Finally queer enough!
– Meera, 2022
Spoiler-free review:
Rating out of 10: 8 and ½.
Likes: the casting, the costuming and set, the queerness and bisexuality of it all and the soundtrack.
Critiques: the writing could’ve been more robust and episode 5 needed a trigger warning.
Spoiler review:
AMC’s Interview with the vampire cleverly reimagines the late Anne Rice’s 1976 Interview With The Vampire and 1994’s film by Neil Jordan Interview With The Vampire in an entertaining yet still horrifyingly Southern Gothic queer and definitely extremely bisexual on Lestat’s part television series. It’s most definitely worth a watch if you enjoy fandom meta, re-evaluating source material and vampires, gothic, queer and or bisexual things and black horror. It’s also artistically a great period drama.
I have my gripes among them being the handling of Louis de Pointe du Lac’s race and Claudia’s race change. Both of which I think as a person of color myself it handled above average but could be handled better still. The writing is not the strongest and episode 5 needed a trigger warning at the outset. I am also not the fondest of romanticizing the profession of “pimp” without touching how damaging sex trafficking actually is and how little choice a prostitute in Storyville, New Orleans would have. Overall a great television series and a strong piece of media. I still believe it strongly benefits from the book’s strong prose and writing as well as having the benefit of previous adaptations. Overall a good tv show, I do recommend. 8 and ½ out of 10.
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