![]() ![]() This is a show about vampires, so I’m not here to take anything with complete seriousness. ![]() ![]() Like, this episode also has Claudia frantically checking the dresser drawer where she stashed a woman’s dismembered left breast. Especially for a show that is tonally so all over the map. Usually vampires are metaphors for some relatable inner demon or conflict - like addiction or sexual libertinism - which lets us apply the same moral judgment to our vampire story lines as we would to, say, anger-management issues or mental illness.īut violent domestic abuse? Well, that’s much more difficult to square in a moral universe that simultaneously asks us to feel for Claudia, the teen serial killer. ![]() As a general rule, vampire shows require audiences to bend our moral compasses a smidge to allow room to sympathize with mass-murdering protagonists and root for ethically murky romances. If you’ll indulge me a moment as I wax ever so slightly philosophical, I’m still having a hard time figuring out how to react to that final sequence. So … Are we still having fun? It’s a little hard to tell. ![]()
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