WATCH: The gayest show on TV is coming back to quench your thirst (for blood)
Interview With The Vampire returns on May 12.It’s been a long wait since the fiery finale of season one way back in fall 2022.
Some might say an eternity. Considering a crucial theme of the series is the banality of immortality, that wait feels apt—now we have a better idea of what it’s really like to be a vampire: Waiting.
And waiting. And waiting…Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.But we’ve finally got something to sink our teeth into, and boy does it look juicy.Adapted from Rice’s popular Vampire Chronicles novels, the series initially followed the volatile affair of recent vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac (Game Of Thrones‘ Jacob Anderson) and his feisty French Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid) in early 1900s New Orleans.But the lovers soon learned they have differing opinions on “how to vampire,” and their relationship only became more fraught after they saved a young girl named Claudia (Bailey Bass), made her immortal, and brought her into their home.Spoiler alert: By the end of season one, Louis and Claudia realize what a threat Lestat has become to their happiness, so they scheme to get rid of him for good.
Their plan nearly works, though Louis can’t help but throw his precarious paramour a lifeline.“If you’re draining somebody’s entire body… it’s quite a lot of fluid to be drinking.”The second season will find Louis and Claudia (now played by Delainey Hayles) fleeing to Paris, where they shack up with a vampiric troupe of actors who go by the Théâtre des Vampires, lead by sinister thespian Santiago (Foundation‘s Ben Daniels).
