Stephen Thompson

But the parts set in the modern day in that novel, which was 1985 when the book came out,

are about Lestat deciding that he wants to become a rock star, a Satan inflected, hair metal adjacent rock star.

And let me just tell you, those parts of the book.

are hilarious.

They are the most Steve Buscemi on 30 Rock, How Do You Do, Fellow Kids, backwards baseball cap, carrying two skateboards nonsense.

Just as fundamentally OK Boomer understanding of what music looked and felt like.

But you know who's great?

The team behind this show, they get it.

And it turns out that what they've captured is lightning in a bottle because certainly AMC keeps trying to give us this immortal universe.

They've done the show, The Mayfair Witches and Talamasca, neither of which have the wit, the spark, the ingenuity of this show, which goes to prove it's not the plot.

It's not the characters.

It's the approach.

That matters.

The team had interviewed with a vampire and now the vampire's not.

They found a way into these characters to the story that those other shows didn't.

And Sam Reed, who's now going to be carrying the show, basically it's about him.

He's great.

I have confidence.

I'm so worried.

But I have hope.