambient noise. First off, how incredibly gory was it? How much did the death have an effect on the overall story, and of course, how inventive was it? For instance, we love a classic stabbing, but how original is that?Įike Schroter/Netflix 5. To break it down, we’ll use the DIE scale: the categories of Disgust, Impact, and Extravagance will guide the final score. The way we will be ranking these episodes is with a bit of Murder Math, which is not too different from girl math. In the words of Oprah Winfrey, “Hello! Let’s celebrate that!” It’s a horny show, ok? But the reason that I gather you all here today is not to discuss the merits of the narrative (which is great) or the performances (T’Nia Miller Emmy nomination when?), but rather to discuss the deaths.įlanagan has packed two, maybe three, seasons worth of gore and trauma into this eight-episode outing, creating demises as visceral as the vices that motivate the main characters. The six heirs to the throne are masters of hedonism, focused on sex and fame and sex and wealth, and also, sex.

USHER GIRLFRIENDS LIST SERIES

The series is perfect escapism, smartly weaving a narrative about a grotesquely wealthy family whose fortune was made on the backs of addictive painkillers. When Mike Flanagan was charting out his newest Netflix limited series, I imagine that he looked back at last year’s The Midnight Club and said, “I spent so much of my time on mystery that I forgot about all the gore and kink.” And thus, to repent for his narrative sins, he created The Fall of the House of Usher, based on the Edgar Allen Poe work of the same name, as well as other stories from the prolific author.

Usher girlfriends list