Season 1
- Jacob Anderson as Louis de Pointe du Lac
- Sam Reid as Lestat de Lioncourt
- Bailey Bass as Claudia
- Assad Zaman as Rashid
- Eric Bogosian ( Under Siege 2 ) as Daniel Molloy
- Kalyne Coleman as Grace De Pointe Du Lac
- Maura Grace Athari as Antoinette
Interview with the Vampire (2022) [Season 1, Episode 1]
In Throes of Increasing Wonder
Shown 29 Sep 22
Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian - Under Siege 2 ), seventy-year-old former journalist, is summoned to interview Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson). This is their second attempt at an interview, since they tried it forty-nine years earlier. Yes, this is a reference to the original book - as portrayed in the movie Interview with the Vampire (1994) .
The TV show tries to differentiate itself from the movie in other ways too. Louis was now a thirty-year-old pimp in 1910 Louisiana, after the Reconstruction era had ended slavery, which explains how he is now African-American. Lestat arrives in town, and becomes fascinated with Louis. The first entire episode is the events leading up to Lestat turning Louis.
This does a few things that are reminiscent of other shows. At least the mixed-race gay sex is original enough to have the black man as the recipient - unlike Watchmen . However, a pair of vampires hanging around in New Orleans is just another episode of The Originals .
Interview with the Vampire (2022) [Season 1, Episode 2]
After the Phantoms of Your Former Self
Shown 2nd October 2022
Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian - Under Siege 2 ) is served dinner. Louis joins him, with some dishes of his own. He still does live feeding, but he only kills animals. His human blood donors are voluntary, from living blood dolls rather than bags, and he shows enough restraint to let them live.
In the flashbacks, Louis learned how to be a better vampire. Unfortunately Lestat took pleasure in killing, in a scene reminiscent of Hannibal Lector targeting the violinist in Red Dragon .
The 1995 movie had Lestat and Louis played by famous movie stars. This version has them played by competent actors who are also complete unknowns in comparison. This is a prime example of the 21st Century phenomenon of the characters becoming bigger than the actors who portray them. Who needs stars when you have talent?
Interview with the Vampire (2022) [Season 1, Episode 3]
Is My Very Nature That of a Devil
Shown 9th October 2022
After dinner, Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian - Under Siege 2 ) continues questioning Louis. They discuss the flawed nature of memory, as Daniel points out Louis' recollections are different from the story he told in the 1970s. Even Louis' flashbacks are uncertain about the details.
In the post-war period, New Orleans introduced a racial segregation law that had a bad effect on Louis' business. This was part of a reactionary religious movement in the USA, a religious revival that included the temperence movement and the KKK, and led to repression like Prohibition and the Jim Crow laws. Louis used his vampiric superpowers to take bloody revenge, like in Watchmen (2019) , which just invited retaliation on the African-American community.
Interview with the Vampire (2022) [Season 1, Episode 4]
The Ruthless Pursuit of Blood with All a Child's Demanding
Shown 16th October 2022
Louis is resting in the daytime, so Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian - Under Siege 2 ) is allowed to read the diaries of Lestat's second childe Claudia ( Bailey Bass ). She narrates the story.
Claudia started with the mind and body of a fourteen-year-old girl. She had the metabolism of a teenager, so she needed twice as much blood as Louis. Lestat taught her how to kill, and she enjoyed it. Until, that is, she met a young man named Charlie.
Interview with the Vampire (2022) [Season 1, Episode 5]
A Vile Hunger for Your Hammering Heart
Shown 23rd October 2022
Louis is awake again, so Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian - Under Siege 2 ) gets to question him about Claudia ( Bailey Bass ). She was killing two people a night - combined with Lestat, they must have killed a thousand people a year. Of course, Lestat carefully burned his kills in the incinerator. Claudia buried hers in a mass grave in the swamp, where they would inevitably wash out in the next flood. Molloy claims he cannot verify the killing spree online, and Louis claims the New Orleans authorities covered it up because they depended on tourism revenue. However, surely there would be some coverage in newspapers or online.
Claudia became obsessed with finding other vamps. She flew the nest, and left a trail of bodies across university campuses. Louis and Lestat skipped the Roaring Twenties, and went straight to the Great Depression.
Interview with the Vampire (2022) [Season 1, Episode 6]
Like Angels Put in Hell by God
Shown 30th October 2022
Louis takes a few weeks to heal. However, his relationship with Lestat takes six years to recover.
Claudia is a bloodthirsty little horror. She is just as manipulative as Lestat, but she is more subtle so we are supposed to assume she is the lesser evil. That said, she still hunts humans as food instead of taking animals like Louis.
In the framing story, the journalist takes his medicine. He has a flashback to the first time he met Louis, and rediscovers a detail he had long forgotten.
Interview with the Vampire (2022) [Season 1, Episode 7]
The Thing Lay Still
Shown 06 Nov 22
Claudia has a plan to kill Lestat. However, she refusese to tell Louis the details. Well, she is smart to adopt a need-to-know strategy. Louis has a weakness for Lestat, and while Lestat claims he cannot personally listen in on their telepathy he also withheld his secret ability to fly for twenty years.
Claudia tricks Lestat into holding the annual Mardi Gras party. They pump significant resources into it, while their whole plan hinges on causing yet another massacre. We are presumably meant to be unsympathetic towards the victims, who are rich old white folks, while the murderous vamps are black and/or gay.
