Mallory Rubin

Here we are in this moment in time and everything's great.

There's a we maybe with a really, like, hedonistic, narcissistic character that you could position it as, like, I am unaware of the plight and turmoil around me that would be a commentary of a different sort.

I think that would actually be, like, a valid way to structure the show.

But...

what does it mean to be immortal?

And what does it mean to have lived for nearly three centuries?

I think if you are a character who, even if you've spent like a chunk of that time buried underground and you miss certain things, as he reminds us in this episode, and I'm sure it will again and has before, you've lived like a lot of life, right?

And for Lestat,

I really loved the conversation with that... Can we call them conversations?

The exchanges.

The sparring.

Yeah, like, one of the things that Baby Jenks said to him about, like, you're like wet clothes in a coin-up dryer.

You know, this idea that, on the one hand, he is a character who has directly experienced and witnessed more of history than almost anyone... Yes.

Anyone around him in any room he's ever going to be in.

And also...

who finds himself caught in these loops where no matter what is happening around him, he has these patterns that repeat, including this need to be adored, need to be loved, and also a capacity to love deeply in turn, right?

So that's really interesting, what is constant for him and what is shifting, and how is he responding to the world around him?

But I think a character who simultaneously has a lot of insecurity and doubt and shame and also considers himself so superior- Oh, God.

a god to look around in like the digital era and say like gods aren't swipes just was perfect i thought like that was great and so you know so much of black licorice like the tiktok references and things like that like what would it be like to have lived for all this time and then look around just see everybody staring at their phones instead of like drinking up literally or figuratively the deliciousness of life around them i just think it's really interesting um

I'm curious to see what feels like it varies, maybe city to city, place to place.