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Eric Bogosian and Luke Brandon Field as Daniel Molloy INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE

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today I discovered Anne rice’s son’s tweets through twitter. im like this is exactly what I should have expected

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You're Daniel Molloy. I've read your books. Do You Know What It Means to Be Loved by Death Interview with the Vampire (2022 - ) Season 2, Episode 2

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The differing levels of stakes in any given scene transition on The Gilded Age

Marian: Oscar, I know that you've been hiding your sexuality and lost someone you loved, I'm so sorry and I'm here for you. Ward McAllister: WHAT do you MEAN that I am exCLUded from this here PAAAHRTAYYY

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I have to talk about Oscar’s breakdown and him snapping at his mother. Agnes is visibly shaken after this incident and it made me think what if she saw Oscar’s father in him. We know Mr. Van Rhijn wasn’t a good man and seeing Oscar have such an outburst of anger towards her just brought up horrible memories of the past. Also Oscar must look like him with his dark hair and dark eyes the brooks are all blondes. This is not to say Oscar is a bad person for what he did he was having a mental crisis.

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George going all "I thought it might be" about Andre being the spy was absolutely infuriating like fuck off my dude

And a reminder that part of the information Andre leaked to the press was about Gladys' underwear, god forbid George cared an ounce about that I guess.

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bertha russell moments that make me want dive inside her head with a torch and scalpel

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agnes is finally bonding with her son. they're sharing hobbies: complaining, sitting weird on fainting couches, licking wounds to their vanity... nothing like the bond between a girlboss born too soon and her only gay failson.

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BLAKE RITSON as OSCAR VAN RHJIN The Gilded Age 3.6- If You Want to Cook an Omelette

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The Gilded Age | S03E01

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The Russell Household: the Russell marriage is crumbling, Larry’s trying to help his brokenhearted sister, Gladys’ mental health is spiraling

The Van Rhijn Household:

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gotta love oscar. bankrupted his entire family because he got conned by a straight woman he was trying to catfish. he's unemployed, day drinking, leaving the house twice a week to gamble away money his ex-sugar daddy in politics gave him, he told his cousin her boyfriend had a fling with a cougar in jersey last year for no reason, and he's starting drama between his mom and his aunt just to feel something. rip horrid twink, if only you'd been born late enough to enjoy meth and grindr. i wish you'd lived in a time where you knew what a charlie xcx was.

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larry russell: marian called off the wedding, surely this is my mother's doing while she was in europe, and not because i spent the night of my engagement in a whorehouse and lied to my fiancé about it 😀

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THE GILDED AGE 3.07 – Ex-Communicated

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couldn’t watch live so I didn’t dare come here until I finished watching, but tonight’s episode was so fun!!!!! I loved it, easily best episode of the season for me, and I didn’t even mind the pacing!

maybe I’ll have more detailed thoughts later but I truly loved everything. Some highlights:

Blake Ritson acting his ass off

Marian and Oscar together being pseudo-siblings, which I always love

and some acknowledgment of Oscar’s sexuality and the true nature of his grief over John’s death!! idk how accurate it is that Marian would figure this out so quickly but I’m okay with it, let the man have one person who supports him

John keeping the photographs of himself and Oscar made me legit cry — is he the most romantic man on the show? I think yes.

Mrs. Fish’s face while reading Society As I Have Found It was a delight! Great acting

I can finally see Gladys’ resemblance to Bertha, and it’s so marked for me that I don’t know how I never saw it before

Ada losing her shit over Mrs. Astor deigning to thank her was giving big “ignored in high school and trying to be cool in later life” vibes that I hate, but it’s in character

Ada and Marian’s talk was really nice

I really enjoyed the downstairs shenanigans at the Russell house — reminded me of the kind of thing we used to see on Downton Abbey that this show had often lacked (for which I blame the short seasons)

Peggy was absolutely radiant this episode and I thought the picnic scene was so sweet — so I really really don’t want to watch her get her heart broken 😭😭

Jack touring the house!!! Marian supporting him!!! Cuties.

Bless Jack for saying what needed to be said about Larry. They’re definitely naming one of their kids John now (do I have to rename my head-canoned Brook Russell kids to include this? I think I do).

Really enjoyed all the Larry and Marian scenes — Harry Richardson in particular was really good at portraying hurt and bewilderment — and also some shame (imo) at his lie, and the realization that Marian has a very good and valid point about spending her life with a man who lies when it’s inconvenient.

Idk why George is being SO nasty to Bertha right now when they both have giant egos and boundless ambition. It’s pretty clear that he’s taking his frustrations out on her and I hate that for him and for her. I got it in the wake of the Gladys wedding (although he only has himself to blame, he did nothing to stop it if it was so offensive to him) but now it really feels like he’s just venting his frustration at his business failures on her, and I hate that.

George and Larry both turning away from Bertha to Do Business made my heart hurt for her

Look, I get why Larry jumped to the conclusion he did re Bertha interfering — and I don’t think it’s an unfair conclusion, based on the recent Gladys wedding finagling. It’s also a very human thing for an adult to lash out at their mom like this (IMO) about something that is actually their own damn fault, especially when hurt and vulnerable — but it still sucks to see, and I really felt for Bertha. Obvi I am a Larry fan but I am also a major Bertha fan. Larry has a bit of growing up to do that I think/hope is going to come out of this whole thing — both on the front of not telling (white, from his POV, but hurtful from another POV) lies to his fiancée, but also not jumping to conclusions and blaming his mom, and generally navigating his relationships with a bit more maturity and honesty…but that shit is hard, and I don’t want to see perfect characters. And it’s hard to have a domineering parent who you want to break free from (tbh both of the Russell parents, but he seems to be focusing his frustration on her this season) AND are also being unfair to said parent about other things.

This was a bullet point but then it got too long: give Carrie Coon a fucking Emmy already. My heart broke for her a hundred times this episode, and while I love Bertha, I am no Bertha stan — so Carrie was really selling it. I love seeing Bertha in all of her complex, flawed humanity, and this was a really satisfying episode for that, IMO. I find Bertha interesting as a character BECAUSE she is an ambitious striver who can be vicious and self-interested — but also is someone who clearly loves her family and is trying to do her best by them and by herself in both the restrictive society they live, and by her own beliefs about what is best. I also think she can be a power-hungry egomaniac who did blindly shove her daughter into a marriage her daughter didn’t want, willfully closing her eyes to that fact and focusing on what she (Bertha) was getting out of it. But that’s very much within her character, IMO — it’s the logical extension of her unfettered ambition (and her excellent ability to strategically plot something and see it through!), and I’m okay with seeing it, as much as I didn’t love it for Gladys. Both George and Bertha are ruthless people because they had to be to be who they are — while also being capable of deeply loving their family without seeing these things as contradictory. I just think they should have made George be a little bit more brutal in business to drive this point home (I really think he should have fired on the striking workers last season to drive home just how vicious he could be in business), because right now it’s feeling a bit imbalanced between George and Bertha, and I don’t think that’s entirely fair. They are BOTH Big Personalities with big ambitions, big egos, killer instincts, a deep ruthless streak, etc, and that’s what makes them interesting and compelling characters, IMO.

Just like it’s in character for Bertha to be ruthless and self-interested, it’s also in-character for her to drop everything and run to help Gladys in England (and totally fuck up Lady Sarah in a deeply satisfying way), and be proud of Larry for the copper mine whatever, and be so very hurt when her husband and son are ignoring her, and to be baffled by George’s sudden anger at her ambition (which is only rivalled by his own, c’mon George, that’s what you like about each other, don’t act all high and mighty) and all of her other little nuances. I don’t know what I am trying to say except that the character is very interesting to me, and Carrie Coon is absolutely killing the role.

Oh, and George got shot?! Good thing there’s a doctor across the street!

Trailer for next week looks great. Really looking forward to it.

Remember when I said I didn’t have long thoughts? This is how I end up writing long-ass fanfiction when I said I’d write something short. I just can’t stop.

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Ward: *publishes a book disclosing the hot gossip about society*

Society: *excludes Ward*

Ward:

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Low key funniest moment of the episode: Oscar lying on the sofa like this