Nathalia CR.

Louis and Lestat looking at each other

𝓢𝓱𝓸𝔀 𝓶𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓫𝓲𝓽𝓽𝓮𝓻 𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓻

𝓘 𝔀𝓪𝓷𝓽 𝓲𝓽

𝓖𝓲𝓶𝓶𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓫𝓻𝓾𝓽𝓪𝓵 𝓵𝓸𝓿𝓮

𝓘 𝔀𝓪𝓷𝓽 𝓲𝓽 𝓪𝓵𝓵

𝓘 𝓪𝓶 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓶𝓮𝓽𝓮𝓸𝓻 𝓪𝓫𝓸𝓿𝓮 𝓲𝓽

the host said this was the best season of television she has watched, Rolin thanks her but the actors are like not reacting to it… except for Delainey who’s face KILLED ME (it seems to me she’s throwing a glance at Jacob)

Allow me my odyssey.

this pissed me all the way off so I’m also posting this separate from my longer critique.

Hannah what the actual fuck is this DARVO ass logic?

You guys wrote Louis as a victim of undeniable domestic abuse and a lynching? By both Armand and Lestat.

And now Armand does it again?! And is framed as the victim?!

And then she also wants to frame it like Louis is being a lying liar during his lynching

Jacob Anderson (he did many times this episode) stood up to Hannah and Rolin…

AND ROLIN HAS THE AUDACITY TO INTERJECT TO SAY THIS GARBAGE

DOUBLING DOWN ON THE DARVO BULLSHIT !!!

And when god forbid Jacob Anderson speaks against a writing and framing choice you shut him down and make him seem like the unreasonable one…. What is this gaslighting of the audience like we didn’t see s.1-2 and knew what happened.

The audacity to outright shut Jacob down completely, interrupt him and not let him explain or defend Louis… hm. I see why all the actors are so uncomfortable around you two this episode.

Wish we could have gotten more CoS Armand and Lesmand because the cult shit is what made Armand become Armand.

Let's not even touch Hannah's comments. It's the same bullshit as when she said the waitress incident in TOTBT justified the drop.

And now she's on After Dark spewing bullshit about Armand being "used" by Louis (Armand was the one using Louis as his Stepford Wife vessel!) and how Armand believed that Louis owed him an apology, and she's erasing their dynamic in S2 and acting like they never addressed the Arun/Maître factor. Uh, that was the entire POINT to their pairing after Armand threatened Claudia. Louis let go of DreamStat and hardened himself back into Louis the pimp. He thought he was in control of Armand with that role play for the sake of keeping Claudia safe from the rest of the coven, but Armand was always the one in control and was actively conspiring behind Louis' back to kill Claudia with the trial and to kill Louis, too, for the "aesthetic" of it all. And that's ON TOP OF all the shit Armand did to Louis after Paris.

Yet Louis owed Armand an apology?! He threw that fucker into the wall and walked out. That was the "closure"! Louis owed him SHIT after that mess.

I mean, they wrote an entire scene in 2x04 of their dynamic being addressed and now it was never addressed?! Louis owed Armand?! No he did not!

*sighs*

I guess we did touch her comments, didn't we? 😅

But seriously. This choice just makes me furious. Both mistakes — the drop and the torture porn — have come from her, and they've been at Louis' expense and at the expense of another canon character dynamic — Lesmand.