Interview with the Vampire TV series (2022)

with frills on it

there's a Mayfair Witches show in January

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTjAn3dMT00

ooohhh

I'm not watching but ILX-adjacent https://genufa.tumblr.com/ has been good no this, and https://undecimber-of-joy.tumblr.com/post/701023804106964992/alright-then-i-need-to-say-my-piece-or-i-will indicates that fandom is as into it as you'd absolutely expect.

we’re progressing very slowly through the series but gosh I really do love it

we just finished ep5: the louis-lestat blowup over claudia was insanely epic… and the charles manson needledrop over the credits was ~chef’s kiss*

finished s1

goddamn, really impressed.

i said to mr veg, Louis is such a fucking balloon. he never really commits to a conviction. and Claudia, just true helldemon.

most of all i think they really captured Lestat so well, the lure of him, the massive ego, the violence. like he feels much more tangible and layered in this version. Cruise was good but it was a caricature. this version feels like everyone read the book & embraced it as a text, whereas the movie had a bit of ironic remove because of the time obv, like no one could really say with a straight face that they were making a vampire movie

anyway. 5 stars no notes. makes me want to reread the book again.

You should! You’re right about the ironic remove of the film as well.

I watched the first ep of Mayfair Witches

seems less artfully made than Interview, everything looks a little cheaper? idk. I’ll watch the whole thing regardless

Haven’t watched this yet but I will. Have you read that series? I know nothing about it.

(haven't watched any of this yet (interview i mean) despite yr strong and compelling recommendation, poster gyac, bcz i am currently trying to save money on everything except storage until i move house and sadly that includes streaming subs!)

(but once i move i will be back ITT no doubt)

Watched the first episode of Mayfair and agree with VG’s comment about the production quality - it seemed very Hallmark channel?

I’m actually reading the first book, The Witching Hour, and I’m about 10% in (it’s about 1000 pages long). The first twenty or so minutes of this show is confusing as fuck if you haven’t read this book, which is not great for an adaptation. It’s unfair to compare a bit but I watched both this and The Last of Us with my husband last night & he did not get the start of it at all. It’s not so much show don’t tell as just “idk here’s some stuff that happened”. Iirc this is the first time this series has been adapted, so unlike Interview with the Vampire which is already more of a known quantity, you kind of need to ease the audience in?

There’s also the kind of YA quality to the whole thing. Again, I’m not that far into the book? But the book is dark, and the tone is quite off?

I don’t know, I will probably keep watching while I read the book (I really like the book!) but it’s not as great as IWtV was from the start. Hopefully it gets better?!

Mayfair Witches is so bad. So bad!

I’m not sure I can manage a third episode, I might just continue reading the book (which is great!)

i still haven’t brought myself to watch the second ep

guys: season 2 starts soon :D

May 12, apparently!
Mark your calendars and dust the candelabras

first 2 eps have been great

oh shoot i totally forgot!!

Oh I didn’t realise this was back, excellent timing

I like black vampires wiping out ss waffen checkpoints in 40's Ukraine, that's what I call a good start to proceedings!

Where is this on?

starz iirc

In the US it's AMC, not Starz. Not sure about other areas.

series 1 is on i-player

oh yeah AMC sorry not Starz

one of those ones that hardly anyone actually has

there has to be one guy out there who is still watching all the Walking Dead crap and doesn't pay for cable, right?

lmao probably

I just dl it from illegal torrents but AMC do this highly unalluring thing of: hey let's talk about the episode you've just watched in a smug backslappy manner rn. Naw, I'll leave it out until the next ep drops, thank you very much for nothing.

yeah I do the same calz

I am the only person paying for AMC+ (because it was $1 more per month vs just having Shudder)

I re-upped for the next couple months to watch Interview and Snowpiercer (when it drops in July)

i watched s2e1 and we are so back <3

new Claudia actress pretty good! same intensity, zero chill, no notes

also i need to state for the record what a genius bit of casting it has been for this series to have fuckin BOGOSIAN THA GOD as the interviewer

he grounds the whole thing so well with the epic sarcasm & eye rolls & just (stares, Bogosianly)

it really helps it play for a modern audience along with the story/character changes

I did not expect this to be so funny. Lestat breaking the priests' legs to fit them in the crypt lol

I loved that bit where Santiago is snooping around Louis's pseudo-arty photography with a withering look on his face and he spits "wanker!". Ben Daniels has been excellent in S2.

it's kind of funny because he's much more pretentious than Louis but that's just the kind of nasty hypocrite he is.

Ep 12 “Dont Be Afraid Just Start The Tape”

i love how this show continues to color between the lines of the actual story so well… the Armand of this flashback episode is so good!

also loved Bogosian meta-mocking the interviewer’s “and then what?”

the trial-by-circus ep was so good

yeah trial episode was a+

love how well they’ve made Lestat/Louis/Armand feel like relationships, the weight of everything they survive feels so real, way more than even Rice did. It’s so fucking good.

*feel like REAL relationships, i meant to say

Rock star action coming for season three:

According to an AMC press release: “In season three, resentful of the perfunctory portrayal in the trashy bestseller Interview With the Vampire, the Vampire Lestat sets his story straight in a way only the Vampire Lestat can—by starting a band and going on tour. Gabrielle. Nicholas. Magnus. Marius. Those Who Must Be Kept. They join Louis, Armand, Molloy, Sam, Raglan, Fareed, and others we can’t tell you about yet on a sexy pilgrimage across space, time, and trauma. No Auto-Tuning. No Trigger Warnings. All Feels Amplified.”

this is the best thing on tv rn, thank god it's been renewed

I'm where Bourdain/David Carr and Louis go over their San Francisco memories, best episode of the series so far

FUCK. YES.

bring it!!!!!!!

This Is Vampire Tap

i finally finished s2
such a great finale, delivers all the beats I was anticipating as a fan and still ups the ante

armand became such an interesting character this season, and they timed it right at the moment where i was completely bored by him, and they make that spefic element of the finale payoff so beautifully

acting all round is just chef’s kiss x 1000

best show on tv?
best show on tv

I could have done without the coda to the finale but I'm really going to miss vampire couples counseling in S3.

mm yeah i agree, but i’m not mad at it. feels v in the spirit of the book, like you just KNOW Anne would have done the same, she wouldn’t have been able to help herself lol

excellent interview with our king Eric Bogosian

https://www.vulture.com/article/eric-bogosian-interview-with-the-vampire-finale-daniel-vamp.html

(from the interview)
“I never got into this business to do anything other than make believe and pretend. I feel more whole when I’m being somebody else than when I’m my own self, so the more deeply we can pretend when we’re making the show, the more deeply we can get into all of this, the higher I get from it. And when you’ve got guys like this who are ready to fly, I want to go flying with them.”

lovely stuff

While there hasn't been any official confirmation that Bogosian's performance and the character's background are inspired by Bourdain, it's hard to deny the similarities. Bogosian looks a bit like Bourdain, but his voice and inflections are almost identical to the late chef's. His snarky sense of humor is also reminiscent of Bourdain's, as he comments on Louis's various exploits with refreshing candor. While Daniel isn't the one being interviewed, he occasionally shares snippets of information about his own life, and we discover that he's a former drug addict (Bourdain struggled with heroin addiction), he used to write about food and restaurants, and he's been married twice (same as Bourdain).

E B does look and vibe a lot like Bourdain in this.

totally!

the talamasca agents or w/e were more prominent in the Mayfair Witches series but it's... not good

They're pretty prominent in the main series too once you get past the first couple of books

and thanks Ned xp

sidebar observation re Anne’s Vampire Chronicles

so far I have reread Interview, Vampire Lestat and am halfway thru Queen of The Damned … and i can say with authority that this woman is ALLERGIC to straightforward narrative

Interview is the only time she consistently tells a story. Vampire Lestat is 90% old vampires telling their backstory to other old vampires (through a third party who is telling their story to Lestat) Yay?
Lestat end with a couple of chapters of story and ends on a cliffanger — Queen of the Damned picks up the story KIND OF in the first 2 chapters and then proceeds to take us through a series of labyrinthine side story cul-de-sacs that are about every possible minor character and walk-on extra that refer tangentially to Lestat but there are zero (0) chapers involving Lestat himself or the story at hand for the first 2/3 of Queen of The Damned

I love her she is the best but omg she is insane & easily distracted by her own shiny new ideas.

also every Queen of the Damned chapter starts w a quote from Stan’s poetry because reasons/free publicity i guess? purely based on the poetry quoted i cant see anyone running out to read the collection titled (checks notes) “Whiteboy”(1976) but go off i guess

its very funny

Anne Rice was a LOT in every possible way <3

anyway it seems i had memoryholed the contents of all these books mostly because i barely recall any of it with this reread (despite reading these books a lot as a teen)

I've read the first 8 or 9 books in the last year and every subsequent book seems to be worse than the one before in terms of going off on 2, 3 or even 4 hundred pages of tangent where one of the characters tells the backstory of themselves/another character before returning to the main story for the last few chapters.

Currently reading the first Mayfair book and am on about page 700 (of 1,200) and that fucker left the main story behind about 400 odd pages ago with no end in sight yet to the entire fucking history of every single Mayfair. I can't even remember what the main characters were called at this point lol

lmao Anne just Anne-ing about

More Talamasca stuff, including William Fichtner implicitly asking if he can have sauce to go with the scenery he's eating:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ARTcQh2P8o

i’ve revised my stance on Talamasca from yawn-nope to curious-maybe? solely bc of Fichtner <3

it looks v by the numbers but some good ppl involved so i will prob watch

Lestat would cover this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLeKyvEB_FU

And the inevitable big initial promo feature:

https://ew.com/the-vampire-lestat-cover-story-sam-reid-jacob-anderson-exclusive-11971545

We just got an AMC+ subscription weeeee cannot wait for the new season

IT’S LESTAT DAY <3

(Haven’t watched yet but am excite)

So excited as I love the book, I think I read the first four.

I got a kick out of vampire Daniel.

Ok first episode did not disappoint on any level

Pedal to the metal, full OTT Lestat pov … and some of the writing is SO funny

Guys we’re so back

the “has anyone overdosed” and they both raise their hands - genuine lols

and when he first crashes out over the novel, clutching the book & crossing stuff out was SO good

Good little overview w Rollin Jones https://www.ign.com/articles/the-vampire-lestat-rolin-jones-season-premiere-detroit-interview