they literally could've cut out all the concert & rockstar bullshit and they would've had a big enough budget for the important story beats. why is sam reid rotating his hips more important than all the character work in the books. it's so frustrating. they had the formula right there. make a documentary and let lestat talk in front of a camera with daniel and then flesh out the flashback scenes like in season 1 & 2. they had gold at their disposal

The death of this show will be caused by the thousand and one quips, that the amc writers' room have convinced themselves are quirky and funny. Notice how all of their jokes this season are made at the expense of lived realities that are far different from those the writers themselves may have faced? So you will have a pronoun joke here and a little racism there, with a dash of misogyny sprinkled in between. I cannot get over their little jokey "justice4antoniette", not only because the history of s1- the man of the house cheating on his black spouse with a racist white lady, who was then entrusted with the task of killing the black girl child this marriage produced-but also it feels like such an insensitive jab at the phrase in itself. Something that's so often used as a call to action for victims of violence, and sure we joke around with the phrase too and in fact mayhaps at times diluted it too- but this? THIS?? with the context we have of a TV show that once centered two black leads much to the chagrin of many, so now when there's someone else to lead the show, the characters both black and brown are being made into caricatures and flattened to death in an attempt to soothe the ruffled feathers... Yeah, that's just nasty. Also when you have "Louisiana fried chicken"/"big bad wolf"/"cancerous jackal" all wrt to a black gay man, and then a piece of costume which goes:" hip hop sucks" then the writing is already on the wall, no?

Saw a spoiler and lol dumb fucking fandom racists being so happy about Claudia saying the things that she is saying lol. Because of course they now don't have to be uncomfortable with the commentary on white supremacy. An all white writers room made sure that they will be forever coddled. Louis and Lestat are the same as if Louis wasn't almost lynched. Louis and Lestat are the same as if Louis wasn't DARVO'ed. Louis and Lestat are same kind of abusers to Claudia as if Louis didn't try to beat the shit out of Lestat when he put his hands on Claudia. Claudia saying that Louis wasn't even Claudia's by blood? And that she liked Lestat better. Lol this was the girl who begged Lestat to not to hurt Louis and take her instead, as he was dragging Louis by the jaw. God the masturbatory dunking on LouClaudia must feel so good to these racists 🤣🤣 these people so wanted to call Louis the slurs Claudia's ghost spit at him, from the very first episode the show aired. I know for a fact that they hated the Helen of Troy epithet that was given to Jacob!Louis- why else aren't they horrified and are this giddy about the slurs and not horrified at the writing choices of an all white writers' room?