#cheezythoughts

Or Tubi, which has a metric shit ton of stuff free with ads, and you don't even have to make an account or download the app. Same with Pluto, although Pluto is pretty slow.

Even YouTube has a lot of free stuff, and I don't just mean the official YouTube movie channel. I mean, there's a bunch of channels that upload movies you can watch without having to click a link to some shady website. YouTube also has a lot of audio book uploads too.

Then later that episode we have the scene where Armand shows Louis the painting he was in way back when he was still called Amadeo, and he gives some back story about himself. This is by far the most vulnerable Armand has been in the entire first two seasons of the show. Yet, we have dreamstat over here with his very loud "HA!" at Armand's story. Taking dreamstat as some sort of representation of Louis's subconscious, I find it interesting that in Armand's most vulnerable, truthful, one might even say fragile moment, there is a part of Louis that is angry and disbelieving of what Armand is saying.

Now, the actual reasons for Louis thinking this don't necessarily matter to what I'm getting at, but yes, there are reasons for his reaction. However, my point is that for all the time they spent together, I wonder how much Louis really did see, or understand Armand. A total stranger took one look and saw through Armand's facade, yet Louis, who was literally in a romantic relationship with Armand, could not fully believe or accept that Armand, with all his power, is still kind of super vulnerable.

I think this strikes me so much because while Armand is lying when he says "I could not prevent it," the show itself is not lying. Because the show really could not prevent Claudia's death. Because Anne Rice could not prevent Claudia's death. As much as the "I could not prevent it" is a lie for Armand, it moreso feels like a statement from the show, the writers, Rolin Jones, and Anne.