(They are clearly a fictionalized stand-in for the Sackler family).
Karma is a bitch, and sometimes, shes ruthless.
So, lets rank the Usher family deaths from least to most gruesome.
‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ Funeral | Eike Schroter/Netflix
Verna simply puts her to sleep, as a tinge of remorse crawls across her face.
This is the part of her job Verna hates; she does not wish to punish the undeserving.
However, compared to the deaths in this series, its quite mild.
Its not all that bloody.
And its not very drawn out.
Theres still a love there…no matter how twisted it has become.
Bruce Greenwood as Roderick Usher | EIKE SCHROTER/NETFLIX
And, they get to die moments apart in the very dwelling their journey began.
They started as a team against the world, and they will end as one.
Its romantic in a warped way.
Paola Núñez as Dr. Alessandra Ruiz (L) and T’Nia Miller as Victorine| EIKE SCHROTER/NETFLIX
He hears the impostrous cat hissing and meowing in the walls.
It scratches at his eyes as it jumps from behind the designer suits in his walk-in closet.
He cannot take it anymore, as mice show up dead in his bathtub.
Kyliegh Curran as Lenore Usher (L) and Henry Thomas as Frederick Usher | EIKE SCHROTER/NETFLIX
The further he descends into a violent madness, the less stable he becomes.
Victorine
What is that beating?
What is that sound that cannot be drowned out?
That madness-catalyzing incessant pulsing?
Oh, its just the heart of the woman you murdered and stored in a room for safekeeping.
Victorine kept her lovers heart beating via the cardiac invention that was not yet ready for human use.
So, her deceased former lovers heart kept thumping away, despite her total braindead state.
When Victorine finally accepts what she has done, she stabs herself to death.
Its one forceful stab right through the abdomen and up through the heart.
Tamerlane
Tammy loves a copycat when shes playing wife to her husband.
A double is not as much fun when shes fighting one for her existence.
As she falls to her bed, she is impaled by multiple shards of glass.
In terms of brutal, this one is rough.
Glass to the face, to the eyes, to the neck, to the torso.
Camille
Mauled by monkey…need we say more?
Camille just had to go snooping around.
She had to go investigate to get to the bottom of the scandal.
You know what they say: curiosity killed the cat.
Well here, curiosity killed the Camille.
A monkey brutally attacked her scratches, punches, kicks, teeth tearing away at her skin.
We can only imagine the brutality at play here by the pools of blood left on the laboratory floor.
Frederick
A pendulum slowly tears away at Fredericks abdomen as a building collapses around him.
Shallow slices followed by deeper cuts blood spitting before pooling.
The pendulum drops inch by inch.
Each passing moment feels like an eternity as another cut digs deeper into what remains of his abdominal organs.
Its a slow and torturous death.
He pulled his wifes tooth out with a pair of pliers; he has earned this brutal demise.
To look back on the man he became when an ounce of power fell in his lap.
The scene immediately transitions from a carefree party of euphoric sexual encounters to death by melting skin.
Its a jarring switch from arousal and party-fueled excitement to cowering discomfort.
Its stomach-churning and shocking.
Prospero is also forced to watch those around him scream in agony before facing the very same fate.
