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It is, with 22 nominations from both AACTA (Australian Academy of Cinema & Television) (16) and AACTA International Awards (6). Very disappointed in the BAFTAs for only giving it 1 nomination. I doubt the AMPAS will do better.

Scheduling conflict. The first Claudia had to finish the Avatar films. The new Claudia, while having a musical theatre background didn't perform the vocals for Claudia in S2. It was beneficial to the storytelling in S1 considering the racial component in New Orleans. Louis was able to navigate those spaces due to having money, and yet even with his wealth and being on equal footing with the the other businessmen, he was still viewed as less than. In S2 in Paris he mentions buying a painting and his plans for it and future art, which gives insight on how he built his wealth. For many the assumption was that the Dubai apartment was Armand's, but we know when Louis kicks him out at the end of S2, it is Louis'. He has truly become the first vampire capitalist. He's a member of The Talamasca (which is in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles universe and will have its own spin-off) and they have been tracking vampires for centuries. I don't think they directly explained why he was intervening in Molloy's interview, but as he mentioned the plot point from S1 of the vampires plotting a Great Conversion, I think he wanted to use Molloy as a future asset.

For me, the problem started with the premise itself. The concept of "magical Negro" is not about Black person/characters making things better for white people in order to spare themselves/the Black community from harm, it's the Mary Sue-ification of Black characters. It's when a Black character's innate wisdom/kindness/benevolence only serves as a function to make a white character grow/learn. There is comedy that could be mined from the original concept of "magical negro", but instead they bastardized the trope.

Autumn Brown posted outtakes of her cast interviews.

He is only doing the narration (which there quite a lot of). The actual dialogue and motion capture is done by an actor called Jonno Davies.

The fantastical biopic about British former boybander, turned successful solo artist Robbie Williams, masterfully directed by Michael Gracey (The Greatest Showman). Opting to depict the subject as an ape (because Williams has referred to himself as a performing monkey and, also, because Gracey feels humans have more sympathy for animals than their fellow humans and didn't want the fact that Williams was a celebrity to make people feel they can't connect to his story), "Better Man", on its face, is a film many don't want to take a chance on watching, but I think just writing it off because our protagonist is a CGI ape or because one is not familiar with Williams is a lost opportunity to see a spectacular film. Not only are the musical set pieces stunning, but the general story is achingly raw and beautiful. I would have never expected anything about Robbie Williams to be so amazing.

I thought the feel of it would be akin to "Dunkirk" or "1917", but it's a more rousing film. It's a salute to the enduring spirit of those who weren't on the front lines, those left behinds having to make do in the chaos of the blitz. The cinematography and scope is great; definitely should be seen in the theater if one's area has it before going to Apple+.

Could be nothing, but to me the lyrics "Another taste, another year, another place, another tear /Another chase, another sneer, without a trace, you disappear /Pick up the pace, pack up the gear /Give me some face / a souvenir" may be what Louis and Lestat's relationship looks like post finale. Louis swans in after lengthy absences, they have sex, and Louis leaves again, still never giving himself to Lestat the way Lestat has always wanted.

That's exactly what the coughing fit was. Lestat showed him how he felt about the book by choking him. As it's Daniel's documentary he likely padded his team with sycophants. Armand is his maker (and I'm not convinced Daniel was turned out of spite/anger) and I think he and people he associate with have an allegiance to Armand.

Bloopers.

I thought that woman was the one who fell for one of the brothers and Aura was with someone we had never seen prior.

I love unexpected pairings. I'm all aboard the Tenax and Cala attraction.

Autumn Brown has posted her final S2 video with an interview with Jacob Anderson. She has other videos with Sam, Assad, Delainey, Roxanne Duran (Madeleine), Eric and Luke Brandon Field (Young Daniel). I preferred the official S1 podcast over these Autumn Brown interviews. I wonder who she sold her soul to for AMC to give her the interviewing duties.

I think Lestat didn't save Claudia because he didn't want to save her. Never intended to (though Jacob Anderson feverently believes Lestat would have saved her if he had to strength to do so). He was there to get his justice for her orchestrating his "murder" and ensure Louis doesn't die. For a great number of years in their relationship, Lestat has resented Claudia and they grew to hate each other. When he defended her strength to the coven I think the weight of what was going to happen was settling on him, but he still was fine with letting it happen. I don't think things changed for him until she looked at him as she was burning that he realized that there was still that earlier love there and she was reaching out to him in her moment of pain. I think that's when he realized he did care about her. Lestat was gutted watching her die.

This is the first time we've seen Lestat. Sam Reid has said repeatedly in interviews that the show has never shown the real Lestat because we've only been getting depictions of him through other people's narrative. He said the closest to the real Lestat was probably when Armand "called" Lestat to tell him about Louis hurting himself.