When the curtain first rose on The Vampire Lestat, it revealed that it was telling the title vamp’s story with the benefit of much hindsight. The multi-album narration that guides us through this new tale was described as “an omniscient history of the events of the 2025 album and supporting tour” put on by Lestat (Sam Reid) himself… but also mentioned that said album and tour sired a few “consequential global catastrophes” in its wake. At first, that sounded like a lot of theatrics — vampires are funny that way — but as The Vampire Lestat pitches further into Lestat’s “Failures,” that throwaway detail is becoming increasingly literal.
If you haven’t been paying attention to every beat of The Vampire Lestat, you might have missed all the little hints that point to one unspoken truth. The looming threat of a vampire apocalypse is one of very few subtle threads in the series, but its latest episode stops flirting with the possibility of global catastrophe and fully commits to it. Not only is the end of the world approaching, but Lestat might genuinely be the key to pushing society over the edge.
