SLEEPWALKING

-- Shitty pronoun joke aimed at a trans character who is in the show for all of several minutes.

-- Transmasc Gabrielle nowhere to be seen. Instead we got a character who is just there to sexually harass her son and speak in the worst accent known to man.

-- Multiple incest scenes.

-- Way too many scenes of Lestat's shit music and shit band. Sorry to say, but the band characters (I don't even remember most their names...) were just not compelling enough to warrant so much time spent on them.

-- What was the point of Baby Jenks?

-- A documentary about Lestat that just… went nowhere? What was the point of that again? No, really.

-- Complete butchering of just about every character.

-- More torture for Louis and Claudia and also 'Fraudia'

-- A sleazy kiss between Regina and fake Madeleine. Don't forget, Claudia and Madeleine never even got to kiss in the show.

-- Following the reveal that Claudia is in hell, Louis is seen smiling and laughing with Lestat. One of many writing choices that make no real sense. Louis would be devastated, lets be honest.

-- The overall treatment of Louis this season and the racist language. Just... what?

-- Shots of a woman's bare ass and a woman shooting a ping-pong ball out of her pussy. Thanks, I guess.

-- Claudia supposedly lying about the rape threat on the train, hating Louis and preferring Lestat over him (...?)

-- Akasha is here, and I don't know what any of this means, as a show only watcher. We got one scene and that's it? Are we to be hyped about what's to follow? Why? Doesn't matter, time for more band antics--

-- Daniel somehow becoming more of a dick and now throwing out Reddit style quips and crude jokes. He was rude and witty with it in season 1 and 2, but now his dialogue feels like its been ripped from Reddit and run through ChatGPT. Also, Daniel would be able to figure out Gabrielle's true identity - he's a fucking journalist!

-- No scenes exploring Armand's history from HIS perspective. He is never granted this. Instead, he's made out to be a mustache twirling villain. (Even the cast don't understand the 'A' carving scene, and that's never a good sign.)

-- No exploration of Armand and Daniel's relationship, it was all dumped into exposition. The 'l' word being uttered should've had a huge weight to it. There is no spark and no chemistry between Armand and Daniel in their scenes, and this feels like it's down to the script rather than the actor's failing to sell the relationship.

-- Exposition, exposition, exposition all day long for way too many aspects of the show. The show did so well in season 1 and 2 at flitting between spoken retelling and showing flashbacks. How did they drop the ball so hard on that this season?

-- Armand demanding an apology from… a severed head. Like something from a bad, cheap horror movie. And why Louis? Armand was the one who lied to Louis for all those years, yet it's all spun and made out to be that Louis is the Bad Guy. Why isn't Armand torturing Lestat here instead? Armand holds so much resentment for Lestat.

-- Why does Lestat get put on such a pedestal? It feels like it starts in the writing room. And why the fuck was Paul thanking him? What was Paul there for? Lestat only briefly met this man. Also, hey, remember why Lestat dropped Louis from the sky that one time?

-- No intimacy between men. In fact, pretty much all kisses and sex scenes are between a man and woman. And incest, don't forget the incest. Louis has a new boyfriend and we barely see him. But he's not white and named Lestat so fuck everyone else, I guess. I would've liked to hear more about Lemuel, another black vampire! That's an interesting dynamic, considering the hell Louis has been through. And the show denies us ever getting the chance to learn about him or see more.

-- Lestat's history, and his scenes with Nikki feel rushed and like an afterthought. In fact, most of Lestat's history flashbacks feel and look like a bad sketch show. Also, the accents... fuck me, the bad accents.

-- What ever happened to the relationship between Daniel and Louis? They'd grown to like and respect each other, and it was basically absent from this season. You'd think 'oh, well, Louis has a new relationship now, so he's focusing on that'. But no. Even Lemuel has next to no screen time. Instead, Louis was tied up a fake Claudia. Oh, and that was all set up by Evil Armand himself, tee hee. All this time and effort into fucking Louis over. And for what? Again, why is Louis in the firing line so often and not Lestat? -- The Reddit-ness of it all. The Moffat-ness of it all. The stupid meta nods, the stupid 'uwu' mention. Yaoi? Be for real. Who actually finds this funny? I half expected him to shout out 'I'm Pickle Rick!' for fuck's sake. Imagine if we'd gotten flashbacks to Daniel and Armand in the past. Remember when Devil's Minion was hyped up? Remember how people loved young Daniel? Remember THAT flashback episode to the 70s? One of the best episodes I've ever seen.