INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE Episode 1 | Recap and Easter Eggs You May Have Missed!

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[@joyful]

i went back and watched this episode again. the burning church scene....that's a vampire wedding! i didn't realize it at first, but it seriously is. when louis agrees, he is saying: yes, i do. and louis' transformation and first hunt is a metaphor for a virginal wedding night. this show....it's everything i didn't know i needed.

[@TheNaughtyLibrarian]

oooo that's a really good analogy!

[@HuntingViolets]

I think this too. Lestat’ makes vows to Louis. Louis agrees. There is a kiss. There is an exchange of love tokens (blood instead of rings). All of this happens at the altar.

[@KayeAL4real]

Magnificent comparison! Yaaassss!!!♥

[@seanjames1967]

@@HuntingViolets wow, that was an excellent analogy...married for eternity...a marriage bonded through blood...

[@dominiquedevereux7205]

I NEVER thought of it in that way 🤯! And the exchange of their proverbial "wedding 💍" was their exchange of 🩸! Great catch 👍🏾!

[@KayeAL4real]

Regarding Lestat's murder of Ms Lilly...in the church he spoke sarcastically about cutting short that "magnificent life she was living". He also said, "I give death to those deserving." When we hear this, we immediately think of someone bad that deserves to die. But what if Lestat's meaning included those who deserve the peace of death in response to a hard or brutal or unfair life that has caused them harm or grief? For someone in that state, death might be welcomed...like mercy killing!

[@dominiquedevereux7205]

True! Though it's never explored in the episode, I got a sense that Ms. Lilly didn't enjoy being a prostitute, but it was all she knew from a young age, so whatever Lestat's intentions for 😵ffing her, I think on a level she preferred death over having to give her body to men who only saw her as an object. I believe that's why she loved Louis. She knew he was gay & therefore knew he wouldn't violate her & he was probably the only man she could have JUST conversation with without being expected to "put out" sometime during the encounter. And Louis loved her cuz she was the only person besides his sister Grace who didn't condemn him for being gay, & he didn't feel pressured to have sex with Lilly just to keep up appearances cuz for someone gay person to have sex with some1 of the opposite sex --- even if it's not under physical threat but social coercion --- that can feel like r@ype /violation as well --- even for men. Lilly & Louis were each other's "beard" & safe haven. I felt sad that Lestat took her away from him, but in a sense, I feel he did it cuz he knew Louis would never have given up trying to fake being straight as long as Lilly was around to be his "crutch 🩼. "

[@jartalol31]

One thing people should know while Lestat can be manipulative, he's impulsive and not a planner. He takes advantage of people's moment of weakness but he doesn't orchestrate those weaknesses. Just saying

[@lsfnyc7721]

You got yourself a new subscriber! Let me start off by saying I’m also loving this adaption so far and I’m curious to see where the story will go and how it will differ from the book. I really appreciate your ability to judge this piece on its own as an adaption. Often times viewers can get so caught up in something differing from source material that they are not able to appreciate the art at hand. Also, I work in production and major kudos to you for noticing the detail with the pupils during the feeding frenzy!

[@gabnel1000]

Lestat is so extra and i love it.

[@kev121]

Lily was the closest person Louis had to a confident. Paul was the person Louis loved most. Louis’ mother blamed him for Paul’s death. I think LeStat orchestrated all of these events to isolate Louis so he would have no where else to turn.

[@roderick8167]

I think all of this too and I think Louis is eventually going to find all of this out making him extremely angry at Lestat and this is why he will leave Lestat and go off on his own leading to the present day

[@oyami4444]

That could be possible, but Lestat is too impetuous for such planning. I think he just ate Lily couse he was jealous. And got rid of Paul cause he didn't like him.

[@crissiampco]

Convincing Paul to take his life would be sooooooo against Lestat's personality though. Lily wasn't related to Louis and he ate her. He'd never kill someone Louis loved. And when he wants to kill someone, he does it himself. Lestat isn't evil, he's just a dummy. 😂

[@rawrbeez6625]

If I remember correctly Lestat actually didn’t develop his morality of killing only bad people until much later. He had a whole period where he was basically a vampire hedonist because he lost his mother and his lover and his maker and felt like it just didn’t matter. Also interview Lestat is full on villainous, because that’s what Louis saw. Whereas the vampire Lestat there is some of that, but with nuance, and after that his morality comes into clearer and clearer focus.

[@WednesdayGirl1990]

IMO, I think he killed Lily because not only to mess with Louis but he is jealous of her and in true Lestat fashion, obviously wants Louis to himself. Plus, Maven of the Eventide had said in her review, Louis must have fantastic blood to make Lestat feel like he's 🎶walking on air 🎶

[@TheNaughtyLibrarian]

Hahaha! I wish I thought of that joke.

[@WednesdayGirl1990]

@@TheNaughtyLibrarian She is the best lol. If you haven't checked her out yet, I recommend

[@QuEsT_X]

I loved that you mentioned Louis is the unreliable so the things we are season in season one are from Louis perspective. Now that it's been renewed I fully expect next season to be lestat perspective I know amc has confimed a crossover is in the works for Mayfair which has to happen because of his connection to Rowen the 13th witch and their relationship

[@Luusie]

I love your energy! And your description of them getting frisky. 😂 Hope you'll do the other episodes as well.

Episode two is already up if you have AMC+. I'm looking forward to you finally reading The Lives of the Mayfair Witches. It's cray cray.

[@TheNaughtyLibrarian]

Thanks! I have the Mayfair series scheduled to start soon. 😸

[@meenachadha3766]

based on my understanding the brother in the book was a zelot and thought sacrificing himself would "save" Louis. In the show, brother's fanatacism is explained by mental health .

[@thaheeraalthaf1970]

He could have killed Lily out of plain old jealousy, though that does put a little dent on his character given that he is insistent on killing "those who deserve it". But again, does 'deserving death' necessarily mean that the person is 'evil'?

[@TheNaughtyLibrarian]

I’m just going off where in book 2 Lestat talks about a scene where he killed a sex worker in front of Louis. Lestat defends himself because she was actually a secret murderer.

[@thaheeraalthaf1970]

@@TheNaughtyLibrarian True! That's what we've been going on about in the discord. It doesn't make sense to me that he killed Lily, and that light man earlier, and encouraged Louis to pursue that businessman in the bar, and the priests afterwards. But I think we will probably get an explanation from Lestat afterwards since initially, we are painted a figure of Lestat as a nonchalant murderer in IWTV from Louis' POV anyway.

[@KarolinaWojtczak01]

I watched both ep 1 and 2 last night and i have to say i really enjoyed them! Definitely will continue with the series and looking forward to more Lestat shenanigans. Def feel like his character is very faithful to what his personality is in the book, and loved all the little easter eggs of his backstory too, i have a feeling they might come into play in later seasons, maybe as we get towards the end of Louis tale

[@MrNicholasEMo]

Love the show

[@rawrbeez6625]

Pimp and slave owner are pretty similar so I felt it was a really good way to change the time period but still keep the morally bankrupt nature of Louis’ fortune

[@gilsurf8]

Best new series of 2022. The first two episodes exceeded my expectations( high).

[@TheNaughtyLibrarian]

I’m excited to see where it goes

[@gilsurf8]

@@TheNaughtyLibrarian Yea, it’s all about enjoying the journey .

[@realhousewifeoftransylvania1.0]

🤣🤣🤣 Not!

[@gilsurf8]

@@realhousewifeoftransylvania1.0 I get to enjoy the novel (for the right reasons). I get to enjoy the movie (for the wrong reasons). And I get to enjoy the series (for the right reasons). JOKES ON YOU. I'm a happy fan.

[@realhousewifeoftransylvania1.0]

@@gilsurf8 Wow, how clever, what an original come back! The show is garbage and they are doing Anne Rice durrrty. She wanted something true to the books for the fans of the books. Which she said so herself if you're going to try to argue that.

[@lisemzarate4029]

I adore that we are getting essentially a rewrite directly from Anne, same characters same story, BIGGER. The Mayfair books are INCREADIBLE , Can't wait to see the shows cross into eachother 💜

[@corpeter]

well the rewrite is not by Anne. She and Christopher are executives in name only. They were involved before, I think when it was Hulu or such. Christopher wrote the screenplay "the VL" and they were teasing it on FB etc. But it got dropped and AMC took over. The script was out of the window. Anne and Christopher deleated everything on FB on that matter and never commented afterwards. Now that Anne has passed, still nor word from Christopher. I do believe if he was behind the show, he would promote it, as he does with anything else concerning Anne. So no, they were not involved in the rewrite, I do not think so. As for the Mayfairs, I heard the cut out Michael and Aaron - those were my favorite characters - mmh not sure what to make of this...

[@alexcerdenaphotography]

Lestat actually looks like Louie in the poster lol, When i saw the poster I thought Brad Pitt was reprising his role lol

[@theesupaman5268]

Good review

[@TheNaughtyLibrarian]

Thank you!

[@psychedelicpegasus7587]

I think they might merge Daniel and David's characters. From what I've seen of the Mayfair series (admittedly not much) it appears that Aaron Lightner and Michael's characters have been merged.

[@TheNaughtyLibrarian]

hmmm.... it would be interesting. I don't know if they will bother bringing in the Talamasca since they don't really even appear until book 3 and David is more a character after the original trilogy.

[@anne.enrique]

Just found this exiting series and you! New sub

[@TheNaughtyLibrarian]

Thanks for watching!

[@AnxietyRat]

If I remember correctly some book readers have told me that Anne Rice does eventually retcon the "vampires can't fuck" lore. Which is probably why so many people are totally fine with this technical change from the source material ... People in modern-day are just real horny and so we mist put sex into the ahow so it is successful.....the show runner has said that they're doing like a... Bigger picture adaptation... They are taking a look at the entirety of the book series... And all of the lore that has existed and been retconed and tweaked and changed and etc and are just having it... Just be like that from the get-go so no confusing retcons have to happen. 🤷‍♀️ And as a non book reader I like that! It makes for a smoother storytelling, IMO. Like in reality the books were written over decades and decades and so of course some retconning is bound to happen. But yeah I'm glad they're able to look at the book series... From the outside... Instead of doing insular book by book season adaptations. To

[@TheNaughtyLibrarian]

I’ve read all the books. Vampires can so sexual activities but they still don’t have sex. In one book they invent vampire viagra and Lestat has sex one time as an experiment but that’s it.

[@willn8664]

I read only the main book series all the way up to Memnoch The Devil. I wonder if they are going to make Lestat OP as heck later like in the books.

[@ScarletVoodoo]

What does OP mean? Last book I read was Memnoch so I'm not sure how Lestat has been behaving as of late.

[@willn8664]

@@ScarletVoodoo OP means Overpowered as in god-like. He can practically walk in day light with no issues. He has also absorbed some if not most of Akasha's powers, etc.

[@ScarletVoodoo]

@@willn8664 Ah, thanks for explaining.

[@crissiampco]

@@ScarletVoodoo His character arc ends in 2018 and his headspace is so great. I was so happy for him.

[@MavenCree]

In the old movie, they are awake in daylight too.

[@TheNaughtyLibrarian]

I must not remember that from the movie.

[@andreabrantley6951]

💭They are Vampire husbands!❤/ Lestat stalked Louis before they ever met, found out all his regular hang-outs and would be there before Louis got there... *(That's why he was there with Miss. Lily, and at the card game at the beginning.) 📍and he used all kind of vampire tricks on Louis from the jump. ➡; I think Louis liked Lestat, (and grew to love him) he was charming, etc. But Louis didn't want to be in a relationship with him(at first.) Louis was forced into the relationship.

[@superdani152003]

Am I watching your review because I miss your Mayfair witches series?YES😍😍😍

[@TheNaughtyLibrarian]

Haha! I’m going to have a book review of Taltos coming out on Saturday

[@Kelly-Martin]

I could be wrong, but I feel like Lestat 'talked' Paul into doing what he did. And I agree with some commenters that said Lestat probably killed Lily because she was the one Louis would run to, and he wanted Louis to run to him. I loved episode one. I think the man who plays Louis is perfect for the part, and Lestat is growing on me (such a difficult character to play, imo). Can't wait to watch more.

[@TheNaughtyLibrarian]

I completely agree on this. I wasn’t sold on Lestat in episode 1 but now I think he’s really good in the role. It just needed some time to sizzle.

[@corpeter]

did Lestat not admit killing her in the church, or did I hear that wrong?

[@HuntingViolets]

He pretty much did, yeah.

[@joegotham27]

Oh my God, you have to read The Witching Hour - it is a masterpiece! Also there are two books where the witches and the vampires do cross over

[@tmw3108]

First I found you love u are so cool

[@TheNaughtyLibrarian]

thank you for watching!

[@Nperidot04]

New subscriber here, I loved your review. Will see you next week for the next one :)

[@TheNaughtyLibrarian]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@popvitamin]

Great review! Plus you look very lovely.

[@roderick8167]

Awesome recap review just subscribed 🙌, also episode two is already out now on AMC+ it came out early along with episode 1 yesterday if you have AMC+ you get every episode one week in advance 👍🧛🦇

[@TheNaughtyLibrarian]

Yes! I’m excited to watch it soon. 😸

[@roderick8167]

@@TheNaughtyLibrarian Awesome ! , Can't wait to watch your recap of episode 2 😊🙌

[@deliafavara9470]

😻😻😻😻😻

[@nickfox6bignick]

Not everyone needed to see all that but The show is still Great.

[@nithingeorge]

How is it compared to the 1994 movie? Loved that one...

[@TheNaughtyLibrarian]

The 1994 movie is much closer to the book than the tv show. However, the tv show is taking the story and telling it in a new interesting way. Definitely worth checking out.

[@nithingeorge]

@@TheNaughtyLibrarian okk 👍😃 You should review more shows and movies as well...

[@davidsanderson583]

👍😇😎😇

[@DramaQueenBiz]

I think, in the show, Lestat "killed" Paul. Paul tells Louis that Lestat speaks to him in his head soon before he walks off of the roof, so I think he may have been whispering evil things to him to make him want to jump. Also, it is a Lestat thing to do to manipulate Louis's life to make him vulnerable.

[@HuntingViolets]

Paul seems as if he might be schizophrenic or have some other condition. He hears voices long before Lestat shows up.

[@HuntingViolets]

Paul also manifests some behaviors that are common before suicide. He gets assurances from Louis that Grace will be happy and that Louis will not see Lestat again, and even suggests a wife for Louis. He believes he has set up his family to flourish without him. He’s wrong, but it’s what he thinks.

[@meenachadha3766]

Oh I missed the mayfair easter egg ...

[@lamia6868]

So you've only read to Memnoch the Devil???

[@TheNaughtyLibrarian]

So far yes. I also read Pandora and Vittorio and I’m pausing for a minute so I can pivot to the Mayfair Witches series.

[@lamia6868]

@@TheNaughtyLibrarian Ah understandable. Have fun there great 👍🏻 The whole thing will blow your mind.

[@Hannah-wy1jf]

The series is more so of a reimagining of Rices work.I tried to watch but it wasn't for me i stopped watching.

[@therecalcitrantseditionist3613]

While i disagree with your perspective, how different it is definitely kills my ability to enjoy the show, thank you for reviewing it and helping me know i do not want to bother with it.

[@dingo8226]

I came for a recap not whatever this is

[@ramonaludwig6390]

Oh, I’ll continue to watch the series but I don’t know about this show. She says ‘like’ a lot and laughs a lot. She seems nervous.

[@rl021786]

Gay