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It is quite good. I have not read the original book, and I barely remember the movie (not even sure I watched it fully even), but I definitely enjoyed the show. The characters were complex enough, and they were being properly developed and expanded upon through-out the show. The story was intriguing overall, too.

In fact, I think the story is the main dish here, and it makes sense, why the original book became so important. I mean, it's not so much about vampires, as about emotions in general, and vampirism is more like a tool here to peek into (sometimes darker) depths of relationships.

The aesthetics are also quite good, and they mix with the story nicely. I like that there are quite a few "dirty frames" in the show, too, since they make the scene more believable, if not necessarily relatable. Certain theme may be a turn off for some, so I may not be able to recommend it everyone, but if you are ok with that theme (we all know what I mean, right?) - this show is definitely worth a try.

I've been surprised by the number of reviewers have lamented that this is not Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, even crying out "Not one word written by Anne Rice!"

Actually, she and her son Christopher were heavily involved and were executive producers. And Anne herself wrote three of the episodes. She was proud of this work and happy for the reinvention of it.

It is possible to enjoy this even if you, as I did, read every book as they were written, awaiting each new volume and running to the bookstore as soon as they were released.

Is this different? Yes. And I'm glad for it. It's a way to enjoy the universe she created all over again without having to worry about some pristine, exact re-enactment. I can relax into it, seeing where it goes without expectation.

And it's a far cry better than the Brad Pitt/Tom Cruise debacle. I still shudder over that abomination.

It's excellently acted, the sets are magical, and the whole thing is quite enjoyable.

Like almost every tv/movie adaptation of a book this is very much not recommended for book purist. Although it is brilliant the show takes a lot of liberties with the source material. Sometimes out of necessity and sometimes to tell a particular story. Upping the age of Claudia from a young child to a tween was done out of necessity so the show could tell a story about her without feeling icky about it. While making Louis black and gay, born during Jim Crow In New Orleans was a way to add pathos to the character. Making the series both acknowledge the movie but then hand wave it was an interesting choice as well. Daniel Molloy the interviewer is older now and more aware of the danger he is in but still curious about why Louis wants to retell the story he only partly told before. The Interview scenes are some of the most fascinating scenes of the series for me.

And then there is Lestat. Lestat the vampire who is very hard to explain so I won't even try. He alone is worth watching this series for.

Interview with the Vampire was actually even better than I was expecting. It's based on Anne Rice's popular novel about a family of vampires through the years. This is made with mostly unknown actors who all do a great job in their roles. There was also a popular movie about this made in 1994 with Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Kirsten Dunst. Obviously most people will compare the two and even though I liked the movie a little more this more than holds up and stands in its own. I never read the books but I've read that this show is a lot closer to it than the movie was. You can tell they try to respect the source material as much as possible and even had Anne Rice help create the show and have her on as an executive producer before her death last year. After reading through the reviews I'm glad that most people seem to agree with me that this is a good show.

Exceptional on all categories; casting, mua, cinematography, lighting design, set design, costuming, and holy god the adaptation and acting are a home run. It's truly gorgeous, deeply loving, and genuinely horrifying. Phenomenal. It's a star-making series that I genuinely hope sweeps awards ceremonies once it reaches submission. Well done all involved. Thank you for creating and supporting the production of this awesome series - that somehow is even more profound in series 2...it's amazing and I'm going to be running my mouth off for years to anyone who hasn't seen it. Exquisite re-telling. Perfection!

I'm a big fan of Anne Rice. I have read her books and seen the film of Interview with the Vampire which I loved. I hoped this would be good and it went far beyond that. It's exceptional. It's the expensive vintage wine amongst all the lesser ones. The acting is superb from all of the cast. It's a tragic love story amongst all the blood. It's about pain, love, loss and mistakes. The three leads are just outstanding. Jacob Anderson, Sam Reid and Assad Zaman. Such emotionally packed scenes. They all deserve Oscar's. Eric Bogosion is great as Daniel. Also Ben Daniel is wonderful as Santiago. The sets and scenery are stunning. I haven't watched anything with such love and passion in a long time. I'm really looking forward to a season 3.

I was skeptical at first. I had been a fan of the original movie. The cast in the movie was nearly perfect at the time. But the books were always disturbing to me. They had pedophilia and incest, which was such a typical thing in Anne Rice's books. That always bothered me. This series has taken the essentials of the book and made it better. Sorry Rice's fans, but I prefer a story where two grown men are fully aware of their relationship and a young woman isn't a full mentally grown woman in a 5 year old girl's body involved in sexual scenarios and dialogue. At least the 90's movie had Claudia as an older girl, still too young, but they skipped the romantic and sexual relationship she had with Louis in the book. I much prefer this series' story, and I fully appreciate the way they adapted it to our present, Covid and all.

The writing is beautiful. I actually do not like gore nor stressful sexual scenarios. But the relationships in this show have been very well written and better yet, believable. The dialogue is very elegant even when they speak of horrible things like violent death and describe the terrible things that happen in the scenes. Every line has an intent and it's neither long and boring nor too short.

I think the only mistake has been naming it "Anne Rice's" IWTV. It's definitely not Anne Rice's work. It's better. Her work, as beloved as it was, if you read it, it's sick and disgusting. I'll never be on board with her sadistic women sexual humiliation and pedophilia. But I get why they did it. It might've not grabbed our attention otherwise after so many vampire stories. The subject had become a bit exhausted and naming it IWTV grabbed our attention. Well played. I'm impressed.

The show is brilliant and a lot better than I expected. I have not read the books but the movie is one of my favorite films. One thing i must say is the first season is by far superior vs the 2nd. Claudia (Bailey Bass) is a lot more sophisticated, charismatic and has stronger acting during the first season compared to (Delainey Hayles). The relationship between the 3 (Claudia, Lestat and Louis) carried a big part of the first season to make it what it is. The connection between Lestat and Louis is deep and you can feel that unbreakable bond within their strong acting meanwhile Armand is plain and boring.

Overall, if you like that sort of theme, I think you'll enjoy the show. I am not sure why the book fans give it a bad rating and can't take it for what it is. The homosexuality is quite bold if you're comparing it to the movie so take that as you wish. My average rating is due to the let down of season 2 which i have yet to finish so I may edit it later.

First of all, reviews going "Anne was a producer so she must have been okay with it" no she wasn't. As soon as she passed they shoved Christopher out of the producing and rewrote what Anne had given them of her first three episodes she had written. Stop living in that fantasy of her approval I beg of you, use you're context clues of Chris not talking about this train wreck. Malloy is irritating, Louis has been stripped of all of his depth and reason, and Claudia is even more insufferable. Sam Reid is the only thing keeping me going and that the second season isn't like this offal set in political agendas.

There are things I wanted to say but cannot. This show is everything! The acting is superb, all the story lines are amazing. Every time I rewatch I see it from a different perspective. It's also seemingly such a mirror of life and how sometimes we do not see what those we love are actually doing to us. The games they play, and the way we ignore the obvious in order to keep living the delusional life. Lestat, Lestat, Lestat! Such incredible acting one min. I hate him, then I feel sorry for him then I'm just literally falling for this flirty vampire. Louie! Oh man I have felt like Louie totally blinded by love or the idea of love yet lonely. I can go on and on but all the characters brought something to this series. Phenomenal cast and directing.

This story lives in my head rent free! Can't wait for next season!

What can I say?

This is my second review of this series, now that I finished watching season 2, and I'm gonna admit that the production, acting and re-telling is very engaging. I mean, this cast is great.

Jacob's Louis is far removed from both the literarily and film versions, but by the end of season 2 there's no doubt that he becomes the Louis version for modern audiences.

The same with Sam's Lestat. Those who "know" Lestat via his novels know that he shouldn't look a day older than 20 years. So, when seen Sam's Lestat for the first time, I immediately felt there was something odd; too old, to manly, too tall. Again, by the end of season 2 Sam was Lestat in my mind.

However, the highlight, just like with the novels, is Claudia. I mean, a 5 years old child vampire? Who could play that? Whose child could be put through the range of emotions Claudia requires? The answer, just like the film version, is nobody. This time around Rolin Jones said to himself "screw this", and cast Bailey Bass for season 1, and Delainey Hayles for season 2 as a "teen" Claudia. Let me tell you, both ladies shine in this role.

Also, Assad Zaman,Ben Daniels and Eric Bogosian are superb in their interpretations of Armand, Santiago and Danny.

Now that I'm done watching I'll say that I like how the producers choose to re-tell it. The approach, style and flow justify a re-telling without ignoring the source.

The main conflict, at least for me, comes from knowing the source material too well. Interview with the vampire, the novel, is 48 years old, (as of 2024). It means that an entire generation grew up with the version Anne created.

Rolin Jones's Interview with the vampire claims that everything we learned from Anne was partially wrong. The passing of time and different emotional states clouded the minds and memories of Anne's characters, and are Anne's characters who contradict her over and over again.

To me, this is the main reason this series doesn't score higher. Because now I doubt Anne's and Jone's versions in equal measure. Who's not to say that in 10-20 years, another producer will -retell Jone's version diluting even further Anne's work?

This series is brilliantly acted, beautifully written, and superbly produced.

My only advice is for the new audience to stay away from the books.

Interview with a Vampire film was a fantastic adaptation of the Anne Rice books, this series is absolutely next level!

The acting, the story telling, the writing all add up to give you a phenomenal series! Sam Reid, Jacob Anderson, Bailey Bass, Assad Zaman and Eric Bogosian could not have been cast better!

The soundtrack that accompanies this, does so delicately peeking at the right moment.

The way the 'Interview' is done, the back drop, the old world set against the new world of Dubai - the juxtaposition of Dubai itself!! How the story interweaves between the detail, new and old vampires, and the modern day!

A very worthy accompaniment to Anne Rice's books!

I actually enjoyed Interview with the Vampire even more than I thought I would. I liked the movie so I thought this would be a little bit of a disappointment but it wasn't. Far from it. This one actually takes place in our current year. Vampire Louie de Pointe du Lac is currently living in Dubai and is telling his life story to a journalist. The story starts in New Orleans in the 20th century and shows how he met the vampire Lestat du Lioncourt and how they started their family with the two of them and teen vampire Claudia. It's much like the movie where the story follows Louie telling his side of the story to the journalist. It's also different in many ways to the movie, not bad just different. I've actually come to like it even more than the movie.

Lestat is everything! His actor is superb, his Lestat carries such an allure and he's magnetic when he's on screen, just like a real vampire. He said it's always been his dream role and you can tell with how much effort he puts into the character. The entire cast is noteworthy but the standout for me is Lestat.

I had somehow never heard of Anne Rice or Interview with the Vampire (wish I did because I would've loved the books as a kid) but this was such a fantastic introduction. I will definitely be reading The Vampire Lestat while I giddily wait for season 3.

You can tell everyone involved is so passionate about this show and the show-runner has a strong vision and knows exactly what he wants. I hope they continue making fantastic TV!

I wanted to watch Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire hoping to enjoy, (finally), an adaptation that does justice to Anne's great novel. Instead I got a vampire show that borrows from her novel.

First, the positive, Sam Reid, Bailey Bass, and Jacob Anderson are good, the show has good production values, and direction is solid from episodes 4 trough episode 7.

However, all the main characters are miscast as Lestat, Claudia and Louis; in this aspect the TV show mirrors the 1994, and 2002 films. Both projects failed with the age of the characters, but the TV show unnecessarily also changes race, (Louis, Claudia), for the sake of inclusion.

Also, a complete change of time-period, events, characters, sexuality elements, and dialogue that never occurred in the original source. Which, to be fair, is not new in these kind of vehicles - see, CW's The Vampire Diaries.

To make it very clear, this TV show uses Anne Rice's brand as a hook not as an homage. This product is a different creature made by different creators who didn't bother to try to faithfully adapt the main story. They didn't set themselves to honor Anne's tale, instead they went and built on top of her best work, and the result is a lesser product.

No doubt, Anne and her son Christopher probably got paid handsomely.

Is it a bad show? No, it's not. In fact it is a good vampire show.

However, that's the real shame - why would anyone just want to make a good show? Why don't just be faithful to the source and aim for greatness instead?

I guess is a good thing Anne didn't got to watch it.

With another title and different character names this show; in my book, is an easy 8 - however, the mislead brings a bitter taste, and for that I can't force myself to give more than a 6.

Just a missed opportunity.

I was a little hesitant going into this because I was a big fan of the movie, Interview with the Vampire. I thought there's no way anyone's going to be able to do it better than Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, two of the best actors there are. Well, somehow this show was able to be almost as good, maybe even better than the movie. I've never seen Jacob Anderson or Sam Reid in anything before besides Anderson as Brey Worm in Game of Thrones so I wasn't familiar with their work. They both played the part of Louis and Lestat perfectly. I blew through the both the first and second seasons in less than three days. Anne Rice, who wrote the book and created these characters, was very hands on for this show and you can tell. I know they just recast the Claudia character but from what I can tell the new actress is even better. Some people (we all know who) don't like the fact that they cast a black actor as Louis which is just ridiculous. These people never fail in bombarding any show that has anyone who's not a straight white man as the lead with negative reviews.

I have lost count how many times I've read (and listened to) the 13 book series and have dug deeper in the "Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles: An Alphabettery". I believe that I know this material.

Of course I'm a fan of Anne Rice's work. This TV series is NOT that; but it IS highly referential to her books. Fan fiction? It is more than that. Maybe a better descriptor it's that it is a marriage of fan fiction and the original work.

This series is a most masterful blend of top notch everything -except marketing. (I found out about it in 2023 by accident.). Instead of trying to list the various fields involved and then talk about how each field is represented at the height of its own artistry yet they work seamlessly together with the other fields, it is more honest to say that I cannot find an area that is lacking. Again, except marketing.

This is a banner series that would make any network or streaming service a must have...assuming people knew about it. Congratulations to everyone involved with it!!

I've never read the books, so I didn't watch this expecting something. Just that I kind of like vampire stories.

I was encouraged after the first 2 episodes, but I've been watching the same episode ever since. There is no sense of fear, there is no ambiance. The creepeness of the scenes with the writer is just cringe. Its too frontal, and they keep having the same argument. It became boring, fast.

The writers don't know how to write development. The introduction was OK, but the rest is so conventionnal. The more it goes on, the more the acting seems bad, they have nothing to latch on except the big shouting matches. Everything Louis is had to be said by Lestat. The substance of their caracters is very thin, I don't believe them.

Claudia is bad. Two episodes to for her to yell her predicament... I haven't watched the movie in a long time, but it seems to me it was way better.

This show is the perfect example of what goes wrong when you make the characters say everything instead of showing it and letting the viewers intelligence do the rest.

This is not Anne Rices Interview with the vampire.

This is a complete different story.

I really do not understand why they had to change so much it's frustrating.

I watched the movie a couple of times and it is one of my favorite movies and I read the book.

Louis wasn't a Pimp in the book or the movie. His family died. He was married and his wife was pregnant (wife and child died during labor)..

Well..iam disappointed.

The only thing in this show that is correct are the names of the characters everything else has nothing to do with the original story! This show should have a different name.