I’m a bit hesitant on this one. I love me some good vamp stories but I’ve never been that enthusiastic about Anne Rice’s lot. Too angsty but I think I’ll check it out too.

 

Watched the first episode. I actually liked this adaptation better than the movie or even the book. The actors playing both Lestat and Louis are really selling it. Anne Rice wrote her vamps in the classic style which I find harder to identify with, depending on what one believes a vampire is a metaphor for.

Gonna be lots of soul searching angst and gratuitous violence but can a cold blooded killer come to terms with his/her lost humanity? Do they even care or are humans mere cattle, fodder for their “higher” existence? Can a vampire truly love, perhaps feel pity or are their “children” but a manifestation of their own desires? Is immortality a gift if the vampire tires of their long lives? We’re gonna get the whole gamut of emotions before this is through.

I’m also enjoying the discourse between the no nonsense reporter and Louis. I think Louis is enjoying the back and forth as well. Will the story ever be told outside of the vampire’s apartment or will he and his kind always be cast into the shadows of myth. Will the reporter, now that he’s facing the final years of his life risk his journalistic credentials to tell the story about scary creatures that “don’t exist”. We’ll see.

 

I’d be interested in your thoughts. Lestat isn’t exactly likable, IMO. He’s already pissed me off but I’d like to see how they continue to adapt the story.

 

Hola! It has been a long while since popping on here but I wanted to see if anyone watched Interview.

I have watched the first two episodes and I am loving it so far.

The production design, the music, the costumes. The way they have captured old world New Orleans. Visually this series is stunning!

Mad props to Jacob Anderson's Louis. Do you know how cringe inducing it is to have an actor attempt a Creole accent? Let's be clear - a creole accent is far different from a cajun accent. I am not from New Orleans. I am from the part of Louisiana called Acadiana - cajun. So my observations on the creole accent are also from an outsiders perspective. It seems, from all of the failed attempts by actors, that both accents are difficult to master. Honestly I have yet to hear either "mastered" by an actor. But I do give kudos to Mr. Anderson's attempt. His is by far one of the closest to being accurate that I have heard. And I applaud him once again for resisting the urge to go over the top with his take on the accent. His restraint is appreciated.

Both Jacob Anderson (Louis) and Scot Reid (Lestat) are excellent. They have great chemistry with one another. Their romantic relationship is just as believable as their antagonistic relationship. My television has smoke coming from the back when these two are on screen together. I look forward to gaining a bit more depth from Lestat other than being the "bad guy".

With the first two episodes we do get a great deal of Jacob's story. His families history, his current life in regard to his business, his familial relationships, his internal and external struggles. He is a fascinating character and Anderson plays him to perfection.

After two episodes my favorite relationship has to be between Louis and Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian). The push and pull between them is tension that translates quite well from the screen. Daniel is no longer a young man unsure of himself. He knows what he let slip by all those years ago with their first interview. And Louis is ready to face and share the hard truths of not only his long lost mortality but also his obviously lonely immortality. They both weigh on him and Anderson once again plays it to perfection. I would be happy to watch an entire episode that is simply these two characters having a conversation, having their interview.

I am both happy and sad that I watched the first two episodes. Happy because these first two episodes were damn good. Sad because I do not have a new episode to watch this weekend.

 

I continue to like Louis’s character as he deals with his new found vampire powers and limitations. We’re actually seeing a generational conflict played out as Lestat is so old he’s lost any trace of his humanity and is saddled with the values he had in the time period when he was still alive. Louis will go along but only to a point.

His desire to remain in contact with his family is interesting. I don’t know where it will go, if anywhere, because it’s been so long since I read the book I’ve forgotten big chunks of it. As I said earlier, I was never all that impressed with Rice’s story but this show is holding my interest so far.

 

Yep. I’ll agree that Lestat probably had some glaring character flaws before he was turned which were only exacerbated after he became a vamp. Lestat relishes in the the kill whereas it seems that it presents more of a moral dilemma for Louis….but the guy has to eat

 

Epi three was a whole lot of, he loves me, he loves me not vamp style for most of it but Louis did something at the end…so in your face I could hardly believe it. It made me wonder if becoming a vampire dulled one’s mental acuity. Now I understand and sympathize with what precipitated it and personally thought he should have done away with the whole city council, but smartly!

Take that first body down to the Bayou and make it look like an animal attack. Pick the others off discretely to the point that they’re so spooked they don’t have time for that racist BS, but I guess that wouldn’t get us to next part of the story.

Frankly, Lestat seems bored already with the whole idea of business ownership or he could have planted alternate thoughts into the council leaders heads. Maybe have one shoot the others. That would have diverted their attentions elsewhere. Now we get to see what happens to change Louis world further.

 

I hear ya, I won’t be able to view the next episode of this or House until later Tuesday or God forbid Wednesday.

 

Oh my….two vamps and a baby…er teen who is quite the little biter! As our surly reporter stated, a band aid on a shitty marriage. There’s a reason turning “children” is generally frowned upon. Louis and Lestat are learning that parenting a teen is no easy thing, especially when they’re not in full control of their emotions or actions. Claudia climbs a stiff learning curve and the two dads are not always up to the task, IMO. Lestat was particularly clueless, I thought, over the whole incident regarding her first love. This most surely is going to lead to trouble within their “nest”. Louis, treading his chosen moderate path, is going to be tested once again.

 

if you go back to the book, Claudia was only 5 or 6 yrs. old and described as looking like a little painted porcelain doll. While they lived together happily as a family for many years, part of the resentment she eventually developed towards Lestat was that her mind grew up, if you will, but she was trapped in the body of a child.

In the movie they aged her up to about 10 or 11 but Kirsten Dunst still looked like a little girl. Having aged her up to around 14 in this show, to me, is questionable because as we saw she’s able to pass as an older teen who was able to attract a boyfriend.

Perhaps they’ll frame the source of animosity between her and Lestat around the callous way he handled how she ended up killing the boyfriend. Rather than comforting her and gently using it as a learning experience he further traumatized her.

Yeah, I thought shopping for her coffin was funny too, lol.

 

I rather liked how an older version of Claudia still works to bring out the domestic troubles within this weird nest. After being an out of control teen vamp, she seems to have grown up somewhat since she struck out on her own. Her experiences while going to college in an attempt to discover more of the origins of vampires and her realization as to why Louis wanted to save her, has led her to see just how nasty they can be…..to each other. Lestat is impossible right now and Claudia seems intent on rescuing Louis from his influence. We’ll see what happens.