Let me be clear: I'm happy with the show being renewed, but I always knew it would be. Like, I was in zero fear of that happening. So, for me, the announcement of it being so was, in my eyes, just a formality.
And I don't think the change to the title Queen of the Damned means Lestat's story 100% means that his story got fully shafted. There is overlap between TVL and QotD with the concert stuff.
But let's be real -- they didn't go into Armand and Lestat and what was going on there at all in Season 3. They didn't address the trial or revisit Murder Night, or anything else we've been waiting for since Seasons 1 and 2.
And with Hannah as showrunner now, there is zero guarantee that all that will ever get addressed, examined, or revisited. With Rolin still being showrunner, I did have the belief it would.
Now? I just don't.
Nothing I've seen out of Hannah's writing during the finale, or her interviews afterwards, told me she has any interest in doing those things with the story. Nothing she has said has told me she understands Lestat, Louis, or Armand as the characters they actually are within the story. (And she has rarely even spoken about Daniel, so who even knows there. 🤷🏾♀️)
So yeah, as nice as it is to have the show renewed, it's now just going to be a different show. That can never be helped when it comes to a showrunner switch. And nothing I've seen or heard from Hannah so far makes me confident about the direction the show will be going because of that.
Maybe she'll prove me wrong. But at the moment, I have no confidence about that. 🤷🏾♀️









