Glade

Wow, that ending "I'm so in love with you that I hooked up with your husband and then kidnapped and molested your daughter...but it was all to get closer to you!" is beyond the pale. Mary Anne is just being portrayed as so one dimensional, at least Bob is struggling against the current a bit. But the story is beyond infuriating.

Louis and Rashid are really hot together when they're intimate, and I guess now all theories that Rashid is a vampire (whether it was Armand, Lestat via the body thief, David Talbot, or the Rashid from Blood and Gold that he was supposed to be) are disproven as of episode 5. He is a human companion offering himself to Louis freely. I could not undrop my jaw after seeing what Grace pulled out. THE BURN is so extreme! And what an inversion of that scene in the novel where Louis watches an elderly Grace place flowers on his grave from a distance...though I think they could have tried to age Grace a little bit for this scene, it was...wow. Goodbye Grace. But it was really touching that Claudia also narrated her reaction when watching this scene, picking up on the nuanced depth of her parent's emotional life for the first time. Beautifully adapted from book to screen! The ending was also shocking, I can only imagine this will be re-contextualized later on, but it's a lot.

I disagree, they did pull out every stereotype in the book when it comes to the gay culture of hyper-masculunity, leather, bathhouses, bodybuilders, cruising, shitty relationships occurring between primarily a bunch of middle-aged middle class cis white men and of course occurring in NYC. I find it amusing that even when depicting 1981 Murphy is still putting all the attention on 50-something gen X men (though to be fair, he had some 50-something gen X lesbians storm the press office too, since there weren't any young people in 1981.) I found this mind-numbingly terrible and cliche, something that has been done to death already, especially by Murphy himself. His work is so played out and over-saturated I can't stand any more of it.

Yes, I read at one point that Amazon is forbidden from using 3rd age characters (which is when Gandalf/Saruman/Radaghast came to Middle Earth together) but the blue wizards are sometimes said to have come to Middle Earth in the 2nd age. And amazon might be waiting to name The Stranger because the names of the blue wizards are in material they don't have the rights to either.

I loved seeing the trio laughing hysterically in the theatre while watching Nosferatu, and later Louis and Claudia blissfully rowing in a little boat. Louis and Lestat have a terrible relationship, but I still root for them to be happy. But it doesn't seem Claudia has very much love for Lestat, which is understandable given the absolutely horrific scene where he makes her watch her would-be lover burn to death. Being eternally fourteen would indeed be very difficult, locked in the emotional volatility of early puberty and never being taken seriously by adults. This was very well done and I loved that they changed the POV. The preview for next weeks episode...

I love Elrond, he's so beautiful, inside and out, and he is the character I'm glad to keep following; that last scene between him and Galadriel was so well acted, without a word it said everything, including how/why he will not be walking out of that room wearing one of the rings. Interesting that the sorcerer, despite being a shape shifter, was still not Sauron, but evidently knew how to unseal Halbrand's true powers. I guess we will see Halbrand making (or already in possession of?) the other rings which he will distribute to characters we mostly haven't met (maybe that one shady Numenorian advisor.). If Amazon doesn't have the rights to Gandalf, then this could still be one of the blue wizards. This was a good season, and I'm sure next year's will be better.

I liked the Scream references in the opening--very ominous. But poor Gary had his life cut short for no reason at all. You do need a phone and a credit card, etc to order/take an uber, so either that is setup by some ally human or he must be stealing a phone from a victim for every ride, which would be very conspicuous. But, this was a great opening.

I've also read most of the books, and I prefer this shows approach thus far. I don't think it can be denied that homophobia on the part of society, the publishing industry in 1976 and Hollywood in 1994 had an influence on whether or not vampires could be depicted as having gay sex. Anne herself admitted that she was rejected by many publishers and that she was the one who wrote Louis' fake dead wife into the screenplay for the 1994 film and even suggested turning Louis into a woman played by Cher during it's development hell all to make it less gay/ more palatable to straight movie audiences. So it is progress to show them having some sex, that they don't have to be chaste and sexless.

Thanks, I appreciate your clarification! And we likely will see adult female vampires in future seasons at least (there are a number in the books, including 2 main characters who could get their own seasons.)

I'm very uncomfortable with this sweeping statement and it's attempt to box in transgender people and ignore the presence of the prostate which makes gay male sex so pleasurable. Human sexual pleasure is not limited to or tied exclusively to procreation, period.

I'd think that at least some of the massive amounts of blood they drink every night would lead to swelling in the nether regions, and coupled with the surging hormones of the hunt, I can't see why, even if they don't produce sperm or eggs, they couldn't have sex. Especially since what we saw on screen thus far was a vampire using sex to seduce a mortal who he knew would be very into that. If, as has been hinted by the showrunner, we are going to see the relationship between young mortal Daniel Molloy/Armand presented in flashbacks at some point, I imagine there would be more such sex.

Gorgeous! Louis tripping out after he was turned is so perfect! The romance and magnetism of Louis/Lestat's relationship really does it for me. And seeing Lestat teach Louis to read minds was lovely. I thought the female opera singers teeth were very fangy for a bit there, but Lestat's speech makes it unlikely she was a vampire. This was another 10/10, I can't get enough of these two characters!

Wow! I'm blown away by how powerful this telling is. Both Louis and Lestat are brilliantly captured, and their chemistry together is through the roof and hot AF. Lestat's powers at the card game were marvelous. Louis' brother and his death were beautifully done, and seeing him faceoff with Lestat was a real treat. Making his suicide happen at sunrise, not only giving Louis additional trauma associated with the sun, but to make it clear as Anne wanted in retrospect (via faq's on her website) that no, it definitely wasn't Lestat pushing him was perfect. The writing is so good, I'm really excited to see the rest of the episodes and season 2.

I don't think it's fair to call Freddie a narcissist when he only started a relationship with his clone --after-- he was hypnotized to think it wasn't a big deal/not weird/not incestuous etc. If Nandor had undone that hypnosis and the emotional reality had set back in, Guillermo would have had a chance.

No, Curtis said he was making an outfit for a gay pride festival, so he appropriately didn't have straight/narrow men in mind. I don't think high fashion should be held back by the standards of American toxic masculinity. He never used those words "stereotypically gay," he just said he wasn't going for pride flag-themed ensembles. -- Heidi was incorrect, they have definitely chosen a winner before and then said they were putting their runway look on Amazon instead of the accessible look. I felt bad for Yannick, who was tearing up a bit after Jeremy Scott's narcissistic tantrum. I hate that "I'm a rich, successful white guy so I don't have to do invest in basic emotional regulation." I'm sure he screams and throws things in his personal assistant's face too and then never owns up to it. It's not passion. Maybe if they used the shows budget to give the designers two days instead of blowing it on building a runway in the desert, there would have been more complete looks.

This show is so beautiful and wholesome. I could literally taste those blackberries the harfoots were picking! And I like the aesthetic differences, the male elves look good; hair styles would shift every few thousand years, Gil Galad is clearly ahead of those trends. I didn't want them to stop disrobing those elve boys as they entered Valinor. I'm so glad this doesn't feature the endless graphic violence of GOT. The white supremacist backlash to this show is disgusting, but I think it will succeed despite them.

I really liked this (despite not even watching S2), and the fashions were great, but I preferred the designer who made the metallic gold and dark bronze pleated dresses for the win. And the thin yellow transparent smock over the bulky silver glitter suit was IMO terrible and not worthy of top 3, but then a lot of the 'commercial' looks were really bad this episode.

I had to start fast-forwarding because this was so tedious, obvious and cliche, too many versions of it were done in 80's films and tales of the crypt etc.

The second I saw that dragon flying through the clouds, all I could think of was the lame and mundane end to the (last?) 3 dragons, 2 of which were really very easily killed. It leaves a bad aftertaste, especially because the next shot is the dragon flying over kings landing...too many reminders. I became confused about whether the Queen we were seeing was the passed over female heir we barely glimpsed in the succession opening, and had to go back and check, since everyone is wearing those horrid white wigs. The CGI on this dragon is unconvincing IMO, it stands out far too much from it's background. Everything after that is just a bunch of police brutality, mundane statecraft, and lurid graphic violence of all sorts. I have no desire to watch more of this, there was no hook for me, and honestly, I had my fill of this world/this author and refuse to stomach any more of this garbage.

I was also really uncomfortable with this, as it might just give fodder to the people who scream "WOKE" every time they see a POC, woman, or LGBTQ person on-screen and insist it's all empty hypocrisy, when no matter the motivation, it is a good thing. Though of course those people hate this adaptation of The Sandman to begin with. But that, coupled with the off-hand mention of washed up transphobe Rowling, was off-putting. I think it would have been more coherent if they tipped this in the direction of metoo and depicted him as deriving all his talent from a woman and then arguing against diversity and hiring women for his movie adaptation. I haven't read the comics, and didn't get that Calliope was being raped from what was in the episode either, which is fine.

This was pretty good, and Dominique Jackson from Pose is a perfect Queen (Bloody) Mary. Her backstory definitely is in keeping with the world of Coven, too; one would imagine that she and Marie Leveau at least knew of each other.

Definitely shades of 'The Americans' with Margo's story-line going forward, which should be very interesting; though I thought for a second she was gazing down on a massive Mars colony with those buildings, which would of course have been insane. Yet again, I don't think putting a mentally unstable person into solitary confinement for years on Mars is going to help anyone. Regardless, Gordo's kids are unlikely to ever heal from the trauma and dysfunction caused by growing up with astronaut parents. I wish they would not keep referring to the arrival of christian fundamentalists in North America who ultimately founded a nation based on slavery and genocide as something brave or in any way an analogy for Mars/space exploration. Ellen's storyline ended in a good, hopeful place; and indeed, I'm glad she sees the wisdom in smashing the homophobic republican party.

This was my least favorite episode; the whole 'shabby older guy uses supernatural powers to terrorize small town diner' feels very dated, very stephen king.

The opening scenes with the siblings were so powerful; Mary's strong maternal warmth towards Edward was touching. I wish we got more of them together, and less contrived monologues delivered by the other characters. Edward's final outfit was really stunning. And though I feel the final conversation between Elizabeth and Mary could have been edited down a bit, it is true, that Mary didn't favor or want to leave her crown to Elizabeth either; she preferred her cousin/best friend Margaret Douglas (daughter of Margaret Tudor) who she grew up with and who I hope will be cast in season 2 along with Anne of Cleves. I guess I spent most of the episode expecting Edward to die by the end and impatient for the actual historical events to unfold. I was taken aback when Somerset died a beloved hero, after championing Mary's claim...which is interesting. Meanwhile Robert married Amy 3 years before the events of this episode; Elizabeth, Edward, and his father were all present at the wedding. Cate Blanchette's Elizabeth film also insisted that Robert's first marriage was done in secret at a much later date for the drama. And I strongly doubt that Robert proposed to Elizabeth before his first marriage. Regardless this was a good season and I hope for more.

I loved this, and The Sandman is gorgeous! This gave me major flashbacks to 'The Crow' which was one of my favorite films as a 90's goth teen.