Interview With the Vampire Series Premiere Recap

Near the end of the premiere of Interview With the Vampire, Louis de Pointe du Lac declared, “The vampire is bored.”

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As the blood-sucker began retelling his story, he turned back the calendar to 1910 New Orleans, taking us with him as he went.

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In that era, we learned that, much to his family’s embarrassment, Louis made their green in the red-light district of Storyville.

Particularly disapproving was kid brother Paul (Steven Norfleet), who was told by the birds in his head not to leave any Bible un-thumped. So yeah. Louis was affluent but unhappy.

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In fact, so far as we could see, the only real comfort that the closeted future vamp could take was in the company of a prostitute named Lily

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Wracked with guilt, Louis began to make a tearful confession at St. Augustine, only for Lestat to interrupt, murdering not one but two priests and offering an appealing alternative to feeling like crap about himself.

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