Year Of The Vampire: 9 TV Miniseries And Standalone Episodes That Don’t Require An Eternal Bloody Commitment – /Film

Though she's credited as an executive producer, Anne Rice sadly didn't live to see her 1976 novel "Interview with the Vampire" realized as a television series. As of this writing, the first two (of seven) episodes of the series are available to stream on AMC+, so although it was renewed for a second season ahead of its premiere, you can still get in on the ground floor.

Jacob Anderson is quite charismatic as Louis, reimagined here as a hale and hearty hero with a higher pulse and without the morose inclinations of Brad Pitt's version of the character. Before he receives the Dark Gift, Louis is a well-dressed pimp in Storyville, which sounds like a euphemism for a showbiz entertainer. The series itself has a tap-dancing verve, and it's cognizant that it's peddling a "do-over."

It almost starts out like a sequel to the 1994 film, with Eric Bogosian's older, world-weary journalist Daniel Molloy having botched an interview with Louis decades earlier. References to MasterClass and the pandemic, cosmopolitan shots of Dubai, the use of vampire telepathy, a hot and heavy threesome, a floating, butt-naked vampire kiss between men, and a different last sunrise all set this modern update apart, even as it resurrects abandoned threads from Rice's book like Louis's religious brother and the church confession-turned-bloodbath.

Un petit coup, "the little drink" (as opposed to la petit mort, the little death, or orgasm), awakens feelings of intimacy within Louis. As French flows from his lips, Lestat (Sam Reid) holds a hypnotic power over him. Maybe I'm just in the vampire's thrall like the guys at the poker table, but after one episode of AMC's "Interview with the Vampire," I was all-in. Give it a chance, and you, too, might experience love at first bite.

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