Interview With the Vampire
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What is this show even about?
Where are we going with this?
Each episode has the dramatic pacing of a soap opera but with a monster-of-the-week plot structure.
Its like every episode is a season premiere.
Yesterday he wanted to break up with Lestat forever but that was yesterday.
Today, hes ready to coparent.
What about his efforts to lift up his Black community?
His struggle to maintain some relationship with his family?
His moral anguish about the necessity for human blood?
The other reason I am unbothered by the narrative and tonal inconsistency is that Claudia is an absolute delight.
I suppose we should at some point discuss Molloy, easily the least entertaining character on this show.
Hes volunteered some details about his life: Hes in addiction recovery.
He has Parkinsons disease.
I assume theyre not hiring a fact-checker.
But back to Claudia.
The only thing that really throws her off is the fact of her eternal pubescence.
Before we get to that, however, lets have some fun.
The following scenes of domestic life in Claudias description are absurdist comedy gold.
ItsWhat We Do In the Shadows.
Its a little bitDraculawith the slightest hint ofCarrie.
Claudia has to abide by her fathers rules just like any 14-year-old.
No running in the house.
No staying up all day writing in her diary.
Like any young vampire girl, she is thrilled to pick out her very own coffin.
As you may have already surmised, Lestat is the fun dad and Louis is the responsible dad.
Daddy Lou teaches Claudia important life lessons like, love is love and morals are a thing.
Uncle Les teaches Claudia how to murder couples mid-coitus on Lovers Lane.
Kids need both, ya know?
Like any other growing teen, Claudia has moments of angst and is highly curious about sex.
Unlike any other growing teen, Claudia is not actually growing.
Charlie, who has veins like rivers flowing right down his arms, takes Claudia for ice cream.
She climbs into the back of his car, just as shed seen the people on Lovers Lane do.
Before you know it, kissing has turned to biting, and suddenly, Charlie is dead.
At first, she makes a game of sticking her fingertips into the sunlight and then hastily removing them.
And when she finds out shes accidentally killed Charlie, she is devastated.
Uncle Les, also on occasion the cruel dad, makes Claudia watch Charlies body be incinerated.
This is why they dont get close to humans.
