#I think part of addressing Anne Rice's racism necessarily entails addressing this universal Christianity

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One of my favorite things about the IWTV adaptation is that while it acknowledges the overall significance of Catholicism for Anne Rice's worldbuilding and its outsized significance to characters like Louis and Lestat, it expresses the meaning-making matrix of shame and monstrous desire, the Vampire Chronicles Secret Sauce, in ways that don't necessarily reduce to Christianity like they do in the books. With Armand especially, Daniel secondarily, and I'm excited to see how that plays out in later seasons. (Claudia was always one of the most interesting characters because she never considered herself in Christian allegorical/homiletic terms or held herself to Christian moral ideals.)