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Interview With the Vampire Season Premiere: The Last Great Romanian Dynasty
We are so back!
Interview with the Vampire has woken from its immortal slumby-of-the-damned to bestow upon us the dark gift of a second season, brimming with even more lore, more gore, and more man- whore s. Based on vibes solely, it seems like in the eighteen months since the show premiered on AMC in late 2022, many have caught on to its delights, thanks in part to a brief interlude on Max. Bass had tiny shoes to fill as Claudia, following Kirsten Dunst’s haunted-doll version in the 1994 film adaptation, and she was excellent, using her wide-eyed cherubic features to really sell the performance of an aging vampire trapped in a tween body. The new season launches right into Louis reading from Claudia’s diary, getting us up to speed on what we missed last season, which Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) summarizes as, “eight hours on how to avoid the sun and torpedoes while cruising the Mediterranean war theater,” and “two hours and counting on chasing Old World vamps who never materialize.” To be honest, “U-Boat Vampires” is an incredible premise for a B-movie, but we sail right past that and land midway through Claudia and Louis’s grand tour of Eastern Europe, which has been complicated by a teensy weensy “ideological rift between humans,” which is that it’s full-on World War II.
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