Why does it feel like AMC’s social media is doing more to promote the in-universe book Interview with the Vampire than their critical darling television series Interview with the Vampire? The network woke up and chose hilarious bits (not bites) on the week that Talamasca: The Secret Order, the third installment in the Anne Rice Immortal Universe, officially releases on AMC and AMC+.
The fictional journalist has already had a PR scandal and neither Talamasca nor IWTV season 3, a.k.a. The Vampire Lestat, is out yet. As fans will recall, at the end of IWTV season 2 Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) published the book based on his interviews with the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) and the vampire Armand (Assad Zaman), Molloy’s own independent research, and additional help from the secret organization called the Talamasca. The book became a bestseller, and the already prickly Daniel became a vampire. A televised interview in the finale ended terribly. It seems the optics have not since improved.
