armand "no one has painted me in over 400 years" and daniel "depicted him so vividly and compellingly in his book that he's gained a cultish fan following" molloy are gonna kiss on screen. btw. [fireworks go off, the crowd cheers, world peace is declared]

I think Lestat and Nicki at the end of the episode—Lestat being silly to his ghost—is maybe my favorite part? There’s something so… sweet(?) about a widower’s love. Not the sadness of his death or the pain of witnessing his madness, but the just that, the innocent joy, what you mourn for. And he gets to stay. He’s not laid to rest, he's not let go of or forgotten. And Lestat imagines him cheering for him.

lestat de lioncourt is too silly he really said "after it took me over a century to get over my dead boyfriend, the most depressed man in all of france, i am ready to try again with my new boyfriend: the most depressed man in all of america"

fuck, man, that was a tough watch. best episode so far but holy shit i feel like a wrung out dish towel. the tonal whiplash from the “your biggest fan” music video to gabriella with lestat’s double to the reveal that the interview session was a hallucination to the parallel reading of claudia’s diary entry and lestat’s assault by magnus to the quiet tragedy of lestat’s performance as each character seems to wallow in their own loneliness in different ways. this is the true voice of the show, and it’s fucking incredible.