Very enjoyable to watch! The dialog is so smooth. My taste for fine things find in this show something new, that`s keep me watching!
Both actors are excellent and they are the right match for each other!
i finally understand what all the hannibal girlies were going on about i fear.
louis my beloved meow meow
The power that they hold
another day another slay literally and metaphorically
but seriously the show is amazing. great score and the interview format enriches the text. i thought they would abandon it but its integrated perfectly into the story
episode 2 is muted compared to its counterparts. A bridge before they really start cooking with gaas in the rest of the season. but a necessary bridge it is. One of my favourite details in this rewatch was absorbing all the in hindsight obvious layers of artifice in the Dubai sequences.The multicourse meals that exists just to prove a point the theatre of the bloodbag fox and damak. Louis rejects the theatre kid within him but he truly is #one of them
also louis has a pair of slippers just outside his coffin which i find adorable.
Episode two does a fantastic job exploring Louis and Lestat's Honeymoon period. Not only is seeing them build their little life together toe curling sweet (their bickering gives me LIFE) but this episode has real substance in terms of characterization and relationship dynamics, laying down the foundation for the rest of the series excellently. How this episode articulates Louis and Lestat's differences in perspective while maintaining that air of domestic bliss was fantastic. Their squabbles feel so lived in. Reid and Anderson perfectly play it like their relitigating the same fight they've gone over a dozen times. But every time they kiss and make up you buy into that toe curling, all encompassing love again.
On a character level I love how Anderson depicts the disgust and genuine fear Louis has of himself as a vampire. And you see in Reid's performance how Lestat internalizes that disgust as rejection and how that sparks desperation on his part to cling tighter, push harder. That desperation becomes so understandable in Lestat's crushing monologue ("There is one thing about being a vampire that I must fear above all else, and that is loneliness."). The fact that that vulnerable moment is immediately juxtaposed with seeing Lestat at his most inhumanly cruel captures the breadth of his character so well.
This ep. was also IWTV at its funniest yet. From Lestat's critiques of Louis first kill ("Bite the neck, Louis. No, you don't bite the blood") to maybe Louis' most iconic line to date, (“It was both random and unfortunate that the man picked that night to dabble in fuckery.”) and Daniel's pointed questioning about the fate of baby Benjamin. And all their dark humour never felt out of place.
But what even more gratifying is how seamlessly this ep blends that sweeping romance and horrific murder. The episode's final shot (tragically under-discussed in my opinion) may just be my favorite moment. As Louis and Lestat slowly drain the life of a less than stellar tenor they move to an embrace their act becoming a sort of kiss. It's such a good visual and perfectly captures the arc of the episode.
I could keep going but I'll leave it here. I didn't think it was possible to love IWTV more but this rewatch is really proving there is no floor to the depths of my love.
The episode flew by. I'm very excited about the story and I really want to know where it'll end.
Shout by DmCasperBlockedParent2022-10-05T08:35:33Z
episode 1: I was so confused how the drama was different from the original book.
episode 2: Louis and Lestat are so in love they are sooooo cute!