The Vampire Lestat: The Failures

“You are listening to The Failures, Album 58, Side A.”

I had to think about this episode for a bit to figure out how I felt about it, and ultimately I believe it is brilliant, but perhaps divisive upon first viewing.

The Vampire Lestat: Montreal

“Because, Louis, I'm a monster.”

As the penultimate episode of the season, we get a mostly quiet and emotional hour between Louis and Lestat, unfortunately capped with an utterly jaw dropping cliffhanger.

The Vampire Lestat: New York

"It will drag you into depravity and reward you with regret."

Lestat finally starts talking about his lost years, which is slotting in some of the final foundational pieces of his life.

The Vampire Lestat: The Devil’s Road

"What now, Daddy Lou?"

This episode had a slightly different feel. It was a bit less chaotic and more emotionally charged. Lestat is unraveling, and it is both tragic and compelling to watch.

The Vampire Lestat: Toronto

“All the light’s gone out of your blue eyes. As if all the summer days are gone.”

Swinging back to an interview style, this episode packs a seriously heavy emotional one-two punch. Yet even with as much as we uncover, bits of the story feel unfinished, or maybe edited, as Lestat dribbles out small snippets of his history.

The Vampire Lestat: Toledo

"If you're still listening after the... Oedipiphany of the last hour, welcome back."

Addressing the big reveal at the end of the first episode, we get some harrowing moments from Lestat's life.

The Vampire Lestat: Detroit

“I lost myself on stage for a moment.”

As a rebrand and sequel to Interview With The Vampire, this feels like something completely new. Structurally, thematically, atmospherically, sonically, everything about this first episode screams new direction. It is spoken aloud that we’re no longer in Louis’s version of the story. We are now in Lestat’s world and it is already one hell of a ride.

The Vampire Lestat

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After two seasons as Interview with the Vampire, the new AMC adaptation of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles changed its name to The Vampire Lestat. Sam Reid gives an exceptional performance as fiction's possibly most captivating and popular vampire.

Samantha M. Quinn has reviewed every episode of this series/season and all of Interview with the Vampire.

Season One

1.1 Detroit
1.2 Toledo
1.3 Toronto
1.4 The Devil's Road
1.5 New York
1.6 Montreal
1.7 The Failures

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Interview with the Vampire Season Three Already Teased! by Samantha M. Quinn
Interview with the Vampire movie review by Billie Doux

Cast

Sam Reid (Lestat de Lioncourt)
Jacob Anderson (Louis de Pointe du Lac)
Eric Bogosian (Daniel Molloy)
Jennifer Ehle (Gabriella Vece)
Assad Zaman (Armand)
Delainey Hayles (Claudia/Regina)
Christopher Geary (Samuel Barclay)
Bally Gill (Rashid)
Joseph Potter (Nicolas de Lenfent)

Interview with the Vampire Season Three... Already Teased!

The absolutely fabulous second season of Interview with the Vampire just wrapped up a few weeks ago and while we had gotten a season three announcement and the general idea of what they were going for, it felt like a ways off before we would get anything else.

I was so wrong.

Interview with the Vampire: And That’s the End of It. There’s Nothing Else

“I was dead. But my rage... My rage had risen. Followed closely behind by my madness.”

As season two wraps up there are some massive reveals, satisfying revenge, and much needed catharsis.

Interview with the Vampire: I Could Not Prevent It

“But I wonder, where lies their disgust now?”

In the climax of the story, we are witness to the greatest example of pettiness, ego and lies I’ve ever seen on film. And the unbearable consequences of such wanton actions alter Louis' life forever.

Interview with the Vampire: Like the Light by Which God Made the World before He Made Light

“I’m glad we did this.”

What’s next? A recurring question throughout this series, it is often criticized within the text as lazy and inadequate, but this episode very much feels like a simple answer to that very question.

Interview with the Vampire: Don’t Be Afraid, Just Start the Tape

"I can't feel my body and it's freaking me out."

The format of this show has always been about reveals, slowly dishing out information in dribs and drabs and expanding out themes, plots and ideas from the book series to the nth degree. This episode felt a bit like a purge all button was hit until the producers realized it was too much and pulled their finger away at the last possible second.

This Week: His Face is Made of Rubber

Outside of my weekly watching of Interview with the Vampire and Doctor Who (both so so good!!!), I have been fully immersed in shark movies. I’m having a ton of fun with them, but it also makes me boring.

What’s everyone else watching?

Interview with the Vampire: I Want You More than Anything in the World

“I don’t like windows when they’re closed.”

Performance is all about presentation, because an actor only has to be skin deep. The deep inner workings of the mind should never be on display, and when they are, the performance suffers. This entire episode was a deep dive into that idea, of what lies beneath a bad performance.

Interview with the Vampire: No Pain

"It was better when he broke my bones."

I officially have no idea what is coming next, while at the same time I’m dreading what’s coming next, and I know that makes no sense.

Interview with the Vampire: Do You Know What It Means to Be Loved by Death

“What happened next?”

Up until this point Daniel has led the interview, guiding our poor beleaguered Louis through the quagmire of his fragmented memories. Now that things have reversed, the real performance has begun.

This Week: Dead Boy Detectives is Highly Entertaining

What is everyone watching this week?

I'm rotating through a bunch of rewatches, and hoping Star Trek: Discovery is going to end well. I have three more episodes of 3 Body Problem to review, and feeling guilty for procrastinating since it just got the renewal I've been waiting for.

Interview with the Vampire: What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned

For a show with a premise based on a distortion of reality, this episode spends most of the hour playing into the idea that the story we’re being told is not actually what really happened.

Interview with the Vampire: The Thing Lay Still

“Claudia, you’ve been a very, very naughty little girl.”

So closes this season. With the story split in half, it had to end here, and my god, was it hard to watch.