INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022-) | S02E08 x S03E01

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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (2022-) | S02E08 x S03E01
i do think it’s also a bit poetic, all the men who’ve hurt claudia all get to forgive eachother, while she’s dead and nothing can change that. even when season 2’s ending has a much more fulfilling ending than that of the first book, the fact that even seventy years later after her death, and her memory is still being used to either absolve louis’s guilt or being exploited comercially, that leaves an empty and withering feeling inside.
louis and lestat get to grieve and hug, for a moment atleast. louis and armand get to smile at eachother at the auction. lestat’s not talking to louis because of the book yet the man who published the book without louis’s consent is “dan”. and i guess lestat’s also chill with sam barclay, the man who wrote the baby lulu plays, the minstrel shows that killed her passion for performing, who also wrote the script for the trial next to santiago.
it poses a personally interesting question to me, do these vampires ever truly change? can cycles be broken if you’re immortal? are you bound to fall back into your old habits? are they frozen in the same dispositions they have when they were turned? states of fear, or grief, or arousal? will they continue to hurt claudia long after her death?
The band’s maker-fledgling relationships:
Lestat to TC: you’ll be just like my sister! Please don’t ask what happened to my last fledgling that said she was my sister by the way.
Gabriella to Alex: I will treat you as I did my own mortal sons, in that I want nothing to do with you and will be entirely unmoved if you die.
Sam to Salamander: ~BEST FRIENDS~ ~BEST FRIENDS~ ~BEST FRIENDS~
One thing I haven’t seen anyone talk about regarding IWTV S2 is the presence of Samuel Beckett.
For those that don’t know, Sam Beckett was an Irish writer who wrote the play “Waiting for Godot”. The show offers a fictionalized version of him in the vampire Sam, who writes the “Waiting for Guido”, implying Sam publishes the famous play under its current name.
However, there is another work Beckett is known for: a novel by the name of “Molloy”
Molloy is the rambling of a man who cannot remember his goals, gets constantly sidetracked, and is at times both suicidal and homicidal. The second part of the novel is of a detective who is tasked with finding the wandering Molloy. It begins with “It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows” and ends with “Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.”
I don’t have any conspiracy or headcanon, only that I think there are many references to the man and his work throughout the show, and with Sam being active within the Talamasca, I doubt the references and parallels will stop.
THE VAMPIRE LESTAT | 3.05 | “New York”
Photo credit: Sophie Giraud/AMC
Talamasca agents in The Vampire Lestat
Gifs by me, taken from the SDCC25 teaser I cleaned up