Glade

Nino's new actor does not have the looks of his younger self that made it almost slightly understandable that Elena would run off with him at the end of S3. Now he just looks like any random middle aged married guy who will never leave his wife for you.

I wish this show would stop presenting mangled, inverted quotes from the LOTR films. It's not clever.

They manage to incorporate so much ugliness and graphic violence (slave camps, people eating cockroaches and rats...) into this show, so far beyond the realism of the Jackson films. I just can't get very interested, it feels like dragging out the inevitable as long as humanly possible, and everything has to be turned into a reference; Sauron has to come back like Gollumn.

It's interesting that Sunja believes Isak is still in the city somewhere and that she will see him again, which seems doubtful. I hope we will see him again though, Isak is so gorgeous, blows Hansu out of the water one thousand times over, which no doubt reinforces his jealousy. Did Mr. Kim actually do anything to help the family other than being a friendly kimchi customer?

Imane Khelif won the gold medal after beating Chinese boxer Yang Liu! I'm so happy she stuck it to the haters who know nothing about boxing and just wanted to attack a woman athlete for not looking feminine enough and baselessly accuse her of being a transgender abuser for winning a match.

Wow! The rockumentary format for Daniel interviewing Lestat is really intriguing! And he looks amazing, very glam/grunge, but also modern. I can't wait!

This cast list is stale AF, I wish there were more queens from diverse countries (Thailand, Sweden, Phillipines, Spain, anywhere else!) and who have either never been on all Stars, or only been on once before. Seeing Cheryl, Eureka, Kennedy, and Alexis again just feels depressing, it doesn't matter how likeable they are.

Butcher is really a disgusting idiot, playing right into Sage's plan by brutally murdering Nueman right in front of her daughter. I hope he meets the same fate next season. I absolutely preferred Nueman over her running mate.

That scene with Torbin was so hot! I want to hear more about the 'natural desires' he's suppressing, though sadly it looks like he never lives out these hidden erotic fantasies, since he goes on to meditate for the rest of his life. I like that we went deeper into the truth, but it makes the Jedi worse in some ways, since they blamed a (supposedly dead) child for their own selfish, short-sighted actions. I'm hoping that at least one of the witches actually survived to reconstitute their coven elsewhere.

This felt really stale--the show has already done the 'grossout supe sex party' skit before. And Hughie being sexually assaulted for half of the episode in a 'comedic' way was disgusting and completely gratuitous. Also, it didn't make much sense. Tek-night should have immediately clocked the switchup with his 'super-sight' when Hughie pulled down his pants; there is no confusing his butt with Web-Weaver's; this could have ended before he was tied up, assaulted and had 'cum' smeared over his face. We better get psychological realism with Hughie processing this traumatic assault in the coming weeks, not just pretending it's nothing.

This episode was amazing, a perfect end to a rollercoaster of a season. That scene where Louis chases down and taunts Santiago on the motorcycle reminded me of a similar scene in The Crow; City of Angels where Iggy Pop was stalked and killed. Louis was so skillful in luring him to his death, it was rapturous. As was the end-scene, where he openly dared the jealous hordes of the undead to come for him. I like how they gave Lestat just enough of a redemption before it was time for him to tell his side. Their reunion was beautiful, and it makes sense that it was actually Lestat, not Armand who saved him. I did think Louis/Lestat would be recoupled, but it looks like Louis wants some alone time after just showing Armand the door, which makes sense. I was not expecting Daniel to be a vampire! I'm guessing we'll see more of how that went down in flashbacks next season. Though he didn’t explicitly name Armand, just ‘his maker,’ it seems clear. Daniel being a powerful vampire himself, the only fledgling of Armand, similar to Lestat/Magnus makes it more likely that he’d approach Lestat to write his side next season, not as a vulnerable human, but a fellow vampire.

I have lost all interest and enthusiasm for this season. Even fast-forwarding to the runway was a letdown this week.

This was thrilling, beautiful, and absolutely insane! I love how they addressed Lestat dropping Louis, and how they recapped their entire relationship. I also love all the development given to Madeline this season, including this episode, where it makes sense she has no idea what's going on, since she never even met Lestat and Antoinette. The courtroom theatre openly addressing her innocence and giving her some agency was a huge improvement over the book/film. And even though she was labelled a selfish traitor, a collaborationist, she did not forsake Claudia to save herself and sign on to joining the coven of these ghouls. The real Lestat can be quite worse off then Louis saw/remembered him being in these scenes. And it looks like Armand is going to come clean next week about his bullshit lies here, I can't wait for that! This is so much better than Anne Rice's plan to let the movie stand on it's own and begin the tv series with TVL.

I swear, when they were on the balcony and Paul was standing under the full moon, I shouted: he's a vampire! They both are, Benedict thought Lady Arnold was inviting him upstairs for a bisexual threesome, when in actuality they were about to initiate him into vampirism! Really though, where is Lord Remington? He was Lady Whistledown's biggest fan, if he hadn't correctly guessed that Cressida is a liar, he's surely have proposed marriage by now, unlike Colin I think he'd be very encouraging of LD.

The Jedi are really disgusting trash, just showing up on this planet and throwing their weight around, and that delusional guy talking about how he 'made a choice' at 4 years old (!) to be taken away from his family and groomed, starved of love and attachments by this sick cult so he could become a political pawn of the republic. They have no rights to be there or to 'test' people's children.