Interview with the Vampire S1E2
Last time on Interview with the Vampire
Now: Episode 2 "...After the Phantoms of Your Former Self"
Current day Daniel Molloy is taking a mini break from the interview and is taking a gander at this beautiful painting in which Louis' assistant asserts himself to inform him the painting is Venetian by an artist named Tintoretto. "Marius de romanus" is the name of the painting. which little of his work survives and Louis covets the rarity works. Mr. Molloy inquires a few more questions to this assistant says he serves a god. Okay, a little corny. Daniel attempts to prod a little more asking if his work relationship with him? My man here is tight lipped about the quick succession in questions all he says is that dinner will be served and Louis will join him at course 7.
SIETE?!?! PORQUE?!?!?!
Out comes the butlers and Daniel Molloy is being wined and dined with luxurious meals with very interesting albeit small works of art that are his courses.
Eventually Louis slowly reveals himself in the room and he once again apologizes for his outburst and assures him it won't happen again. (As far as I know there wasn't an outburst at the end of episode 1 so I am assuming he meant from their ORIGINAL interview). Alas, he sits his immortal ass down at the other end of the table and during dinner, they resume the interview.
So, where were we? Ah, yes. "Post priesticide" Molloy reminds Louis.
Lestat is dragging the dead priest in the cemetery while a newborn vamp Louis is writhing in agonizing pain struggling to keep up with him. Lestat explain that it's just his transformation and it's a bit of a rough ride for his body to adjust. Louis' insatiable hunger lunges for the blood of the dead priest but Lestat goes "NUH UH. You only feast on the blood of the living." Because blood from the deceased can make a vamp deceased and that's no bueno.
After disposing of the body, he sees Louis perched upon a gravestop with his haunting smile because he's seeing bright lights and shit. A little trippy, man! Aaaand they both laugh maniacally.
Feeling his blood "giggling" inside him (yeah he actually said that) by that he means that his newfound senses is actively exploding within him. He honestly feels so liberated and full of life and that's what he is pretty much getting at. Everything was just so overwhelming to him that Lestat has to coach him to manage his shit so that he won't lead astray. He even teaches him how to read people.
They both enter a bar where he teaches him the art of hunting which requires hella restraint. Louis has his eyes set on the hunkiest guy at the bar but Lestat rationalizes to him that is unwise as he has to think outside the box. Think about it, the life of the party right there, his absence will no doubt will not go unnoticed. He must choose his prey wisely and keep multiple factors in mind.
Instead, he turns to a more down to earth dude. He seems like a nice guy, he is chatting away to an obviously disinterested Louis about wanting to get his daughter a horse, of course. Meanwhile, he turns his head back at the hunky navy seaman whom he is obviously lusting hardcore over. Lestat has to gently nudge his dank ass get into the convo before this suit guy gets suspicious.
This next part was sooo funny! Okay so the guy is concluding his filibuster and then asks what brings them to town. Louis, still in his blood thirst haze replies slowly "Suuurrrrgar." Which is starting to spook the dude so Lestat using telepathy tells him to slow his roll. He perks back up and reels the dude in.
He's successful and they both lead the poor naive guy to his house and without a hitch, Louis does his first kill. A bit sloppy but yeah. He dedz now.
After Lestat is done coaching him and hiding the corpse in a persian rug he tells him that this is his home now. Louis is like a wild teenager now and refuses to listen so he pushes him out of the way and marches on out in hopes of returning his REAL home. Good luck, pal.
It is now morning and as Lestat correctly predicted, he found it cumbersome. His skin is sizzling at the touch of the sun like bacon on a Sunday morning so he gets his ass back to Lestat's door banging the fuck out of it until he manages to get back in. Lestat calmly ushers him to what will be his eternal resting place.
Introducing: da coffin
While Lestat is undressing all the way down to nuthin' as the day he was born and lays down. Not within telling him he can be on top.
Modern day commentary from Daniel Molloy is asking modern day Louis WTF he is talking about all this "coming out" having to do with robbing a young girl of a father and a possible pet. He responds is not relevant. There will be no questions! He was proud to lay in the same coffin as hottie Lestatie, what of it?!
Louis' butlers arrive in the room for the next course bearing a big ass plate because this dish is called Rabbit Three Ways for da guest and a live sandfox for the vamp. Daniel still wants to backtrack to the salesman asking if there is any guilt or regret over taking his life? Louis compares his question with his own relevant question: "Do you contemplate the life of a rabbit before you cut it or do you simple cut?" And then lays a big munch on the former living sandfox. The cries and screams sound so excruciating...
So, no?
Actually, he does admit there was a small morsel of guilt he had about his first kill.
Continuing to the story.
Lestat and Louis are riding on a carriage around town and bump into Finn, a jolly ol fellow, and proposes to wanting to work for one of his shops. Literally after he leaves, Lestat immediately calls BS and claims he read his mind and intends on scamming him.
Say, what bruh?
Louis is like so flabbergasted that he could have the ability to read minds but Lestat flexes that the mind reading itself can often be redundant. He boils most of the mindreading to 3 main things 1) I was grub 2) I wanna bang 3) I want home. Walking down the streets, he tells him to go on ahead and pick a random person see what they're thinking. Go on. I'll wait.
They both attend a party at Madam Du Pointe Du Lac's crib and there's a band playing and a sizable crowd at this outdoor shindig. Mother dearest makes her grand appearance known to these men. Louis plays nice and gives his greetings and salutations but she is politely rude to him. He excuses himself so they can both chat.
Louis goes to his mother and asks if that was really necessary to be passive aggressive to him like that. She retorts back along the lines of what did he expect since he did end up choosing to move so far away from them. They both have a seat and this is when Louis reads her mind. Her thoughts are very nitpicky and judgemental to him, almost questioning his identity. Even going so far to criticize his choice in sunglasses. With slight defense, he says that the doctor prescribed those dang glasses! She looks shocked as she clearly didn't say those thoughts out loud. He quickly tries to change the subject and asks where to find his sissy.
Inside the house is where he finds Grace who shows a million times more glee to see her big bro again. Upon hugging her, he realizes she is pregnant not only that shes's TWINNING!! Utterly shocked as she probably didn't tell anyone yet.
At a later time, Louis is talking business with a potential business partner but he's pretty patronizing but what triggered him is when he gave him the backhanded compliment of being called an "exceptional negro". Guess what? He dedz.
Modern day commentary Louis explains his rapid offense that he had spent all the time being called similar things and he just took it like a sucker! That was the straw that broke the camel's back that in his own humourous words that he dabbled in fuckery. That's why he impulsively killed that man. Funny ass line. I'm totes stealing that one now.
Lestat is a bit peeved but obviously still aids in torching the body while also reprimanding him saying that police and other associates will be looking for his white ass so he dun goofed. Louis storms off. Not even as little a "Thank you for destroying the evidence, my guy."?
Later that night they kiss and make up. Not literally but he asks how he can make this situation right. Louis responds that he wants to buy the saloon. At this point, he has his own coffin now rather than sharing with Lestat. Just wanted to point that little detail out. That was fast. So, yes. saloon.
A hop, skip and a jump later, Lestat somehow made that shit happen. He is now the owner of the hippest club in town. You bet yo ass is was that fancy ass club. In his own words, he made it a better business. Gave staff higher pay, no limits on patrons, better music bands, the works! Since it was Lestat's high rolling money used to buy the saloon, he made sure he wanted to pay back every cent of it. Most importantly, he uses this as a way to find his prey. He owned the saloon for 5ish years as said in his modern commentary but he admits that his successes came as a result of his neglectful emotional duties to his family.
Fast forward a few months where Louis is visiting Grace who presently doesn't look a fraction as thrilled as last time she saw him. Her twins already born and Louis seems disconnected. Grace's perception towards Lestat grows more more in disdain as it is clear that he is the root of their disconnect.
Grace hands one of the babies to Louis while she fetches some gumbo. There was a very unnerving part right here where Louis is hearing his nephew's heartbeat and the look on his face for food. Ehhh, creepy. Luckily his sister walks back in the room with a small bowl of that yummy gumbo.
There's some commotion nearby and before Louis tries to give the baby back, she is already out of the room. His blood thirst is even more intense. So intense that his vamp fangs starts coming out as his vampirey instincts are about to take over. NOOOO!!! Please not the baby!!!!!!!!!
Cut to modern day table talk. Where Louis says to Daniel Molloy that he longer kills. In fact, his last kill was in 2000. Y2K resolutions? Molloy asks if he killed that baby. Louis dodges the question. He continues to dance around the repeated attempts to figure it out. He just goes on a tangent. Molloy decides to try to play along and then just randomly DID U EAT THE BABY?!?!?
Both are still at the dinner table. One random ass white dude takes a chair and plops his sweet ass on the chair while Louis grabs a quick bite out of his neck all willy nilly. This dude is also making intense mad dogging eyes at Molloy for some reason and speaks russian words that AMC+ or Amazon are too lazy to translate in the captions. It's cool, guys because he translates himself after Louis reminds him Molloy is an American. Heh I love the casual conversation he is making to him while he is being feasted on. It's brief but then goes on his way.
Now that THAT is over with, where were we? Oh, right. THE BABY.
Switching back to the interview timeline. Grace comes in and hears her baby crying at an intensely higher volume and she jolts to her darling baby as he is screaming crying now. She arrives to the front room with her baby on the floor unscathed and Louis gone.
He is back at home. Crying blood as he emotionally confesses how close he was to taking that sweet little angel's life. Lestat rationally replies that he has to stop seeing them. As that is a stepping stone to all vampires as that can obviously be a liability to everyone's livelihoods. If you love your family, spare them the pain you are causing them, he says.
In order to get some things off his mind, Lestat offers for them to take a mini vacay to Rome. Damn, I LOVE the way Lestat said the word "premiere" so bougie! But hey, he franch.
Modern day Louis and Molloy are shown still at the dining room table while his assistant is setting up for the next course while Louis is just singing how praises of Lestat. Just lowkey gushing over his maker. Awww.
Back to the story. Lestat and Louis are now attending an opera at a VIP spot. Whatever you want to call it. As they sit, Lestat confesses to him which is more like guilt tripping him as Louis dangled that feeling of him no longer wanting to be a vampire and stuff. Lestat says for the longest time he felt this void of lonlieness that spanned an unspeakable amount of time and they must stick together because they both can learn a lot about each other.
Louis then asks just how many vampires currently exist? Not much. 101 was the quote as if it were like the mf'n dalmatians.
The opera begins and in Louis' own words is where Lestat separated man from food as music in the form of opera is one entertainment that truly gave him light in his cold dead heart. The tenor playing Ernesto takes Lestat's immediate attention. And not in the good way. Being the opera connoiseur he is, he is disgusted that this dude playing Ernesto slipped through the cracks. Needless to say, he does not pass Lestat's vibe check.
So, what does he do?
Before we get into that, these two gotta into socialite mode. Some sort of after party at the bar where everybody is chatting with everybody. Lestat unsurprisingly lures that same actor. At this point, it has been six years since Louis became a vampire. Wow how time flies! Louis looks back seeing them walk off together and he shows some guilt knowing his fate over what? Being off key at a single opera?
The trio are back at crib. Louis chilling on the couch while Lestat is playing the piano and harmonizing with the man. Louis reads his face and body language and he damn well knows his own faults and it is showing more as time goes on. All that Louis can do is look mournfully as he saw Lestat town this dude's confidence down a peg. Or ten.
Then kills the poor dude.
Louis: Why, yo?
This is when Lestat completely loses his shit and damn this is such a great scene. If you have seen the 1994 movie (I mean, is there any OTHER?!) and this yelling scene. Insert link here hopefully I can find it but DAMN this totally gave me Tom Cruise' Lestat vibes and I am all for it. I wonder if that was intentional. The point of this scene is that for Louis to stop being a pussy because this is his life now as a vampire. That's it and that's all.
He is describing the meticulous movements to procure the poor man's blood. He still has to be alive for Lestat to consume his blood so he tinkered with his voice box to prevent calling for help. Louis just sat across from them as Lestat did this so effortlessly and without conscience.
Lestat reminds him during which that until he can't break his moral barrier down, he will never see the pure beauty in being a vampire. Being the charasmatic dude, he lures him in to take part in the feeding.
The dessert they are both eating Daniel Molloy is appeased by it and as confesses this is the dessert he had after he proposed to his first wife. Aww. That was the sweet conclusion to this episode.