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  • The Vampire Lestat Graced Us With a Release Window. And a Bite Out of Season 3

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    We have four months to get our act together. According to IGN, who revealed this news and debuted an exclusive look at the new season as part of IGN Fanfest, The Vampire Lestat will debut in June of 2026.

    So much happens in the three-minute scene IGN released that it’s kind of dizzying for IWTV fans. The clip features Sam Reid as Lestat de Lioncourt and Jacob Anderson as Louis de Pointe du Lac in the third season of the AMC series adapted from Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles. Stop reading now if you want to avoid Season 3 spoilers!

    First, we learn that Lestat has relocated from New Orleans to Montreal in the present timeline. (Y’all know he’s Canada down!) “Less baggage here,” he says, while also taking a dig at the locals and their, in his words, “mangled” French. There’s a garage band playing in his neighborhood called Satan’s Night Out–which readers will recognize as the name of The Vampire Lestat’s canonical backup band. In the scene, Lestat plays new music on the piano for Louis over Facetime via their respective iPads. His hair is clean and his curls are defined. Overall, he seems to be in a better mental space than we last saw him during a hurricane in New Orleans.

    They chat about Lestat’s new neighborhood and whether or not Louis can come visit and sell him a painting for his guest room… among other things. Their back and forth is all very pleasant, cordial, affectionate, flirty and honestly sweet given what we’ve seen so far of Louis and Lestat’s relationship on bad days and good days. Of course, this is not a flashback from Louis’, or heaven forbid Armand’s, point-of-view. It isn’t a ghost or a memory. This is pure, unfiltered Lestat de Lioncourt. He might not be as melodramatic as we were lead to believe.

    It’s so tame compared to the rockstar The Vampire Lestat trailers thus far. This is clearly the calm before the storm. This scene plants the seeds for chaos. Lestat gets a notification on his iPad encouraging him to purchase a copy of Interview with the Vampire, the in-universe book written by Daniel Molloy. To evoke a certain Cynthia Erivo meme, he didn’t know that was happening. While Lestat does not immediately erupt, he’s not thrilled that his former companion Louis A) sat for this interview with a mortal B) talked about him C) knew for a month that the book was getting published and failed to mention it. They were doing so well! On the defense, Louis seems convinced that the book won’t make a cultural impact because “no one reads anymore,” which… fair! Alas, I don’t think that’s going to be the case this time.

    Then, to add insult to injury, Lestat goes into a bookstore and overhears its employees dismissing the character Lestat completely. They instead thirst over the layered, sexy, mysterious “betaboi” Armand. (Or, rather, the book’s depiction of Armand as conveyed by Daniel’s writing. Interesting…) The salesgirl even boasts that went to the Louvre and pushed past tourists trying to see the Mona Lisa so that she could, instead, take a selfie with Palma Vecchio’s “Adoration of the Shepherd with a Donor.” In the show’s canon, the painting features a young Armand. By the end of the clip, Lestat politely but loudly snaps at the “would smash” Armand-loving clerk. He storms out of the store, paperback in hand. It’s only going to get worse. The brat prince is so back.

    What was with that voiceover at the beginning of the clip?

    There’s just one thing in that scene that I don’t quite know how to process. (Well, two if you count the book store clerk referring to Armand as a “betaboi.”) The clip opens with some radio static, and a voice that sounds like a bit like Eric Bogosian saying “You’re listening to The Failures: Album 8, Side A.” To tis millennial, it resembles what audiobooks used to sound like when they were on cassette tape. You may have seen a rumor online that “The Failures” is one of the episode titles. But that has yet to be confirmed. If so, perhaps this is the beginning of that episode? We could be hearing some kind of framing device for the season? Cannot wait to find out–and while four months is way too long to wait, at least now we know.

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  • They have Eric Bogosian doing more promo for Daniel Molloy’s fictional book instead of this hit AMC series

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    Why does it feel like AMC’s social media is doing more to promote the in-universe book Interview with the Vampire than their critical darling television series Interview with the Vampire? The network woke up and chose hilarious bits (not bites) on the week that Talamasca: The Secret Order, the third installment in the Anne Rice Immortal Universe, officially releases on AMC and AMC+.

    The fictional journalist has already had a PR scandal and neither Talamasca nor IWTV season 3, a.k.a. The Vampire Lestat, is out yet. As fans will recall, at the end of IWTV season 2 Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) published the book based on his interviews with the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) and the vampire Armand (Assad Zaman), Molloy’s own independent research, and additional help from the secret organization called the Talamasca. The book became a bestseller, and the already prickly Daniel became a vampire. A televised interview in the finale ended terribly. It seems the optics have not since improved.

    What’s the occasion for this new content? Bogosian reprises his role briefly in the new Talamasca series, which premieres on October 24, 2025. Some of his scenes take at a book signing for Interview with the Vampire. So in order to lure IWTV fans over to Talamasca: The Secret Order, it seems, AMC’s social team has leaned into the concept of “Daniel Molloy on a book tour” hard. It started on October 20th, 2025 with this announcement, which links to the Talamasca‘s official website.

    #ItsGivingBook is giving Daniel’s manager a headache

    Then, on October 21, 2025 a series of social posts depict Daniel doing press for a fictional event called the “It’s Giving Book” festival. That title alone is hysterical. In the first clip, he reads “reviews” from readers. About 90 percent of them call the book a cry for help, calling out red flags and flagrant gaslighting. One praises fast shipping. (As much as I would like to believe that’s about certain OTPs, I’ve perused enough Amazon reviews to know that the person in this made-up review is probably talking about delivery.)

    Next, AMC posted a video in which Daniel walks out an attempt to go viral with a “this or that”-style game called “Spill the Tea or Bleed the Fifth.” Said game would, according to an off-camera voice, include increasingly personal questions. Molloy appears clearly frustrated by the kitchiness of the exercise. He also doesn’t look thrilled that folks are not taking his book seriously.

    To be fair to AMC, they did have Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid play “bite it or bury it” game about a month ago. They’re mocking themselves! I’m mostly kidding when I say that AMC didn’t promote Interview with the Vampire. I just think it should have have had a bigger awards season push.

    Finally, because of the “incident” above, the final video showed Molloy reading a pitch perfect NotesApp apology. It was forced and emotionless. Molloy did not take accountability, or whatever. He concluded by apologizing that someone was offended rather than that he offended someone. Typical! Someone should really cancel this Pulitzer prize-winning vampire. The audible sigh, presumably from his manager, at the end of the video is the cherry on top.

    If you check out AMC’s Instagram account for the Immortal Universe, you can see the “actual” NotesApp screenshot posted for 24 hours in their story. All of these details are so fun! More please! I hope they keep this type of in-universe social content up for The Vampire Lestat. The actors would likely be down. They clearly love their characters. For example, Bogosian did these three videos in character even though he wasn’t wearing his vampire nails! The enthusiasm is there. Fans eat it up. Both seasons of Interview with the Vampire are on Netflix. That means the audience is experiencing a growth spurt as more people start their binge and become obsessed. Let’s keep it going so that The Vampire Lestat gets the raucus reception it deserves.

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  • In Interview With the Vampire’s Latest Episode, the Paris Coven Lets the Right One In

    In Interview With the Vampire’s Latest Episode, the Paris Coven Lets the Right One In

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    In “No Pain,” the third episode of Interview With the Vampire season two, Armand (Assad Zaman) shares the story of the Theatre des Vampires as Louis (Jacob Anderson) expresses reluctance to join—something that doesn’t stop Claudia (Delainey Hayles) from eagerly wanting to be a part of it.

    Why Are Vampires Associated With Queerness?

    This week we bite into the history of Paris’ vampire coven and Lestat’s (Sam Reid) role in its founding, as well as vampire rules, dark gifts, and more immortal romance. Levan Akin directs “No Pain” from a script by Heather Bellson in Anne Rice’s Immortal Universe of vampire lore, airing Sundays on AMC and AMC+.

    Taking a break from the isolating room at Louis and Armand’s penthouse, Molloy (Eric Bogosian) gets a real meal at a posh sushi restaurant in Dubai. There he’s accosted by a man who goes by Raglan James (Justin Kirk), who represents another mysterious party tracking vampires that knows more than Molloy is being told by Louis and Armand. Book fans definitely geeked out a bit here at the character’s introduction and little foreshadowing lines from James thoughout (if you know you know). Molloy thinks he’s not exposed, but after James advises him to be open to communication, he ends up getting hacked by the mysterious figure anyway when he gets back into the penthouse. Talk about a poor firewall, friend! Daniel is immediately sent files of more vampire information that he ever imagined in relation to his interview subjects and himself.

    Molloy tries to play it cool and hide James’ helpful info dump via chat box, as Armand arrives before Louis to share an on-the-record history lesson about the Paris Coven’s origins. The soft-spoken Armand is very old, despite his perpetually angelic-looking appearance: in 1556, the Roman Coven he was a part of sent him to Paris to head up its enclave, which lived in squalor deep in the shadows underground. They were run by sects driven through ancient religious laws and gods to keep them in eternal damnation mode under Satan. It got old very quickly for Armand; by the 18th century, when Lestat began to run amok in the city above, flaunting his alluring menace on the unsuspecting living, it drove most of the Paris Coven crazy to see such heretical behavior. But it intrigued Armand.

    In order to exert dominance as the Paris Coven’s maitre, Armand reveals himself to the fledgling Lestat and informs him he’s his new master as he exists in their domain and must follow vampire law. So of course Lestat blows him off, with the swish of his cape and his blond bouncy hair, because he does not want to be an obedient, poor, peasant vampire. The rejection only makes the brat Frenchman more hot to Armand, who’s never faced a challenge. Naturally, the coven wants severe punishment for Lestat as they see him break so many more rules including taking a mortal lover. That’s the breaks for letting Lestat run his showman lifestyle—and Armand uses his ancient powers to literally drop his ass and drag him into cooperating with a show of power that switches Lestat’s view on Armand.

    The boy wants power and he immediately plans to get it, so he shows up to the coven’s hovel with Christ on a cross (literally) to dismantle the old ways, which is what Armand wanted but knew he couldn’t get away with. He pisses on their rules and old god worship, because to Lestat they’re not there to stop them from being gods themselves. The coven breaks loose into the night; some end up taking to the sun to escape meaningless existence, while others jump into power. Knowing they need to be reeled in, because careless killing endangers all of them, Lestat encourages Armand to begin the coven anew through the Theatre des Vampires, a show where they perform their true identity and take their prey while the living laugh at the fiction they think they’re seeing.

    Lestat’s reformation leads to a new age of the vampire, giving Armand the freedom he sought, and he tells Lestat he loves him while Lestat being Lestat only covets Armand’s dark gifts. As soon as he learns them from the maitre, Lestat abandons him and the coven but leaves them the means to continue without him. Lestat’s ghosting and lover melodrama is something Louis is aware of and helps provide insight on when he sits with Armand and Molloy. It would take Armand 150 years to tell someone else he loved them, and you can deduce it’s Louis—oh, the piping hot tea!

    Molloy resumes Claudia’s Paris diaries, as she campaigns to join the coven that Louis wants no part of except to see her happy (and also he’s sweet on its maitre). She takes on the tasks of cleaning the theater house as she learns more about the coven, particularly Santiago. The acting troupe’s lead inspires her with his performances and dark gift of making people accept death before killing, and with her Daddy Lestat’s ambitious streak, she wants that power too. So Santiago takes her under his wing because he was also orphaned by a terrible maker, but of course he doesn’t know hers was Lestat—just some rando vamp named “Bruce.”

    Lestat’s presence is also felt in Louis’ motivations; like his former lover, there’s an independent streak that prevents him from having any interest in the coven, and that makes him attractive to Armand. The Paris Coven resents that even though all Louis does is enjoy Parisian culture and take up photography, with sporadic human meals, Armand begins to join him on his late-night wandering throughout the city. They fall in love over discourse about good vs. evil and enjoying music at jazz clubs—even with the occasional mental projection of Lestat showing up in Louis’ mind. Last season’s “Come to Me” song reappears in a fun scene as a diss track with Lestat on piano singing to Louis, “You little whore, you only want him because you’re feeling blue,” which disrupts the romantic evening—and Armand reveals he knows his maker is Lestat. Foolishly, Louis tells Armand everything and the maitre reprimands him over breaking so many rules he needs to enforce punishments for. Honestly, the expectation that Lestat would even teach Louis any rules is ridiculous, so when he says Lestat told him “shit” the frustration is understandable. Thankfully, Armand is stupidly sprung on Louis too, so he doesn’t kill him or Claudia immediately as was probably expected.

    Louis, of course, does not tell Claudia that his new boyfriend knows the truth; he continues to build a fake story around their history with “Bruce” and bond with her over their shared Lestat trauma. It really mirrors the complex PTSD that survivors of emotional and physical abuse can carry on from loved ones—even after making it out of the situation, it can haunt you, and in Louis’ case this presents as that manifestation of Lestat always following him. In anger, Louis kills a random person imagining them as Lestat and carelessly leaves the body behind. Within the coven, Santiago points out that his own maker was killed for less.

    Tensions begin to rise as the coven wants Louis dealt with, even as they embrace Claudia. As they begin to induct her into the coven by reciting the rules every vampire should follow (not knowing she’s broken a few of them), Armand takes Louis through the sewers to finally kill him. Louis is ready for it and asks for Armand to take care of Claudia, but the maitre reveals her being in such a young body will break her in time. Louis doesn’t accept that and begs for the coven to give her a chance, but Armand insists he’s seen it before; over the centuries, vampires in children’s bodies are not able to evolve past their physical limitations. Louis defends her, insisting she’s strong and it wouldn’t break her—perhaps blinded by her love for her. Seeing the damage Lestat has caused, Armand asks if Lestat broke him and Louis says no, but he carries him. The trauma bonding brings them together as do the life and death stakes here. The tension is too much and they kiss, starting a tryst and avoiding all the punishment talk for now.

    Interview With the Vampire airs Sundays on AMC and AMC+.

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