not to harp on an idiot or continue dragging up that discourse but like. the other thing is that to me it feels painfully obvious that that person just wanted a queer vampire period piece that did not engage w the context of the time in which it takes place, the source material from which it was created, or the genre it's a part of as a whole. they wanted to watch a campy, melodramatic, vapid piece of escapism but what they got instead was an extremely confronting narrative about race and domestic abuse that didn't coddle or hold white viewer's hands. you MUST empathize w louis or you won't understand the story and it's painfully obvious that that person simply was unwilling to do that and then refuses to examine why they won't. to them, the reason they feel uncomfortable must be bc the narrative is actually condemning homosexuality and not bc it shows that being gay doesn't exempt a white person from their whiteness or their ability to perpetuate antiblack racism. being in an interracial relationship doesn't negate any latent racism that may exist in a white partner. being queer doesn't negate the ability to enact abuse on your partner and it's not homophobic to point that out or engage w these themes, esp when it's handled as carefully and beautifully as this show does