They completely thrive off each other on the screen. Sam Reid and Jacob Anderson deliver individually amazing and nuanced performances. A story that is tragic and beautiful at the same time. The story was written so well, it almost feels like you are living with these ill-fated characters for 7 episodes, and then it lingers with you afterwards. It's been almost six months since the finale, and I am still enthralled as much as I was the first time watching. I've never re-watched a season of a TV show so many times. There's gore, sex, violence and various forms of abuse/manipulation and toxicity portrayed throughout the series. Highly recommend if you aren't a staunch book purist, enjoy darker vampire media, or just good storytelling with visual richness. I loved how they expanded in-between the major plot points and created new scenes that aren't in the book, exploring their everyday lives and character arcs. We finally get to see Louis and Lestat explicitly as a couple on-screen in this adaptation, whereas the previous versions couldn't at the time they were made. Louis a Black Creole man dealing with discrimination and Jim Crow laws of the time, carrying the burden and responsibility of being his mortal family's breadwinner while working as a brothel runner, dealing with his brother's death and blame, being a closeted gay Black man in the South in 1910s! You feel so much more for him than the book version. One of the very few, well-contextualized racebending I've seen.
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