For my money, the best show on TV right now is Interview With The Vampire, AMC's gleefully bloody adaptation of Anne Rice's classic 1976 novel. Game of Thrones veteran Jacob Anderson is the melancholic vampire Louis, Sam Reid is a chaotic vampire Lestat, Eric Bogosian is journalist Daniel Molloy, Rolin Jones is the showrunner, and I am one happy audience member. The show is fun, funny, romantic, violent, dramatic and all-around great. It's just waiting to explode once more people find out.
The first season of Interview will be available to watch on Netflix on August 19, so hopefully that will help. The second wrapped up in June, and a third is on the way...apparently sooner than we think. AMC released the first teaser over the weekend at San Diego Comic-Con — watch it above — featuring Sam Reid done up in glam rock attire as Lestat, who in Anne Rice's books goes on to form a rock band and piss off vampires all over the world by revealing their secrets through his music.
That should give Reid a chance to chomp into the campy side of the character as Jones and his team deepen the lore and expand the canvas. The teaser isn't a proper trailer, but if it's indicative of the tone the show will take, consider me there.
I'm also very encouraged to see promotional material coming out so soon after the second season. For a while, it's become de rigueur to have to wait around two years for new seasons of well-produced shows like this, so if AMC can find a way to get it out to fans sooner, it could really help with maintaining momentum. We don't have an exact release date yet, but the signs are good.
The next season will adapt Rice's book The Vampire Lestat, which came out in 1985. When new episodes come, they can't come soon enough. While we wait, enjoy the blooper reel for the second season:
You can watch both seasons of Interview With The Vampire now on AMC+.
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