They go through great lengths to dance around modern Spider-man’s “anti-establishment”. Damage Control instead of the police force, or comically evil and corrupted politicians but now want to back track on his stance with the police… #noticing
This is me grasping at nuanced straws from this season . The writing this season shows this was not their intention at all. A disservice to every black, poc, and abuse victim viewer. Reducing a character with such emotional complexity to to a mutual abuser is a slap in the face
Lowkey there is an argument to be made that tvl still works thematically when you put it through the lens that Lestat still undermines Louis’ abuse and racial trauma in their first relationship
If you ignore the writing, the dialogue, the blatant racism and the character assassinations lol. But if you see it as, of course Lestat can’t view the og relationship as his failure because it was never about what Louis wanted. it’s about what Lestat could take from him.
Tried to cope with memes but the concept of Louis getting tortured jigsaw style while Lestat gets to be comforted by fucking PAUL thanking him for everything
“Thank you for loving him the way he needs to be loved” and it’s the man that dropped his brother from the sky and dragged him by his bleeding neck in the Jim Crow south
Tried to enjoy the seance scene and Delainey’s incredible acting but the knowledge that there are racial deragotory words being thrown around with no black writers in the writers room
everyone has their own ideas of what s3 could've been but another useful framework for critique is asking "what did this media intend to do?? did it pull it off??" and the main reason tvl is an artistic failure 2 me is bc it doesn't succeed at telling the story it wants to tell
The only discourse that I care about this season tbhh. Finally, a storyline that questions the morality of vampires and their inter-relationship dynamics in a compelling way,,, only took a few episodes in