The success of The Mandalorian and Andor would be arguments against the thesis of this article. It isn’t about the franchise belonging in one story format or the other, it’s about that story itself. 

dang him outta the blonde wig...I’d ride his dragon even if it made me burn after ;)

NewsRadio fans remember it’s how he started.

Really going to miss those knowing looks from Eve Best when someone is full of shit.

I’ll give Ser Criston his flowers, it was a good plan. Too bad his idiot boss had to jeopardize everything.

Sam Reid’s face and voice breaking on “Did you hurt yourself”...that moment has been playing in my head for days. That’s interesting that it struck you like that given the field you work in (and thank you for doing that work btw). 

I’d wear a Claudia is my Coven shirt

Agree! And Lestat has been the best part of this show.

Excellent season! I have been reading these books for 30+ years and I love the adaptation. The show has made some really interesting creative choices which are different than the books but I feel honors the source material and spirit of the characters beautifully.

“Did you hurt yourself,” the tentativeness, the hurt - both in anger (how could you think about doing that) and in empathy (how could the world, that I’m part of, treat you that way to where you’d think about doing that), all of it...as someone who works in the suicide prevention field, that moment felt VERY earnest…

The events of The Vampire Lestat (that they haven’t shown yet) and the entirety of The Queen of the Damned, is going to set you TV on fire. It’s really the peek of the entire book series. Amazing characterization, so many vampires, history, and action packed scenes. 

It’s kind of hilarious that this finale episode would offer an aside about how this French vampiric theater troupe in Paris had decided to produce shows mostly in English during a motorcycle escape that ends in flames. I almost wished the show hadn’t felt the need to further explain that odd bit of lore (or that,…

I didn’t think either of them was melodramatic at all in that scene, though it ws super intense. But I thought they were both heartbreaking, the pain in their eyes and their voices, like when Lestat asked about what happend to Louis in 1973.  

Knowing that Lestat is coming back in season three (which will be adapted from the vamp’s rock-and-roll days in Anne Rice’s The Vampire Lestat as well as Rice’s The Queen Of The Damned), that might mean we may not immediately get answers as to what happens with Armand and Louis, but honestly, the thought of a…

They’re all incredible actors on this show, but Sam Reid was next level here. Also, I haven’t read the books, but felt like there were a lot of indications that the coven—and maybe Armand?—was controlling Lestat to some degree, and he managed to break free and go off script a few times. I can’t imagine him just…

I have proof that Samuel Beckett wasn’t a vampire - according to Cary Elwes’s book ‘As You Wish’, Samuel Beckett used to drive Andre the Giant to school in his convertible, because Andre was too big for the school bus. And vampires wouldn’t have convertibles. Unless they’re Angel, I guess. 

• I love that the vampire play they were workshopping was basically Waiting For Godot (only here it was Guido!).

I am ready for Lestat to enter next episode!

Maybe it was trying to get some damn sleep when it was struck.

I am so firmly on Team Whale. I remember roughly 25 years ago, a cruise ship hit a fin whale and dragged it into Vancouver harbour. Nobody noticed until the dockworkers were securing the mooring ropes.