I really like what the AMC show is doing with Lestat's narration. In my opinion, this was a "make-or-break" adaptation aspect. (There's quite a lot of those aspects, and I reckon they've ticked most of them.) Because it's one thing to read a first-person POV but on-screen it either works or it doesn't. And a lesser-quality show would look at the... let's say unique narration by Lestat in the books, and go "oh okay, so we just have to be wild, chaotic and Funny from start to finish?" ...and that would have gotten really annoying really quickly. And also it would've missed the point of the books. So, thankfully that didn't happen.
I think the big reason why it works is the context of the narration and how Sam plays that context. It's recorded after the events of Queen of the Damned, which we as the audience have not seen yet. But once again, major credit to Rolin Jones for having a clear plan and sticking with it, so he obviously told Sam what was happening and what Lestat had been through at the time of recording 'The Failures'. How many times have we seen a flash-forward by writers who clearly have no idea what the hell they were flashing-forward to, they just wanted to do it because "why not"?
Lestat's voice on The Failures works as the perfect compliment to the tone of the show, while also breaking that wild, chaotic rockstar illusion. Yes, we still have the typical Lestat-isms, but it also gets a lot more somber. The "party" is well and truly over, the insanity has finally died down, the consequences have happened, time to deal with the aftermath. Now let's reflect on how we got here.
So, yeah, I'm liking it so far. Look, I get your mileage may vary, that's just how it is with first-person narrations. I can definitely name a couple of narrations that annoy me to no end (hi, Birds of Prey) but I think that Lestat's is working way more than it isn't. And I'm curious as to how this plays out, especially when shit really hits the fan.
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