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[Ari 🩸 @MaharetCompound]

📰 A look at press coverage, comparing IWTV S2 vs TVL S3

Interviews (videos & articles) have grown +71%* season over season📈⬆️

(*Disclaimer, this is by my count/tracking-by no means an official report 😄)

But yes—press has grown significantly for TVL ‼️

Full Breakdown 👇

[Ari 🩸 @MaharetCompound]

Okay, last thought — I’m just shocked & processing the past portions. Like, we (I) need more. And obviously we’ll get more. But it needs to breathe….I need to breathe. Time for bed for real.

[Ari 🩸 @MaharetCompound]

-The past again — so instead of a terrorizing a random church, they kill their family… I think it makes a lot of sense, but the how of it all & the rushed depiction of her turning… for tomorrow

[Ari 🩸 @MaharetCompound]

Second rewatch—more thoughts, then bed:
-I need to table the past intro for now
-The transition to Lestat on the bus is perfect, to the in-process meeting (Christine is incredible)
-Lestat expecting Gabriella to leave at any moment
-Petty Louis is amazing “I came because I care”

[Ari 🩸 @MaharetCompound]

-Armand is taking over my mind (“Sounds weird” 🤣)
-Louis following Claudia in NY & Daniel having no idea how to respond, so thank god the Talamasca are here
-Gabriella seems jealous of Louis, that Baudelaire song 💔

[Ari 🩸 @MaharetCompound]

@satansnightowl7 I literally threw my blanket over my head for some parts — I just couldn’t watch!! I need to go back in now that I know what’s coming

[Ari 🩸 @MaharetCompound]

Oh my god—initial, raw reaction—

I’m going to need to sit with this one!!

The past timeline remix is crazy & jarring to me—focusing only on his & Gabriella’s relationship—then jumping through Lestat’s childhood, to the wolves, to turning her, without any else of his past—

[Ari 🩸 @MaharetCompound]

@EtherealElvis @ginagemeni I just watched it! It’s out for me on AMC+

[Ari 🩸 @MaharetCompound]

So no idea if this is still happening after everything — but again, the show dropped around 9pm Pacific on the AMC+ app. So hoping for the same tonight 🤞

[Ari 🩸 @MaharetCompound]

On a different note, TVL dropped around 9pm Pacific for me (Sat night), so I’m hoping for the same today!

See you all on the other side, as I’ll be offline as the Australian links go around 😆

[Ari 🩸 @MaharetCompound]

I can’t look at anyone’s else takes — I need to go into a cave & process this with just the shadows on the walls 🤣😆

It does really remind me of ep 1x2 though — the same jarring, post-transformational vibe after this dramatic, all-engrossing introduction…

[Ari 🩸 @MaharetCompound]

And then EVERYTHING else happening in the present. Louis is back 💙 (“It sounded like a cry for help.”) — And then Daniel — and then Raglan & Rashid— and everything with the band. I’m overwhelmed and my mind is spinning. Should I dive into rewatch or try to calm down & sleep?!?!?

[Ari 🩸 @MaharetCompound]

@ginagemeni I’ll just cry! 😄

[Ari 🩸 @MaharetCompound]

@elesea_honu You might be right! 😄

[Ari 🩸 @MaharetCompound]

Maybe it’s some of sort of cosmic balance? For how incredibly exceptional the show is — the infrastructure & logistics for viewing that show must be as disastrously uncoordinated 😆

[Ari 🩸 @MaharetCompound]

@ImmortalFanpire You know what — maybe! I’m not aware of that at all, but maybe could have affected episode times 🤷‍♀️ Does AMC stream any of the games though?

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Watch an all-new episode of #TheVampireLestat tomorrow, only on AMC and AMC+.

[Ari 🩸 @MaharetCompound]

In true AMC fashion, it looks like they got their shit together…but just halfway 🤣

✅ Global release time for the episode
🤦‍♀️ The aftershow with spoilers can still premiere before though, right? Because why would that matter? 😆🙃

[Ari 🩸 @MaharetCompound]

@nbargamian1 It is! I just did a count - 82 interviews so far for this season!

[Ari 🩸 @MaharetCompound]

✨Compilation of all TVL interviews (in list form)✨

During the week of Episode 1 (June 6 - June 13)

(I’ll add Jun 13 interviews to the list later - after I’ve avoid Oz spoilers.)

But for now, we’re at *54* individual interviews this week!

(https://t.co/lh2YQ1dst9)

[Ari 🩸 @MaharetCompound]

On a different note, TVL dropped around 9pm Pacific for me (Sat night), so I’m hoping for the same today!

See you all on the other side, as I’ll be offline as the Australian links go around 😆

[Ari 🩸 @MaharetCompound]

That aside, despite those weird, tone-deaf comments from the AMC exec, no one can just start watching S3 as new show, without S1 & S2. It would be literally incomprehensible.

So again more promo now will equal more viewers of S1 & S2.

Which hopefully means S4 is inevitable 🤞

[Ari 🩸 @MaharetCompound]

My thoughts on this: More is more 📈 I’m happy the show is getting more coverage, because that means more people are *watching* it!

But yes, everyone *should* have been here from the jump in Sept 2022. And AMC should have done more press in the beginning, to counteract—

[Ari 🩸 @MaharetCompound]

📰 A look at press coverage, comparing IWTV S2 vs TVL S3

Interviews (videos & articles) have grown +71%* season over season📈⬆️

(*Disclaimer, this is by my count/tracking-by no means an official report 😄)

But yes—press has grown significantly for TVL ‼️

Full Breakdown 👇

[Ari 🩸 @MaharetCompound]

—streamer, and they focus on providing promo for their niche (small) bases. The real marketing for their shows comes from licensing deals with bigger platforms.

And I think the main reason why S3 has more coverage than S2 is because S1 & S2 were on Netflix this past year.