[hollowwaveremnant]

5 out of 7 episodes in, I would love to have a chat with Rolin Jones as to why he was carrying that book around everywhere with him if he didn't want to actually adapt it. For extra toilet paper? The way this season has been burned by his short-sighted worshipping of the white male savior Lestat needs to be studied, because Lestat himself has been shafted as a character. No depth, no texture, just fucking coke rants and mania. So much time, money and talent wasted on a "tell, not show" of a season, while wasting resources on extraneous characters, fuckass concert scenes and mid music of no relevance. I am angry with every screener, every reviewer, and every rabid fan who refuses to face the truth that this season lacks the brilliance, sensitivity and profundity of the previous two seasons. I genuinely feel deeply betrayed and in grief. I am only staying now for the cast, who are brilliant with the rubbish material they have been given.

[raisinchallah]

devils minion fans will find lint in their pocket and think its yaoi cocaine

[blacksailsblr]

And if you ever challenge me again in front of my crew, I may just forget that I loved you once.

BLACK SAILS 1.01 “I.”

[raisinchallah]

devils minion fans will find lint in their pocket and think its yaoi cocaine

[irismit]

“i get the choice not to make gabrielle trans in the current political climate/because trans people grooming children is a common transphobic claim”

okay but that still doesn’t explain why they cut all of her positive bonding moments with Lestat (making it look like she wanted to get him killed on that hunt instead of her giving him the tools to hunt to comfort him after he was pulled out of the monastery/theater troupe) and why they gutted her canon personality to make her hornier that any other vampire character (only keeping the “i want to sleep with all the men” part of her big speech to lestat and striking the childbirth/no one understood my pain part, the strip club scene where she was constantly rolling balls in her hand, her constantly initiating sex with lestat despite and being significantly more attached to him than she is in the books)

[lordcastaway]

oh why why why do i have to feel (so negatively about the new season of a show i love. rolin jones, stop carrying that lestat book and go speak to a woman challenge. in the meantime, let jacob anderson rewrite the whole season or smth. that awkward moment when you have only two prominent female characters and one of them is turned into some kind of evil sex-crazed misogynistic giorgia meloni parody, while the other one is used as a device to develop and justify the trauma of her abusers after she'd already spent her whole life disregarded and used by them to deal with their stupid shit. that akward moment when the life story of the protagonist is reduced to tiktok edits that barely have any emotional weight and would probs make no sense whatsoever for those who haven't read the book and/or haven't spent two years waiting for this season, even though the show is supposed to stand on its own somehow. that awkward moment when you have not one but two framing devices and yet none if them work, so the pov shifts make no sense. that awkward moment when in the new season of the gay vampire show we see barely any queer intimacy but there are loads of meaningless hetero sex. that awkward moment when your male characters can experiment with gender expression and everyone claps but genderqueer/nonbinary/transmasc afab people get misgendered for no reason for a stupid gag or are stripped of their identity completely. that akward moment when you admit you have weak episodes in an already short season but somewhow claim it's better than the first two seasons. but hey, at least that wig-maker who graduated top of their class at the shitty wig making university got paid really good money) is a pretty nice song, actually.

[thedemocraticforest]

And what about Paige and Henry?

THE AMERICANS ☭ (2013-2018) Season 1, Episode 1 : "Pilot"

[titus-andr0gyn0us]

Hard hitting journalism.

[funky-porcini]

[partygatorresurrection]

cameron winter’s recurring lyrical motifs: horses

nina + field of cops / we’re thinking the same thing / husbands / 100 horses

[partygatorresurrection]

adding this.

[tarmairons]

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022-) | S03E03

[lioncourtz]

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 03.03 | "Toronto"

[lioncourtz]

THE VAMPIRE LESTAT 03.03 | "Toronto"

[iridescentdecline]

Are you gonna teach me to be a man, Lestat de Valois?

[thetwinsinlaw]

Armand, Nicky and Lestat in THE VAMPIRE LESTAT

[devilledminion]

Bally Gill as Real Rashid in INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE | 3.02

[tiredopinions]

fundamentally the Bruce storyline was never going to be satisfying to me because Louis going on a rampage just to learn nothing would make him feel better about Claudia’s death is exactly what happens when he kills the coven in 2x08.

They could have explored the fallout from the book on Louis, dealing with impending vampiric threats, recovering from Armand’s gaslighting and abuse, learning to live on his own, revisiting his past that we didn’t see, but that would require an interest in Louis’ character beyond “how do we drive him towards Lestat while softening Armand and Lestat’s actions towards him” and it doesn’t appear that the writers care so