Interview With the Vampire already shook things up in a major way when it rebranded as The Vampire Lestat in Season 3. The third season not only changed protagonists, switching from the perspective of the turmoiled vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) to the flamboyant Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid), but it also transformed tonally and structurally to match. Gone were the tortured Gothic horror tones of Seasons 1 and 2; the show was now a frantic, racy rock opera.
It was a shift fitting for the Vampire Lestat, who becomes a rock star in his crash-out over the publication of Louis’ Interview With the Vampire memoir (as one does). And it made sense for how the series approached Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles too, with the third season taking a mostly loyal approach to adapting The Vampire Lestat, the second book in Rice’s series. But The Vampire Lestat, the season, notably tells just one part of the story.
