He also replied something about “knowing the type” when Louis called Lestat a handsome devil, and at that point of the night he didn’t have to “pretend” to be into man. My guy had absolutely been involved with men for more than one night
Agreed! For all that they were a bit ambiguous and cagey about his sexuality before, with this episode it's undeniable he was attracted to Louis in San Francisco (literally offered to be his immortal companion by the end of the night, besides all that flirting he did from the first moment) and arguably is still a bit attracted to him in the present. When Louis made the offer to have sex with him, he didn't shut it down like a straight person would, it was just clearly a bit of a surprising/baffling thing to hear that also was said in a light enough manner to just go over it and choose to stay on the more pressing topic. I think present day Daniel told Louis he only had sex with men for drugs/journalism in s1 for 2 reasons. 1st because it's likely something he left behind in his life, like it was a libertine/hedonistic habit along with the drugs (kind of like "being gay in college") and he mostly saw it as a behavior with a convenient excuse for it rather than an actual bisexual identity (to have serious relationships). I mean, look at the time period. 2nd reason I believe it's because he doesn't want Louis to know how charmed he actually was by him. Daniel thinks, to this day, that he and Louis had sex, a very intimate 10 hour conversation, and then that Louis tried to kill him haha. So it's more comfortable not letting Louis know how much he was actually seduced by him before being "duped"
@37:03 I think that's the point. The show is giving you more context into their relationship than what we've seen so far. There's no way the show can show all the just under 80 years they've been together. This keeps us interested. If we knew everything, it would be boring. That's WHY I like the show. It also gives them more room to dig into later.
This was a brutally delicious episode. A masterclass in acting. It was like a stage play. So good one of the best episodes of the series. Also finally we see the real Armand. Assad killed it!!
I think Daniel's sexuality is a bit more complicated than "is he or isn't he". He seems to have repressed it, but I get some queer vibes from him. Either he's gay or bi or pan, and the girl with paper bag on her head was a cruel way to loose his virginity because that's what's expected from him or either he just did have sex with men "for his career and addiction" because he wasn't brave enough to be openly queer, even though he went to gay bars. He did have two marriages with women and even had daughters, but... Y'know, closeted men amiright...
Also there's a theory that Alice, Daniel's first wife, is actually Armand and that the proposing means Daniel asking him to be turned into a vampire and be his companion
That seductive monologue from Armand while prepping Daniel to be devoured cut so deep they attached a suicide prevention hotline to the end of the episode…. Sheesh
I’m not convinced that this was the only instance of Armand manipulating Daniel’s mind and life. Louis has been playing F off and find me, so maybe Armand goes tit for tat on occasion, and maybe he pays Daniel visits. 😬
It can also be that for a while Louis and Armand had broken up and for that time Armand and Daniel had a thing going on, there was the Alice thing earlier this season and Armand's ability to scramble people's memories could be the reason why Daniel remmembers Armand as Alice
Yeah, I agree, and I don’t even mean in their QOTD romance way, but in a “I should keep tabs on this mf” way, that would be absolutely in character for Armand to do
Assad, Jacob, and Luke was perfection. I love this episode!!!! I watched it like 6 times! Assad embodied Armand! He was EVERYTHING! He is my fav in the show!❤❤❤
Armand was such a delight this episode!!! Beloved gremlin 💖💖💖 I still feel like Devil's minion chase could have happened in the past, Armand just mind-wiped Daniel every time he found him, masking it as drug use. Thats why he made sure to be in the room as Rashid, when Louis decided to do an interview with Danny again... Could be fun.
Exactly. Not to be rude but I don't buy for a minute that Armand resisted the Young Daniel. Armand tapped that ass like a fatty on Thanksgiving. He probably did erase his memories off it when he realized Daniel became addicted to his blood if he did the blood exchange. If so, credit to Armand.
Given your continued (and very welcome) breakdowns of adaptation vs. source material format, I'm sure that I echo your fanbase when I say that I'd LOVE to see you revisit the 90's film and do a comparison. Your last review of it (if memory serves) was a decade or more ago and I don't THINK that it included a book comparison. I'd love to see how it compares. Maybe even a book vs. series vs. movie since these two seasons seem to be covering the same ground as the film! Just wishful thinking...
After learning that Assad has the Spice Girls on his playlist he listens to before acting, im wondering what S G songs were used to prepare for those scenes.
@@jaimebergner He is, and I appreciate that he doesn't concerns himself with imitating humans beyond what serves him, he doesn't aspire to be or live like them. I always thought he was one of the least "human" of the vampires in the Chronicles, and that's why he's my favourite.
This was honestly my favorite episode of the show. Yes, Maven, I know the LeStat factor was low, so forgive my sins! In my view, and please no one cancel me here, I know Armond is a manipulative monster here, but I found myself empathizing more with him. Louis calling him "boring" was just a lash-out, and moreover calling some random stranger exciting and fascinating when Louis spent the whole interview whining about his own past is a bit much. At least Armond's anger is coming from somewhere even if he does horrible things with it. On the whole, their fight was the most honest character moments the show has had so far, and I loved it! Also, a quick shout out to the performance of both actors who play Daniel!
Yeah it’s really hard to sympathize with Louis when he knew since Paris that he isn’t into Armand yet has him calling him master for how many decades ? Manipulating Armand’s trauma to have him serve him while he really felt nothing towards him. Armand isn’t boring either so he’s only saying that bc he’s just not into him. Imagine spending decades worshipping someone you love but he’s just using you as a foot stool reminiscing on his love for someone he wishes could replace you with. He should’ve given everyone in a 50 mile radius a lobotomy
Best episode so far. I'm not a fan of "amnesia" plot devices in tv shows, but I genuinely enjoyed it. So emotional! Armand was both scary and sympathetic.
I don't know...that whole 'teach me how to be fascinating' line seemed like it could lead to some future stalking 😂 Even if it's not as acknowledged as in the book.
Amazing analysis! You are the first one I watched/read that seperated the book characters from the tv characters and gave us an honest interpretation about what’s happening. Great insight, and thanks for being passionate about this show as the fans are and sharing your knowledge with us.
I had a feeling Armand was behind these gaps in both Daniel's and Louis's memories. Again, Louis called Armand the love of his life, yet here in the flashback, he calls Armand *boring* for chastising him over attempting the original interview, while the hours Louis has had with Daniel was *fascinating.* Of course, this could be just due to the effects of the drugs in Daniel's blood Louis just drank, but we can see that his life with Armand wasn't so happy as they display in the present day. For someone who wanted Louis to be his Dom in their dom-sub relationship, this declaration was enough for Armand to take control of the situation via his jealousy and his want to control Louis during his more traumatic vulnerable moments. He pushed Louis's buttons to trigger his PTSD over Claudia and Paris, and after Louis nearly torched himself from attempted suicide, Armand became the pseudo caretaker to Louis, like someone with Munchhausen syndrome by proxy. He's willing to reach out to Lestat to ease Louis in his suffering, but Armand's unwilling to tell Louis that Lestat loves him because again, Armand wants Louis to himself; to be his sole source of reliance in his time of need, whether he wants it or not, as we see Louis protest to hear anything from Lestat.
I don't think he reached out to Lestat to ease Louis in his suffering at all. I think reaching out to Lestat made Louis suffer more. Armand did it to prove to Louis that he doesn't actually want to be with Lestat, that Lestat=more suffering. When Armand gave Louis the opportunity here, Louis rejected Lestat. So now Louis realizes how he really feels, that he doesn't want connection to Lestat, and so he'll stay with Armand. Armand already knew that was how it would go and was calling Louis's bluff to just put a final ending to this question of whether or not Louis actually would want Lestat and the madness back at this point.
I love how I feel like I am getting a full college education with your videos. So many sources cited, contexts given, and easy to understand factual deliveries. I feel my brain getting a work out and I actually have to pay close attention because you speak so fast! Lol
I know Lestat is somewhere buried in dirt trying to sleep or weakened and trapped in a dungeon by Armand thinking “Now, how am I in it?” And yes, he is saying it in NeNe’s voice 😂
The, using vampire blood to hide bite marks, is a thing in the show! Lestat does it to Louis after they have sex in season 1/episode 1. Lestat takes a "little sip" from human Louis and once they lay back on the couch you see Lestat prick his finger and wipe it on Louis neck and it heals! Maybe they left Daniels bite mark the same reason they left him with the knowledge of vampires, for a purpose later on. Because if they were already wiping Daniels mind they could have just wiped it all up until they left the bar.
The YOU ARE SOOOOOOO BORING brings me Lestat vibes from Louis Wich is funny and sad kind of way. And the TELL HIM ARMAND from our dark lord Lestat broke my heart I believe Armand was totally blocking it and I have started to believe maybe 🤔 he has him imprisoned because Armand is just armand
Thank you for your reviews, I find myself looking forward to them almost as much as the episodes. I really enjoy how you compare the series to the books as you notice the little details and nods to the book that I miss which makes the series more rich. Just watching this and now and how they skirt over the Devil's Minion storyline, I have this niggling thought that Daniel will become a version of David Talbot if this series continue. This is because there is no David in Mayfair witches, and he has a connection with Raglan James and it would make sense for him to be the archiver of vampire history.
I uploaded it last night for my Patreon patrons, but then the YouYube bots flagged it for copyright and demonetized it, so I had to reupload a new version today😖
@@MavenoftheEventide I'm sorry for the trouble and for the fact that I can't support u on patreon But I hope it somewhat helps to say that your work is much appreciated and enjoyed, so thank you from the bottom of my darkened heart, hugs :3
I saw a video where early on, Anne Rice thought about making Louis female for the movie script because then it might be accepted by a movie company faster. Glad that didn’t happen. 9:15
It was the studio not Anne she was very much against the idea, but was only hired to write the screen play so she wrote both versions of the screenplay like she was told studio were worried that it was too gay, I think Anne ended up saying that the only way it would work with a female Louis was if the got Cher for the part knowing Cher wouldn’t do it
Anne originally wanted to make Louis a woman in the novel because Louis was HER, but she knew no one would take the book seriously as literature if it had a female protagonist. It would be dismissed as romance or women's fiction, not Real Literature. So she made him a man. But by the time they were getting ready to make the movie, she had hopes that maybe the world was finally ready to take a woman-led story seriously and did consider Cher for the role (Cher even put out a song for the character before they decided not to use her. Look up Lovers Forever). But as we see, even in 2024, female-led movies still bomb compared to male-led ones, so they ended up keeping Louis a man so that audiences would give the movie more respect and not just dismiss it as a chickflick.
6:40 I like how you are pleased it’s the 25th Anniversary Edition. :) Daniel sold them after he read the Anne Rice stories…or did he write them himself? Wasn’t “Anne Rice” supposed to be a pen name in the universe?
I always look forward to your incredibly insightful videos, they are the best and so well informed by the books! Definitely gonna think about supporting your Patreon
Louis the Eeyore of Vampires. . . 🤣😂🤣😂 That fight scene with Armand and Louis throwing burns at each other. Then Louis runs upstairs to literally burn himself. And Armand in present time literally getting with the times and ordering his food via Door Dash 🤣
She wrote 4 The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Beauty's Punishment, Beauty's Release, and Beauty's Kingdom many people forget though ss she wrote them under A. N. Roquelaure
Thank you, Maven, for another brilliant breakdown. You always get me to put my Vampire-Chronicles-thinking-hat on and come up with all sort of delightful theories and questions. I really enjoyed last night’s episode but when I saw the scene where Louis goes up to the roof and tries to end his life, I panicked a little thinking it was way too early (story wise) for that to happen. And I know the producers said they were doing the interview having in mind many of the chronicles but still it caught me off guard. Do do you think the writers should’ve kept the ‘Louis-exposing-himself-to-the-sun’ storyline from Merrick as a subplot for a future season where we don’t get much Louis action or do you think it better for them to pick up events at random from the different chronicles and pepper them around the future seasons??
My FAVE episode so far!! is it me??? but when they go off-book, we get the BEST stuff. Armand's topping HARRRRRDDT from the bottom... lmao. and I'm not on the socials enough, but those notes 🎹when Armand's mind-wipe parroting was at play: "I took a liking to you... Armand takes care of my happiness... you'd prove fruitful in later times..." is a trend in the making. get on it TikTokers.
I'd like your thoughts about something that happens in the behind the scenes. There's some sort of Art Director showing the drug case from this episode, and next to it are copies of "Interview with the Vampire" written by Daniel, both hard cover and paperback. How do you think these will play out going forward in this season?
I think after the interview is done, Daniel will publish it as a book, just like he does in Queen of the Damned. Only it looks like he puts his own name on it this time, not a pseudonym.
I'm reading QotD right now and in the Jesse chapter Maharet erases her memory when she wanders into the crypt under the house. I don't know if Jesse gets her memories back... later.
@@MavenoftheEventide I forgot to mention if you haven't seen it already I recommend the French-Canadian film "Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting..." (have to abbreviate the title since there's a word in there TH-cam doesn't like). It's a fun movie with a charming cast. I'd love to see your take on it!
The twisted Daniel Armand romance could still happen-it might just be delayed a bit, much like Louis' entire lifetime / becoming a vampire was and the interview going for round two and the whole entire Louis/Armand relationship. Lol I'm just taking a largely Wait-and-See philosophy approach with everything we will or won't get in the tv series, myself. Until it stops airing. They could still do just about anything at any time, including complete retcons; may be more or less likely, in many cases, but theoretically they could(whether they actually will or not). Lol I'm basically just along to delight in the ride, either way.
(I mean, we also technically still don't quite know exactly what all has or hasn't happened after Louis and Armand left Daniel to believe he just had a really bad trip or whatever, and we now know it's entirely canonically possible that things could have happened and they have absolutely no recollection of it and/or even believe other things happened entirely than what actually did.)
I don't think it's entirely canonically possible at all. Considering it wasn't possible that Daniel had no recollection of the memories Armand erased in 1973. He DID have recollection of them. Just being around Armand triggered those memories to start to come back even before he knew who Armand was. So if there were more suppressed memories, those would be flashing in his mind too just as much as the other ones have been. I really do think what he remembered in episode 5 was the all of it.
@@MavenoftheEventide (I'm going to preface this first by saying that I'm kinda getting the impression that you and I are sort of using "no recollection" in slightly different ways, here-you seem to mean "no recollection" as in if the memories had been completely cut out and nothing ever could have brought them back unless somebody else had re-planted them back into his mind again much like they had been taken out of it in the first place or something, but I just mean that he clearly did not have any _conscious_ [or knowing] recollection of them and had personally believed that something else entirely had happened back then instead of initially being consciously and/or knowingly aware in the tv series' beginning of that first interview having even been what happened to him back then in the '70s or whenever at all....until after Louis sent him those tapes and invited him for a second go at it. Although it is a little hazy for me exactly how much he did or didn't really remember or not at precisely which points throughout the tv series, since it's difficult to tell what he or other characters are and aren't for sure always being deliberately cagey about just to keep things defensively close to their own vests or whatever versus what they just legitimately don't know or don't remember at certain points until it later on eventually pops back in for them in some how or another.) I think he only for sure always recollected the bit that was never suppressed to begin with, the part when "the burned man"(Louis) told him he had something really special in him and to make something of his career(or whatever), if I remember things right-because he put that particular bit in one of his books published at some point after the first interview but before the second interview had even started. And I suspect that particular part may or may not, in fact, even have been deliberately *made* to be remembered by him specifically thanks to a deliberate vampire-design(much like the other memories were also made to be forgotten by a deliberate design). When the second interview first started, he allegedly didn't even remember that the first interview had happened in the slightest. Even in season 2, Louis kept checking in with him and asking him on and off again if or what he remembered about that first interview or not. The other parts also, clearly, did not I think literally all just start coming back to him all at once either-it came back only in scattered bits and pieces and only as certain specific triggers brought certain bits or pieces forward and/or as various other details eventually got scrutinized more and more closely and things eventually just stopped adding up the way they had previously been believed by him to or to-not have happened and then he started deliberately doubting/questioning things even more precisely because of that, but even then those bits and pieces still often seemed to need the other various scattered bits and pieces that came back to Louis too in order to make full/proper sense of it and fill the whole entire picture back in completely(I think he really didn't seem to be walking through it with Louis exclusively just to get Louis' recollection on the same page as his own and what he had already totally remembered or figured out all for himself, until the very very end when he wanted to convince Louis it wasn't just him whose memories about it had been tampered with and not merely eroded or repressed by time or trauma or whatever else). He started to remember certain things even before he consciously knew who Armand was, yes, but he didn't start to remember just because he saw Armand's face; if I recall the first season correctly, it took multiple episodes before he remembered having seen Armand too back when he first met Louis and it was other things starting to make him suspicious of Armand's alleged identity and/or specifically talking about how he had met Louis the first time itself that triggered it, and even then he still didn't seem to immediately think it was for sure an actual memory until much later on(and it took multiple episodes into season 2 before he remembered anything more than simply having seen Armand's face before too unless I'm misremembering here). ((I have also always kind of questioned whether or not he really even just spontaneously remembered that particular detail entirely all on his own or not or if maybe it was actually Armand(or perhaps even someone else off-camera we the audience haven't been made aware of yet) who purposefully caused him to first remember seeing Armand too back when he met Louis that first time, perhaps just to unsettle him(or for who knows what other possible reason), perhaps without actually intending it to bring anything else back right along with it too.)) I think what we saw in episode 5 is probably everything that happened during and immediately after that very first interview, yes; but I don't think that if there were any other later encounters with vampires not directly tied to that specific event or period in time that it necessarily is so obvious or definite that it really would have just all begun already coming back to him at all too just because that one particular event has, and if I remember it right he has also hinted that there were other times/moments in his life where things had "gotten really bad" or whatever like that and such similarly to when/how he had believed they'd "gotten bad" for him when he had first met Louis(but he previously thought he'd just gone to a dark-dark place and ended up on a really bad bender which he was lucky to have survived or whatever) and I think he has implied previously that there was a point in time when that was a relatively more regular or normal occurrence for him & he has more recently I believe even just in episode 5 implied that even well after the first interview he had still occasionally fallen off the wagon like that again from time to time just eventually perhaps slightly more infrequently. But, yeah, of course that doesn't necessarily mean there for sure actually were any other forgotten events or moments that will eventually come back to him too either-I think it is still possible that there could be, but maybe that's just me and of course there might not be anything else still left to recall at all and maybe anything more or further than that really will all be left only for possible future storylines and/or maybe just never even be introduced into the tv series whatsoever. Only time will tell, for sure. 🙂 ( Really sorry if this is all extra rambling and just mush and difficult to parse any real sense out of, or whatever, though-it's like 80+° F in my house currently, and my brain/coherency is maybe not quite as tightly woven or clear as it could be, right now. 😅😅🙏🙃😅😶 )
Bravo! Another entertaining deep dive! I adore you! I look forward to this show every week. Side Question, when are we thinking Marius will finally appear? (he's my favorite) ❤ Can't wait to see what this show has in store and cant wait for more of your discussions!
If they follow the books, he'll appear in the second half of Season 3 after Lestat leaves Paris and does his travels through Europe and Egypt. He meets Marius 10 years after becoming a vampire.
The playlist for these vids seems to have been scrambled somehow, I know YT lets one decide whether new episodes go first or last, so maybe it's reset at some point? ❤
Maven, do you know anything about the Night Island series that was supposed to air or stream sometime in late 2023? I can’t find any current information on it. Thanks for any and all help. :)
Tom Cruise has a clause that no merchandise is ever allowed to be made of any character he plays in movies. So there will never be a real Lestat funko. Mine is a custom made/repainted one from Etsy. Search there, and you’ll find some.
Me heart is broken your not a vampire? I missed you yesterday so glad you made vid my vampire expert. It was a beautiful episode so much happened tensions were very high.
Saying the show isn't doing the Daniel and Armand romance is just straight-up lying. It's clear as day that there is more to their story. You can tell from their interactions in Dubai that something else happened after 1973. Book readers really have no patience whatsoever, which is funny as hell. It's an 8 episode tv show, not a 5,000-page novel, lol. Some things are gonna be slow burn.
Season two is what I wish season one was, perfection.❤ Season two should be the reason for this show to win awards, especially Assad and Jacob, I love them in this season, especially this episode, magnificent performance!!!!❤❤❤
A. I love your reviews! B. 46:30 I love editing mistakes like this. It reminds me that you're... only human 🧛🦇 Edit: no seriously, that's not a neg. With the length of your videos the time it must take to edit them is intimidating, let alone write and perform them. You're a beast and I find this stuff humanizing.
"The vampire who made me was everything that I truly believed evil to be: He was as dismal, as literal, as barren, as inevitably eternally disappointing as I believed evil had to be!" Said in Magus's tower where Lestat is a prisoner? Do you think the picture of Lestat listening through a stone wall might be him overhearing this conversation between Louis and Armand? I follow you on Twitter under a different name. Awesome content.
I love you maven ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉 your opinions on the vampires 🦇 have always been a great aspect on this platform and on my life . Id bite you if I could 😋😜😂
The show completely invented Francis and everything about this Santiago. All we know of him in the book is that he’s younger than Louis, plays the Death on stage, and is an obnoxious trickster personality. He’s only in the first book and never mentioned again in the series
To think that these ghost stories of Rice's could inspire such a treasure trove of analysis(not to mention unabashed and seemingly limitless hero-worship of Anne Rice) by someone as intelligent as the Maven.Now, I like scary stories as much as the next person, and these Chronicles are some of the best ever written, I could never compare them in importance with even "The Sun also Rises" By Hemingway or even a short story by Faulkner. Someone queried me as to the definition of "serious fiction" in the comments section a while back. Read Hemingway or Faulkner and you will know why Rice was not considered, for all her virtuosity, a "serious" fiction writer. The two authors mentioned above won the Nobel prize for literature, by the way and Rice was never even considered for that prize, nor, I believe, has any other genre writer.
I mean, tbf, we don't know what "of course he has, he's a journalist" means to Bogosian-maybe Bogosian thinks journalism is the most obviously bi thing ever. Some people do have weird ideas like that. You also have to be aware that they are likely being deliberately cagey, I'm sure, about any answers they have been told are off-limits spoilers(even if it's a well established fact in the books, it can still be considered spoilers to confirm it too early whether or not they are actually going to go that particular route or not for the tv series; especially since they are likely trying to preserve some sense of prospective mystery or surprise for any tv viewers who have not read the books)-and/or the actor may or may not know literally all the plans for future seasons yet, if the showrunner's even have it all planned out yet themselves. So they may be giving deliberately vague or misleading interview answers, just to try and keep viewers guessing or unsuspecting until they finally do decide to take things in that direction at last. If they want Daniel to start out deep in denial, and then gradually be awakened out of his shell/closet/whatever similarly to how Louis was, (or maybe he's not in denial, maybe he just doesn't openly admit it to other people, since he had an image or public persona to preserve before the world got a little more liberal so now it's just a habit still) that's not necessarily entirely off the table just because of what they say in public interviews before they're ready to make certain details confirmed and public. (Possibly, he could just be lying to these vampires specifically in order to try and seem less potentially vulnerable to experiencing the same draw as they are lamenting to him about having experienced when they met Lestat.) Or maybe the tv show's creators just want to give representation not only to gay men (like Louis) but also to "gay for pay" and/or situational s*x*al behaviors since it is often entirely possible for the body parts to still function even in true incongruity with the mind's actual orientation. The mind can, in fact, be completely turned off and the body might in fact actually still respond to certain stimuli just the same. Or maybe that's all just me taking wild shots in the dark and it's none of the above. 🙃🤔🤷🤷♀️🤷🏻♂️ 😁😁 Lol
I have a feeling when they get around to doing the body thief like they’ve been hinting at elements this season i bet it will be Daniel that gets the new young body and is made into a vampire, as I’m assuming they’d want David Talbot to be one of the few known characters in the Talamasca show when it cones out next year as that’s a totally original show
I doubt that because Daniel's actor Eric Begosian is one of their biggest stars, and the very first actor that the showrunners wanted to be in the series. He would have to quit before they would ever even think of replacing him with a young body.
@@MavenoftheEventideI mean the interview part of the chronicles can only be extended so much so they either kill the character off now his book story is probably unlikely to happen or make the character a vampire new body or old, the only other thing I can think of is use the character to set up and be the connection in the future shows, he’s already got an in with the Talamasca now and maybe when other vampires tell their stories it will be him they seek out. I’m hoping interview will be be subtitled or retitled the vampire Lestat when it returns (if it returns) anyway so if they want to keep the actor there are lots of ways
Yeah, since they titled the show "Interview with the Vampire," I predict he'll be interviewing all the vampires, instead of them just writing books on their own. So season 3 could be him interviewing Lestat this time.
Louis also says that if the victim knows if makes it to a certain place "by evening," he'll get a payout. So Armand is ONLY hunting in the day this time.
Tbh, Armand could probably easily be lying about why he keeps bringing Lestat up himself, he could be pointing fingers at Louis about Louis not being over Lestat literally just as an excuse to justify getting away with continually bringing Lestat up himself specifically because Armand is the one who's actually obsessed and fixating on Lestat-and they could have turned Lestat into 'he who shall not be named' specifically because Louis was sick of Armand constantly obsessing over Louis' alleged fixation on Lestat and gaslighting Louis into thinking it was all Louis' fault and just snapped and made them swear off mentioning Lestat altogether. Lol But, yeah, maybe they just want Armand to be more sympathetic since they have to set viewers up to want to keep revisiting Armand again in other parts of the story too.
I dunno if we were supposed to take the hands chopping thing literally or personally, or more just as a reference to the fact that Louis _knew_ Armand was giving him a carefully curated performance that sometimes slipped out of character rather than the fully real Armand(or maybe to the fact even if Armand has never done those things to Louis, Louis still knows that Armand is capable of it and/or has done it to other people, or is just forever paranoid because of Lestat's behavior just always expecting any vampire he's with to just completely snap and turn on him one day when he least expects it if he doesn't keep his guard up). And Armand is upset/offended by this because it was LOUIS' who was so extremely gunshy about being with Armand under any condition other than with this facade firmly in place because otherwise it was all accusations of being exactly like Lestat unless Armand was so careful not to ever doing anything that could even remotely possibly construed as anything like something that Lestat would do(or because Louis is just projecting again and them and their relationship can simply never fully get out from under that shadow of Lestat hanging over their heads). Who knows.
((Armand does mention his part in Claudia forever being held over his head though, so maybe the hands thing really is just one more thing confided in Louis that Louis is weaponizing against and lording over Armand, or something. 🤔🤔 CHOICES Lol))
After catching up I can say that this season is fucking awesome however my one gripe is for someone like me who never read the books this adaptation of the chronicles is implying that devils minion doesn’t exist in this universe and I’m a bit bothered by that cuz I would’ve wanted to see a relationship between young Daniel and Armand because I never read the books but know they were a couple.
This story is not over, so it could still happen or it probably has happened and we’ll find out later. This isn’t popular, but I’m fond of older Daniel, so I still want a current DM. Let’s hope we get something.
I actually see how they could spin into DM in the show. We’ve established Armand as a Mind Editor Extraordinaire and Louis in the 70s is a) out of commission while he heals and b) in a bad place with Armand. It could be they have some insane DM affair that Armand hides from the bed ridden Louis and then, for whatever reason (Daniel’s overdose?), wipes Daniel’s memory of the whole thing. Daniel even has a line in the first episodes along the lines of “I don’t remember the 70s at all really - too many drugs”.
Nah, Daniel was way too eager to rip off them cloths. He's totally bi.
He also replied something about “knowing the type” when Louis called Lestat a handsome devil, and at that point of the night he didn’t have to “pretend” to be into man. My guy had absolutely been involved with men for more than one night
Agreed! For all that they were a bit ambiguous and cagey about his sexuality before, with this episode it's undeniable he was attracted to Louis in San Francisco (literally offered to be his immortal companion by the end of the night, besides all that flirting he did from the first moment) and arguably is still a bit attracted to him in the present. When Louis made the offer to have sex with him, he didn't shut it down like a straight person would, it was just clearly a bit of a surprising/baffling thing to hear that also was said in a light enough manner to just go over it and choose to stay on the more pressing topic.
I think present day Daniel told Louis he only had sex with men for drugs/journalism in s1 for 2 reasons. 1st because it's likely something he left behind in his life, like it was a libertine/hedonistic habit along with the drugs (kind of like "being gay in college") and he mostly saw it as a behavior with a convenient excuse for it rather than an actual bisexual identity (to have serious relationships). I mean, look at the time period. 2nd reason I believe it's because he doesn't want Louis to know how charmed he actually was by him. Daniel thinks, to this day, that he and Louis had sex, a very intimate 10 hour conversation, and then that Louis tried to kill him haha. So it's more comfortable not letting Louis know how much he was actually seduced by him before being "duped"
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@37:03 I think that's the point. The show is giving you more context into their relationship than what we've seen so far. There's no way the show can show all the just under 80 years they've been together. This keeps us interested. If we knew everything, it would be boring. That's WHY I like the show. It also gives them more room to dig into later.
Assad's "lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat lestat ."is going to be some bars in a song
You can sing it like the “Boots and boots and boots and boots” rave parody.
Now I need this in my life hahahahahah
EVERYBODY!
Can we get a cover in the style of "Peaches" from the Super Mario movie?
@@StrawberryShorty I thought you meant the singer Peaches…if it was that, I would be totally in. But it would probably be sleazy. :)
My lord, this was a good episode
Yes it was❤❤
Was it though?
This was a brutally delicious episode. A masterclass in acting. It was like a stage play. So good one of the best episodes of the series. Also finally we see the real Armand. Assad killed it!!
I think Daniel's sexuality is a bit more complicated than "is he or isn't he". He seems to have repressed it, but I get some queer vibes from him. Either he's gay or bi or pan, and the girl with paper bag on her head was a cruel way to loose his virginity because that's what's expected from him or either he just did have sex with men "for his career and addiction" because he wasn't brave enough to be openly queer, even though he went to gay bars. He did have two marriages with women and even had daughters, but... Y'know, closeted men amiright...
that was what i red into it since Season 1.
Well...he took off his shirt for Louis and asked to be his Lestat, that's not so straight...
Yet, being a rent boy for drugs does not have to equal gay. The bag thing could have been a power trip as well.
@@wildmarjoramdieselpunk6396 yeah, and that was after he allready had all the drugs
Also there's a theory that Alice, Daniel's first wife, is actually Armand and that the proposing means Daniel asking him to be turned into a vampire and be his companion
That seductive monologue from Armand while prepping Daniel to be devoured cut so deep they attached a suicide prevention hotline to the end of the episode…. Sheesh
are we sure it wasn't there because Louis literally attempted suicide? lol
I’m not convinced that this was the only instance of Armand manipulating Daniel’s mind and life. Louis has been playing F off and find me, so maybe Armand goes tit for tat on occasion, and maybe he pays Daniel visits. 😬
It can also be that for a while Louis and Armand had broken up and for that time Armand and Daniel had a thing going on, there was the Alice thing earlier this season and Armand's ability to scramble people's memories could be the reason why Daniel remmembers Armand as Alice
I agree.
Yeah, I agree, and I don’t even mean in their QOTD romance way, but in a “I should keep tabs on this mf” way, that would be absolutely in character for Armand to do
Assad, Jacob, and Luke was perfection. I love this episode!!!! I watched it like 6 times! Assad embodied Armand! He was EVERYTHING! He is my fav in the show!❤❤❤
Armand was such a delight this episode!!! Beloved gremlin 💖💖💖
I still feel like Devil's minion chase could have happened in the past, Armand just mind-wiped Daniel every time he found him, masking it as drug use. Thats why he made sure to be in the room as Rashid, when Louis decided to do an interview with Danny again...
Could be fun.
Exactly. Not to be rude but I don't buy for a minute that Armand resisted the Young Daniel. Armand tapped that ass like a fatty on Thanksgiving. He probably did erase his memories off it when he realized Daniel became addicted to his blood if he did the blood exchange. If so, credit to Armand.
In S1 when Lestat first bites Louis you can see him healing his neck. They just didnt heal Daniel’s for some reason
Right?? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Given your continued (and very welcome) breakdowns of adaptation vs. source material format, I'm sure that I echo your fanbase when I say that I'd LOVE to see you revisit the 90's film and do a comparison. Your last review of it (if memory serves) was a decade or more ago and I don't THINK that it included a book comparison. I'd love to see how it compares. Maybe even a book vs. series vs. movie since these two seasons seem to be covering the same ground as the film!
Just wishful thinking...
I think this was the BEST episode so far!
Kudos to the makeup department for Sunburn Louis cos daaamn that was intense
I have been waiting for you since the MOMENT this episode ended, my LORD
After learning that Assad has the Spice Girls on his playlist he listens to before acting, im wondering what S G songs were used to prepare for those scenes.
😂 That would be hilarious, but Luke said Assad was listening to classical music before these scenes.
Yesss! Armand is finally shown as the monster he is and we love! 😁
I don't love him, he is a monster.
@@jaimebergner He is, and I appreciate that he doesn't concerns himself with imitating humans beyond what serves him, he doesn't aspire to be or live like them. I always thought he was one of the least "human" of the vampires in the Chronicles, and that's why he's my favourite.
Calling him a monster when he's such a complex chatacter (in a show full of complex flawed layered characters) feels a little vapid
@@Sympathy_forLadyVengeance crushing on such a manipulative and pathetic monster feels a bit vapid to me too.
@@jaimebergner oh, I'm sorry that my type is sexy interesting cunty moraly grey characters
Armand says that louis was drugging his victims and getting high from their blood, so more than likely fed before Daniel got there.
This was honestly my favorite episode of the show. Yes, Maven, I know the LeStat factor was low, so forgive my sins! In my view, and please no one cancel me here, I know Armond is a manipulative monster here, but I found myself empathizing more with him. Louis calling him "boring" was just a lash-out, and moreover calling some random stranger exciting and fascinating when Louis spent the whole interview whining about his own past is a bit much. At least Armond's anger is coming from somewhere even if he does horrible things with it. On the whole, their fight was the most honest character moments the show has had so far, and I loved it! Also, a quick shout out to the performance of both actors who play Daniel!
Yeah it’s really hard to sympathize with Louis when he knew since Paris that he isn’t into Armand yet has him calling him master for how many decades ? Manipulating Armand’s trauma to have him serve him while he really felt nothing towards him. Armand isn’t boring either so he’s only saying that bc he’s just not into him. Imagine spending decades worshipping someone you love but he’s just using you as a foot stool reminiscing on his love for someone he wishes could replace you with. He should’ve given everyone in a 50 mile radius a lobotomy
Best episode so far. I'm not a fan of "amnesia" plot devices in tv shows, but I genuinely enjoyed it. So emotional! Armand was both scary and sympathetic.
"Super powerful, Mary Sue blood."😂
That line made me laugh out loud! 😭🤣🤣🤣 So good.
I don't know...that whole 'teach me how to be fascinating' line seemed like it could lead to some future stalking 😂 Even if it's not as acknowledged as in the book.
Amazing analysis! You are the first one I watched/read that seperated the book characters from the tv characters and gave us an honest interpretation about what’s happening. Great insight, and thanks for being passionate about this show as the fans are and sharing your knowledge with us.
The scene of the two of them with their feet in the big cat litter box is so cute. ❤
Oh, is that Armand’s litter box? :)
I had a feeling Armand was behind these gaps in both Daniel's and Louis's memories. Again, Louis called Armand the love of his life, yet here in the flashback, he calls Armand *boring* for chastising him over attempting the original interview, while the hours Louis has had with Daniel was *fascinating.* Of course, this could be just due to the effects of the drugs in Daniel's blood Louis just drank, but we can see that his life with Armand wasn't so happy as they display in the present day. For someone who wanted Louis to be his Dom in their dom-sub relationship, this declaration was enough for Armand to take control of the situation via his jealousy and his want to control Louis during his more traumatic vulnerable moments. He pushed Louis's buttons to trigger his PTSD over Claudia and Paris, and after Louis nearly torched himself from attempted suicide, Armand became the pseudo caretaker to Louis, like someone with Munchhausen syndrome by proxy. He's willing to reach out to Lestat to ease Louis in his suffering, but Armand's unwilling to tell Louis that Lestat loves him because again, Armand wants Louis to himself; to be his sole source of reliance in his time of need, whether he wants it or not, as we see Louis protest to hear anything from Lestat.
I don't think he reached out to Lestat to ease Louis in his suffering at all. I think reaching out to Lestat made Louis suffer more. Armand did it to prove to Louis that he doesn't actually want to be with Lestat, that Lestat=more suffering. When Armand gave Louis the opportunity here, Louis rejected Lestat. So now Louis realizes how he really feels, that he doesn't want connection to Lestat, and so he'll stay with Armand. Armand already knew that was how it would go and was calling Louis's bluff to just put a final ending to this question of whether or not Louis actually would want Lestat and the madness back at this point.
Theory: could we get more Lestat via Louis remembering more suppressed memories? Maybe a couple of happier ones of their lives together?
I would love that so much!
Hi Maven
I have been waiting for this.
What an episode! 😮
Thanks!
Thank you so so much for all your support! 🥰
Im loving season 2 i hope the show gets renewed 🖤🖤🖤
52:12 "Give it like, 3 or 4 days guys..." so right! I can hear the keyboards clacking away. 😄😄😄👹
I love how I feel like I am getting a full college education with your videos. So many sources cited, contexts given, and easy to understand factual deliveries. I feel my brain getting a work out and I actually have to pay close attention because you speak so fast! Lol
refreshing frantically and it's here! x
I know Lestat is somewhere buried in dirt trying to sleep or weakened and trapped in a dungeon by Armand thinking “Now, how am I in it?” And yes, he is saying it in NeNe’s voice 😂
“Those holes will be filled”…😂
The, using vampire blood to hide bite marks, is a thing in the show! Lestat does it to Louis after they have sex in season 1/episode 1. Lestat takes a "little sip" from human Louis and once they lay back on the couch you see Lestat prick his finger and wipe it on Louis neck and it heals!
Maybe they left Daniels bite mark the same reason they left him with the knowledge of vampires, for a purpose later on. Because if they were already wiping Daniels mind they could have just wiped it all up until they left the bar.
Or he bit off Daniel so often that it became a waste of time to try to heal him each and every time.
The ghost thing reminds me of What We Do In The Shadows. :)
Was waiting for this video all day
The YOU ARE SOOOOOOO BORING brings me Lestat vibes from Louis Wich is funny and sad kind of way. And the TELL HIM ARMAND from our dark lord Lestat broke my heart I believe Armand was totally blocking it and I have started to believe maybe 🤔 he has him imprisoned because Armand is just armand
Best episode of the season so far in my opinion.
Thank you for your reviews, I find myself looking forward to them almost as much as the episodes. I really enjoy how you compare the series to the books as you notice the little details and nods to the book that I miss which makes the series more rich. Just watching this and now and how they skirt over the Devil's Minion storyline, I have this niggling thought that Daniel will become a version of David Talbot if this series continue. This is because there is no David in Mayfair witches, and he has a connection with Raglan James and it would make sense for him to be the archiver of vampire history.
I was waiting for your review 😊 god this episode was crazy
This is my favorite episode.
These are amazing. Please never stop
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I uploaded it last night for my Patreon patrons, but then the YouYube bots flagged it for copyright and demonetized it, so I had to reupload a new version today😖
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But I hope it somewhat helps to say that your work is much appreciated and enjoyed, so thank you from the bottom of my darkened heart, hugs :3
So happy to see this review from you, always welcome your thoughts and comparisons
Oh next episode is going to be a blood bath and I can't wait! 😈
Amc is doing a good job, you can tell they really took their time with these characters
I saw a video where early on, Anne Rice thought about making Louis female for the movie script because then it might be accepted by a movie company faster. Glad that didn’t happen. 9:15
It was the studio not Anne she was very much against the idea, but was only hired to write the screen play so she wrote both versions of the screenplay like she was told studio were worried that it was too gay, I think Anne ended up saying that the only way it would work with a female Louis was if the got Cher for the part knowing Cher wouldn’t do it
Anne originally wanted to make Louis a woman in the novel because Louis was HER, but she knew no one would take the book seriously as literature if it had a female protagonist. It would be dismissed as romance or women's fiction, not Real Literature. So she made him a man. But by the time they were getting ready to make the movie, she had hopes that maybe the world was finally ready to take a woman-led story seriously and did consider Cher for the role (Cher even put out a song for the character before they decided not to use her. Look up Lovers Forever). But as we see, even in 2024, female-led movies still bomb compared to male-led ones, so they ended up keeping Louis a man so that audiences would give the movie more respect and not just dismiss it as a chickflick.
@@MavenoftheEventide Thanks for the informative answer! I will look up that song. :)
6:40 I like how you are pleased it’s the 25th Anniversary Edition. :) Daniel sold them after he read the Anne Rice stories…or did he write them himself? Wasn’t “Anne Rice” supposed to be a pen name in the universe?
I always look forward to your incredibly insightful videos, they are the best and so well informed by the books! Definitely gonna think about supporting your Patreon
Louis de pointe du lac. The eeyore of vampires. Bahhahaha this is gold. ❤
Louis the Eeyore of Vampires. . . 🤣😂🤣😂
That fight scene with Armand and Louis throwing burns at each other.
Then Louis runs upstairs to literally burn himself.
And Armand in present time literally getting with the times and ordering his food via Door Dash 🤣
i forgot that she wrote a bdsm story with sleeping beauty
She wrote 4 The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, Beauty's Punishment, Beauty's Release, and Beauty's Kingdom many people forget though ss she wrote them under A. N. Roquelaure
at 51:35 who is that blond vampire on your left? My right. Your left. Great review, as ever! Lots I did not know! You're also very, very funny.
Probably just some stock photo 😆 It's a trivia card game called Vampire Smarts.
Lestat is in a dungeon type place according to the teaser
Armand is gonna bring him out
6:15 The “half in love with easeful death” reminds me of Keats’ Ode to a Nightingale poem. This is where Rice got it, right?
Nooo I’m still hopeful about armand and Daniel - blenders etc etc etc
Thank you, Maven, for another brilliant breakdown. You always get me to put my Vampire-Chronicles-thinking-hat on and come up with all sort of delightful theories and questions. I really enjoyed last night’s episode but when I saw the scene where Louis goes up to the roof and tries to end his life, I panicked a little thinking it was way too early (story wise) for that to happen. And I know the producers said they were doing the interview having in mind many of the chronicles but still it caught me off guard. Do do you think the writers should’ve kept the ‘Louis-exposing-himself-to-the-sun’ storyline from Merrick as a subplot for a future season where we don’t get much Louis action or do you think it better for them to pick up events at random from the different chronicles and pepper them around the future seasons??
My FAVE episode so far!! is it me??? but when they go off-book, we get the BEST stuff. Armand's topping HARRRRRDDT from the bottom... lmao. and I'm not on the socials enough, but those notes 🎹when Armand's mind-wipe parroting was at play: "I took a liking to you... Armand takes care of my happiness... you'd prove fruitful in later times..." is a trend in the making. get on it TikTokers.
I'd like your thoughts about something that happens in the behind the scenes. There's some sort of Art Director showing the drug case from this episode, and next to it are copies of "Interview with the Vampire" written by Daniel, both hard cover and paperback. How do you think these will play out going forward in this season?
I think after the interview is done, Daniel will publish it as a book, just like he does in Queen of the Damned. Only it looks like he puts his own name on it this time, not a pseudonym.
I'm reading QotD right now and in the Jesse chapter Maharet erases her memory when she wanders into the crypt under the house. I don't know if Jesse gets her memories back... later.
That’s another great example. She does get them back, because that’s how she remembers it to tell Lestat about it for him to write it into the book.
@@MavenoftheEventide I forgot to mention if you haven't seen it already I recommend the French-Canadian film "Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting..." (have to abbreviate the title since there's a word in there TH-cam doesn't like). It's a fun movie with a charming cast. I'd love to see your take on it!
i was craving for this 😭🙌
it took me a hot second to get the bat time joke, the spider web confused mee
The twisted Daniel Armand romance could still happen-it might just be delayed a bit, much like Louis' entire lifetime / becoming a vampire was and the interview going for round two and the whole entire Louis/Armand relationship. Lol
I'm just taking a largely Wait-and-See philosophy approach with everything we will or won't get in the tv series, myself. Until it stops airing. They could still do just about anything at any time, including complete retcons; may be more or less likely, in many cases, but theoretically they could(whether they actually will or not). Lol I'm basically just along to delight in the ride, either way.
(I mean, we also technically still don't quite know exactly what all has or hasn't happened after Louis and Armand left Daniel to believe he just had a really bad trip or whatever, and we now know it's entirely canonically possible that things could have happened and they have absolutely no recollection of it and/or even believe other things happened entirely than what actually did.)
I don't think it's entirely canonically possible at all. Considering it wasn't possible that Daniel had no recollection of the memories Armand erased in 1973. He DID have recollection of them. Just being around Armand triggered those memories to start to come back even before he knew who Armand was. So if there were more suppressed memories, those would be flashing in his mind too just as much as the other ones have been. I really do think what he remembered in episode 5 was the all of it.
@@MavenoftheEventide (I'm going to preface this first by saying that I'm kinda getting the impression that you and I are sort of using "no recollection" in slightly different ways, here-you seem to mean "no recollection" as in if the memories had been completely cut out and nothing ever could have brought them back unless somebody else had re-planted them back into his mind again much like they had been taken out of it in the first place or something, but I just mean that he clearly did not have any _conscious_ [or knowing] recollection of them and had personally believed that something else entirely had happened back then instead of initially being consciously and/or knowingly aware in the tv series' beginning of that first interview having even been what happened to him back then in the '70s or whenever at all....until after Louis sent him those tapes and invited him for a second go at it. Although it is a little hazy for me exactly how much he did or didn't really remember or not at precisely which points throughout the tv series, since it's difficult to tell what he or other characters are and aren't for sure always being deliberately cagey about just to keep things defensively close to their own vests or whatever versus what they just legitimately don't know or don't remember at certain points until it later on eventually pops back in for them in some how or another.)
I think he only for sure always recollected the bit that was never suppressed to begin with, the part when "the burned man"(Louis) told him he had something really special in him and to make something of his career(or whatever), if I remember things right-because he put that particular bit in one of his books published at some point after the first interview but before the second interview had even started. And I suspect that particular part may or may not, in fact, even have been deliberately *made* to be remembered by him specifically thanks to a deliberate vampire-design(much like the other memories were also made to be forgotten by a deliberate design).
When the second interview first started, he allegedly didn't even remember that the first interview had happened in the slightest. Even in season 2, Louis kept checking in with him and asking him on and off again if or what he remembered about that first interview or not.
The other parts also, clearly, did not I think literally all just start coming back to him all at once either-it came back only in scattered bits and pieces and only as certain specific triggers brought certain bits or pieces forward and/or as various other details eventually got scrutinized more and more closely and things eventually just stopped adding up the way they had previously been believed by him to or to-not have happened and then he started deliberately doubting/questioning things even more precisely because of that, but even then those bits and pieces still often seemed to need the other various scattered bits and pieces that came back to Louis too in order to make full/proper sense of it and fill the whole entire picture back in completely(I think he really didn't seem to be walking through it with Louis exclusively just to get Louis' recollection on the same page as his own and what he had already totally remembered or figured out all for himself, until the very very end when he wanted to convince Louis it wasn't just him whose memories about it had been tampered with and not merely eroded or repressed by time or trauma or whatever else).
He started to remember certain things even before he consciously knew who Armand was, yes, but he didn't start to remember just because he saw Armand's face; if I recall the first season correctly, it took multiple episodes before he remembered having seen Armand too back when he first met Louis and it was other things starting to make him suspicious of Armand's alleged identity and/or specifically talking about how he had met Louis the first time itself that triggered it, and even then he still didn't seem to immediately think it was for sure an actual memory until much later on(and it took multiple episodes into season 2 before he remembered anything more than simply having seen Armand's face before too unless I'm misremembering here). ((I have also always kind of questioned whether or not he really even just spontaneously remembered that particular detail entirely all on his own or not or if maybe it was actually Armand(or perhaps even someone else off-camera we the audience haven't been made aware of yet) who purposefully caused him to first remember seeing Armand too back when he met Louis that first time, perhaps just to unsettle him(or for who knows what other possible reason), perhaps without actually intending it to bring anything else back right along with it too.))
I think what we saw in episode 5 is probably everything that happened during and immediately after that very first interview, yes; but I don't think that if there were any other later encounters with vampires not directly tied to that specific event or period in time that it necessarily is so obvious or definite that it really would have just all begun already coming back to him at all too just because that one particular event has, and if I remember it right he has also hinted that there were other times/moments in his life where things had "gotten really bad" or whatever like that and such similarly to when/how he had believed they'd "gotten bad" for him when he had first met Louis(but he previously thought he'd just gone to a dark-dark place and ended up on a really bad bender which he was lucky to have survived or whatever) and I think he has implied previously that there was a point in time when that was a relatively more regular or normal occurrence for him & he has more recently I believe even just in episode 5 implied that even well after the first interview he had still occasionally fallen off the wagon like that again from time to time just eventually perhaps slightly more infrequently.
But, yeah, of course that doesn't necessarily mean there for sure actually were any other forgotten events or moments that will eventually come back to him too either-I think it is still possible that there could be, but maybe that's just me and of course there might not be anything else still left to recall at all and maybe anything more or further than that really will all be left only for possible future storylines and/or maybe just never even be introduced into the tv series whatsoever. Only time will tell, for sure. 🙂
( Really sorry if this is all extra rambling and just mush and difficult to parse any real sense out of, or whatever, though-it's like 80+° F in my house currently, and my brain/coherency is maybe not quite as tightly woven or clear as it could be, right now. 😅😅🙏🙃😅😶 )
best episode since the season 1 debut. I love all of them!
I must admit I love this series even though there's changes but can't deny this series the actors chemistries I'm hooked ❤
I'm glad you got your chaos gremlin. 😅 And I'm glad you're doing this because I couldn't have invested in the show at all without you.
Bravo! Another entertaining deep dive! I adore you! I look forward to this show every week.
Side Question, when are we thinking Marius will finally appear? (he's my favorite) ❤
Can't wait to see what this show has in store and cant wait for more of your discussions!
If they follow the books, he'll appear in the second half of Season 3 after Lestat leaves Paris and does his travels through Europe and Egypt. He meets Marius 10 years after becoming a vampire.
This episode was so good and also Armand scared me in this episode
I ❤ this season, so much more than 1. The Gremlin is coming out and the Brat Prince will come back!
I love your channel
The playlist for these vids seems to have been scrambled somehow, I know YT lets one decide whether new episodes go first or last, so maybe it's reset at some point? ❤
I just went and checked, and it all looks in order to me. Do you have it set on shuffle, mayhaps?
So glad you talk about Lestat the lyricist. I’ve discovered a fun way to piss people off. Compare Lestat to Taylor Swift.
Maven, do you know anything about the Night Island series that was supposed to air or stream sometime in late 2023? I can’t find any current information on it. Thanks for any and all help. :)
Because of the strike it was canceled
Yeah, there hasn’t been any news about it in a year. Sadly, I don’t think they’ll try to find a way to do it now.
@@MavenoftheEventide That’s a bummer. The premise was intriguing.
So where’d you get the Lestat Funk pop? I’ve had the hardest time finding one online lol
Tom Cruise has a clause that no merchandise is ever allowed to be made of any character he plays in movies. So there will never be a real Lestat funko. Mine is a custom made/repainted one from Etsy. Search there, and you’ll find some.
@@MavenoftheEventide that would explain it lol. Thank you for the update!
Me heart is broken your not a vampire? I missed you yesterday so glad you made vid my vampire expert. It was a beautiful episode so much happened tensions were very high.
Saying the show isn't doing the Daniel and Armand romance is just straight-up lying. It's clear as day that there is more to their story. You can tell from their interactions in Dubai that something else happened after 1973. Book readers really have no patience whatsoever, which is funny as hell. It's an 8 episode tv show, not a 5,000-page novel, lol. Some things are gonna be slow burn.
Which parts of their interactions in Dubai make you sure that something else happened after 1973?
I wanna know if "funboy's dr*g" was a discreet reference to The Crow😏🤔🤔🤷🤷♀️🤷🏻♂️👀
Hope everything is Ok, our dark Maven! We patiently await your reading of episode 6! It was a DOOZY! 🦇
Season two is what I wish season one was, perfection.❤
Season two should be the reason for this show to win awards, especially Assad and Jacob, I love them in this season, especially this episode, magnificent performance!!!!❤❤❤
It’s basically assads show now
I hate this Armand SO MUCH.
Like, he’s a great character. He’s just so utterly despicable, even by the standards of vampires.
And I love it.
My lady of Darkness!!!! Yay!! Been waiting!! Love your reviews!! It's like blood to a newborn...oh wait..wrong vampire. LMAO ❤
A. I love your reviews!
B. 46:30 I love editing mistakes like this. It reminds me that you're... only human 🧛🦇
Edit: no seriously, that's not a neg. With the length of your videos the time it must take to edit them is intimidating, let alone write and perform them. You're a beast and I find this stuff humanizing.
Playing with humans as a vampire is just playing with your food! Nothing to hurt a relationship, right?
"The vampire who made me was everything that I truly believed evil to be: He was as dismal, as literal, as barren, as inevitably eternally disappointing as I believed evil had to be!"
Said in Magus's tower where Lestat is a prisoner? Do you think the picture of Lestat listening through a stone wall might be him overhearing this conversation between Louis and Armand?
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Hi, @MavenoftheEventide, i got a q for you. What do we know of Santiago? Does his story pop up somewhere? Did they invent Francis Naughton?..
The show completely invented Francis and everything about this Santiago. All we know of him in the book is that he’s younger than Louis, plays the Death on stage, and is an obnoxious trickster personality. He’s only in the first book and never mentioned again in the series
To think that these ghost stories of Rice's could inspire such a treasure trove of analysis(not to mention unabashed and seemingly limitless hero-worship of Anne Rice) by someone as intelligent as the Maven.Now, I like scary stories as much as the next person, and these Chronicles are some of the best ever written, I could never compare them in importance with even "The Sun also Rises" By Hemingway or even a short story by Faulkner. Someone queried me as to the definition of "serious fiction" in the comments section a while back. Read Hemingway or Faulkner and you will know why Rice was not considered, for all her virtuosity, a "serious" fiction writer. The two authors mentioned above won the Nobel prize for literature, by the way and Rice was never even considered for that prize, nor, I believe, has any other genre writer.
I mean, tbf, we don't know what "of course he has, he's a journalist" means to Bogosian-maybe Bogosian thinks journalism is the most obviously bi thing ever. Some people do have weird ideas like that. You also have to be aware that they are likely being deliberately cagey, I'm sure, about any answers they have been told are off-limits spoilers(even if it's a well established fact in the books, it can still be considered spoilers to confirm it too early whether or not they are actually going to go that particular route or not for the tv series; especially since they are likely trying to preserve some sense of prospective mystery or surprise for any tv viewers who have not read the books)-and/or the actor may or may not know literally all the plans for future seasons yet, if the showrunner's even have it all planned out yet themselves. So they may be giving deliberately vague or misleading interview answers, just to try and keep viewers guessing or unsuspecting until they finally do decide to take things in that direction at last. If they want Daniel to start out deep in denial, and then gradually be awakened out of his shell/closet/whatever similarly to how Louis was, (or maybe he's not in denial, maybe he just doesn't openly admit it to other people, since he had an image or public persona to preserve before the world got a little more liberal so now it's just a habit still) that's not necessarily entirely off the table just because of what they say in public interviews before they're ready to make certain details confirmed and public. (Possibly, he could just be lying to these vampires specifically in order to try and seem less potentially vulnerable to experiencing the same draw as they are lamenting to him about having experienced when they met Lestat.) Or maybe the tv show's creators just want to give representation not only to gay men (like Louis) but also to "gay for pay" and/or situational s*x*al behaviors since it is often entirely possible for the body parts to still function even in true incongruity with the mind's actual orientation. The mind can, in fact, be completely turned off and the body might in fact actually still respond to certain stimuli just the same. Or maybe that's all just me taking wild shots in the dark and it's none of the above. 🙃🤔🤷🤷♀️🤷🏻♂️ 😁😁 Lol
Hey Maven who do you think would make a good Gabriella, I say Michelle Pfeiffer?
I have a feeling when they get around to doing the body thief like they’ve been hinting at elements this season i bet it will be Daniel that gets the new young body and is made into a vampire, as I’m assuming they’d want David Talbot to be one of the few known characters in the Talamasca show when it cones out next year as that’s a totally original show
I doubt that because Daniel's actor Eric Begosian is one of their biggest stars, and the very first actor that the showrunners wanted to be in the series. He would have to quit before they would ever even think of replacing him with a young body.
@@MavenoftheEventideI mean the interview part of the chronicles can only be extended so much so they either kill the character off now his book story is probably unlikely to happen or make the character a vampire new body or old, the only other thing I can think of is use the character to set up and be the connection in the future shows, he’s already got an in with the Talamasca now and maybe when other vampires tell their stories it will be him they seek out. I’m hoping interview will be be subtitled or retitled the vampire Lestat when it returns (if it returns) anyway so if they want to keep the actor there are lots of ways
Yeah, since they titled the show "Interview with the Vampire," I predict he'll be interviewing all the vampires, instead of them just writing books on their own. So season 3 could be him interviewing Lestat this time.
So, in the show, Armand hunts in the daylight? When it comes back, it looks really bright in the windows of the penthouse. I couldn’t figure it out.
He did say in the beginning that it’s daytime and Louis might be sleepy so it seems like he does
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Louis also says that if the victim knows if makes it to a certain place "by evening," he'll get a payout. So Armand is ONLY hunting in the day this time.
Tbh, Armand could probably easily be lying about why he keeps bringing Lestat up himself, he could be pointing fingers at Louis about Louis not being over Lestat literally just as an excuse to justify getting away with continually bringing Lestat up himself specifically because Armand is the one who's actually obsessed and fixating on Lestat-and they could have turned Lestat into 'he who shall not be named' specifically because Louis was sick of Armand constantly obsessing over Louis' alleged fixation on Lestat and gaslighting Louis into thinking it was all Louis' fault and just snapped and made them swear off mentioning Lestat altogether. Lol
But, yeah, maybe they just want Armand to be more sympathetic since they have to set viewers up to want to keep revisiting Armand again in other parts of the story too.
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So. The memory wipe was done by someone else on all three?
Nah, it was done by Armand to Daniel & Louis. Armand remembers everything that happened
Yikes, from a companion that beats him, to another that mind wipes him. Louis is a prisoner to his attractions.
I dunno if we were supposed to take the hands chopping thing literally or personally, or more just as a reference to the fact that Louis _knew_ Armand was giving him a carefully curated performance that sometimes slipped out of character rather than the fully real Armand(or maybe to the fact even if Armand has never done those things to Louis, Louis still knows that Armand is capable of it and/or has done it to other people, or is just forever paranoid because of Lestat's behavior just always expecting any vampire he's with to just completely snap and turn on him one day when he least expects it if he doesn't keep his guard up). And Armand is upset/offended by this because it was LOUIS' who was so extremely gunshy about being with Armand under any condition other than with this facade firmly in place because otherwise it was all accusations of being exactly like Lestat unless Armand was so careful not to ever doing anything that could even remotely possibly construed as anything like something that Lestat would do(or because Louis is just projecting again and them and their relationship can simply never fully get out from under that shadow of Lestat hanging over their heads). Who knows.
((Armand does mention his part in Claudia forever being held over his head though, so maybe the hands thing really is just one more thing confided in Louis that Louis is weaponizing against and lording over Armand, or something. 🤔🤔 CHOICES Lol))
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I'm pretty sure Louis' rooftop s**c*de attempt was a cinematic Twilight reference. 😆👀 Lol
After catching up I can say that this season is fucking awesome however my one gripe is for someone like me who never read the books this adaptation of the chronicles is implying that devils minion doesn’t exist in this universe and I’m a bit bothered by that cuz I would’ve wanted to see a relationship between young Daniel and Armand because I never read the books but know they were a couple.
This story is not over, so it could still happen or it probably has happened and we’ll find out later. This isn’t popular, but I’m fond of older Daniel, so I still want a current DM. Let’s hope we get something.
I actually see how they could spin into DM in the show. We’ve established Armand as a Mind Editor Extraordinaire and Louis in the 70s is a) out of commission while he heals and b) in a bad place with Armand. It could be they have some insane DM affair that Armand hides from the bed ridden Louis and then, for whatever reason (Daniel’s overdose?), wipes Daniel’s memory of the whole thing. Daniel even has a line in the first episodes along the lines of “I don’t remember the 70s at all really - too many drugs”.