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This article comprises spoilers for Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire on AMC, and provides a high-level have a look at spoilers to return within the Vampire Chronicles novels.
I’m normally not one to commit a column to what of us are discussing on Twitter for the entire causes that one would think about. However, when the web discovered that Interview with the Vampire had been renewed for a 3rd season and it could characteristic Lestat de Lioncourt as a rock star, the reactions ranged from hilarious to pure and I merely couldn’t resist.
The tv collection is sort of universally beloved by those that watch, so the harshest reactions have been akin to calling the concept “hokey” or “too far.” Meanwhile, the cutest have been some various type of incredulity that such a factor might ever occur. Thankfully, the IWTV fandom isn’t too gatekeepy and most of it simply culminated in guide followers telling collection viewers that they couldn’t wait to be taught their response after studying The Vampire Lestat. It’s a sentiment that I share, as a result of the guide guidelines! But I additionally simply need to flag that changing into a rock star is completely the tamest factor that Lestat has ever completed, and most actually the least bizarre factor within the Vampire Chronicles as an entire.
Anne Rice’s guide collection options vampires, witches, gods, ghosts, angels, aliens, and doubtless extra species that I’m most actually forgetting. This present goes to get infinitely weirder in a method that feels essential to flag earlier than the inevitable “I can’t consider Interview with the Vampire went full Riverdale” posts. (Anne Rice had Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa out-freaked since day one, however how delightfully unhinged would that partnership have been?)
Focusing again in on Lestat, in case you assume him rocking out in public is odd, it’s best to most likely be ready for the Freaky Friday second to return ought to the collection go on lengthy sufficient. Oh, and although he cannot procreate, Lestat — king of defying all conference — ultimately has a son. Thought his potential to fly was lots? Well, it’s referred to as the “cloud present” and, after a time, Lestat additionally develops the hearth present. Which extends past a vampire’s potential to regulate fireplace of their palms and culminates within the creature’s potential to create fireplace with their minds to fully engulf others.
This collection ultimately goes to Atlantis, y’all. The Devil is a key participant in one of many books and desires Lestat to affix him as his proper hand man in a guide that argues that God and Memnoch (that’s the Devil) are totally on the identical facet and Christians are making up their rivalry..
What is a welcome change is that it looks as if Interview with the Vampire on AMC shall be conserving Louis within the image far more than the books did. After performing as the primary novel’s unreliable narrator, a lot of the focus shifts to Lestat within the books. Louis does pop in on occasion, as does Armand, however past that it’s all concerning the future Prince of the Vampires (oh yeah, Lestat additionally turns into a prince). In the AMC collection, although, it feels extremely unlikely that the present will shift away from together with Jacob Anderson’s unimaginable iteration of Louis de Point du Lac. The first two seasons — which tailored its namesake novel — took loads of artistic liberties from the supply materials, so together with Louis extra closely in Lestat’s story shall be simple sufficient. Hell, the writers may even get weirder with it!
In a earlier column entry, I stated that it was time so that you can begin watching Interview with the Vampire. The sentiment stays true! Though, fortunately, many extra of us have caught on for the reason that initially underseen first season. Still, for these of you who like your reveals bizarre, wacky and blood-filled, it’s best to know that Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire is simply going to turn out to be increasingly more your factor. AMC+ nonetheless has that free trial going. If you don’t wish to cope with the app natively — I hear it’s fairly tough however I don’t have hands-on expertise with it — then you too can decide to make use of the add-on characteristic on Prime Video. You nonetheless qualify for the free trial and have a vaguely extra useful consumer interface to play with.
Either method, whether or not you’ve been right here from the start, simply began, or haven’t any intention of checking it out in any respect, Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire is simply going to get weirder from right here. See you on the tour.
Amelia is the leisure Streaming Editor right here at IGN. She’s additionally a movie and tv critic who spends an excessive amount of time speaking about dinosaurs, superheroes, and folks horror. You can normally discover her along with her canine, Rogers. There could also be cheeseburgers concerned. Follow her throughout social @ThatWitchMia
