Controversial perhaps as I haven't been able to find a post with this opinion.

My husband and I were very excited about this season as we adore the IWTV show. Hubby was nervous he wouldn't like it while I was confident it would be different but still good. Like lots of fans Daniel Molloy was one of our favorite characters if not our number one favorite. His line delivery and clever remarks and questions combatting the unreliable narrators he was interviewing were perfect.

But in this season of The Vampire Lestat? Oof. Every line was hard to listen to. Suddenly a man with an edge and nothing to lose is the Steve Buscemi "How do you do, fellow kids?" meme. Trying so hard to sound cool and nothing lands. Every line of dialogue is too long, every reference to specific or bizarre. The writing is part of the problem but the actor is just struggling. It's the worst in episode one but the problem doesn't go away at any point in the season. He went from determined to desperate but this change in this character felt unearned.

His rambling angry speech referring to Armand as "Dad" was so awkward and felt out of character to me. Like I get it, Armand turned him and in the vampire world he is like a parent to him, but in the show Daniel successfully bullied the truth out of him, high-key blew up his undead life, Armand turned him, then Armand dipped. Where is this obsession with "You were supposed to be my dad and make me a cool vampire" coming from? It just doesn't seem like the way TV show Daniel would process the event of being turned against his will. Am I misunderstanding something? Did Daniel actually really still want this as an old man and begged Armand to turn him and be his dad off camera to explain his feeling of betrayal? Anger, sure of course, but betrayal? From Daniel's perspective, Armand is no one but a crazy evil vampire who has tortured him. Their bond should be completely one sided by this point until Armand reveals more information.

But even if I am missing details about the Daniel/Armand thing, Daniel's lines as still very cringy in this season of television. And that's my two cents. Is it just me and my husband who feel this way?

Not sure if this is the right flair but here I go! Hope this makes people smile.

As a comfort show, like many I often think of how the Belcher kids will end up in adulthood. I know a lot of people do this, but here's what I've personally landed on so far:

Gene drops out of community college when he can't focus during lectures and instead pursues the long dead art of local radio hosting. He lives at home for a couple years post high school, but, after the startling image of being brought a butter dinner in bed by his mommy, Gene boldly takes the opportunity to rent out a room in Teddy's apartment to finally feel like a big boy while not going too far. Teddy is thrilled, but they occasionally fight over leftovers missing from the fridge and being too loud at night. In his free time Gene writes songs in the vein of Wolves of Glendale and the funk genre. On weekends he attends open mic nights and falls head over heels for a comedienne who light-heartedly mocks his song and makes him want to do better. He invites her to be his occasional co-host for the radio show and their chemistry makes it a local hit! They fall mutually in love on air and eventually she convinces him to take on the modern world of podcasting. For every sponsor Gene insists on writing a new jingle for them, even if the brand already has some. They are very happy and are constantly at Bob and Linda's or Linda is following Gene around while he works because her son is a star! Gene's partner and Linda are both big personalities and occasionally butt heads but mostly get along.

Tina is extremely similar to myself at her age, though she's more confident than I ever was. I think Tina successfully makes her way through college, likely community college but possibly Rutgers, Sarah Lawrence, or Seton Hall. She is not a natural academic but discovering herself surrounded by her peers is exactly what she craves, so she does what she has to get her degree. She dates a lot, discovering she's a very appealing young woman now that she's in a new environment. While Tina wants true love and to settle down eventually, her focus is on whirlwind romances and enjoying the company of peers who understand her. After being in an awkward, tumultuous, confusing, but mostly wholesome throuple with Jimmy Jr. and Zeke in high school, dating now feels simple. She's in lots of clubs and works a part time job to pay her way through school. Sometimes she's a waitress, a camp counselor, a babysitter, etc. She always comes home for the holidays and helps around the restaurant. After a heartbreak right before winter break with a soft boy who plays guitar [poorly] and has some unresolved mommy issues, Tina finds herself laying on the floor of the Bob's Burgers kitchen depressed, only to see a grown up Zeke staring down at her. He asks if he can join. Turns out after Tina and Jimmy Jr. left for college, Zeke had no other prospects and Bob offered him a job at the restaurant as an assistant chef. Zeke makes tips and lives in the basement for free. They reconnect and have a serious slow burn long distance friends to romance. Tina becomes an elementary school teacher, teaching language arts, and finds success publishing a series of children's chapter books with a horse main character named Jericho. However, on the side Tina has formed a following writing romance novels under the online pseudonym D.B. Prancer.

Louise could not stand the idea of attending another 2-4 years of school, so she convinced her parents just how successful and busy she could be staying home. Louise insists she can make Bob's Burgers filthy rich. Bob tries to patronize her, but can't handle any of her suggestions and begs her to stop. Louise, now with shockingly no plan for her future, starts internally panicking. She was always the clever one, the one with the plan, but both her older siblings have found themselves fairly confident in their life goals and have left her behind. While dramatically skulking in a bar she got into with a fake ID, not to drink just to feel like a rebel. She hears the aggressive whispering of Felix Fishoeder calling her from the shadows. She approaches him cautiously, wondering what his deal is, and is whisked away into a speakeasy below the bar. Calvin Fishoeder greets her with a dramatic flair, perhaps spinning around in a throne. Louise points out they're supposed to be dead and the Fishoeder brothers explained they faked their deaths for tax reasons and need a front man to run their shadier businesses. Louise, as a surprisingly intimidating 18 year old, feels like the perfect fit to get things done without suspicion from the authorities. Louise does her job and does it well, her parents wondering where she's getting all this money from, but they don't need to know. But when the little guy needs help, Louise uses her power for good, making sure no one gets hit too hard by the mystery landlords she works for. But after seeing too many struggling people, Louise quits and decides to use her talents fighting the power instead. She goes into local politics, protests, campaigning for candidates who help working class people and small business owners like her parents, and maybe one day, run for mayor herself.

I have been writing since I was a child. Some years ago I made the wonderful accomplishment of finishing my first real book. I painted the cover, got an editor, and everything. Self published through Amazon. Then as I started the second book in the planned trilogy I quickly realized my writing skills had improved so much and my first book wasn't a strong enough foundation to support the rest of the series. No one really read my first book anyway other than friends and family, so I removed it from Amazon and have been editing it and improving it. I'm feeling really good about it. But as I edit it I think about how I can better serve my work when properly finished. I'm not a social media expert, I'm not a marketing genius, I'm broke, and, frankly, scared.

My husband thinks I should have some clever and consistent promotion campaign here on reddit. I have a campaign idea I like and feels smart and it would only take some of my friends to volunteer a short bit of their time. Other than that, I'm stumped. I'm not even sure I want to use KDP again.

What advice do you have for getting your work out there, promoting it, publishing it or self publishing it, and actually getting people to engage with the material and see it as an option? I've been told I'm a good writer and I'm much better than I was the first time around. But being a good writer isn't enough anymore. So what worked for you?

I have been writing since I was a child. Some years ago I made the wonderful accomplishment of finishing my first real book. I painted the cover, got an editor, and everything. Self published through Amazon. Then as I started the second book in the planned trilogy I quickly realized my writing skills had improved so much and my first book wasn't a strong enough foundation to support the rest of the series. No one really read my first book anyway other than friends and family, so I removed it from Amazon and have been editing it and improving it. I'm feeling really good about it. But as I edit it I think about how I can better serve my work when properly finished. I'm not a social media expert, I'm not a marketing genius, I'm broke, and, frankly, scared.

My husband thinks I should have some clever and consistent promotion campaign here on reddit. I have a campaign idea I like and feels smart and it would only take some of my friends to volunteer a short bit of their time. Other than that, I'm stumped. I'm not even sure I want to use KDP again.

What advice do you have for getting your work out there, promoting it, publishing it, and actually getting people to engage with the material and see it as an option? I've been told I'm a good writer and I'm much better than I was the first time around. But being a good writer isn't enough anymore. So what should I do?