(I just disagree with the direction and what the actors have been asked to act out.) Locating the present-day scenes to Dubai is. Let me praise some things that I did like.
Mediums do matter, but they aren't playing to the strengths of the story with this adaptation. I feel like rushing this part of the story is almost dismissive and reckless. The whole Louis-Lestat relationship is DEEP, deeper than an ordinary same-sex relationship, or any human relationship. I think I would have less problem with its expression in the series if they hadn't gone there in the first episode, if they had let it build and culminate so it feels earned. It also adds great tension and energy to the drama. I don't mind gay romance, but in the books it's subtext. The Lestat I remember is colder, even more predatory and more reserved outwardly. Admittedly, that is the Gothic style of the books, but it doesn't work so well on screen. Why not make him Black or creole and closer in character bio to the original introverted, intellectual Louis of the books. No problem with the change in ethnicity, and there certainly were Black pimps, but it seems to play to a very old stereotype. Why is Louis a gay pimp? I don't understand why that is an improvement. I don't like the jump forward in time as executed.
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