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Critic Reviews
May 8, 2024
Season 2 Review:
“Interview with the Vampire” might be one of the best TV shows of the decade. .... The show understands how to build emotional stakes that make all this timeline jumping so gripping. Other small nuances stand out, like the way a couple can fight and then somehow also bicker within said fight, like a nesting doll of anger and frustration.
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Sep 29, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Excellent, transfixing new series adaptation of Anne Rice’s 1976 vampire classic. ... The show alters specifics of the novel’s story line in ways that wind up working spectacularly well, and that will surprise fans of the book, even while they may frustrate purists. I couldn’t get enough of the five episodes AMC made available for review (there are seven in all), relieved that Rice’s complex, sensual creatures have survived the transition to series TV intact, and delighted by the superb acting and rich production design.
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Sep 22, 2022
Season 1 Review:
It’s a startlingly good adaptation of Rice’s book but stands on its own two feet, bring new dimensions to a classic story and having genuine fun delving into parts that were only hinted at in the novel and prior film versions. The competition may be tough this season, but Interview with the Vampire stakes out a serious claim as one of the best TV shows of the year.
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TV Guide MagazineMay 10, 2024
Season 2 Review:
Suffused with eternal desire and poetic pain, Interview balances its repellent gore with moments of transcendent and operatic wonder. [13 May - 2 Jun 2024, p.4]
May 8, 2024
Season 2 Review:
Interview with the Vampire has no interest in irony or restraint. Its humor lies in the overlap between comedy and horror, and its central performances hinge on total commitment. Rarely do we see such a clever, creative work of adaptation, mining classic vampire tropes for a deliciously energizing take on the genre.
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May 1, 2024
Season 2 Review:
The alchemy of Season 1 was the intense chemistry Anderson and Reid shared. Zaman, Hayles, and Bogosian are all ferocious scene partners for Anderson, but none of them come close to capturing the lightning storm that is Louis and Lestat. That said, Interview With the Vampire remains the rarest of treats on television. It’s a soapy, gothic fairy tale full of sensuality, gore, and incredible performances.
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ColliderMay 1, 2024
Season 2 Review:
Interview with the Vampire has always succeeded with its exploration of complicated dynamics, and Season 2 continues in the same vein. Zaman's Armand becoming a larger presence in the story causes a ripple effect on many different storylines, confirming that all the main characters have been more entwined over the years than any of us might have suspected. .... Interview with the Vampire is still one of the best TV shows out there.
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The Daily BeastOct 7, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Among my favorite TV shows of the year so far. ... AMC’s Interview With the Vampire is lush and operatic. It is gross and disturbing, opening the dam for the sanguine river of blood to flow the way that a show like this should: so that it is as gorgeous as it is upsetting. There are provocative ideas about race and power dynamics filtered through the identity politics of bloodsuckers that, remarkably, work.
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Sep 30, 2022
Season 1 Review:
There’s a sense of lush fullness, a sprawling, specifically Southern sensibility that lets the show grow into the tale it’s telling, embracing the eccentricities of these characters and giving the complex layers of their relationships with one another the sort of depth they simply could never be allowed in a feature film.
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Sep 22, 2022
Season 1 Review:
The introduction of child vampire Claudia (Bailey Bass, eerily convincing in the role that made Kirsten Dunst famous) slows things down a bit with overwrought metaphors about nontraditional parents. Yet the show never lapses into the preachy generalizations of Ryan Murphy’s genre spectacles. Indeed, it works so well because Louis and Lestat are distinct characters who quickly arrive at a heartbreaking impasse. ... After months of misplaced hype, Interview with the Vampire is finally the real thing.
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May 1, 2024
Season 2 Review:
A mix of high-camp melodrama and thorny philosophical questions about memory and the stories our lives inevitably become, Interview with the Vampire remains the best sort of genre series—one that’s not just a cracklingly good story in its own right, but one that still manages to reflect genuine truths about the human experience of the world we live in now.
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RogerEbert.comMay 2, 2024
Season 2 Review:
While Armand may be a fascinating character, his Louis and the introduction of the Parisian vampire coven/theater troupe do end up feeling stale, especially in comparison to the walking soap opera that was Lestat. .... Bogosian and Zaman, in particular, have a tantalizing chemistry that acts as the unexpected lifeblood of this second season, especially in the absence of an ongoing Lestat/Louis romance. .... “Interview with the Vampire’s” continued dissection of Daniel Molloy and a cast of vibrant characters deliver another juicy chapter of AMC’s Romantic epic.
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TV Guide MagazineOct 7, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Rice's soulful ghouls defy horror-movie cliche. [10 - 23 Oct 2022, p.5]
Oct 5, 2022
Season 1 Review:
More of a historical romantic melodrama than a profound tragedy — not a sin and more likely to draw viewers back — it’s well-made with some fine performances and evocative locations. There is as much domestic drama as there is vampire business, and the series has a welcome comic edge, especially once Claudia joins the family.
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Sep 30, 2022
Season 1 Review:
I appreciated the way this Interview solidified the source material’s central relationship, refined some of its more humorous aspects and plunged thoroughly into the campiness of others. It isn’t quite scary, but it’s at least unsettling at times. ... Overall, it’s a promising start with many appealing elements to chew on in the meantime.
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Sep 30, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Not since Mads Mikkelsen’s Hannibal Lecter has a fictional character killed with such purpose and artistry. ... Jacob Anderson has the harder job: as Louis, the note he most often has to play is tortured anguish. ... Present-day Louis is less active but shows more emotional depth.
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Sep 30, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Significantly improving upon the 1994 film, “Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire” does more than just add the late author’s name to the title, ambitiously updating the story, introducing a racial component and serving up plenty of sex and gore. Desperate to replace “The Walking Dead,” AMC might have completed an improbable baton pass from zombies to another kind of undead.
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May 10, 2024
Season 2 Review:
While vampires might have seemed like a no-brainer next step after AMC’s long reliance on zombies, this version of “Interview with the Vampire” has found the right resting place, and the creative team has sunk its teeth into a concept that, against the odds, appears to be aging remarkably well.
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Sep 26, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Thanks in part to the cunning charm of the period story, balanced by its present-day sections, Interview with the Vampire meaningfully comments on identity, intersectionality, and abuse, while still managing to be an intoxicating series about guys with gigantic incisors who sleep in coffins.
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RogerEbert.comSep 30, 2022
Season 1 Review:
While all of the billowing resentment and struggle between our vampires has to go somewhere, it comes out from Louis and Lestat in sometimes overly melodramatic bursts of screaming dialogue. ... “Interview with the Vampire” jumps on this whenever it can, revealing how the series can only break its growing monotony with either showy dramatic displays or (albeit staggering) moments of gory violence, like a turbo vampire-punch that impales someone’s face.
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The GuardianSep 27, 2022
Season 1 Review:
There’s something lost in the mission to destroy the innuendo for the sake of fully overt representation. ... The decision to recast Louis with a Black actor proves the most fruitful break from the source material, the leads’ interracial dynamic layered on top of their intricate mix of lust and hostility.
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May 13, 2024
Season 2 Review:
I found Hayles’ take on Claudia rather stiff this first episode, and it’s hard to discern how much of that is in the writing and how much of it is her making her way into this most volatile of characters. I’m curious to see how her Claudia evolves over the course of this season. .... This premiere felt much too dark and muddied.
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Oct 7, 2022
Season 1 Review:
The show’s first few episodes have energy and a sense of humor, which can be rococo. ... That momentum fades quickly, however. (Five of seven episodes were available for review.) In later episodes, sex and bloodsucking take a back seat to talk. ... The problem with the series, as it goes along, is that it increasingly makes you think about checking your email.
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