Like I’m glad your friend who thought it was funny to make a mockery of black folks pain and suffering wasn’t enough to dissuade you from using her to prompt your fic. Glad to know racist cowards stick together when times get tough. Did you console each other as you cried your white tears?
![Season two of Rolin Jones’ Anne Rice adaptation was a feast for all of the senses: visually arresting, emotionally gripping, gloriously gory, and sexy as hell. The sophomore slump was nowhere in sight as Interview With The Vampire journeyed to postwar Paris, where a hedonistic playground quickly turned into a tribunal for sulky bloodsucker Louis (Jacob Anderson) and his daughter-sister Claudia (Delainey Hayles), and San Francisco via riveting flashbacks. While remaining mostly faithful to the source material, season two still delivered some inspired twists, proving that it pays to take risks when adapting a classic novel. That’s actually been Jones’ ethos from the beginning, starting with reimagining Louis as a closeted Black man in the Jim Crow South, which has added intoxicating new layers to its exploration of the contradictions of immortality. Season two was an often harrowing ride, spurred by great performances from Anderson, Hayles, Sam Reid, Eric Bogosian, Ben Daniels, and Assad Zaman, who came to the fore as Armand. But it was equally marked by a sense of playfulness—a powerful reminder that prestige dramas, especially gothic-horror ones, don’t have to be dour. [Danette Chavez]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4wifmqrhxdtcx6wg2n4bpejf/bafkreia4k7v7yffydlmoqjdbdatj5tls6bc5mev3zv76ka6z4dctehd5ei)
