The second episode of AMC’s Anne Rice adaptation serves up romance, humor, cruelty, and blood.
How many live foxes would you watch being consumed for a chance to eat a meal like that?
“), pointing him instead toward a chatty solo salesman, whose death will go unnoticed.
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“The neck,” Lestat patiently instructs.
“Bite the neck, Louis.
No, you don’t bite the blood.
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You suck it.”
Alas, this murder leads to Louis' first vampiric mope session.
He staggers out of Lestat’s home and heads for his mother’s house.
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But Lestat knows what’s gonna happen: it’s daylight, and Louis starts to burn.
When Louis eyes the single coffin in the bedroom, Lestat assures him, “It’s okay.
you might be on top.”
Then the servers bring in a platter with a bound, shrieking sand fox.
(What does it say about me that this was more upsetting than the salesman?)
“I want our book to be a warning,” he says, returning to his story.
That… checks out, actually.
We also learn that vampires can’t read other vampires' minds.
(File that fact away, friends!)
The pair next attend a party at Louis' family home, which he hasn’t visited in ages.
Honestly, sick burn.
He and a town alderman walk through Louis' plans for a new gaming house he’s managing.
Decades of repressed rage come boiling up, and Louis and his new powers lash out.
Their fight continues to the bedroom, where they bicker from inside their side-by-side coffins.
You know what that means, y’all?
Brickhouse Williams (Dana Gourrier) gets a promotion!
And Louis starts… sniffing.
OH MY GOD, LOUIS, DON’T CHOMP THAT INFANT.
Louis replies that his last kill was in the year 2000.
Yeah, that sounds not fantastic for humans.
After all,heis Louis' family now.
Lestat then reveals his heart, calling Louis angry, stubborn, unaccommodating, dedicated, thoughtful, loving.
He’s imperfectly perfect, and he’s what Lestat’s been searching for over the centuries.
Also, he bought them both tuxedos so they can attend the opera that night.
Lestat orders Louis to embrace his killer nature and revel in death’s beauty.
Louis gives in and sees images of the tenor’s past as the man’s life drains away.
In the present, Louis insists that Lestat had a way about him.
He was under Lestat’s thrall, a botched vampire who only pretended to enjoy taking a human life.
Yet he’s also a thoughtful vampire.
Absorbed with thoughts of his own past, Daniel closes his laptop.
The interview is done for the night.
