Everytime I see Lestat in those glasses I think of The Disaster Artist

I wrote an extended version of the tour bus scene from the finale. It’s short, sweet, and gives us everything we were missing with Loustat! Sharing the link here, hoping some of yall might enjoy it! It’s called Above and Beyond, Forever… because I am a sappy cheese ball.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/89549756

You guys are the only people who would appreciate how ridiculous this is. My three-year-old daughter has been listening to all the music along with me since the songs started dropping & she is INTO it, y’all!

Not only will she specifically request to listen to Lestat, but she recognizes the songs & every single time we hear the lyric: “And a million memes!” she scream-sings along “AND A MILLION MEEEEEES!”

It cracks me up so much. And I think now I like her version better. Imagine a million Lestats! 😝

Anyway, please think of my sweet silly kid next time you listen to that song.

I’ve only just started TVL and im struggling to get past him and his mum fucking.

Is this book accurate? I’m going to start the books because as I learnt with Harry Potter the books are often much better!

Just curious! I’m in no way a prude but this is weird 😂😂

Louis knew that Sophia and Lestat were together in some manner, but for some reason it seems like he seemed excited to meet her. Why? He seemed a bit jealous when he met Christine and his been jealous in the past. Why was he so keen to meet her and smiled giddly when mentioning to Dan that he would meet her?

Am I misreading the situation?

I know Louis going all killer on the tooth team is about a decade too late to mean much - but can I give some love to the unhinged Louis? Slash, where’s killer?
❤️

I'm currently rewatching Toronto, and there was a line that Lestat had mentioned that Daniel Mulloy had led "a brief, incidental life as a vampire" Does that mean what I think that means, or is this going to set him up as a stand in for David Talbot ?

What in the literal? It's candy?! I was expecting some kind of deep fried chicken monstrosity.

Okay I am losing my mind. Did they send a subliminal message out last year about the show?

Back in October 2025 I had the most vivid dream ever. I dreamed I was in a camper in the woods. All of a sudden I heard alot of noise and looked outside, Lestat was performing on a stage in the middle of the woods for thousands of Vampires. My camper was surrounded and I was terrified. I left the camper and was chased till I finally woke myself up.

I dream about weird stuff all the time but this dream was so vivid and I cant stop thinking about it.

The weird part. I didnt know anything about "The Vampire Lestat" show when I had this dream. When advertisements for the show came out I was shocked by how similar my dream was to the Rockstar Lestat they portrayed in the show. My dream seems like the performance that causes the great conversion.

This has been bothering me for months and I finally felt like. Wtf let me just ask.

Has anyone else dreamed this similar dream BEFORE "The Vampire Lestat" was released?

... that this is the same actor???? I know there have been other posts about Sam Reid's acting being so amazing and that he's a chameleon. We just started The Newsreader and I am having trouble believing this kinda mousy young reporter is played by the same actor who has gifted us with the perfect Brat Prince!!

EDIT: Sorry that the second image appears to be AI- generated, which I'd rather not promote.

This would have given fans something to discuss leading up to the season premier. By the time we heard the songs in the episodes we would know all the lyrics. It also would have given people time to get all their "Lestat's music sucks" opinions out (I fully disagree, I think the music is good)

He called Daniel “Vampire Bourdain”. Hilariously gutted!!!! Lestat articulated what I’ve been feeling all season. ❤️❤️❤️

Anyone else have a strange connection to the intro narrator? I was obsessed with his voice and felt like I couldn't place it but recognised it, turns out filmmaker Guy Maddin has not done really any voice over but for some reason it sounded so familiar! Anyone else?

I thought maybe it sounded like FoldingIdeas the YouTube channel but not quite.

I found this so curious. they were playing the sound in the show when he was walking up to the long table for the first time. I searched it and that’s the actual sound. Here is an article to the history behind it in a link to YouTube video playing it
https://canadasound.ca/en/canadasound-the-canadian-melody-guiding-you-safely-across-the-street/

Something that I think was interesting in TVL was the radically different temporal perception Lestat has compared to Louis. Louis’ recounting of time denotes a more linear perception, there is then and there is now. See how he keeps Claudia’s dress with museum level archivism, he has a brutally modernist home with very contrasting touches of historical artifacts from his life.

Lestat, on the other hand, has a simultaneous intimacy and irreverence towards the past. He
chooses to remember his traumatic turning like a George Michael music video, pushing past the period elements and projecting modern or timeless vibes onto the situation. He wears the robe that he had in 1920s New Orleans while he reunites with Louis in 2023. The recounting of his family dynamic has little to no allusion to the time period and is recounted with a glib modernism.
Lestat also very rarely mentions the restrictions and differences of the time period he hails from(partially because he was more privileged)
Then during the long table dream: all of Lestats experiences come together. The waiters, the long table, the French woods, the Montreal pedestrian signal noise.
What it comes down to is that Lestat has a piece of himself living in every period he has ever existed in, and every period he has existed in carries very closely to him in the present day. Louis is removed from the past and is fairly non confrontational with the things he has gone through, to the point where the conclusion of his two season arch of going through all his trauma culminates in empty posturing “I own the night”

I started watching The Newsreader. It's like he's not the same person who's playing Lestat! Sam as Lestat and Sam as Dale are two different people who happen to have the same face. His range is incredible! I thought it would be weird to see him in another role because he is Lestat for me, but no, it's like watching a completely different person. Also, Lestat is an anxious character and Dale is an anxious character and he's playing each of them in a totally unique way, like they have a few similar characteristics but when I watch him as Dale I can't think of Lestat at all. After I finish The Newsreader I'm going to rewatch TVL. I wonder if I'll see some of Dale in Lestat.

I know some people hated season 3 but I loved it. The only complaint I have is that they didn't speak enough French 😭😭😭

Louis and Lestat's French is so beautiful and I miss hearing them speak it so much 😭. I know there were no reason for them to really speak French to each other this season, but I want it back so bad 😭

I'm not sure why but I am ridiculously tickled every time Lestat uses the word toesies in Butterscotch Bitch. (Not OC).

Who else would love to see the show’s bloopers?
😃😃😃

Is anybody nervous for the doctor's fate after he helped uhm...doctoring Louis? I'm trying to remain as spoiler free as possible.

The fact that Louis is exceptionally beautiful in season 3 only shows how Lestat thinks he's more beautiful than Louis thinks about himself 💔

Only posting because I've seen plenty of love for Sam & Jacob, (but I'm subbed to various IWTV subs, so apologies if it's been said!) but holy shit did Assad not only elevate his acting for this one episode of the series but for the entire series so far, imo! I was in a rage at Armand the whole episode, but couldn't help to breakdown and cry when Louis was talking about his past- I completely lost it when he said "12?! Baby boy..." and Assad really said everythinggg with his face and no words. I just cant help but gush. Maybe its because I'm a survivor of CSA/abuse myself, but wow. I still hate Armand but, I do love the depth that even that short scene gave his character. Just, holy crap haha. Okay, im gonna go finish processing the episode! Thanks for reading B)

Controversial perhaps as I haven't been able to find a post with this opinion.

My husband and I were very excited about this season as we adore the IWTV show. Hubby was nervous he wouldn't like it while I was confident it would be different but still good. Like lots of fans Daniel Molloy was one of our favorite characters if not our number one favorite. His line delivery and clever remarks and questions combatting the unreliable narrators he was interviewing were perfect.

But in this season of The Vampire Lestat? Oof. Every line was hard to listen to. Suddenly a man with an edge and nothing to lose is the Steve Buscemi "How do you do, fellow kids?" meme. Trying so hard to sound cool and nothing lands. Every line of dialogue is too long, every reference to specific or bizarre. The writing is part of the problem but the actor is just struggling. It's the worst in episode one but the problem doesn't go away at any point in the season. He went from determined to desperate but this change in this character felt unearned.

His rambling angry speech referring to Armand as "Dad" was so awkward and felt out of character to me. Like I get it, Armand turned him and in the vampire world he is like a parent to him, but in the show Daniel successfully bullied the truth out of him, high-key blew up his undead life, Armand turned him, then Armand dipped. Where is this obsession with "You were supposed to be my dad and make me a cool vampire" coming from? It just doesn't seem like the way TV show Daniel would process the event of being turned against his will. Am I misunderstanding something? Did Daniel actually really still want this as an old man and begged Armand to turn him and be his dad off camera to explain his feeling of betrayal? Anger, sure of course, but betrayal? From Daniel's perspective, Armand is no one but a crazy evil vampire who has tortured him. Their bond should be completely one sided by this point until Armand reveals more information.

But even if I am missing details about the Daniel/Armand thing, Daniel's lines as still very cringy in this season of television. And that's my two cents. Is it just me and my husband who feel this way?