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Interview With the Vampire
Season 1 Premiere: Oct 2, 2022
6.3
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 42 Critic Reviews
82
86% Positive
36 Reviews
36 Reviews
14% Mixed
6 Reviews
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0% Negative
0 Reviews
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 42 Critic Reviews
82
86% Positive
36 Reviews
36 Reviews
14% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
It remains a supernatural gem. The AMC series is as good as it was in season 1, as it continues to capture the despair, the anarchy, and the raw power of being immortal. .... And the acting is uniformly excellent.
It embraces both the intellectual and the carnal in ways that aren’t often seen on TV and were arguably even lacking from Jordan’s version.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 189 User Ratings
6.3
59% Positive
112 Ratings
112 Ratings
7% Mixed
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
34% Negative
64 Ratings
64 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 189 User Ratings
6.3
59% Positive
112 Ratings
112 Ratings
7% Mixed
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
34% Negative
64 Ratings
64 Ratings
This is how you do TV. This is how to freshly adapt from a book for the modern age. I don’t mind the changes, they still kept the spirit of the novels and in many ways vastly improved upon it. Fantastic and very underrated.
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A clever and sumptuous show based on Anne Rice’s vampire book series. Beautiful writing, costuming and cinematography are topped off by astounding acting, especially from the leads Jacob Anderson (Louis), Sam Reid (Lestat) and Eric Begosian (interviewer Daniel). If it was on a bigger network it would have multiple Emmy’s.
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Among my favorite TV shows of the year so far. ... AMC’s Interview With the Vampire is lush and operatic. It is gross and disturbing, opening the dam for the sanguine river of blood to flow the way that a show like this should: so that it is as gorgeous as it is upsetting. There are provocative ideas about race and power dynamics filtered through the identity politics of bloodsuckers that, remarkably, work.
The writer [Daniel Molloy] is also given more vulnerability and agency as the series goes on. Seizing the chance to expand Rice’s canvas, “Interview With the Vampire” keeps adding layers of paint. It’s the best kind of bloody mess.
Interview With The Vampire is still a bit melodramatic in its manner and baroque in its language, despite the time shift from the novels and film. But it reestablishes its story so well that we can see it continuing for a number of seasons.
The evolution mostly works. Interview blends swoony Southern Gothic with cadaverous relationship farce, though it struggles when it shifts its gaze from the intriguing main characters.
The show’s first few episodes have energy and a sense of humor, which can be rococo. ... That momentum fades quickly, however. (Five of seven episodes were available for review.) In later episodes, sex and bloodsucking take a back seat to talk. ... The problem with the series, as it goes along, is that it increasingly makes you think about checking your email.
Interview with the vampire brings the best of television, the series has great actors that give award-worthy performances every episode, a script so beautiful and well-tied that doesn't let anything lacking and a beautiful photography on top of it, all that remaining true to Anne Rice's amazing characters while bringing them to a new light. It is an adaptation that does much more than just telling the story, it reinvents and puts it under a new light, it truly feels like a breath of fresh air. One of, if not, the best show on television nowdays.
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Look, it's a good vampire show. Louis is excellent, some of the changes are fairly welcome, the dialogue is pretty on-point, and it's incredibly high budget.
So why the 6/10? Well, I'll start by saying I don't care that Louis is black. It works. I mark the show down because of a few things, and all of them at their core have to do with the fact that I don't feel as though the creators really GOT what made the gothic charm of the original book so powerful.
The pace is all over the place. They spend too long in America, but it doesn't linger scene-to-scene. And Vampire Chronicles should really linger, with haunting quiet moments of reflection, slow scenic shots, and moments where they are showing - rather than telling - every emotion on the face of the characters. That's the one area the previous movie did well, which this show does so poorly. There's no pause for reflection - just a string of stitched-together scenes with all quiet cut out, like a mid 2000s YouTube video. But Interview should be quiet in between the storms, to reflect the life of the immortal beings it focusses on.
My second major complaint is that they sexualise the characters. An absolutely marvellous thing about the books (and movie) was that it is a romance without it being about sex, gender, age ... anything. It's simply eternal love. The Anne Rice vampires were unable to have sex, and that really worked. Companions were companions, and it meant more than human love. I really don't care that they **** it up by a factor of six. My complaint is that they changed the source material to move away from something which made Chronicles vampires so incredibly original and interesting.
My last major complaint has to do with the casting of Lestat and Claudia. Lestat is supposed to be incredibly charming, but instead he comes off as poncy, smug, and unlikeable at times. The actor does incredibly well during scenes of anger or higher emotion, but scene to scene he doesn't work as Lestat. Meanwhile, this Claudia's performance pales in comparison to Dunst, but that's not my main issue with her. The biggest problem here - and perhaps time will tell it to be the biggest problem with the show - is that they got an 18 year old to play the part of a 14 year old, who was 10 in the movie and 5 in the books. Claudia's entire hook is that she's a child vampire. But she's not even that anymore. Further proof that the writers of this show don't get what made the books great.
I'm excited to see where they take it, but seeing as Lestat is the most important character in the entire series, I'm not holding out a lot of hope due to the casting. They turned the Prince of Darkness into Pouting Prissy Queen (and not the good kind!), and that hurts right in the childhood.
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An interesting original vampire series. Don't expect to find Anne Rice's characters or stories here.
Everyone is re-imagined with different backstories and motivations. Almost every location is different. Time periods, both past and present, are changed.
There are some slow moments, but that's to be expected early in a series.
The casting is silly. Jacob Anderson is a great vampire, but would have made an excellent Lestat. Similarly, Sam Reid feels more like Louis with a nice Brad Pitt vibe. Yet my biggest dislike for the casting is that Eric Bogosian is too old to play Daniel and become a vampire later in the series.
If this wasn't based on a long and very popular series of books, I'd probably have rated it much higher. If you're an Anne Rice fan, like me, you probably will not want to watch this.
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Production Company:
- AMC Studios
- Dwight Street Book Club
- Stillking Films
Initial Release Date: Oct 2, 2022
Number of seasons: 2 Seasons
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA)
• 5 Nominations
TV Scholar Awards
• 3 Nominations
Critics Choice Super Awards
• 3 Nominations