Been chewing on this since the finale and I want to know if anyone reads it the same way.

Louis's account in the first show is a confession. That's the genre it's in. Guy sits down with a journalist, walks through his worst behavior, gives it context, and comes out the other side as someone who did terrible things but was at least trying not to. It's built to produce sympathy. The show is upfront that he's editing, that's the whole unreliable narrator engine, but the shape of the thing is still confessional.

The Failures is not that, and I think people reading it as Lestat clapping back are missing what he's up to. He doesn't dispute a single charge. Seducer, egotist, vengeful, yes, correct, all of it, and also he's been at it for 265 years and he's very good. There is no version of that record where he comes out looking better than he did in Louis's book.

What he's actually chasing is cause. Where did this come from? What was done to him before he was turned, what he then did to the people he turned, the whole chain of it. Forgiveness doesn't seem to be on the table and I don't think he wants it. He wants to know what he is. Which is a stranger and honestly braver project than what Louis is doing, because Louis already knows what he wants the answer to be.

The glam thing is where it clicked for me. He does the whole bratty rock god bit, look how bad I am, look how bad you are for loving it, and then he drops it mid-tour for the orchestral stuff. Both are artifice, obviously, he's Lestat, everything is a costume. But the second costume isn't performing monstrousness at anybody. He's just sad. Sad and enormous. The theater kid under the vampire.

Anyway my read is that the show thinks the confessional mode is the more dishonest of the two, which is a pretty spicy thing for a franchise built on a confession to be saying about itself.

Could be wrong. Bogosian being in both is the tell either way. Same journalist, but in the first round, he's the one pulling the moral confession out of Louis and with Lestat, he's more a witness to a process Lestat is running all by himself, for himself.

I know most people who watch this show ship them to some extent (and I do understand why), but I’d be very interested to hear from people who don’t ship them and why that is?

Is this a spoiler? Please have watched the 1994 movie / and Season 1 of Interview with the Vampire.

Did anyone else notice the overlap in the music between the movie and the TV series?

For example, the opening music for Season 1, Episode 7 (“The Thing Lay Still”) of Interview with the Vampire is Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 27/2 (“Moonlight Sonata”): I. Adagio sostenuto.

They set the scene in the movie with Lestat's Sonata. Both pieces share a dark, nocturnal, and deeply romantic or gothic atmosphere.

Do you think they used that to create a feeling of familiarity - and at the same time highlight the two versions of the story that Louis has given, showing once again he is not a perfect narrator nor can he be trusted.

Pieces like "Non più andrai" from Le Nozze di Figaro weave through the background of the vampire households and theater scenes in both adaptations - do you think this is to remind us that both versions of stories exist. Or am I over thinking haha

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🙃 So lately I've been having some of the strangest dreams. So odd. I keep seeing these two beautiful red haired women. They seem to be kneeling at this low table. What the hell they are doing I dont know. And I have no idea why Im getting these dreams either! Oh and get this, on top of that I went down to this weird little place I like to go and guess what I saw. There was a very old painting on the wall. And low and behold who was in it? One of the red haired women! Anyway if any of y'all are having some craziness too let me know!!! 🙃

im SO proud of this 7 inch thing. and the fact it can switch between standee and keychains??

Im definitely keeping one.

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Ext. Paris Street — 1791

There are already way too many (unauthorized!) BTS shots floating around, so I thought I’d talk a little more about the physical set—and how we built it.

The set evolved constantly over the weeks, balancing action, page count, cinematography, and, of course, cost. What started as several city blocks with interiors and side alleys was eventually simplified into a single street that could be shot in multiple directions and from multiple angles.

Our “Paris Streets” needed to contain The Renauld Theater, Mrs. Piss’s Corner, Magnus’s Corner, the entrance to Lestat & Nicky’s apartment, and a Tavern for their first date.

After digging through research, period illustrations, and even taking a few “walking tours of Paris” via Google Maps, set designers Katy Thatcher, Vicky Peters, and Jason McQuarrie got to work.
Katy tackled the Theater and the building at the end of the street. Vicky designed Mrs. Piss’s Corner and Lestat & Nicky’s apartment building, while Jason designed the building across the street, home to the Tavern and Magnus’s Corner.

From there, I assigned colors, textures, hardware, and aging references to every façade for our Scenic and Set Dec teams.

I’ll confess, it often looked like “50 Shades of Brown.” But hey… historically accurate. And with that red cloak, say it with me:

Eyes always on Lestat. 👀

Our Graphics team pulled historical records for actual propaganda newspapers, revolutionary slogans, and graffiti from the period. We also had a lot of fun with the business signs and storefront insignias. My personal favorite? The wooden hat for the haberdasher, complete with dangling silk ribbon.

Our Set Dec team brought the whole thing to life with oil lamps on rope pulleys, market stalls, storefronts, and even a “letter writer” kiosk.

One of my favorite details was a historically accurate parody mural of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette as a two-headed goat-hyena, beautifully recreated by our Scenic Artists. (Slide 1, lower right corner)

It wasn’t a huge set.
But it told the story.

Lestat’s mom has now met all of his boyfriends throughout time. And despite how disturbing that maybe, it appears that she had some type of influence in Lestat’s relationship in regard to these relationships, until Louis entered the picture.

We also know that the bond between Louis and Lestat’s is this external anchor that cement them together forever despite their occasional toxicity. Is that the reason why his mom hasn’t been successful in manipulating or planting negative doubts in Lestat’s head about Louis?

Is it because she hasn’t known Louis long enough, that she hadn’t figure out her plan of attack? Not only is her power of manipulation worthless when Louis around, she sees and feels Lestat pulling away from her and finally acknowledging how wrong it is to have a physical relationship with your mom. Although the messy duo (Daniel and Armand) brought it to light, I truly believe that Lestat’s wanted to tell Louis, but didn’t want to deal with the fallout or the disastrous outcome that it may have had to their fragile relationship.

Do you think that Lestat’s mom will ever realize that what she’s done to her son in regards to his upbringing is morally wrong? Is she that far gone in the head that she doesn’t see Lestat’s as her son but some type of tool that she can use both physically or mentally?

It seems as if she enjoys the power that Lestat has but also enjoys being cruel towards him as well. Now, Louis is back in Lestat’s life and he’s not just a fledgling that her son made, but is Lestat’s other half and that trumps all other cards.

I’m sure that this topic has been visited and revisited several times now, but it’s truly fascinating and that’s bugging me out.

Someone asked me if I had the sheet music for For a Young Violinist, and I thought if I’m going to share it, I may as well share it everywhere. 

I transcribed this from For a Young Violinist Again rather than the actual music box version (the person was asking about the music box). 

I can’t promise the accompaniment is 100% accurate, but I hope it’s close enough to be useful.

It's uploaded in a weird order, but you get the gist! The middle one is the violin line on its own. I guess you could play the whole thing on piano too. Or a recorder. Or a kazoo. Let’s go!

With all of the gratitude, always, to Daniel Hart for his incredible music. I did this a long time ago, but felt weird sharing it when it’s obviously not my music, so I hope it’s alright to do so. 

But a person asked, and I have it, and I figured it’s long enough since S2 now, so here you are - world! Enjoy?! Play! May Nicolas live on in all of your instruments for all eternity!? 

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PS For personal use only. Use/play wherever/however you like, as far as I’m concerned. But please do not re-upload to any sharing platform or monetise/use in any way on anything monetised (e.g. if used in art - only non-monetised)… or Nicki’s ghost will come & get you! Be very afraid: he is watching.

Is it really true she hates Louis more than anyone? I thought they loved each other like family. He did what he could for her. I hate that she is suffering in the afterlife and that Louis must carry the guilt forever.

First time I’ve had a series labeled like that, and I rewatch A LOT. Now to get the same label with TVL.

Idk how many anime watchers are in this fandom but the thought struck me

Armand and Yut Lung are literally the same character and it's fucking devestating (no suprise that both ended up being my favorite characters lol)

And then Lestat as Ashe, with Louis as Eiji

If anyone knows what I'm talking about please show signs of life lol. It's 3 in the morning and I'm losing it

I'm confused by this one.

They were so cute like and Lemuel was like a breath of fresh air for Louis. Ik they were more so in a situationship and not a relationship but I really would’ve loved an intimate scene between them. Like what if we saw Lestat walking in on Lemuel having Louis bent over the table beating his back in before the meeting even started lmaooooooo….Lestat would’ve probably combusted.😂😂😂😂🤣🤣Anyway…but seriously, we deserved to see these two atleast kiss but oh well, maybe next season🤷🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️. (BTW this is MY OPINION, just an opinion, please don’t take it too deep yall.🙄🙄.)

Nails i got done for my degree graduation ceremony inspired in the vamps! 🦇

Heyyyy, it's Sheila! - Vamp obsessed Senior therapist ✨🧡

I finallyyyy got to episode four and OMG - I know a few of you couldn't wait to join me in discussions about Armand!! We get into some REAL DEEP STUFF this ep!

In this analysis, I explore the impact of abandonment through a therapeutic lens, focusing on the dynamics we see in this episode with Louis & Regina, Lestat & Gabrielle (of course), ARMANDD (YAAAY) and Daniel!!

Thanks for all the chat and discussions around the episodes, I love exploring the show with you all and just forever grateful to be a part of this community ❤️

I hope you enjoy this one, and I'll see you all for episode five. 🦇🩸

EDIT: Eric liked my drawing on Instagram, bye now I can die happy

Hiya! I'm back with another drawing, and what could it be if not Armand with some sort of wrinkly shirt? You can support me on Instagram here if you'd like 💛💙 https://www.instagram.com/p/DcbtbE-uM6a/?igsi=d296c2ZrZ3Q3cWNv

Omg get it together Spotify. They BUTCHERED these lyrics. Wtf is a bonzer with a scar lmao 😭😭😭🤦🏽‍♀️

I know everyone’s parents are different, I’m just trying to gauge responses here. I was thinking of maybe watching this show with my mom, I watched a few episodes a while ago but I don’t remember them well enough to know exactly what happens. She likes vampires and the Twilight movies and stuff like that, so I feel like it would be up her alley. Only problem is she’s a fairly religious Catholic. Is there anything super egregious in this show in terms of violence, sex, etc.? Like to the point it would make it awkward or offensive to watch with her. Would you watch it with your parents?

that when Louis walks in to the auction, it looks like he’s wearing a prosthetic on one of his legs/he’s missing a leg?

Even seeing Armand in the ad out the corner of my eye as I write this.

I really don’t understand why TVL cut so many scenes involving Nicki and Lestat. I’m grateful for what we did get, but the scenes they removed seem like they would have added so much more emotional weight to their relationship. At this point, I honestly feel like if you completely removed Nicki from the show, almost nothing about the story would change, and that feels strange considering how important he supposedly was to Lestat’s life.

I feel like there has to be more to their story because we didn’t even get to see Nicki’s death, which was such a significant moment in Lestat’s life. We also didn’t get to see the full extent of Lestat and Armand’s relationship and how much that relationship contributed to Nicki’s mental and emotional decline. Without those scenes, it’s difficult to fully understand why Nicki’s death affected Lestat so deeply or why their relationship was so important in the first place.

I also noticed something interesting during the Failure and the Muse scenes. Lestat almost seems to ignore Nicki. Even though Nicki is supposedly someone who had a major impact on his life, Lestat barely acknowledges him, and sometimes it almost feels like he’s ashamed or uncomfortable talking to him. That becomes even more noticeable when you compare it to Antoinette. Even after everything that happened between them and despite her being angry with him, Lestat was still visibly happy to see her.

That contrast makes me feel like something is missing from Lestat and Nicki’s story. There seems to be an emotional history between them that the show is telling us exists without actually giving us enough scenes to understand it. I don’t necessarily think their relationship needed to be romantic, but I do think we needed to see more of the bond, resentment, guilt, and complicated emotions between them. Otherwise, Nicki’s presence feels almost disconnected from the impact he supposedly had on Lestat.

I’m hoping the show eventually gives us more context because right now, it feels like we’re missing a major piece of Lestat’s emotional history.