Inescapably, “Interview with the Vampire” is also drenched in its soaring prose, from Daniel’s snuck-in metacommentary to Louis’ lyrical and delicate paragraphs-long context for each flashback.
It indulges in Louis and Lestat’s relationship through both explicit and coded expressions of love, with all the messiness of desire and commitment that comes with any life-changing romance. It does not shy away from the idea of early 20th-century New Orleans as a battleground for Louis’ soul, even before he and Lestat meet on a fateful night filled with both tragedy and promise. To make the case for this new “Interview with the Vampire,” created by showrunner Rolin Jones, is to acknowledge its long list of loves. Eric Bogosian in “Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire” Alfonso Bresciani/AMC Despite the intervening years and changes in fortune, their talks (taking place here in a luxury Dubai tower rather than San Francisco) still gravitate toward one titanic figure: Lestat de Lioncourt ( Sam Reid), the impossibly magnetic vampire who ushered Louis into an immortal existence both charmed and cursed. The added wrinkle here is that Daniel has aged from upstart gonzo reporter to household-name media figure, while Louis’ looks haven’t changed a bit since their last conversation nearly a half-century prior.
Like the 1994 film, this series begins with a present-day conversation between Daniel Malloy (Eric Bogosian) and Louis de Pointe du Lac ( Jacob Anderson).
It doesn’t necessarily begin and end with the three figures at the series’ core, but any discussion of “Interview with the Vampire” almost by necessity has to contend with three characters shared with the other biggest stab at this source material. ‘Succession’ Review: Episode 7 Fireworks Turn a ‘Tailgate Party’ Into Scorched Earth
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