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(header art is "Study for a Running Dog" by Francis Bacon).
The 3x6 After Dark was.... 🤦♂️ So it was ON PURPOSE. It was supposed to be FUNNY. I guess the same way they thought Fraudeleine kissing was supposed to be COMEDIC. 😬
This is precisely why the post about AMC's failure to do Camp in S3 went viral, cuz AMC y'all done lost y'all mind if y'all thought we were supposed to unironically LAUGH at ANY of this. 🤨
"FUNNY and horrific," they're calling it. ISTFG the tone-deafness is thru the ROOF.
I HATE saying this, but sometimes I agree when people say Jacob Anderson is part of the problem. 🤦♂️ The way he talks sometimes makes me remember that he's a paid actor hired to do a job, regardless of how much AMC's playing in HIS face AND ours.
AMC, y'all can't be THIS out-of-touch with your own audience, and the kind of reactions your scenes are eliciting in people. We know how chronically online your writers/writing assistants are. Y'all MUST know that even people who HATE Claudia, or HATE Louis, or HATE Lestat aren't finding the seance funny/humorous/comedic. 🤨 It's being taken seriously, because AMC established a deeply emotional investment in this family season after season.
Claudia's fate was NEVER framed as something ANYONE was supposed to laugh at and casually shrug off--Welp, c'est la vie~! 🙄🤷♂️
There's a STARK difference between ABSURDITY (a la Camp & Horror) and TRAGEDY (a la Gothic Horror).
YES, Lestat is a comic character, who prefers to focus on light & levity & optimism, (a la his account of the NOLA years in TVL). But book!Lestat's version of the Trial was still tragic Gothic Horror--no funniness whatsoever; he took that ish seriously. His misery being haunted by ghost!Claudia in TotBT was still Gothic Horror. Lestat's reaction to Louis' suicide after the seance in Merrick was still tragic Gothic Horror.
So the excuse that this is all from Lestat's POV is unsatisfactory AF; esp. when everyone keeps saying b-b-but THE BOOKS~!, when even THE EFFING BOOKS don't support a HUMOROUS framing of anything surrounding Claudia's death & her parents' reactions in the seance's wake, DESPITE Lestat's comedic personality. He still takes that ish SERIOUSLY. So WHY TF is AMC expecting us to LAUGH?! 😡
Or worse: Are y'all saying that Louis' suffering is something to be laughed at and found funny? 🤨 And since Louis' constant & extreme expressions of grief over Claudia is literally the embodiment of Anne Rice's grief over Michelle, is AR's grief to be laughed at and found funny by extension? 🤔
AMC, do y'all understand how effing STUPID y'all sound, tryna make LIGHT of any of this?
Sam Reid, Jacob Anderson, Delainey Hayles, and Rolin Jones dig into the dark family reunion
And by the way, when these other characters think or say of me that I am beautiful or irresistible, etc., don't think I put these words in their heads. I didn't!
— THE QUEEN OF THE DAMNED | Prologue
[for a parallel, see: x]
it must be so sad to be a show only fan. after this season, i honestly don't know if i'm going to tune in for the next season - i do hope there is one, mostly so they have a chance to clean up the absolute fucking mess this season turned out to be. not everyone is superglued to their phone when consuming art, and the writing and editing in this season feels like they wrote scenes to grab peoples attention and not much else.
the writers really fucked up and not only dropped the ball, but kicked it out into a canyon and then laughed when people began to protest.
Please, we urgently need 700€ for emergency surgery for my nephew. His health has deteriorated significantly; he is now in a coma and unconscious, suffering greatly. Time is running out, and every moment is crucial for him.
My nephew is his parents' only child. He lost his father in this genocide in the Gaza Strip and suffered multiple traumas during this war. He has already had one operation and now needs another. Please don't leave him alone. Donate towards his operation. I don't want to lose him like I lost my mother and brother. Please donate, donate!
If anything happens to my nephew, please remember that I begged you to donate, even a small amount, or to share my post. I will not forgive anyone who sees this post and doesn't support me with a single word or a small donation, and ignores me.💔
Claudia was… everything. I loved her unconditionally. All the noise, the chaos, the crisis of my former existence, silenced. The simple joy of her hand in mine.
You had a daughter.
I had a daughter.
I was sitting in my residence yesterday when four very heavy missiles struck the central Gaza Strip. The ground shook beneath us from the force of the explosion. Indeed, Gaza is witnessing the most documented and most denied genocide in history.
I never imagined that more than three years would pass under the yoke of merciless people, or rather, the Zionist army cannot even be called human; they are beasts devoid of mercy. Yesterday, a nine-year-old girl was killed by an Israeli sniper, just for fun. And these scenes from yesterday, the bombing of an entire residential complex—I never knew I would witness this with my own eyes, and the world remains silent.
I just want a peaceful life with my loved ones in a place that suits me, to study and achieve my dreams. But all of that is destroyed because I'm in Gaza. I beg you to help me. I don't want to remain alone like this. If you can help in any way, it will be a great help to me. Please donate now to save me and those I love.
Help Nader, I am out of a lot of work due to two injuries & intense PT and I wish I could help more but I also beg you guys to help him supplement even the little bit I was able to give.
He needs us. He is going through something I can’t imagine going through in his circumstance.
Call to Action - Reporting Anti-Blackness in The Vampire Lestat (2026)
I'm not tagging this as "tvlcritical" because this issue goes beyond audience or critic opinions of AMC's The Vampire Lestat (TVL) also known as Season 3 of Interview with the Vampire. This isn’t a difference of character perspective, tone, “immoral characters”, “gothic fiction”—the writing in the "Montreal" episode is blatant hatred for Black people.
What happened?
The episode titled "Montreal" aired on Sunday, July 12, 2026 with Kevin Hanna and Ryan Kattner credited as writers; the rest of the writer's room consists of Rolin Jones, Hannah Moscovitch, Jonathan Ceniceroz, Anusree Roy, and Daniel Hart. There are zero Black writers on TVL.
3x06 is violently and proudly anti-Black, full stop. The language written and greenlit by AMC was racist, full stop. The Black actors—Jacob Anderson, Delainey Hayles, and Sarah Afful—are not responsible for the script written by a non-Black writer's room. These actors work in a deeply anti-Black industry and have to navigate the ever-present threat of being fired and/or blacklisted for any "flaw" in their performance and conduct on set/in promotional materials or events.
There is zero excuse or justification for the anti-Black language used in TVL to date. We cannot allow this hatred to be met with silence.
What can I do?
Report this episode to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Hollywood Bureau which specializes in anti-Blackness in television and film. Important details to include is the writers, episode release date, and the racist material in question. All of this information is available under the cut.
Emails to the NAACP should be addressed as "ATTENTION: Report, Hollywood Bureau" and sent to [email protected]
Emails to AMC can be sent to three TVL-specific Public Relations contacts:
The choice is yours, but I will personally be copying the AMC contacts on my email to the NAACP. This is a serious matter and it needs to be treated as such.
Many thanks to @dulacloverboy for pulling contact info together for the NAACP and AMC <3
AMC Network’s “The Vampire Lestat” (2026) episode titled “Montreal” aired on Sunday, July 12, 2026.
Credited writers are Kevin Hanna and Ryan Kattner. There are zero Black writers on staff for "The Vampire Lestat".
The "Montreal" episode included the following language:
00:44:24 - "'Cause there's a little etching on your ribcage says you're a 'slave'."
00:45:10 - "Get this into your nappy little head."
00:46:08 - "How I ginned up the train for the slave, here."
00:47:27 - "The one good thing in my bleak, Black life."
anyone else out there who's a iwtv/vampire chronicles fan who also likes classical music? feels like im talking into a void sometimes. hello??? i feel like the books shaped so much of my interests as a kid - classical music, italian renaissance art, history, historical fashion, anthropology, mythology, religion, art history in general.
listen sam reid has a beautiful voice! great range, great tone, and i am definitely looking forward to hearing the music for the rest of the show and i will DEF buy the album WHEN they release it. but!!! i still think this song is perfect for book!lestat's singing voice.
(I LOVE RAMEAU AND I CAN JUST SEE LESTAT BELTING THIS OUT IN A PACKED THEATRE DURING THE 18TH CENTURY LEAVE ME ALONE!!!)
lestat said kill yourself and armand made one of his bandmates jump in front of a train. lestat made fun of armand's sexual performance and past as a child sex slave and armand helped his boyfriend leak a video of lestat having sex with his own mother. you go low he goes to hell hall of fame
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