From the moment we were whisked back into the world of AMC’s Interview with the Vampire, it was clear a reckoning wasn’t far away. By rebranding itself after the next book in Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles, The Vampire Lestat passed the mic to its titular troublemaker (Sam Reid), and it did so with an overture that teased the end of the world as most knew it.
At first, the idea that Lestat was the key to the vampire apocalypse felt like the character’s latest attempt to get attention — but as Lestat’s “failures” unfolded before our eyes, so too did the truth. The world has, in fact, been teetering towards annihilation in The Vampire Lestat, and it’s all thanks to the music Lestat has been performing across the country. This season seemed to be heading for an explosive conclusion, one that would answer all our burning questions about the Great Conversion, or the Queen of the Damned, Akasha (Sheila Atim). But that was before Lestat and Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) found themselves beheaded by their enemies at the end of Episode 6. That shock twist pitches The Vampire Lestat’s finale into much headier territory, forcing our doomed duo to face their own mortality and make amends with those they’ve wronged. It seems like Lestat has tempted fate for the last time, but he might have one card left to play whether he wants to or not.
