#the switch from waiting on Louis as his assistant to monitoring the entire interview with such caution is just 🤌

[insomniamademedothis]

Rewatching IWTV s1 is crazy because my memory of it from the first time around is that “Rashid” hardly featured except to bring the occasional meal or diary or whatever, but watching again, knowing it’s Armand, I’m seeing he was already a hugely present character.

He’s in almost every conversation in the present day, constantly in the background or foreground. There are literally scenes of significant dialogue between Daniel and Louis and he’s stood in the very centre of the shot, silent between them. I’m sure many readers were quick to catch on at the time, but I will say as someone who began this story with the show, it’s impressive that they were able to give someone such foreshadowing presence and effectively cover it up using the assumptions of the audience.