‘Interview with the Vampire’ Season 1 Recap Before Season 2

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• Memory is a haunting monster that reveals surprising twists and turns in Louis and Daniel's lives
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• Season 1 also explores Louis' journey to immortality and deep and complicated relationships with Lestat and Claudia.
• The shocking finale sets the stage for Season 2, revealing secrets and introducing mysterious new characters.

“Memory is a monster.” The phrase, uttered both by Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) and Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) everywhere Interview with the vampireThe first season of, means that memory is constantly changing, horrifying, something that haunts us every day and every night. From time to time, it seems as if we would be better off not remembering certain aspects of our past. However, every now and then, we need to remember a thing or two. And from time to time, it may even seem like it's nice to do so. For example, it feels good to remember the first series of a great TV show as we prepare for a fast-approaching Season 2. Here is a summary everything to remember Interview with the vampire Season 1.

“Interview with the Vampire” season 1 begins with, well, an interview

The first season of Interview with the vampire begins with journalist Daniel Molloy (Bogosian) receiving a box full of cassette tapes and a letter in the mail. Now old and suffering from Parkinson's disease, he is invited by a vampire he once knew to redo an interview he recorded over 50 years ago. Having reached a dead end in his career and dying to publish a new book, Molloy agrees to take a trip to Dubai, where he meets a certain Louis de Pointe du Lac in a dimly lit attic, surrounded by servants.

Unlike in Neil Jordan's film and al Anne Rice novel that inspired it, in which Louis owns a plantation in the 1800s, in the television series he is a black man who makes his fortune running a chain of brothels in the Storyville neighborhood of New Orleans in the early 20th century. Despite having a complicated relationship with his brother Paul (Steven G. Norfleet), who claims he can hear the voice of God in his head, Louis is close to his family and enjoys a somewhat respectable reputation in town. When not working, he likes to visit a rival brothel called Fair Play. It is during one of these nights of pleasure and revelry that Louis meets a man named Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid).

Recently arrived from France, Lestat is a charming man with a magnetic personality and a genuine obsession with Louis. The two quickly develop an intense relationship, first as rivals, then as friends, and then finally as lovers. Louis starts bringing Lestat to his family functions, which turns out to be a problem when Paul senses that there's something about this man. At first, Louis ignores him, believing this paranoia to be another symptom of his illness. It takes a tragedy to realize that Paul might be right. You see, after his sister's wedding, Paul takes his own life by jumping off the roof. And when Lestat shows up to disrupt his brother's funeral, Louis decides he wants nothing more to do with him. Alas, it's too late. After a particularly intense conversation inside a burning church next to two dead priests, Louis agrees to Lestat turning him into a vampire.

After the transformation, Lestat instructs Louis in the ways of vampires, eager to make his lover a part of his world. However, Louis is not very good at being a vampire. First of all, he doesn't like to feed on people and prefers to drink animal blood, even if it tastes like shit and makes him weak. Second, he insists on preserving his human connections, especially with his family, something that becomes more and more difficult as the years pass without him aging a day. From the beginning, Louis' relationship with Lestat is strained, and not just because Louis isn't necessarily grateful for his “gift.” Lestat is also an abusive lover, the kind of man who is manipulative and has an extramarital affair with a woman named Antoinette (Maura Grace Athari), but balks when Louis walks out with an old flame.

Still, alongside Lestat, Louis grows as an entrepreneur until segregation and prohibition hit. Segregation is the first. As World War I progresses, white men establish a series of new regulations that, until now, Louis believed were his allies. Chief among them is Alderman Fenwick (John DiMaggio), which offers to buy Azalea, Louis' largest club, formerly known as the Fair Play, for 15% of its value. offended, Louis visits him and kills him before hanging his body outside City Hallthe entrails hanging in a Hannibal-like a screen.

This leads to a series of hate crimes in New Orleans, in which black people in the city have their homes and businesses burned down by the white population. Feeling guilty for the destruction he believes is his fault, Louis uses his vampire telepathic powers and hears a young woman's voice calling for help inside a house engulfed in flames. He runs inside, picks up the girl and brings her to Lestat.

'Interview with the Vampire' Season 1 introduces us to Claudia

The girl is, of course, Claudia (Bailey Bass), everyone's favorite vampire boy. As he transforms into a creature of the night in the past, in the present, Molloy receives a package full of journals containing his own accounts of his early years with Louis and Lestat. Initially, 14-year-old Claudia is ecstatic to be a vampire and, unlike Louis, takes it with immense ease. However, as time goes on, he begins to suffer with the awareness that he will never mature physically and have a life of their own. Things seem to be about to get a little better when she meets a young man named Charlie (Xavier Mills) and falls deeply in love with him. It all starts off sweetly enough until, one day, during a make-up session, Claudia blows him dry.

This, of course, breaks his little vampire heart, and he starts hurting himself by exposing his skin to the sun and doing secret killings. When the law comes knocking on Louis and Lestat's door, wondering if they have anything to do with the bodies that have been turning up, their already fragile marriage crumbles as they find themselves at a loss for what to do. More and more rebellious, Clàudia reveals to Louis that Lestat is still having an affair with Antoinette and runs away from home.

Claudia, however, does not have an easy time on the road. As the Depression settles in America, she's met with racism wherever she goes, and eventually, the show suggests, she's assaulted by a fellow vampire named Bruce (Damon Downno). Appalled, but having learned much about the existence of other vampires through her research in the university libraries, she returns home, determined to convince Louis to go with her to Europe. The problem is that Lestat doesn't have it. As Claudia insists that Louis leave with her, Lestat strikes him and, having flown with him into the sky, drops him from this height back to the ground.

It takes years for Louis to fully recover. Meanwhile, after being kicked out of his home, Lestat does everything in his power to find his way back into the family through gifts Eventually, Louis takes him back in, but now there are certain rules. The most important of which is that everyone must now feed on humans and that Lestat must get rid of Antoinette. Unable to do so, Clàudia tries to leave once more, but Lestat violently forces her to stay.

Claudia and Louis break up with Lestat in the season 1 finale “Interview with the Vampire”

This is the last straw for an already enraged Claudia. Seeing her and Louis as Lestat's slaves, she decides to kill her oppressor, to which Louis agrees. When Lestat has decided to move the camp to Buenos Aires, Argentina, Claudia convinces him to throw a party before leaving New Orleans for good. And not just any party: a Mardi Gras ball, where he will reign as king. The plan is to invite a handful of people who covet his secret to immortality into a private room and then feast on his blood. Claudia, however, poisons one of the guests so that Lestat is forced to drink the blood of the dead, which can kill any vampire.

The plan works, at least to a point: for a second, Lestat and a near-converted Antoinette think they've gotten the best of Claudia, but she's the one who's fooled them all by poisoning the least expected guest. However, the poison did not kill its initial victim immediately, and so Lestat only became ill. now, according to Louis' account, he killed Lestat by slitting his throat and throwing him in the trash.. But Molloy is not so simply fooled. He soon realizes that a vampire cannot bleed to death. Slitting Lestat's throat would only leave him seriously injured. And, in the dump, with the rest of the garbage, he was able to find enough mice to feed himself until he was fully recovered. Molloy presses Louis on this matter, and Louis refuses to answer him properly. That's when the show's biggest reveal takes place.

One of Louis' main servants in Dubai is a man named Rashid, whom Molloy remembers meeting once before, all those years ago, when he first met the titular vampire interviewee in a bar. It turns out that Rashid is no mere servant, but a former vampire named Armand who is now Louis' long-term partner. Stating that he will no longer stop Louis if he decides to kill Molloy, Armand's big reveal closes the season, leaving us with a number of questions to answer in Season 2. How did he and Louis meet? What happened to young Claudia? And, perhaps most importantly, where is Lestat? Now that we're reminiscing about everything that happened in Season 1, it's time to get our well-deserved answers!

Interview with the vampire is available to stream on AMC+ in the US. Season 2 premieres May 12 on AMC and AMC+.

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