I've seen the first season!! I liked it a lot, I still need to watch the second one. I love how dramatic and literary it is (the playwrights coming in clutch) while still being very fun. So I haven't seen s2 Claudia yet but she looks stunning in performance from what I've seen on here, I really liked her in s1 too, it's cool how they incorporate if the recast into the whole unreliable narrator aspect.

Funny enough, usually I wouldn't really consider myself a Vampire Enjoyer since I didn't really grow up with the media and don't have any particular attachments or nostalgia about it, same with horror stuff, but I always love some good juicy character dynamics and neat style, which usually comes with the territory. I really like how adapting the story to explore Louis as a Black man with a complicated relationship to his identity and his exploitation added lots of interesting layers to explore in the story, I always love when characters are very contextualized in their time by who they are and where they are, and esp for characters of color when they can be messy and problematic weirdos in their relationships without it either ignoring racism existence or the subject being treated with kid gloves, so to speak.

It doesn't currently spark fannish production for me because it feels like a very complete story being told that I can appreciate on its own, but I love the fanart I do see! Maybe I will doodle some claudias sometime bc I love anguished loli (and later loliyuri...) .