Interview With The Vampire is now on Netflix and you should watch it

Today, several AMC TV shows appeared on Netflix including:

• Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire season 1
• Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches
• A Discovery of Witches
• Dark Winds
• Fear the Walking Dead
• Gangs of London
• Into the Badlands
• Kevin can F*** Himself
• Monsieur Spade
• Preacher
• That Dirty Black Bag
• The Terror season 1
• The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon

Previously, all of these shows were available to stream at AMC+, but let's be real: Netflix is the biggest name in streaming by a mile, and if you want people to watch your shows, it pays to be available there. That's good news for several of these series — I've been meaning to check out Dark Winds for a while and might do it now that it's easily accessible — but I'm especially happy for Interview With The Vampire, the network's sumptuous adaptation of Anne Rice's 1976 horror classic.

A lot of people have heard of the book or the 1994 movie with Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise. If you were passingly interested in either of those, I can't recommend this new show enough. Starring Game of Thrones' Jacob Anderson as Louis and Sam Reid as the dangerous vampire Lestat, the series is dramatic, moody, funny, bloody and all-around excellent. It sucks that the second season, which ended with the best episode the series has yet produced, isn't also coming to Netflix, but after watching the first, I suspect some people might be wiling to get an AMC+ subscription, as crazy as that sounds. The show is that good.

How Jacob Anderson said goodbye to Louis after Interview With The Vampire season 2

Those of us who are already converts are looking forward to Interview With The Vampire season 3, which will adapt Rice's book The Vampire Lestat. Obviously, it'll be Lestat-heavy, but Louis will still be around, despite fading into the background at this point in Rice's novels. “I’m not putting Jacob Anderson in a corner," showrunner Rolin Jones told TV Insider. "The next turn, center stage, is Lestat, but I don’t think we’re going to be pushing Louis to the side like he is in those books.” Executive producer Mark Johnson gave fans further reassurance: “The last line is Louis saying, ‘I own the night.’ That is not an exit line.”

That said, Jacob Anderson had to get some distance from Louis after filming season 2, where Louis was put through the emotional wringer. "[T]his has been my life for two years. It feels like longer,” he said. “I don’t mean that like it’s been difficult. It’s been really significant. I’ve never spent so much time in a character’s head, and Louis’ head is a mess. It’s a lot. I don’t mean to make it sound more than it is. I just needed to release something a little bit.”

"I love Louis like a person I know. I love him as if he’s a friend. I think I just needed to let him go for a bit and just be myself. Not that I was walking around being Louis, but for Season 2 I kind of was. I was away from home and away from my family. It kind of became my life last season."

To put some symbolic distance between him and the character, he did something a little unorthodox: he took some of the rocks from Louis and Armand's zen garden set from the show and spread them around New Orlands, Louis' hometown. “I’m really proud of [the series] and of everyone, but it’s the most woo-woo I’ve ever been about anything in my life," Anderson said. "I’m like, ‘I’m gonna scatter ashes!’ I don’t mean literal ashes. It’s hard to really explain.”

But again, Louis is returning for season 3, so fans needn't worry about going too long without seeing him. “I don’t think Louis, as we leave him, is going to be this guy who is suffering as much,” Rolin Jones teased. “Actually, I think he’s maybe beginning his legitimate vampire experience there at the end.”

As for when we'll be watching new episodes, it's not clear. AMC has already released a teaser for season 3, but Jones has hinted that it probably won't be out until 2026.

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