Interview with the Vampire - AMC - US Pace (***Spoilers***)

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Teasers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eVB01MTrY8&ab_channel=JoBloStreaming%26TVTrailers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mDKb0tNN2g&ab_channel=RottenTomatoesTV

Slydice

I eh... hmmm.. looks a bit CW level of production

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Full comic con trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUJzJxsA654&ab_channel=RottenTomatoesTV

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Already Renewed

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Series premiere: Louis de Pointe du Lac (Game of Thrones‘ Jacob Anderson) tells a journalist the story of how he met the vampire Lestat (The Newsreader‘s Sam Reid) in 1910 New Orleans.

fritzelly

I'm liking this so far

Agent Coulson

Yeah it’s really good those two episodes were very enjoyable and a nice way to tie in the pandemic to update it to now.

Agent Coulson

That was a great episode this week.

Looking forward to the rampage Claudia is going to go on.

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The role of Claudia recast for season 2

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120426147#Comment_120426147

Interesting.

I liked the series, but the ageing up of Claudia's character ruined it for me in the end. It was just too far from the books.

In the books, Claudia was turned as a 5 year old. That was the whole point. She was the forbidden vampire child - cursed to live in the body of a young child forever.

Not a moody vampire teenager who could pass as an adult in the right outfit.

I will probably watch the second season, as it's worth watching for Sam Reid as Lestat.

As an aside, The Mayfair Witches, AMC's other Anne Rice series, was ruined (for me) by the characterisation and casting choice for the main character. I won't be bothering with the second series of that.

Spon Farmer

I haven’t read the books though I have wanted to but isn’t Claudia supposed to stay the age she was when she was turned?

Is this show or the Mayfair Witches being aired or streamed over here? JustWatch says no but I’m surprised at that since they have been well received in the US and other countries.

I really enjoyed SALEM and it was a pity that it got cancelled - it was the perfect kind of creepy and twisted. Is Mayfair Witches any like it?

I haven’t read the books though I have wanted to but isn’t Claudia supposed to stay the age she was when she was turned?

Yes. To put it simply, there are ancient rules that have allowed vampires to exist undetected amongst humans for thousands of years, and one of them was it was forbidden to turn a child.

It is the breaking of that rule, and the very existence of Claudia, that brings Lestat and Louis into conflict with .... well, spoilers!

I'm not familiar with Salem, I may check it out! I didn't like The Mayfair Witches (tv show). Some other significant changes (including merging two characters into one) put me off.

I always say, read the books! You won't regret it.

(Except when you're watching a TV show/movie adaptation and go "ah ffs, why did they change that?")

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It starts on Thursday, 12th October 2023 at 9pm on BBC Two and the BBC iPlayer