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‘The Show Is Built to Make People Feel Insane’


A season-two post-immortem with Interview With the Vampire showrunner Rolin Jones.

Rolin Jones, not to be confused with Talamasca agent and body thief Raglan James, serves as showrunner and co-executive producer on one of television’s most gorgeous and bloody good fun revelations in recent years, Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire. Jones describes season two as “one of those really tough shoots” owing to two strikes, a compact timeframe, and a “series of weird production calamities.” You wouldn’t know it from watching the wildly creative, sexy, and devastating end result. A lot of fanscalledepisode five of this season a vibe shift, an inflection point that drove existing viewers wild and made some non-viewers really sit up and start paying attention.

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