I felt same too but after a while I like to think for this series specifically : is that it may be cuz he’s campy and the actor is good. The character honestly scares me and kinda triggers me due to his wild abusiveness but I’ve grown to enjoy after a little distance and also due to being part of a relatively responsible meme group I joined. Thank goodness they’re not forgiving or downplay lestat’s horrific abusiveness but also can enjoy the character in how theatric he is played as a vampire who’s also super messy etc. I can see now the complexity of calling his character like tongue in cheek a babygirl really pretty kinda drives home a more complex dangerous creepiness aspect of having so much power through feeding on humans
Same. I thought season 1 gave us an excellent representation of being in a relationship with a charismatic abuser. I was shook when I 1st encountered mainstream fans of the shows as the thirst (and racism) was clearly blinding them to his red flags! Edit: I dont want to read any more "Louis made Lestat do it" arguments. So, I mostly do my stanning of the show on this channel! Oleyami gets it!
@@moustik31 Talk about it! I can understand enjoying a villain, but the way the fandom is so quick to baby Lestat while harping on all of Louis and A****d’s mistakes….I know what y’all are 😏
The Vampire Lestat book makes Lestat more likeable and by extention the mot popular character in the franchise We aren't supposed to like him much yet Because we don't know him much apart from the narrative he wants to potray But I think season 2 lays the ground work for that
20:44 that fight was so terrifying and the way he dragged him by the neck was so nasty man holy shyt. I know Claudia was terrified too. And Louis telling her it’s okay from the other room felt like I was watching a little child being traumatized as she overhears her parents fight. This show is so visceral and way more real than all the other vampire shows. Truly a work of art. I love The Originals but man this show,, this show is so much more intense.
24:28 man this rant is so worth it. I think people only like Lestat because the actor is hot/pretty. That pretty privilege will get you the most wildest of fans and simps.
Yes Lestat is abusive but Louis is also a very unreliable narrator and manipulative. They’re both absolutely toxic and bring out the worst in each other.
21:23 My brain got stuck and now it's just naming vampire programs. "THIS IS NOT BUFFY. THIS IS NOT LEGACIES. THIS IS NOT FIRST KILL. THIS IS NOT WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS. THIS IS NOT ABRAHAM LINCOLN VAMPIRE HUNTER. THIS IS NOT HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA."
I warned my homegirl that IWTV is quite literally domestic violence on an immortal scale, this episode had me hating hard on Lestat, especially when he tried to crawl back Also LMAOOO 😂 @ 21:56
Girl..... ima tell you....... when i found you...... i couldnt let you go. You are so funny!!! Your recaps and outlooks are so refreshing and raw. Yes girl keep curing us out and let that blood pressure go boo!!! You have me cracking up and your accent just makes it so much better. Love what you do hun. 🎉cant wait for the next review!!😂
I love Sam Reid as an actor but I couldn’t fuck with the show for.a couple of weeks I was too wrecked and ridden with flashbacks. This episode TESTED me. 💀 But yeah we witnessed DOMESTIC VIOLENCE supernatural dv but domestic violence nonetheless. And ppl still wanna talk outta their necks like Lestat did nothing wrong like it was just a spat he had with Louis? Could not be me. … Anygay, thank you so much for the video (and cussing these delulu ass niggas out) Olay can’t wait for the next. 💖
I couldn’t watch it for a while too. I had no idea how dark it was going to get and how truly brutal and cruel Lestat was going to be in physically beating Louis. I love toxic romances, a little manipulation and a little betrayals and a little verbal abuse- but physical abuse turns me right off.
@@cullenarthur8879 I've got no problem with being a Lestat stan. As long as I'm not out here making excuses for real life abusive POS like Diddy, I think I'm good.
I was taken aback for a minute there, I've never seen anybody attack Grace like that before!! Lol at first I was like "oof harsh" but then I was like I know you must be tight with your sister, like that outrage came from a personal place 🥹 Which, like, LMAO OH NO your sister is a Lestat stan, THAT'S ACTUALLY HILARIOUS
Grace really isn’t shit and I stand on that lol but yes I do have 4 sisters and I love them, voluntarily choosing to depress them is something I could never do
I know you get annoyed with us cuz we be hounding you for these reviews, but do you see why?!?! I cackled and kiki'd so much I KNOW my coworkers wondering wth going on in my office!! This was chef's kiss babes. So thank you for gracing us with this!! And whoever edits your videos deserves a raise!!!
This was a horrific episode but my god was this a hilarious video. I was cracking up laughing the whole time.... but then my blood literally ran cold when you raged LOL, the feeling was palpable, I agree with every word. Can't wait for the next video!
23:05 THANK YOU! I cannot stand that, for some people, the only "truth" that matters is Lestast's truth. And that is Anne Rice's doing. She wrote The Vampire Lestat, declared that it was gospel and he was Jesus, and it creates a very weird viewing experience sometimes.
Louis is my absolute favorite and I'm a Lestat apologist (in the sense that I'm an apologist for all the characters bc I just love them all) but the way you drag Lestat is...music to my ears! I love that menace, but he deserves all the lashings!
OMG IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS EPISODE IN PARTICULAR😭🙌 Let me jsut say, I know you didn’t talk about it in this review but Daniel slapping Louis lives rent free in my head forever and is one of my top moments in the show 💀Louis had that one coming for what he did we gotta be for real 🤣 Edit: wait im dumb AF she totally addressed it RIGHT at the end 😭🙌
i love watching these cause the internet loves to defend lestat and paint Louis as the abuser as if victims don't often retaliate in an abusive relationship 🤷♀️ no spoilers but the way they use season 2 as a justification to hate Louis and babygirl lestat GETS ME HEATED
[S2 SPOILERS!!!] ....................................................................................................... Which is remarkable because S2 actively makes Lestat WORSE. The role he plays in that "play" is so unforgivable and a clear retaliation/escalation of abuse. Absolutely nothing in the way that S2 recontextualizes this fight actually changes the abuser/victim dynamic in the fight and relationship either. And neither does the existence of Armand as a pos. Honestly the lengths some fans will go to to vindicate Lestat post-S2 when that's the season that he commits an even worse act of abuse and betrayal that makes this ep. look like kids' play is so baffling 🙃
@@NaritaZaraki FACTS! Even during the Trial Lestat ADMITTED that he BROKE Louis and was FORCING Louis to love him, and these smoothbrained Lestans were STILL insisting that everything was Louis' fault, and I'm like it must be racism & antiblackness! Ain't no way y'all thirsty wenches are THIS stupid! Yet watch the next white woman say someone beat or raped her, and they'll come out the effing woodwork to crucify someone for not respecting the white woman's agency & autonomy & consent!
YEEESSSSS I am so happy to see this! Your reactions encouraged me to watch the last 3 episodes I had left of season 1, and now I can be even more excited to see your reaction! I was genuinely surprised by how good those last 3 episodes are, I had to get a trial and continue season 2.
Lestat stans are delusional. It's not an "open" relationship, when Louis is coerced into accepting Lestat's relationship with Antoinette, while being emotionally manipulated into not sleeping with other men. 🤨
And don’t listen to them ‘just wait until season 2’ bs, s2 changed nothing in terms of how Lestat abused Louis in this situation, I dgaf about ‘the context’, there’s no context that can excuse domestic violence.
💙You’re so superbly animated and funny as hell. Can’t wait for your commentary on the last episode of the season! Yep…Lestat’s a ‘Grande Monstre’ alright. 🧛♀️
I take it SO personally that NOBODY WARNED ME about the double whammy of domestic violence and sexual abuse in this one episode. Like I cried the whole time. I needed to take a 48 hour break from the series. Everybody on that subreddit post not acknowledging the clearly traumatized and aggrieved colored vampires is crazy to me. Crazy. Aint nobody had shit to say about Louis and Claudia. Insane. I think just reading the subreddit comments was just the cherry on top.
@@gbekeee858 Louis is abusive tho, he himself admitted it, he wanted Lestat to suffer just because he was suffering. But that doesn't take away from the fact that Lestat is abusive too. I feel like everyone watching this wants to have that one character that is the saint but that's not going to happen with IWTV , these vampire are all moral degenerates, they are all traumatized people traumatizing each other. Louis is black in a time when it's not really fun to be a black man, he's gay, his mother is a condescending witch, his sister abandons him (he has his issues) Lestat was taken as a young man and abused, before being turned to a vampire, before that he lived with a masochist father and elder brothers and although his mother loved him, she'd rather not have been his mother. Claudia grew up with an abusive aunt, abandoned by her parents, sexually harassed( the men who watched her pee ) Armand was taken as a pleasure slave as a young boy if I do say so myself by an aged vampire . So yes none of these people are living their best lives as humans before they are turned to blood thirsty immortals none of them are good. All we can hope for is growth as they sort through their traumas
@@hills161 I and many ppl are well aware of how all of them are monsters including Louis. However Louis was not abusive to Lestat. Just bc he wasn’t the perfect victim doesn’t mean he was abusive. Him admitting to wanting to make Lestat suffer isn’t him being abusive. Everything Louis did was a reaction to the abuse he faced from Lestat. Lestat was controlling, manipulative and physically abusive to Louis. Louis and Lestat were not equal in their relationship dynamics there was a clear imbalance. There’s so many things to call Louis out for but him being an abuser to Lestat is such a wild take. (And yes I’ve seen both seasons)
Not here to defend Lestat (he's been problematic from book 1 and we love him still cause something wrong with us) but I feel like giving Grace a little grace. She never understood why she lost her brother and before that violent incident with the door (when he scared her children) never rejected him. I was rooting for them to reconcile because there's still love there imo. As a forever-Louis girl since the books, I liked him having a Grace and was sad to see what happened to their relationship.
When Louis arrived, prior to the door flying, Her children already ran away from the yard and into the house screaming the moment he arrived obviously based on what the adults had told them. Grace ain’t shit.
I was shaking when i saw ep 5 and i still have not recovered from the way he destroys louis. It is a no for me. Idk how he can see him the same after this.
This was a total delight to watch! I cannot wait for what you make of the next two episodes. You might need to take pressure medication afterwards cause PRESSHA!!!!! Chile!
the reveal at the end that your sister is a Lestat fan was amazing. This episode is essentially a riveting episode of tv that I also had alot of frustration with. Not simply as a book reader because so far the changes made have been not only GOOD but necessary to adapt it to the medium of television and for culture of the 2020s versus the 1970s when it was written. However, I genuinely did not like or agree with the changes they made re Lestat and Claudia in this ep and I took a months long break from the series back when it first came out cause of how bothered I was but I did go back and I still love the series and I think they justified the narrative choices to an extent by the end of this season. That SAID, things like claudia being raped let alone by a rando vampire and Lestat beating Louis within an inch of his unlife are simply things that didn't happen in the book and unlike other changes made I did not see the point of either beyond it being DEEPLY unsettling (which this is gothic horror so it should be unsettling). While I have my qualms re:Lestat I think I see the vision for their choices re him in the show vs him in the books. My real indignation is for the Claudia plot at least re: the rape. While I get that being a vampire hasn't protected Louis from homophobia and racism and thats poignant...did we really need to be told that even vampirism can't protect a young woman from rape? It's especially weird they keep harping on her body because I'm like this is clearly a 20 yr old trying to pass as a teen. Which is fine but...the story beat they are using is based on a character that was the size of a 5 year old girl at her turning. I don't see any issue with aging her up and in fact it's better for everyone if that actress is over 18 but if that's the case then find a new angle! I don't understand everyone pretending that 14 is pre pubescent? Especially considering it's early 20th century. She woulda been married within 4-6 years if not sooner depending on class, she's not a baby by that era's standards. Rapist vamp hunting her could have certainly fucked up her day regardless of her size but that wasn't the show's approach instead it was she's just too smol...no she isn't! Again I think they do find ways to justify the assault narratively but I still don't like it and wish they had done like literally anything else to motivate Claudia to return home.
I hate that the writer said in the post episode segment that the r*pe scene "toughened her up". He says it so cheerfully I wanted to slap him. I hate this particular narrative crutch for female characters.
I am not a Lestat apologist and while I do enjoy his character I can never forgive him for his abuse of Louis and Claudia. I try to see him in the context of his life and forceful change and revelations as a vampire. Like yes, being a vampire fundamentally changes you but you still have a choice in how you live. I think the problem with him is that for a long time he lacked a moral center. Lacked introspection and only cared about what he wanted and providing the sliver of life he permitted for his progeny. So long as it kept their unit together. And that's really all I will say because I want to avoid spoilers. But revisiting these scenes really helps. I still need to rewatch season 2. In many ways this is a tragedy and the character who loses the most is Claudia in my opinion.
YES. OKAY?? YES to all of it, but ESPECIALLY those last parts! There better be all four quarters quartered up in the French Quarter, _complete_ with that DOOM music, too!! 😭😂
Ignore the "I've read the books" apologists as well. I've seen it all and Lestat is a self proclaimed menace. He had no excuse for dropping my boy like that!
LMAO comparing Claudia to Dexter is so funny. She may be messy but she’s way better to watch than him. I hope that actress gets another genius killer role cause she KILLT this one
I'm so glad there are people who see Lestat's ass for who he is! And while I don't abide by victim blaming but Louis pissed me off. This man lived in and through the THICKEST era of racism in America not counting slavery, so when a white European vampire who FORCED him to be a blood sucker, beats everything but the black off of Louis, you'd think that until the end of time Lestat would become the biggest op...right?
There are a lot of Grace sympathizers! I don’t get it. Like I understand that he did leave her baby on the ground and that he doesn’t drop by that often. But! If she resents him that much, she and their bitter mother should’ve left HIS house and moved up North a long time ago🤦🏽♀️
I love so much how you aren't recapping a TV show but telling me about what happened to some people you know. So good. So, so good.
Your commentary on Lestat is literally so affirming lol I feel so lost with everybody loving him 😭
I felt same too but after a while I like to think for this series specifically : is that it may be cuz he’s campy and the actor is good. The character honestly scares me and kinda triggers me due to his wild abusiveness but I’ve grown to enjoy after a little distance and also due to being part of a relatively responsible meme group I joined. Thank goodness they’re not forgiving or downplay lestat’s horrific abusiveness but also can enjoy the character in how theatric he is played as a vampire who’s also super messy etc.
I can see now the complexity of calling his character like tongue in cheek a babygirl really pretty kinda drives home a more complex dangerous creepiness aspect of having so much power through feeding on humans
Oh, I love the character cause he's really well written and the actor's great, but that doesn't make Lestat any less of a piece of shit
Same. I thought season 1 gave us an excellent representation of being in a relationship with a charismatic abuser. I was shook when I 1st encountered mainstream fans of the shows as the thirst (and racism) was clearly blinding them to his red flags!
Edit: I dont want to read any more "Louis made Lestat do it" arguments. So, I mostly do my stanning of the show on this channel! Oleyami gets it!
@@moustik31 Talk about it! I can understand enjoying a villain, but the way the fandom is so quick to baby Lestat while harping on all of Louis and A****d’s mistakes….I know what y’all are 😏
The Vampire Lestat book makes Lestat more likeable and by extention the mot popular character in the franchise
We aren't supposed to like him much yet
Because we don't know him much apart from the narrative he wants to potray
But I think season 2 lays the ground work for that
20:44 that fight was so terrifying and the way he dragged him by the neck was so nasty man holy shyt. I know Claudia was terrified too. And Louis telling her it’s okay from the other room felt like I was watching a little child being traumatized as she overhears her parents fight.
This show is so visceral and way more real than all the other vampire shows. Truly a work of art. I love The Originals but man this show,, this show is so much more intense.
I knew the bleep button was going to get a good workout this episode 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I’m here and ready for you to drag Lestat
@QueenSince same here, Lestat beating Louis down was heartbreaking.
Lamo. Not even Lestat is apologizing for Lestat. I love your videos. Bless.
No but Claudia deserves better. Gosh. She always did. Second season f me up fr.
24:28 man this rant is so worth it. I think people only like Lestat because the actor is hot/pretty. That pretty privilege will get you the most wildest of fans and simps.
Louis was calling out to Claudia like I was calling out for you to drop this review 😭😭😭🩵
Lmao facts
Malloy has the perfect expressions, It adds so much to the character
I love how throughly you broke down the Lestat apologia and how you called this out from the beginning.
THANK YOU for calling out the open relationship thing, omgggggg being in a polycule I'm SO TIRED of people not understanding how this works
I love how much you make yourself laugh, the little giggle you do makes me laugh every time, too cute.
Lestat apologists are so funny to me bc even LESTAT takes more accountability for his actions than some of them. Like he was abusive I’m sorry!!
like, TEXTBOOK abusive! Imma pray for all of them…
Ikr? They get distracted by his good looks, so he cant do no wrong in their eyes.
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@@JKnight1316TEXTBOOK
This is why society can't ever hold pretty yt boys accountable for shit
Yes Lestat is abusive but Louis is also a very unreliable narrator and manipulative. They’re both absolutely toxic and bring out the worst in each other.
SHE'S BACK Y'ALL LET'S FREAKING GO
Olurinatti out here like “we support women’s rights and wrongs”😂❤
Anyway, Claudia is my girl. She has never done anything wrong in her life 🎉
The best vampire on the show!
her thoughts on rashid.... season 2 is gonna be crazy.........
21:23
My brain got stuck and now it's just naming vampire programs. "THIS IS NOT BUFFY. THIS IS NOT LEGACIES. THIS IS NOT FIRST KILL. THIS IS NOT WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS. THIS IS NOT ABRAHAM LINCOLN VAMPIRE HUNTER. THIS IS NOT HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA."
I live for these breakdownss, bey! I screaming!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I warned my homegirl that IWTV is quite literally domestic violence on an immortal scale, this episode had me hating hard on Lestat, especially when he tried to crawl back
Also LMAOOO 😂 @ 21:56
I didn't know I needed a show about messy Vampires until I watched this show about messy Vampires
Glad you caught that Rashid (my cinnamon roll baby boy little munchkin) is SHIESTY AND SUSPICIOUS
Okay finally got to the end and I am dying laughing at your Lestat impressions qlndkdkdkdkdk.
Girl..... ima tell you....... when i found you...... i couldnt let you go. You are so funny!!! Your recaps and outlooks are so refreshing and raw. Yes girl keep curing us out and let that blood pressure go boo!!! You have me cracking up and your accent just makes it so much better. Love what you do hun. 🎉cant wait for the next review!!😂
I love Sam Reid as an actor but I couldn’t fuck with the show for.a couple of weeks I was too wrecked and ridden with flashbacks. This episode TESTED me. 💀 But yeah we witnessed DOMESTIC VIOLENCE supernatural dv but domestic violence nonetheless. And ppl still wanna talk outta their necks like Lestat did nothing wrong like it was just a spat he had with Louis? Could not be me. …
Anygay, thank you so much for the video (and cussing these delulu ass niggas out) Olay can’t wait for the next. 💖
I stopped watching the show for
months after this episode but Olay’s reviews got me interested again and I went and binged the rest of the show
I couldn’t watch it for a while too. I had no idea how dark it was going to get and how truly brutal and cruel Lestat was going to be in physically beating Louis. I love toxic romances, a little manipulation and a little betrayals and a little verbal abuse- but physical abuse turns me right off.
people are okay with DV as long as it's vampires???? what is wrong with these mfs
@@cullenarthur8879 I've got no problem with being a Lestat stan. As long as I'm not out here making excuses for real life abusive POS like Diddy, I think I'm good.
I was taken aback for a minute there, I've never seen anybody attack Grace like that before!! Lol at first I was like "oof harsh" but then I was like I know you must be tight with your sister, like that outrage came from a personal place 🥹
Which, like, LMAO OH NO your sister is a Lestat stan, THAT'S ACTUALLY HILARIOUS
Grace really isn’t shit and I stand on that lol but yes I do have 4 sisters and I love them, voluntarily choosing to depress them is something I could never do
I know you get annoyed with us cuz we be hounding you for these reviews, but do you see why?!?! I cackled and kiki'd so much I KNOW my coworkers wondering wth going on in my office!! This was chef's kiss babes. So thank you for gracing us with this!! And whoever edits your videos deserves a raise!!!
Lestat pissed me off this episode more than I thought was possible.
the only good thing lestat has done was his dramatic ass hiding inside claudia's coffin that was so funny i almost forgot how crazy that man is
This was a horrific episode but my god was this a hilarious video. I was cracking up laughing the whole time.... but then my blood literally ran cold when you raged LOL, the feeling was palpable, I agree with every word. Can't wait for the next video!
23:05 THANK YOU! I cannot stand that, for some people, the only "truth" that matters is Lestast's truth. And that is Anne Rice's doing. She wrote The Vampire Lestat, declared that it was gospel and he was Jesus, and it creates a very weird viewing experience sometimes.
Oh yeah for sure. There is a huge amount of viewers who genuinely despise every character that is not Lestat it's insane.
I have been WAITING for you to get to this episode
20:53 “to the inch of his afterlife” 😭😂
This video MADE MY DAY. I’m crying real tears 😅😂
Can’t wait for you to get to season 2 😂
Girl I told you Lestat was goin show his entire behind! Vampire DV is wild. Idk how they defended him...at all.
@@GigiBliss Just watched this episode, and I was shocked when Lestat did that to Louis.
@CremeBrulee-qm8wi wasn't that atrocious?! Louis has battered woman syndrome cause, how are you defending that?
Louis is my absolute favorite and I'm a Lestat apologist (in the sense that I'm an apologist for all the characters bc I just love them all) but the way you drag Lestat is...music to my ears! I love that menace, but he deserves all the lashings!
I was so excited to see your video!
You saw how they tore into me on Twitter about this LOVE STORY?!!!!!! Break out the bell hooks!
OMG IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS EPISODE IN PARTICULAR😭🙌 Let me jsut say, I know you didn’t talk about it in this review but Daniel slapping Louis lives rent free in my head forever and is one of my top moments in the show 💀Louis had that one coming for what he did we gotta be for real 🤣
Edit: wait im dumb AF she totally addressed it RIGHT at the end 😭🙌
i love watching these cause the internet loves to defend lestat and paint Louis as the abuser as if victims don't often retaliate in an abusive relationship 🤷♀️ no spoilers but the way they use season 2 as a justification to hate Louis and babygirl lestat GETS ME HEATED
[S2 SPOILERS!!!] .......................................................................................................
Which is remarkable because S2 actively makes Lestat WORSE. The role he plays in that "play" is so unforgivable and a clear retaliation/escalation of abuse. Absolutely nothing in the way that S2 recontextualizes this fight actually changes the abuser/victim dynamic in the fight and relationship either. And neither does the existence of Armand as a pos. Honestly the lengths some fans will go to to vindicate Lestat post-S2 when that's the season that he commits an even worse act of abuse and betrayal that makes this ep. look like kids' play is so baffling 🙃
No literally it pisses me off so badly
@@NaritaZaraki FACTS! Even during the Trial Lestat ADMITTED that he BROKE Louis and was FORCING Louis to love him, and these smoothbrained Lestans were STILL insisting that everything was Louis' fault, and I'm like it must be racism & antiblackness! Ain't no way y'all thirsty wenches are THIS stupid! Yet watch the next white woman say someone beat or raped her, and they'll come out the effing woodwork to crucify someone for not respecting the white woman's agency & autonomy & consent!
they piss me off so bad becaue they really be trying to say louis abuses lestat and armand
YEEESSSSS I am so happy to see this! Your reactions encouraged me to watch the last 3 episodes I had left of season 1, and now I can be even more excited to see your reaction! I was genuinely surprised by how good those last 3 episodes are, I had to get a trial and continue season 2.
The way I waited for this….Bless you Olay! 🙏🏾
Worth the wait 🙌 Looking forward to the next one.
I clicked so fast. I have been patiently waiting for you to drop this. Love you.
Lestat stans are delusional. It's not an "open" relationship, when Louis is coerced into accepting Lestat's relationship with Antoinette, while being emotionally manipulated into not sleeping with other men.
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I LOVE when you drop these. So excited for more. Also, I can't take my eyes off of that dope af top. The combo with the jean jacket is 🔥
Dawg that 2-love bomb from Claudia felt like a Tyler Perry dinner table scene🤣🤣🤣
Lestat was deliberately written as an abusive character. No one should tolerate anyone like him in their lives
Oh my god I’ve definitely turned into a Lestat fan but he is so wrong all the time and it’s so good to hear you speak on it
And yes I’m out of my mind
And don’t listen to them ‘just wait until season 2’ bs, s2 changed nothing in terms of how Lestat abused Louis in this situation, I dgaf about ‘the context’, there’s no context that can excuse domestic violence.
Thank you for your service 😂😂
The Lestat range at the end was great & so satisfying!
💙You’re so superbly animated and funny as hell.
Can’t wait for your commentary on the last episode of the season!
Yep…Lestat’s a ‘Grande Monstre’ alright. 🧛♀️
I take it SO personally that NOBODY WARNED ME about the double whammy of domestic violence and sexual abuse in this one episode. Like I cried the whole time. I needed to take a 48 hour break from the series. Everybody on that subreddit post not acknowledging the clearly traumatized and aggrieved colored vampires is crazy to me. Crazy. Aint nobody had shit to say about Louis and Claudia. Insane. I think just reading the subreddit comments was just the cherry on top.
girl reddit is awful. They were out their saying Louis is abusive to Lestat and Armand. Had mad people agreeing
@@gbekeee858 Louis is abusive tho, he himself admitted it, he wanted Lestat to suffer just because he was suffering.
But that doesn't take away from the fact that Lestat is abusive too.
I feel like everyone watching this wants to have that one character that is the saint but that's not going to happen with IWTV , these vampire are all moral degenerates, they are all traumatized people traumatizing each other.
Louis is black in a time when it's not really fun to be a black man, he's gay, his mother is a condescending witch, his sister abandons him (he has his issues)
Lestat was taken as a young man and abused, before being turned to a vampire, before that he lived with a masochist father and elder brothers and although his mother loved him, she'd rather not have been his mother.
Claudia grew up with an abusive aunt, abandoned by her parents, sexually harassed( the men who watched her pee )
Armand was taken as a pleasure slave as a young boy if I do say so myself by an aged vampire .
So yes none of these people are living their best lives as humans before they are turned to blood thirsty immortals none of them are good.
All we can hope for is growth as they sort through their traumas
@@hills161 I and many ppl are well aware of how all of them are monsters including Louis. However Louis was not abusive to Lestat. Just bc he wasn’t the perfect victim doesn’t mean he was abusive. Him admitting to wanting to make Lestat suffer isn’t him being abusive. Everything Louis did was a reaction to the abuse he faced from Lestat. Lestat was controlling, manipulative and physically abusive to Louis. Louis and Lestat were not equal in their relationship dynamics there was a clear imbalance. There’s so many things to call Louis out for but him being an abuser to Lestat is such a wild take. (And yes I’ve seen both seasons)
Lestat apologist here for my dog like cursing 🧎🏻♀️
Not here to defend Lestat (he's been problematic from book 1 and we love him still cause something wrong with us) but I feel like giving Grace a little grace. She never understood why she lost her brother and before that violent incident with the door (when he scared her children) never rejected him. I was rooting for them to reconcile because there's still love there imo. As a forever-Louis girl since the books, I liked him having a Grace and was sad to see what happened to their relationship.
When Louis arrived, prior to the door flying, Her children already ran away from the yard and into the house screaming the moment he arrived obviously based on what the adults had told them. Grace ain’t shit.
Hope you feelin' better!
I was shaking when i saw ep 5 and i still have not recovered from the way he destroys louis. It is a no for me. Idk how he can see him the same after this.
This was a total delight to watch! I cannot wait for what you make of the next two episodes. You might need to take pressure medication afterwards cause PRESSHA!!!!! Chile!
Olay, greetings. I swear I would watch review the phone book. You always make my day.❤❤
I want to show great appreciation to these recap videos!
I don’t know if you’ll do The Penguin later in 2025.
I live for these commentaries!
the reveal at the end that your sister is a Lestat fan was amazing.
This episode is essentially a riveting episode of tv that I also had alot of frustration with. Not simply as a book reader because so far the changes made have been not only GOOD but necessary to adapt it to the medium of television and for culture of the 2020s versus the 1970s when it was written. However, I genuinely did not like or agree with the changes they made re Lestat and Claudia in this ep and I took a months long break from the series back when it first came out cause of how bothered I was but I did go back and I still love the series and I think they justified the narrative choices to an extent by the end of this season. That SAID, things like claudia being raped let alone by a rando vampire and Lestat beating Louis within an inch of his unlife are simply things that didn't happen in the book and unlike other changes made I did not see the point of either beyond it being DEEPLY unsettling (which this is gothic horror so it should be unsettling). While I have my qualms re:Lestat I think I see the vision for their choices re him in the show vs him in the books. My real indignation is for the Claudia plot at least re: the rape. While I get that being a vampire hasn't protected Louis from homophobia and racism and thats poignant...did we really need to be told that even vampirism can't protect a young woman from rape? It's especially weird they keep harping on her body because I'm like this is clearly a 20 yr old trying to pass as a teen. Which is fine but...the story beat they are using is based on a character that was the size of a 5 year old girl at her turning. I don't see any issue with aging her up and in fact it's better for everyone if that actress is over 18 but if that's the case then find a new angle! I don't understand everyone pretending that 14 is pre pubescent? Especially considering it's early 20th century. She woulda been married within 4-6 years if not sooner depending on class, she's not a baby by that era's standards. Rapist vamp hunting her could have certainly fucked up her day regardless of her size but that wasn't the show's approach instead it was she's just too smol...no she isn't! Again I think they do find ways to justify the assault narratively but I still don't like it and wish they had done like literally anything else to motivate Claudia to return home.
I hate that the writer said in the post episode segment that the r*pe scene "toughened her up". He says it so cheerfully I wanted to slap him. I hate this particular narrative crutch for female characters.
@@TearfulMoon me too. Like its 2024 and were still using rape as a narrative for "character growth" be so fr
I am not a Lestat apologist and while I do enjoy his character I can never forgive him for his abuse of Louis and Claudia. I try to see him in the context of his life and forceful change and revelations as a vampire. Like yes, being a vampire fundamentally changes you but you still have a choice in how you live. I think the problem with him is that for a long time he lacked a moral center. Lacked introspection and only cared about what he wanted and providing the sliver of life he permitted for his progeny. So long as it kept their unit together. And that's really all I will say because I want to avoid spoilers. But revisiting these scenes really helps. I still need to rewatch season 2. In many ways this is a tragedy and the character who loses the most is Claudia in my opinion.
I really hope you review season 2, especially after the wacking you gave lestat (very deserved btw) 😂😂
My sister said that if I ever get turned into a vampire or any type of immortal really that I better turn her too.
Finally, somebody with sense I have such a love-hate relationship with Lestat but this will never be excusable
THE WAY I RAN WHEN I SAW YOU UPLOADED THIS, SPEEDY GONZALES AIN'T GOT SHIT ON ME
I'm LIVING for this
Imma have to go watch this show so I can properly hate Lestatt with you Olay 😂😂
Lmaooo at "it's different" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
girl you have me DYING laughing each time.
i really love lestat's character but your hatred for him sends me lmfao
Look...Lestat ain't right but I like watching him 🙈
Me and Olay's sister sitting on the couch in that one meme
YES. OKAY??
YES to all of it, but ESPECIALLY those last parts!
There better be all four quarters quartered up in the French Quarter, _complete_ with that DOOM music, too!! 😭😂
Thank you! Lestat darvo Lioncourt’s comeuppance was overdue.
I'm totally using that lol. "Lestat DARVO de lioncourt" is genius.
As Forever a lestat and Claudia defender, this video was so real.
Ignore the "I've read the books" apologists as well. I've seen it all and Lestat is a self proclaimed menace. He had no excuse for dropping my boy like that!
Screaming okay🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
LMAO comparing Claudia to Dexter is so funny. She may be messy but she’s way better to watch than him. I hope that actress gets another genius killer role cause she KILLT this one
I can’t wait for her to get to season 2. That’s when ish rly pops off fr
You were not the only one that thought Louis sister was named Gretna when watching that scene!
the opening hook of this video 10/10
I love your recaps so much your lestat hatred is great😂 cuz im both a lestat hater and lover and i love how much you hate lestat
Lmfaoooooooooooo you know I loveeee a character that brings the drama🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 kmlll
10:21 I CAN NOT WAIT 😂 cuss them OUT
Your reactions have me dying 😂😂😂
I'm so glad there are people who see Lestat's ass for who he is! And while I don't abide by victim blaming but Louis pissed me off.
This man lived in and through the THICKEST era of racism in America not counting slavery, so when a white European vampire who FORCED him to be a blood sucker, beats everything but the black off of Louis, you'd think that until the end of time Lestat would become the biggest op...right?
There's definitely a bit of Stockholm syndrome going on with Louis :/
This was worth the wait 😂
I forgot how emotional this episode made me. Man I hate Lestat.
Lmaooo I loved them as daddies🤣🤣🤣
Didn't he also mock Claudia for being raped too?
AND he threatened her! AND he mocked Charlie's death. Lestat ain't ish, istg.
Why are you so funny??!!! 😂😂😂
Lmaooo yea we'd definitely see each other at night🤣🤣🤣 That's our style anyway
Right!!$ I’d be like ok we have to have big sister movie marathons at night, recreate our youth!!
Louis family piss me off so bad it makes it hard to rewatch season one 😭
Yea I was briefly hype for Claudia😩😩😩. That was so sad man. Break my girl whole spirit. This was an excellent episode though. Game changer for them
I can't wait to hear your perspective on that scene during season 2.
GET HIS ASS AGAIN
There are a lot of Grace sympathizers! I don’t get it. Like I understand that he did leave her baby on the ground and that he doesn’t drop by that often. But! If she resents him that much, she and their bitter mother should’ve left HIS house and moved up North a long time ago🤦🏽♀️
Now we need episode 6 quickly lmao