What.

post 80's breakup DM. Daniel doesn't remember where this heartache is coming from so he falls back into drugs hard. Armand mourns their relationship, spending hours and hours in the little bathtub from the flat where everything began on divisadero street.

things to look for : they have matching ashtrays. Daniel has the remnants of a vampire bite but Armand also sports a human-shaped bitemark where he was letting Daniel mock-bite him. Hard so see because of the angle but Armand is sporting a black bindi (symbol of mourning) but his hands and feet are still adorning joyful mehndi from when he was with his beloved. The tapes around Armand are all recordings of Daniel's voice. They are both crying.

closeups of Armand's mehndi under the cut !!!

I didn't know whether I was gonna upload this episode because the screeners already revealed that ep 6 was going to be racist. Even with the warning though, I didn't expect it to be nearly as bad as it was. I genuinely thought it as going to be subtle, something that I as a non-black person couldn't catch and would need someone to explain to me. That was not the case: it wasn't something anyone would write on accident without realising the implications of because of the lack of black writers and sensitivity readers, there is not a single soul who would see this and not see the obvious anti-blackness in it, and so to write it was purposeful and malicious. And it's even more annoying that they chose to use Delainey's stellar performance to push this blatant anti-blackness.

Mind you AMC was already criticised for its marketing biases, and for not including any black writers during TVL, having practically an all white (minus one or two for specific episodes) writing team.

And believe me this isn't the first time the writers have written insensitve and racist jokes. "But its edgy-" no shut up, the vampires murder people, the vampires eat people, the vampires have gay sex on screen, why do you need to put non-white people and especially black people down? Is there any particular reason you're trying to defend calling Louis "nappy headed" and "louisiana fried chicken" and say slavery was written into his fucking ribcage? Yes the vampires would be cancelled if they were real and on twitter.com but quite frankly AMC didn't even try focusing on in-character edge, it was edgy for the sake of being edgy not for the sake of the plot, and it sure as hell wasn't for the sake of comedy.

And here's the thing, i'm sure if it needed to be included for an actual purpose, like looking into Claudia's psyche or how Louis and Claudia lived in a time racism was more public, it could be done in a way that was still respectful to actual black people. But with an all white writers team? The chances of any nuance was shit all.