For the first two seasons of Interview with the Vampire – which you can now stream with a Netflix subscription – we are hearing Louis du Pointe du Lac’s side of the story. That means our views of characters like Claudia, Armand,and, maybe most importantly, Lestat, are skewed because they’re clouded by his judgment and memories. However, that all changed at the end of Season 2 with Louis and Lestat’s final scene, and I need to talk about why I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it.
In this scene I’m referring to, Jacob Anderson’s Louis has returned to New Orleans for the first time in a very long time. After going on a tour of the city and hearing an incorrect, yet entertaining story about his life with Lestat, he went and found the French vampire. This marked the first time we saw Sam Reid’s vampire in the present, and that is the key to why this moment has stuck with me.
