It's a PLEASURE to edit @gavia.bsky.social analyzing these eps. A deconstruction of the initial Lestat/Gabriella dynamic and sex-as-transaction themes that are so fundamental to the show, plus bits that made me laugh out loud (Justin Kirk "dazzle[s] us once again with his indecipherable accent"):
In episode 2, “Toledo,” Gabriella stars in a Freudian trip down memory lane, pairing flashbacks to Lestat’s youth with a sleazy mother/son date in Ohio.