Interview with the Vampire TV series (2022)

there's a Mayfair Witches show in January

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTjAn3dMT00

ooohhh

I'm not watching but ILX-adjacent https://genufa.tumblr.com/ has been good no this, and https://undecimber-of-joy.tumblr.com/post/701023804106964992/alright-then-i-need-to-say-my-piece-or-i-will indicates that fandom is as into it as you'd absolutely expect.

we’re progressing very slowly through the series but gosh I really do love it

we just finished ep5: the louis-lestat blowup over claudia was insanely epic… and the charles manson needledrop over the credits was ~chef’s kiss*

finished s1

goddamn, really impressed.

i said to mr veg, Louis is such a fucking balloon. he never really commits to a conviction. and Claudia, just true helldemon.

most of all i think they really captured Lestat so well, the lure of him, the massive ego, the violence. like he feels much more tangible and layered in this version. Cruise was good but it was a caricature. this version feels like everyone read the book & embraced it as a text, whereas the movie had a bit of ironic remove because of the time obv, like no one could really say with a straight face that they were making a vampire movie

anyway. 5 stars no notes. makes me want to reread the book again.

You should! You’re right about the ironic remove of the film as well.

I watched the first ep of Mayfair Witches

seems less artfully made than Interview, everything looks a little cheaper? idk. I’ll watch the whole thing regardless

Haven’t watched this yet but I will. Have you read that series? I know nothing about it.

(haven't watched any of this yet (interview i mean) despite yr strong and compelling recommendation, poster gyac, bcz i am currently trying to save money on everything except storage until i move house and sadly that includes streaming subs!)

(but once i move i will be back ITT no doubt)

Watched the first episode of Mayfair and agree with VG’s comment about the production quality - it seemed very Hallmark channel?

I’m actually reading the first book, The Witching Hour, and I’m about 10% in (it’s about 1000 pages long). The first twenty or so minutes of this show is confusing as fuck if you haven’t read this book, which is not great for an adaptation. It’s unfair to compare a bit but I watched both this and The Last of Us with my husband last night & he did not get the start of it at all. It’s not so much show don’t tell as just “idk here’s some stuff that happened”. Iirc this is the first time this series has been adapted, so unlike Interview with the Vampire which is already more of a known quantity, you kind of need to ease the audience in?

There’s also the kind of YA quality to the whole thing. Again, I’m not that far into the book? But the book is dark, and the tone is quite off?

I don’t know, I will probably keep watching while I read the book (I really like the book!) but it’s not as great as IWtV was from the start. Hopefully it gets better?!

Mayfair Witches is so bad. So bad!

I’m not sure I can manage a third episode, I might just continue reading the book (which is great!)

i still haven’t brought myself to watch the second ep

guys: season 2 starts soon :D

May 12, apparently!
Mark your calendars and dust the candelabras

first 2 eps have been great

oh shoot i totally forgot!!

Oh I didn’t realise this was back, excellent timing

I like black vampires wiping out ss waffen checkpoints in 40's Ukraine, that's what I call a good start to proceedings!

Where is this on?

starz iirc

In the US it's AMC, not Starz. Not sure about other areas.

series 1 is on i-player

oh yeah AMC sorry not Starz

one of those ones that hardly anyone actually has

there has to be one guy out there who is still watching all the Walking Dead crap and doesn't pay for cable, right?

lmao probably

I just dl it from illegal torrents but AMC do this highly unalluring thing of: hey let's talk about the episode you've just watched in a smug backslappy manner rn. Naw, I'll leave it out until the next ep drops, thank you very much for nothing.

yeah I do the same calz

I am the only person paying for AMC+ (because it was $1 more per month vs just having Shudder)

I re-upped for the next couple months to watch Interview and Snowpiercer (when it drops in July)

i watched s2e1 and we are so back <3

new Claudia actress pretty good! same intensity, zero chill, no notes

also i need to state for the record what a genius bit of casting it has been for this series to have fuckin BOGOSIAN THA GOD as the interviewer

he grounds the whole thing so well with the epic sarcasm & eye rolls & just (stares, Bogosianly)

it really helps it play for a modern audience along with the story/character changes

I did not expect this to be so funny. Lestat breaking the priests' legs to fit them in the crypt lol