Mallory Rubin

I did have a few...

I needed to watch it more than once to like fully, and I watched it the first time without subtitles just to kind of like take it in in full.

You know, right away we open with the opening credits.

They're fun, they're funky.

It was, I liked it as kind of like a declaration of intent, which tracked very well with what came in the episode, this like R version of kind of an LSD.

Yes.

Hallucinogenic kind of experience.

And also just to signal this is a new thing, this is the next chapter, the next iteration.

But also it was a little bit of a signal of like, pay attention, right?

You're going to be, and then you have the introduction in short order.

We're moving through time, you know, we'll go through the entire episode, like you said, and...

in sequence in chronological order.

But we open with the auction.

We move back to Detroit.

We move back further from there to the Halloween formation of the band, which is like a prior timeline.

Obviously, we're glimpsing a ton of stuff from the past, these moments from Lestat's history beyond that.

I love it.

I think that it is maybe there is a beat of acclimation that is required, but I think we will be rewarded for acclimating.

Yes.

Because there is like, and you know, we'll hit these in context as we go, but there are multiple like deeply prophetic,