Merlin be damned, I’m not watching the Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone series adaptation on HBO if I can help it and honestly don’t even want to think about this mess of a situation. However, I happened to see a first look at Paapa Essiedu as Severus Snape in a snowy forest wearing what looks like the latest in Uniqlo outerwear, so I unfortunately have a question: why?
What in the Everlane am I looking at here? Why is Snape giving Balenciaga? What are we doing? This is all I can handle today. Listen, I would love to talk about how the potions master is canonically a thirty-something in the Harry Potter books, and now “finally” on screen as well. It makes his bad ‘tude towards his schoolboy crush and bully’s kid a little more understandable, don’t you think? His frontal lobe is, like, barely developed. Nothing would make me happier than to be excited for the age-appropriate actors this series chooses for Remus Lupin and Sirius Black. Dress them up in Zara’s finest too, if that’s how this mess of a show is gonna go. In a kinder world, I would be so hyped.
