#especially after seeing armands reaction 😭 he was so hurt omg 😭

[neonsbian]

do you guys ever think abt how daniel called armand a rent boy and wanna like. punch something

[nightcolorz]

Show-only fan here.

I know people want a villain, which is ironic in a fandom that likes saying there's no villain here, these are all bad people...but I digress. People need a villain, it's how we make sense of bad things. And Armand is the audience's villain of choice.

But, that's not what the show is telling us imo. He's not the Big Bad Wolf, secretly planning and conniving and lying and manipulating to get what he wants. I think part of the point of the show, especially of this season, has been that every character has made questionable/bad decisions. Armand, most definitely. But Louis too and, unfortunately, Claudia. These decisions have been self-serving and if they happened at different points in time, they probably wouldn't have amounted to much. But, these characters are making them almost at the same time, sometimes in reaction to each other, and that's why things end up where they have.

It's shocking, upsetting, and honestly mind-numbing to see take after take after take after take of people just going on and on about Armand being abc and Louis being everyone's victim, and Claudia only being a victim like she isn't 40 years old. It's exhausting.

omg yesss so well said anon thank u!! Ur so right, for a fandom that loves to yap about how characters can’t be reduced to black and white villain vs hero roles they sure do love to do just that 😭 you put this so beautifully, theres no real concrete villain, most of the characters r acting out of fear or desperation or trauma and hurting each other and making bad decisions that pile on top of each other along the way. If u can’t watch a show without concrete morality or a concrete villain then don’t watch iwtv 😭😭 it’s not gonna give u what u want. And it’s doing a massive disservice to not just Armand but to Louis and Claudia to reduce them to simplistic black and white roles.