Raven's Nest

“I do wanna say something about Armand quickly, because I give Armand so much shit when I talk about the show. All the time. And he is probably a character that I’m like, Jacob, I watch and I’m like “that guy gets on my nerves. He just seems kinda to get things wrong at every stage” but I think something that this season goes into in a really powerful way and I think kinda reframes a lot of what you see of him before is that he’s what happens if you go through some of the worst personal atrocities from a very young age, like so much cruelty is inflicted on you and then you’re just alone. And he tries— I feel like Armand is continually trying to find community and in one way it manifests in religious fundamentalism and, you know, this really dark sort of cult kinda thing and he tries to control people. And then he’s just sort of— tries to find— like Louis becomes like a bit of a weird sort of religious figure to him at some point. And then he’s trying to recreate this horrific dynamic that was inflicted on him from a very young age.