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the failures of iwtv (2022) — an outline

posted 07 november 2022

editor's note: this was directly after s1. my ass is never getting around to a full amc's interview with the vampire review, as much as i wanna dissect exactly why i disliked it. once again, my full thoughts in chronological order and in real time, are on tumblr.

here's some points of failure imo, things that i'd want to expand upon if i were to actually write this review thing. full spoilers obviously but not detailed plus the book has been out for forty years


the thing is, none of this really explains the aura. the missing je ne sais quois that makes this adaptation unsexy. i guess it's like that thing they say about porn, you know it when you see it? the first episode was successful and sexy, because there was seduction. i said it before, it's like once louis and lestat were safely in a relationship, they stopped caring about depicting it, whereas the book and 1994 movie kept homoerotic tension throughout. and i don't mean that subtext is always sexier than text, just that ambiguity has some intrinsic tension.

it's unsexy because the first episode shows passion and ass and then they don't fuck in that coffin.

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