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The Ushers, The Fall of the House of Usher

Image: Eike Schroter/Netflix
Image: Eike Schroter/Netflix

Farewell to the entire Usher family—all cleverly named with Edgar Allan Poe references in Mike Flanagan’s Netflix drama—who died in ways expertly calibrated to give them the ultimate comeuppance as they took their final breaths. Though not everyone deserved what they got (sorrow for the lost Lenore), most certainly did, and much of the fun of the series came from waiting to see who would meet their gloriously graphic end next.