Mallory Rubin

I think the writing on the show is some of the best shit that has ever existed.

It's really great.

You mentioned this fairytale aspect.

I forgot to talk about this in the flashback, but, like, I was really zeroing in on this idea of Lestat.

And especially in the book, he has more siblings who are alive.

But no matter what, he's the youngest son.

And I was thinking a lot about this, like, fairytale archetype of the youngest son.

How, like...

In a fairy tale, there's usually like three sons.

There's the eldest brother, middle brother, youngest son.

Sometimes it's more than that.

But they're always unworthy.

And then the youngest son is the one who's worthy.

And so I was like digging into like, where did that come from?

And why is it true?

And I was reading some sort of like scholarly papers about this.

And as far as they can tell, you know, in the work that has been done with like folklore and fairy tale, because this is across like multiple cultures that this archetype is true.

it's an almost like, because the youngest son never inherits, right?

And that's the thing is like, you know, the eldest always inherits.

And like for the older sons, there's usually something, a living of some kind.