Interview with a Vampire TV Series (2 Viewers)

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How’s the new Claudia compared to last season’s?
 
I finished season 2 and I really enjoyed it. I though 2.1 was uneven, but after that, the characters grabbed you and I loved the ride.
 
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Taurus said:
She's good.

It's a testament to Anne Rice's talent that my impression of Claudia from reading The Vampire Lestat was much different than what she's like in Interview.
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The T.V. series did a much better job fleshing out other major or minor characters and went into greater, nuanced specifics that frankly, were barely developed or hardly delved into the original Interview 1994 film. Santiago and Antionette were two characters that barely had any screen time in the Interview film and the whole Antoinette/Claudia being exposed to the sun as punishment for breaking vampiric coven's "sacred laws" for attempting to murder Lestat, especially since Louis didnt even really try to kill Lestat at the end of the first series.

I really believe Claudia's fate was sealed when Armand first found out about Louis and Claudia admitting to killing Lestat midway through the season. Claudia being made a vampire so young was already breaking the rules, and he took a dislike to her early on but he held his cards in because he loved Louis, until his Theater Des Vampires coven was in near-mutinious stage, led by Santiago, and he had to make a fateful decision that Louis wouldn't fully realize its full scope for essentially another 75 years as Milloy told him it was Lestst , not Armand, who really saved his life in 1949. I believe that's why Armand had always hated and despised Milloy, even as a younger reporter, because of his repore, friendship with Louis even in 1973 San Francisco, he believed one day he or another, deep-digging investigative reporter/journalist would discover the real truth and the shock and anger would fracture and destroy Louis/Armand's relationship. You could clearly tell their was palpable tension between the two and over the course of Season 2, I think all those interviews began jogging up some painful, yet long-buried memories of how things or events "really went down" in 1949 Paris.

It had to be extremely difficult for Lestat to be threatened and then forced to watch his former lover embrace a man who he falsely assumes saved him from being exposed to the sun and one who actually helped co-write and direct the very mock trial where Claudia and Antionette were murdered. I suppose Lestat realized Louis would find out eventually on his own but my God, it had to be torturous to ponder or consider, from Lestat's POV, that Louis may never know or find out. Louis' undead existence could have ended so many times from 1950-2024, that realization alone had to have maddened Lestat. It's never easy secretly being the "lesser of two evils" who confesses and tells people he mistreated two people he cared deeply about, save one of them, and have to wait nearly 75 years for him to realize you WERE THE GOOD GUY all along. If we can truly label Lestat a "good guy" here, certainly a very flawed one. He's always constantly looking for a new companion, but lets be honest, in Louis/Claudia's case, he treated them like absolute sheet.
 
The only thing I don't like is them changing the fact that vampires didn't have sex in the books. They could seduce people and they kissed, but they specifically did not have sex after becoming a vampire. Season 2 seemed like it was more concerned with showing gay sex then having a good story, though I can admit the story was good.
 
As someone who was... not in love with the books...
This series is quite enjoyable and IMO, it's so well acted, that the story is secondary.
 

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