hazel

there’s a world where tvl had goth music and gnc gabrielle and onscreen wolves and the french revolution and nickistat discussions of good & evil and magnus's white supremacist beliefs and armand chopping off nicki's hands and lesmand incestuous brothers who hate each other and dm slowburn with flashbacks and a proper exploration of louis's grief and real loustat conflict and a meaningful revisit of the trial and lestat taking accountability for his actions and akasha waking up and the talamasca doing literally anything at all and a framing structure that made sense AND lestat serving rockstar cunt but in a thematically appropriate way. and that world is so beautiful

the thought i keep coming back to with the finale, and this season in general, is a sense of… infestation, i guess is the best way to describe it. because for the first two seasons, iwtv was a work that— even with all its gothic/horror themes— seemed deeply compassionate at its core, and it remained devoted to beauty and love in a way that felt like a reprieve from (even a small rebellion against) the rising fascism of the culture surrounding it. and now it feels like the hatefulness it was pushing back against has infested it somehow, like a swarm of fuckin termites, which has not only ruined this season but also calls into question the structural soundness of what came before it. like, how did we even get here? was this sort of mean-spirited derision always just lying in wait? idk. i don’t want to make a bad season of tv deeper than it is, but it does feel like witnessing another loss in the cultural battle when a careful, compassionate work that ostensibly cared about the marginalised experiences it depicted becomes just another conduit for hatred toward vulnerable groups. what a fucking bummer, man

does anyone remember the amc show interview with the vampire? one of the greatest things television gave us in its era. heartbreaking that it ended after two seasons when those characters were so beautifully crafted. i really wish we could’ve had more.

Rolin jones creating the critically and popularly acclaimed interview with the vampire and then being by all accounts personally directly responsible for the worst episode of television I've ever seen and then immediately stepping down as showrunner is like. Did his contract with the devil run out. Mephistopheles didn't want to renew for season 3 or what

The idea for episode 7 came from a "fever dream" and I know that was the devil coming to collect

"Someone's not letting the tale seduce them 🙄" I'm fucking trying but the tale's idea of seduction is shoving its tongue in my ear and farting while it grinds on me to the tune of the teletubbies theme

Do we think Armand listens to music

i love when armand stands there looking confused or asks for clarification or tilts his head like yesss he fundamentally doesn’t understand other people or how he fits into the world or how to exist as a person