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Chapter 1: What themes are introduced in the opening of 'The Vampire Lestat' episode?
Hello, welcome to a very spooky episode of House of R. I'm Joanna Robinson. Joining me today, our very own tough cookie on the drums, it's Mallory Rubin. Joanna, never. never play two nights in Detroit. You never know what's going to happen. You might end up with a broken orbital bone. Listen, it's the Vampire Listat time. It is Interview with a Vampire Season 3, a.k.a. the Vampire Listat.
We're here to break it down for you with book context. We'll do a book spoiler section. We'll talk about the music. We'll talk about the fashion. We'll talk about all of it right after this.
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Just really quickly, I just thought in honor of the absolute bi icon that is Lestat de Leoncourt, happy Pride, everyone. Happy Pride. What a perfect show for us to cover during Pride Month. I love it. Here we are. Here we are. Program reminders. Yes.
the end of this week we're starting with vampires that's right we're ending with aliens question mark we'll find out it's disclosure day yeah are you excited I am I'm very excited we're gonna talk about disclosure day at the end of the week very excited about that we have seen it yes we'll be talking about it
This is the first episode of Vampire Lestat coverage, but it is not the last because I have bullied the entire team into covering the Vampire Lestat week to week.
I'm excited.
And they're all doing it with joy in their hearts.
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Chapter 2: How does the show honor Anthony Stewart Head?
That's the hope, right? And, like, we'll see. It'll be interesting to track over the course of the season. My algorithm is less centrally oriented around the Vampire List app than yours is, but it has been making its way into my algorithm. So that has been exciting and fun to see, and it gave me a real—just, like, last week, while not sleeping for a solid week— In Sweden, yeah.
It was every time I saw something on my Instagram feed, I was like, fuck yeah, let's go. Like the more people who know how wonderful this is, the better. And I completely, I hear, you know, where was this before? And like, again, hopefully everybody goes back and discovers the excellence of the first two seasons as well.
By the way, I'm sure the people who make the show are like, yeah, AMC, where was this entire huge effort? And I think AMC was hoping that the brand of The quality of the show and the brand of Anne Rice's universe would be enough to like push people. But AMC Plus is a subscription service that like not everyone feels like they have the luxury to subscribe to.
There's a whole like, and AMC went through this before with Breaking Bad. There's a whole like post, it's on Netflix bump that, you know, you can see where it's like, okay, I watched, I think it was like three or four seasons of Breaking Bad that hit. Yeah.
Netflix and then all of a sudden it was like the biggest show and everyone was like well I have to watch this season live so I will subscribe to AMC and that is certainly what they're hoping I watched the first two seasons of Interview with the Vampire on Netflix so now I'm watching the Netflix season is a real thing so we're hoping that is what will happen here let's go now to our opening snapshot delightful
Okay, episode one, Detroit. Most, though not all, of the episodes this season appear to be named for stops on the tour, so that's fun. We spent two nights in Detroit, as you talked about, bad idea. We'll talk about it. Directed by Craig Zisk, who also directed, among other things, Don't Be Afraid, Just Start the Tape, my favorite episode of Enter Your Vampire season two.
My favorite episode of, like, television that came out that year. Just an incredible episode. And so... Incredible. He takes on a really challenge in this episode. There's, like, there's an immediate change of tone. Yes. An immediate change of style. You know, so this, like, reinvention that you're talking about is not just in the name, but in the entire sort of ethos of the show. Yes. Yeah.
This episode written by the showrunner, Roland Jones, and Hannah Moskowitz. Just a few table centers before we get into the deep dive. I personally find myself, and as you know, I love accent work. I love Sam Reed. I mean, hard not to. As Lestat, I find myself in desperate need of closed captioning this season.
The score, the rock score, the rapid fire patter of this show, the really funny jokes that are just almost tossed away often by Sam Reed. The accent, which I love Sam Reid's Australia, by the way, of, you know, France accent. I'm a big fan of it. But he's now our narrator. Right. And so it's not just Lestat when he's talking, but all of the narration is no longer Jacob Anderson's very clear...
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Chapter 3: What are the key facts about 'The Vampire Lestat' adaptation?
I mean, obviously, we had been exposed to this, you know, in the trailers. We got to see the first, the release of the first images, the first glimpse at Comic-Con last summer when I got to, like, feel you quiver beside me. With anticipation. Very, very meaningful experience. You know, he looks unbelievable. It's like, it takes zero effort to convince yourself that
the throngs would show up to like... Not millions, not billions, but thousands. 800 would fill that venue every night to just watch him. And that when he, you know, crowd surfs, they would delight in touching him and that they would be so enraptured and swept up in the experience that they wouldn't notice as he levitates back on stage, which was another fun detail of
Because of that, like, kind of, like, you know, collective delusion, even though a lot of the people there are there because they're true believers, right? Like, who believes, who doesn't, who is easy to trick and deceive, who is even paying attention. That's, like, an interesting thing to ask about people in that room, just sort of, like, where we are as a society more broadly.
It was interesting to think back to, like, Santiago in season two. And, you know, all of the things that they were doing on stage were real, but they were counting on the audience believing it was a trick.
You want to be fooled.
Yeah.
on our minds for many reasons, the prestige, which I know you'll bring up later. Like, that's just really fun as a commentary about, like, what people are, like, ready to receive and how. So I love that. And yeah, he just, he looks believably like a rock star. Yeah.
Also, I mean, like, the filmmaking in the sequence when, like, the whole world flips upside down, you know, so he's crowd surfing, but, like, the whole vision is flipped. The godlike adoration, you know, his self-proclamation that he is a god. And you have this like, you know, him Christ-like, you know, sort of stretched out on top of the adoring throngs here.
Naturally, I named the band after myself. Great. So good. The scars on his chest, I think, are really interesting because, you know, no mention of the scars on my chest either when he's talking to Daniel about sort of the accuracy of Louis' depiction. We get a couple mentions here. Yeah, you kill some wolves and fall in love is a line. I killed a pack of wolves when I was immortal.
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Chapter 4: What unique character dynamics are introduced in this segment?
Great. Also, you can hear a phrase that you've heard a thousand times. It could sound like the first time you've heard it. Like when I was sat in the same stretch as like, I've seen a rough cut of the documentary. Truthful and daring. Just something about the way he said it was so specifically Lestadian. I just, it was great.
Oh, and this is also where he says, maybe this is why this is set in 2025. To go back to your prior prompt. Specifically so that It had to be a contemporary story so that we could hear him say, Redit.
Redit.
Redit.
Discord. Redit.
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Chapter 5: How does Lestat's relationship with his past influence his actions?
I think an ongoing, you know, section we should do in these recaps is like Lestat Pronunciation Corner because Redit is so good. Incredible. But nothing tops Lululemon for me. Yeah, that was really good. Lululemon was really funny, but like Redit was very good. Redit was unbelievable. This is where we meet Yarda Klopik. who is a show-invented character, the double of Lassat.
Were you also thinking about the prestige when we met him?
Yeah, in part because of the, like, you take one of the most handsome people alive and you just make them look kind of astonishingly doofy.
Derpy, yeah.
Yeah, like, something's a little off with the teeth and the nose. Like,
also just the first glimpse and then you know because he's like you forgot a contact so something looks like really uncanny about his face his hair is different we get the line from the narration this is another way for Lestat to prop himself up right like he's three inches shorter you know it's all it's all very good but then that question of just like well okay so he they're sending him out so that he can be photographed those photographs will then be uploaded to Redit but it is to provide cover so that Lestat can
be a vampire and go suck people dry and kill legions and be undetected.
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Chapter 6: What themes of identity and self-revelation are explored?
But, like, will there be a more specific reason to have that character in the show other than just explaining how his knights go?
Yeah, as I mentioned, it's not a book character, so, like, there are already some fun... which we didn't talk about in the spoiler section. There are already some fun theories about what... why they came up with this guy and what he's doing here. And I think the show is always thinking, which I really admire about it, in the long term. So...
like casting someone like Justin Kirk to play Raglan James, who like shows up for like two scenes in season two and like one scene thus far this season, but like is a character that, that matters. And so they're like, we want to cast Justin Kirk as that character in the hopes that we get to the point in the story where it matters that Justin Kirk is playing that character.
And like for, for someone like Lestat seating in all of his like musical stuff in the earlier seasons, when we see him like playing the piano, playing like,
the New Orleans jazz in season one or his like opera music critique in season you know like he is this like when he freaks out about the the atonal notes that he's hearing from Satan's Night Out across the street they're lucky he didn't kill them because he killed people who displeased him musically in season one so I just like that they're always planting these seeds because they have the shape of the full narrative and they're like let's not cause problems for ourselves down the road and so like
This, to me, I think, if the fan theories are right, is an elegant solution for something coming down the road. But we'll talk about that. Interesting. The Contessa versus the useful idiot. Contessa was historic. That was so good.
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Chapter 7: How does the episode set up future conflicts and character arcs?
So, so, so good. Daniel is the fucking best. Oh, my God. Arapagosian's so good. And how do you feel about vampire Daniel versus human Daniel? Like, what differences are you seeing? Like, what are you enjoying here?
I think part of what I love about Daniel in this form is that he feels completely the same to me in a way that It feels exactly right. Like, he was always such a dick and always found a way to position himself, even when in the room with a vampire who could destroy him at a moment's notice, even when he was facing his, like, health challenges, right?
Even when he's like, okay, you burned my laptop. Part of... And I really liked the phone call between... Louis and Lestat.
Louis and Lestat.
I was like, I don't know about the cloud, because as you recall, I was like... What about the clown? I'd burn the laptop. It's just, you know, the fact that, like, Daniel is a character who always thinks he's the smartest guy in the room and can... It's like this guy was made to be a vampire. He was made to navigate life in this superior fashion. I really liked, you know, the exchanges where...
Lestat has that like moment where he's basically like you know when you finish like working through your transformational trauma and Daniel's like I don't have any and I believe both either neither all like that he's full of shit and of course he does because how could you not and part of the way he navigates life is to say I'm good dude like focus on your own shit and then he's going through his version of that and of course when we got to see like his his flashbacks and his trauma like realize what you know horrible things he had
suffered through we learned a lot about daniel in season two through that lens i also believe that daniel is like i'm fine and i have no trouble adapting to this like new life because it's life i was always meant to live and for decades have maybe wanted to live um so it's been great just a treat i love your point about like the fact that you know he spent so much time masking like his ms symptom you know what i mean just sort of like hiding that he was going through this like
painful health crisis sets him up for someone to hide these things that he's going through. But if you think about someone like Claudia or even Louis, this idea of the first few years of being a vampire. It's been very hard. Emotionally tumultuous, among other things.
And he's out there giving interviews on the nightly news. We saw at the end of season two how well that was going.
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