Interview With the Vampire
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Fives, fives, fives (out of five) across the board!Encore!
Bravo!Does it get better than vampire follies and foibles in Paris?
Or fake vampires played by real vampires (who themselves are technically fake vampires played by real actors)?
(Daniel Molloy finding Paris overrated is maybe the least surprising detail ever.)
During those first five months in France, Louis lived the dream.
We didnt get that memo, says Louis.
Claudias not feeling the fantasy quite like Louis.
She cuts through his bullshit as he telepathically rambles about photography while smoking at a sidewalk cafe one night.
Let a brother pimp a bit!
Let me think Im deeper than I am!
This is the most self-aware a vampire on this show has ever been.
But Claudia, whose wholelifeis one prolonged adolescent self-discovery phase, is having none of it.
Neither is Daniel, who calls out his too-delusional Left Bank dilettante vibe.
[Stage direction: read in Matt Berry vampire voice.]
The audience is mostly human, but Louis and Claudia can feel the charge of vampires surrounding them.
A ticket-taker in white face paint and fake fangs has conspicuous colored contacts: vampire eyes.
Welcome to the displacement of reason and the excretion of pathetic desires!
is how he starts his spiel.
Like the usher in overdone vampire makeup.
Repressions that need airing?
Youve come to the right place.
Again, Eddie Redmayne should be taking notes on this emcee performance.
Everything you are about to see is real.
Remember that when you leave here tonight.
AND APPALLING!And I love you for it.
And I welcome you, even as youdisgustme, Santiago vamps.
The plays were weird, says Louis in voiceover.
Louis is correct, and Armand is wrong, by the way.
These plays look cuckoo-bananas, like a Tim Burton wet dream.
This is his design, and his design is fabulous and bonkers.
Its a genuinely upsetting, tense scene, particularly when its in close-up.
Ofcoursethese art school vampires are sitting around doing astrology.
He was the troupes co-founder, and the finest actor ever to walk our stage.
This sets Louis off, so he visits Lestats accountant to try and confirm that hesreally most sincerely dead.
Pips a savage, Santiago says to Claudia as they file out.
when his name is literally Louis de Pointe du Lac.
The guy should be Francophone ashell,like youknowMaman had him and his siblings see French tutors.
Is the score on this show distractingly loud for anyone else?
It overwhelms the scenes sometimes, particularly when its this dang jazzy.
It felt like I was watchingTwin Peaks.
Claudia has a Murphy bed that flips up to reveal a coffin.
Louis buying baguettes to lure and eat pigeons: moreEmily in Parisbehavior.
One of the skits, Garden of Satan, was definitely aLittle Shop of Horrorshomage, right?
Its giving hormonal cast after-party at Dennys.
I …Je telephone a la police.
I love that the show is such a big departure but is full of details for fans.
Things as specific as Estelle throwing shade at Claudia wearing pastels.
Its the little things,non?
