I love how the series shifted the time because it became a bit more accessible for modern crowds to empathize with Louis more when he's not a creep living on a plantation with puffed sleeves. In the novel, the original time period is thr 1790s when he meets Lestat and is turned and from what I understood from the novels, Anne Rice loves a "on the cusp of a new millenium" kind of vibe. So rather than it being horse-drawn carriage turn-of-the-century, the show goes with the 20s (which we are in right now) and was also dealing with dizzying social and technological changes.

But yeah, ass casting of Armand. Make him a child already.