Yes Lestat is abusive but Louis is also a very unreliable narrator and manipulative. They’re both absolutely toxic and bring out the worst in each other.
I felt same too but after a while I like to think for this series specifically : is that it may be cuz he’s campy and the actor is good. The character honestly scares me and kinda triggers me due to his wild abusiveness but I’ve grown to enjoy after a little distance and also due to being part of a relatively responsible meme group I joined. Thank goodness they’re not forgiving or downplay lestat’s horrific abusiveness but also can enjoy the character in how theatric he is played as a vampire who’s also super messy etc. I can see now the complexity of calling his character like tongue in cheek a babygirl really pretty kinda drives home a more complex dangerous creepiness aspect of having so much power through feeding on humans
Same. I thought season 1 gave us an excellent representation of being in a relationship with a charismatic abuser. I was shook when I 1st encountered mainstream fans of the shows as the thirst (and racism) was clearly blinding them to his red flags! Edit: I dont want to read any more "Louis made Lestat do it" arguments. So, I mostly do my stanning of the show on this channel! Oleyami gets it!
@@moustik31 Talk about it! I can understand enjoying a villain, but the way the fandom is so quick to baby Lestat while harping on all of Louis and A****d’s mistakes….I know what y’all are 😏
The Vampire Lestat book makes Lestat more likeable and by extention the mot popular character in the franchise We aren't supposed to like him much yet Because we don't know him much apart from the narrative he wants to potray But I think season 2 lays the ground work for that
20:44 that fight was so terrifying and the way he dragged him by the neck was so nasty man holy shyt. I know Claudia was terrified too. And Louis telling her it’s okay from the other room felt like I was watching a little child being traumatized as she overhears her parents fight. This show is so visceral and way more real than all the other vampire shows. Truly a work of art. I love The Originals but man this show,, this show is so much more intense.
Poor claudia she truly went through it in this episode the show truly did a good job at showing the consequences of turning a child into a vampire she can't make vampires nor is she strong enough to protect herself from other vampires 😢
@@angelaholmes8888 I can’t watch second season ugh but also this series does her character so interestingly and with respect this season considering the timr
21:23 My brain got stuck and now it's just naming vampire programs. "THIS IS NOT BUFFY. THIS IS NOT LEGACIES. THIS IS NOT FIRST KILL. THIS IS NOT WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS. THIS IS NOT ABRAHAM LINCOLN VAMPIRE HUNTER. THIS IS NOT HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA."
24:28 man this rant is so worth it. I think people only like Lestat because the actor is hot/pretty. That pretty privilege will get you the most wildest of fans and simps.
I love Sam Reid as an actor but I couldn’t fuck with the show for.a couple of weeks I was too wrecked and ridden with flashbacks. This episode TESTED me. 💀 But yeah we witnessed DOMESTIC VIOLENCE supernatural dv but domestic violence nonetheless. And ppl still wanna talk outta their necks like Lestat did nothing wrong like it was just a spat he had with Louis? Could not be me. … Anygay, thank you so much for the video (and cussing these delulu ass niggas out) Olay can’t wait for the next. 💖
I couldn’t watch it for a while too. I had no idea how dark it was going to get and how truly brutal and cruel Lestat was going to be in physically beating Louis. I love toxic romances, a little manipulation and a little betrayals and a little verbal abuse- but physical abuse turns me right off.
This was a horrific episode but my god was this a hilarious video. I was cracking up laughing the whole time.... but then my blood literally ran cold when you raged LOL, the feeling was palpable, I agree with every word. Can't wait for the next video!
i love watching these cause the internet loves to defend lestat and paint Louis as the abuser as if victims don't often retaliate in an abusive relationship 🤷♀️ no spoilers but the way they use season 2 as a justification to hate Louis and babygirl lestat GETS ME HEATED
[S2 SPOILERS!!!] ....................................................................................................... Which is remarkable because S2 actively makes Lestat WORSE. The role he plays in that "play" is so unforgivable and a clear retaliation/escalation of abuse. Absolutely nothing in the way that S2 recontextualizes this fight actually changes the abuser/victim dynamic in the fight and relationship either. And neither does the existence of Armand as a pos. Honestly the lengths some fans will go to to vindicate Lestat post-S2 when that's the season that he commits an even worse act of abuse and betrayal that makes this ep. look like kids' play is so baffling 🙃
@@NaritaZaraki FACTS! Even during the Trial Lestat ADMITTED that he BROKE Louis and was FORCING Louis to love him, and these smoothbrained Lestans were STILL insisting that everything was Louis' fault, and I'm like it must be racism & antiblackness! Ain't no way y'all thirsty wenches are THIS stupid! Yet watch the next white woman say someone beat or raped her, and they'll come out the effing woodwork to crucify someone for not respecting the white woman's agency & autonomy & consent!
I know you get annoyed with us cuz we be hounding you for these reviews, but do you see why?!?! I cackled and kiki'd so much I KNOW my coworkers wondering wth going on in my office!! This was chef's kiss babes. So thank you for gracing us with this!! And whoever edits your videos deserves a raise!!!
Lestat stans are delusional. It's not an "open" relationship, when Louis is coerced into accepting Lestat's relationship with Antoinette, while being emotionally manipulated into not sleeping with other men. 🤨
@@cutiepeel I think it's strange how people accept murder on a nightly basis from vampires, but an instance of domestic violence is over the line for them.
I was taken aback for a minute there, I've never seen anybody attack Grace like that before!! Lol at first I was like "oof harsh" but then I was like I know you must be tight with your sister, like that outrage came from a personal place 🥹 Which, like, LMAO OH NO your sister is a Lestat stan, THAT'S ACTUALLY HILARIOUS
Grace really isn’t shit and I stand on that lol but yes I do have 4 sisters and I love them, voluntarily choosing to depress them is something I could never do
23:05 THANK YOU! I cannot stand that, for some people, the only "truth" that matters is Lestast's truth. And that is Anne Rice's doing. She wrote The Vampire Lestat, declared that it was gospel and he was Jesus, and it creates a very weird viewing experience sometimes.
I warned my homegirl that IWTV is quite literally domestic violence on an immortal scale, this episode had me hating hard on Lestat, especially when he tried to crawl back Also LMAOOO 😂 @ 21:56
OMG IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS EPISODE IN PARTICULAR😭🙌 Let me jsut say, I know you didn’t talk about it in this review but Daniel slapping Louis lives rent free in my head forever and is one of my top moments in the show 💀Louis had that one coming for what he did we gotta be for real 🤣 Edit: wait im dumb AF she totally addressed it RIGHT at the end 😭🙌
Girl..... ima tell you....... when i found you...... i couldnt let you go. You are so funny!!! Your recaps and outlooks are so refreshing and raw. Yes girl keep curing us out and let that blood pressure go boo!!! You have me cracking up and your accent just makes it so much better. Love what you do hun. 🎉cant wait for the next review!!😂
I take it SO personally that NOBODY WARNED ME about the double whammy of domestic violence and sexual abuse in this one episode. Like I cried the whole time. I needed to take a 48 hour break from the series. Everybody on that subreddit post not acknowledging the clearly traumatized and aggrieved colored vampires is crazy to me. Crazy. Aint nobody had shit to say about Louis and Claudia. Insane. I think just reading the subreddit comments was just the cherry on top.
the reveal at the end that your sister is a Lestat fan was amazing. This episode is essentially a riveting episode of tv that I also had alot of frustration with. Not simply as a book reader because so far the changes made have been not only GOOD but necessary to adapt it to the medium of television and for culture of the 2020s versus the 1970s when it was written. However, I genuinely did not like or agree with the changes they made re Lestat and Claudia in this ep and I took a months long break from the series back when it first came out cause of how bothered I was but I did go back and I still love the series and I think they justified the narrative choices to an extent by the end of this season. That SAID, things like claudia being raped let alone by a rando vampire and Lestat beating Louis within an inch of his unlife are simply things that didn't happen in the book and unlike other changes made I did not see the point of either beyond it being DEEPLY unsettling (which this is gothic horror so it should be unsettling). While I have my qualms re:Lestat I think I see the vision for their choices re him in the show vs him in the books. My real indignation is for the Claudia plot at least re: the rape. While I get that being a vampire hasn't protected Louis from homophobia and racism and thats poignant...did we really need to be told that even vampirism can't protect a young woman from rape? It's especially weird they keep harping on her body because I'm like this is clearly a 20 yr old trying to pass as a teen. Which is fine but...the story beat they are using is based on a character that was the size of a 5 year old girl at her turning. I don't see any issue with aging her up and in fact it's better for everyone if that actress is over 18 but if that's the case then find a new angle! I don't understand everyone pretending that 14 is pre pubescent? Especially considering it's early 20th century. She woulda been married within 4-6 years if not sooner depending on class, she's not a baby by that era's standards. Rapist vamp hunting her could have certainly fucked up her day regardless of her size but that wasn't the show's approach instead it was she's just too smol...no she isn't! Again I think they do find ways to justify the assault narratively but I still don't like it and wish they had done like literally anything else to motivate Claudia to return home.
I hate that the writer said in the post episode segment that the r*pe scene "toughened her up". He says it so cheerfully I wanted to slap him. I hate this particular narrative crutch for female characters.
I was shaking when i saw ep 5 and i still have not recovered from the way he destroys louis. It is a no for me. Idk how he can see him the same after this.
I am not a Lestat apologist and while I do enjoy his character I can never forgive him for his abuse of Louis and Claudia. I try to see him in the context of his life and forceful change and revelations as a vampire. Like yes, being a vampire fundamentally changes you but you still have a choice in how you live. I think the problem with him is that for a long time he lacked a moral center. Lacked introspection and only cared about what he wanted and providing the sliver of life he permitted for his progeny. So long as it kept their unit together. And that's really all I will say because I want to avoid spoilers. But revisiting these scenes really helps. I still need to rewatch season 2. In many ways this is a tragedy and the character who loses the most is Claudia in my opinion.
YEEESSSSS I am so happy to see this! Your reactions encouraged me to watch the last 3 episodes I had left of season 1, and now I can be even more excited to see your reaction! I was genuinely surprised by how good those last 3 episodes are, I had to get a trial and continue season 2.
the only interview with the vampire girlie i trust!!! brace yourself for season 2; it's just as good as season 1, but this ep is why the s2 finale pisses me offff. this show is on the ball across the board but when it comes to lestat, they and much of the audience speak outta both sides of their mouth where they're gonna show underrepresented racialized intimate partner violence and then ask you to root for the perpetrator of said violence to end up with the person he victimized just cause these vampires are gay this time? it is WILD, but hasn't yet completely spoiled the viewing experience for me. another banger reaction video to this piece, keep up the lestat hater truthing 💖💖💖
I love the lestat hate… it helps keep me from falling into how charismatic he is … he plays a really good abusive person these actors and writers. In fact all the manipulative ness and mess is too damn good it messes me up sometimes
@@jar0mete huge agree, it's a part of why i still think it's an incredible show despite the mess. like even the writers fall for their own narrative at times, let alone us the audience, it just harmonizes with the subjective themes and messages 🙏
This was a total delight to watch! I cannot wait for what you make of the next two episodes. You might need to take pressure medication afterwards cause PRESSHA!!!!! Chile!
There are a lot of Grace sympathizers! I don’t get it. Like I understand that he did leave her baby on the ground and that he doesn’t drop by that often. But! If she resents him that much, she and their bitter mother should’ve left HIS house and moved up North a long time ago🤦🏽♀️
Let me tell you, you are the best IWTV reactor and I'm saying this as a Lestat enjoyer but fk sick of his whinny apologists. Please continue this journey sis, we are here with you!
LMAO comparing Claudia to Dexter is so funny. She may be messy but she’s way better to watch than him. I hope that actress gets another genius killer role cause she KILLT this one
Louis is my absolute favorite and I'm a Lestat apologist (in the sense that I'm an apologist for all the characters bc I just love them all) but the way you drag Lestat is...music to my ears! I love that menace, but he deserves all the lashings!
I'm so glad there are people who see Lestat's ass for who he is! And while I don't abide by victim blaming but Louis pissed me off. This man lived in and through the THICKEST era of racism in America not counting slavery, so when a white European vampire who FORCED him to be a blood sucker, beats everything but the black off of Louis, you'd think that until the end of time Lestat would become the biggest op...right?
Ignore the "I've read the books" apologists as well. I've seen it all and Lestat is a self proclaimed menace. He had no excuse for dropping my boy like that!
Not here to defend Lestat (he's been problematic from book 1 and we love him still cause something wrong with us) but I feel like giving Grace a little grace. She never understood why she lost her brother and before that violent incident with the door (when he scared her children) never rejected him. I was rooting for them to reconcile because there's still love there imo. As a forever-Louis girl since the books, I liked him having a Grace and was sad to see what happened to their relationship.
When Louis arrived, prior to the door flying, Her children already ran away from the yard and into the house screaming the moment he arrived obviously based on what the adults had told them. Grace ain’t shit.
YES. OKAY?? YES to all of it, but ESPECIALLY those last parts! There better be all four quarters quartered up in the French Quarter, _complete_ with that DOOM music, too!! 😭😂
1k within 3 hours… we were waiting for this! Ikdr. Yeah one think about my fictional family is that if they are one thing, it’s disfunctional 😂 even Daniel is disfunctional. No well adjusted people representation on this show what do ever 💀
There is NO WAY I will be convinced that Lestat didn't specifically target Louis because he was both Black and CLOSETED!!!!!! It's been manipulation and preying on vulnerability since day 1. EVIL
@@punkwonder it definitely was and louis acknowledges it as such in the first episode by stating that he was prey being hunted. lestat loves him, genuinely, but also purposefully isolated
