i could not prevent it

SAM: It's really crazy. It's really wild.

AUTUMN: I can't wait to watch it cause I've got to say six really broke me. It really broke me down. So, I'm ready to see it.

SAM: I mean, I think seven is like... I can't tell you. I can't speak.

AUTUMN: I don't want any spoilers, but do you have any words of warning?

SAM: I'd say it is a combination of the most horror we've ever done and the most... otherworldly. Yeah, I mean I think it would kind of hopefully give context to why the season is the way it is. Um and it will give some sort of structure into why– It gives some kind of– The season has always been building to this one specific episode. This was Rolin's initial idea of how to convey this impossible-to-adapt book and the core theme that he wanted to pull out of it and how he wanted to convey it... at least in terms with Lestat. And then– and outside of that, it's just pure horror. And I'd say, yeah, Assad is doing like some of the best work I've ever seen. He's just amazing. He's incredible in that episode. He's absolutely incredible.

AUTUMN: I can't wait.

SAM: That's all I can say.

Armand never relented, this is not a revenge for a line a fucking song that wasn't written about CSA by the composer of the fucking songs out of universe (morons, he would have mentioned it). This is a takedown. A tactical revenge because, again, Armand craves his 'rules' and cultish behaviour as much as he craves Lestat.

And all this shit is an isolation tactic. Let's explain it with steps, shall we?

Step 1: Get into Lestat's band by brainwashing Alex.

Step 2: Go to Lestat's bus and vaguely threaten him about the Great Conversion.

Step 3: Kill Larry and further turn Alex against Lestat.

Step 4: Get Alex to film Lestat while he is being sexually abused by Gabriella.

Step 5: Get into Daniel's head and exploit his ego and sexual deviance for him to publish the video as revenge porn that will forever be associated with Lestat.

Step 6: Get Louis and everyone he loves disgusted with Lestat and further isolated him from everyone. (Didn't work with Louis but might work with the the rest of the band).

Step 7: Decapitate Lestat and Louis and separate them.

Step 8:??? Next episode