Just started the show, will I start to like it more?

I’ve just finished episode 2, and think the show is very well made, so this is NOT a post bashing the show. It’s just objectively good, and the acting is phenomenal. However I personally find it very disturbing on a visceral level, particularly with a white vampire essentially preying on a black man and making him something of his eternal slave. The energy is just so bleak and tragic that it makes it hard for me to continue. Like, why genuinely did Lestat do this to him? Everything about the plot just seems cruel and unfortunate.

I’m just genuinely wanting to know if the show continues on exactly this way and if I should continue.