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What I've learned is: I think audiences love multifaceted characters, but then when they talk about Claudia, they talk about how angry she is all the time. And I'm like: No, do not like reduce her to that. She's angry because of her circumstance. Had she not been placed in these positions, you'd see that she's actually full of love! And she's extremely delicate, and wants to experience love! But yeah, I've noticed a lot of people talk about her rage--and that is one of her qualities and I love her for it--but it's not all that she is. -- Delainey Hayles

#justice for claudia #TVL critical

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TW Claudia hate (obviously not from me I love her)

#i went to the Claudia tag for some healing #and saw the most BS post I’ve ever seen #and now I’m angry #we can’t have one good moment in this house

wannabewriterlol

hinasho

meanmisscharles

#now this is the posts I want to see

mugentakeda

quickly becoming obsessed with drawing her

usaginoir

https://www.tumblr.com/usaginoir/823491224074846208/hdiwoabueowb-look-i-dislike-tvl-as-much-as-the?source=share

The Telegraph is a famously right-wing, homophobic, transphobic newspaper. Them preferring the "straight" version of Lestat from the 90s to the one from this show, when every other reviewer, even ones that don't like the show like the NY Times, calls Sam's performance brilliant, is not surprising.

But I'm sorry, saying that good reviews of the show are due to AMC paying the reviewers and bad ones are the "real" ones...that's both untrue and really sad coping. Come on. Let's not be *those* people, who claim that the only real reviews are the ones that agree with them. It's weird conspiracy-theory thinking, and it doesn't even make sense. Variety and Indiewire and those other major reviewers who praised TVL give negative reviews all the time to shows and movies from bigger studios and creators than AMC. They're not

TVL got as good reviews as the first two seasons because a lot of critics genuinely thought it was excellent, because like regular viewers, critics don't always agree. Season 1 and 2 got some negative reviews in the midst of their positive ones too. Season 1 got a bad review in the NY Times -- was that review "real" and the good ones were fake?

You don't have to like any season of TV, but saying that good reviews must be paid and the negative ones are "real" reflects real insecurity about your own opinion.

I stand by my opinion and posted it with my name attached. I’m secure in it.

I agree with some reviews, I disagree with others. I disagree with the telegraph as I stated in my post. The review gave a bad rating for the show and I disagreed with the article.

I’m criticizing journalist and their integrity for my own reason, and how I feel the industry can at some point be more PR pushing and ass kissing than real review. If that was their honest opinion? Ok I was wrong. 🤷‍♀️

You can’t accuse me of insecurity while hiding behind anonymity. Be brave enough to say this off anon and I’ll respect you for being secure enough to stand by it.

certifiedlurker

I want to ask anon what do they think of reviewers brushing aside virulent anti blackness of TVL- where we have anti black slurs thrown on TV , and brutalization of black characters so that one of those characters may say sorry to their abuser. I want to ask anon what do they think is a good review and if they agree with Louis being mutually abusive towards Armand where the later lynched Claudia and then coerced Louis into a relationship with him for 77 years. I want to ask if they believe in PIMP PIMP Louis, if they would be down to calling Lestat THE JOHN Lestat ( TM) who violently kills sex workers and if they would like that to be the core identity of all that Lestat is and if not then why not? What makes Louis uniquely a pimp and why does no reviewer raise an eyebrow at the narrative trying to "humble" Louis? Is Louis too proud? Is the black man too proud? Why do they think the black man is too proud? If s1/2 set up a discussion about race and racial politics why is it that Claudia is hurling slurs at Louis and being proud of her white lineage when in the previous seasons she was calling Lestat a slaver? Why is Claudia the angry black woman stereotype? Why is the black woman made into a liar? Why is that in a show that based itself as a Gothic horror where the Gothic explores the horror of racial violence, the black woman is made into a liar? And if this was always what it was going to be tell me anon what is the use of Gothic in the narrative? What social evil is it to explore? Is it to explore misogyny- Pimp Louis exploiting Claudia? Then why is there no exploration of Lestat's DARVO? If you don't agree that Lestat has abused Louis, then do you think it was Louis who had been the abuser? Why do you think the black man in a relationship with a white man during the Jim Crow is an abuser? What is common between you and those reviewers who never questioned why all of this was retconned if you don't believe that a black man can't be the abuser of a white partner in Jim Crow South. Why is Assad Zaman's Armand getting called limp, ugly, homosexual incapable of satisfying his partners when white Armand of Anne Rice's book was someone whose beauty was unmatched and no matter his cruelty everyone still seemed to covet him? Why is Armand a goof enough hole for Lestat to fuck but not good enough for love? When famously there is in fact love between Lesmand in the books? Why is it that none of this is refuted by the narrative itself when in previous seasons every such micro aggressions had push back? Why is it justice for Antoinette when it comes to Louis but between Nicki and Armand, there is no fondness for Armand. I want an essay by this evening under anon's user name. I want to see them justify Louis's head on a pike and why reviewers had no problem with anti black imagery this violent and only connected to brown characters.

CHOP CHOP ANON

usaginoir

☝️couldn’t say it better myself. Thank you @certifiedlurker

hinasho

People like anon are very annoying to me. They treat TVL like it’s just a simple mediocre season and not one of the most racist, misogynistic, and pro-victim blaming pieces of media released in awhile. The complete refusal to acknowledge why TVL has affected many viewers of color so harshly.

TVL isn’t just a “debatably poor season” like Lost or Game of Thrones’ finales. It’s Rolin and Hannah getting on a soapbox and going on a 7-episode long tirade about how much they’ve always hated their black characters and how happy they are to torment them worse than anyone else and how grotesque they find their single south asian character, and how every character of color deserves ridicule and violence inflicted on them and how all women are sexual objects (even going so far as to age up a child to depict her having explicit sex) and how they think the only person who deserves sympathy and “self love” is their male aryan-fantasy of a protagonist.

We just watched a black abuse victim get excessively brutalized and forced to apologize to one of his abusers while shouldering the lives of two other people, with the very white showrunners saying he deserved it and needed to be humbled. TVL is a white supremacist’s wet dream.

There are many things to talk about concerning the show, but to defend it by going “not everyone thought it was bad” is worse than missing the forest for the trees. It’s not seeing trees at all and going on about the grass.

Who cares about the exact number of paid vs not-paid reviewers? In big 2026 we just watched a black character get lynched with the white writers giggling about how he deserved it and no one seems to care. And when fans point that out, to instead call them “weird” and “insecure” for doing so is not only rude and dismissive, but complicit.

People like anon are one of the reasons why an entire writers room and entertainment company thought a “show” like TVL was okay to release, and why they and others will sadly continue to do so.

usaginoir

This!! ☝️☝️ @hinasho

It’s white supremacy in plain sight. It’s a show with a white man lead wanting to build its fame on the success of a tv show with a black main character. A show that was inclusive and progressive… they fire all the black writers. They degrade all characters that are not white. They treat female characters horribly.

It’s not just a bad season of tv.

#tvl critical #you are so smart and I love this addition

Another thing I haven’t talked about here but I was horrified how they depicted Jarda. All season I was waiting for them to do some reveal that Lestat is lying, or portraying him in a cartoonish way but no… it was just a caricature of intellectual disability played for laughs.

Seeing how well they depicted Paul with so much care in s1 I never expected them to do ableism for laughs.

Punching down is not humor. It’s bullying and oppression.

#tvl critical #this is very important to me w someone with disabled loved ones #TW ableism

Saw this on twitter and haven’t been able to stop thinking about it… it’s unreal how many layers of BS is in this writing. TVL just took it to another level 🤦‍♀️

#tvl critical #tw racism #tw misogyny