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Interview with the Vampire Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
8 Episodes 2024 - 2024
Episode 1
What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned
Sun, May 12, 202450 mins
Louis (Jacob Anderson) and Claudia (Delainey Hayles).travel to Europe at the end of World War II, searching for fellow vampires. Louis is tormented by a ghostly imagining of Lestat in his head, while Claudia remains emotionally distant. In Romania, while searching for evidence of Vlad the Impaler, the pair are taken in by a refugee community who seem as terrified of vampires as they are of the Soviet occupiers. They eventually encounter a grotesque, feral vampire and its maker, the weary and mysterious Daciana (Diana Gheorghian). Instead of going with them back to America, Daciana throws herself into fire. After having heard on the radio that it has been liberated from the Nazis, they go to Paris, the "mother of New Orleans." In the present, Armand (Assad Zaman) resists engaging with Molloy (Eric Bogosian) who gets back at him by constantly engaging the real Rashid (Bally Gill) in conversation. Molloy's questions jog Louis's memory. Armand officially becomes a participant in the interview.
Episode 2
Do You Know What It Means to Be Loved by Death
Sun, May 19, 2024
During their first five months in Paris, Louis and Claudia are unaware that they have been watched by the local vampire coven Théâtre des Vampires, due to failing to announce their arrival, as is customary for traveling vampires. While cruising through a park, Louis is approached by their leader, Armand, who invites him to their performance. Louis and Claudia are then shown to the rest of the coven, including Santiago (Ben Daniels), whom Claudia admires, and a portrait of the coven's co-founder, Lestat de Lioncourt. Louis, anxious, tries to confirm Lestat's death with his solicitor, Roget (Ed Birch), but fails. During a hunt with the coven, Armand admits that he can tell Louis is familiar with Lestat and advises him to be more discreet to avoid the coven's wrath. In the present, Daniel repeatedly interrupts and mocks Louis and Armand's narration. The couple fight back by digging into Daniel's past with his first wife, Alice, which triggers a flashback of Armand.
Episode 3
No Pain
Sun, May 26, 2024
In the present, Daniel meets a Talamasca agent named Raglan James at a restaurant who provides him with more sources on Louis and Armand. Armand then recounts his first meeting with Lestat and the founding of Théâtre des Vampires to Daniel. The flashback in Paris continues with Claudia going through hazing to join Théâtre des Vampires: working backstage and in the wet room. Meanwhile, Louis keeps rejecting Armand's offer to join the coven despite spending more time together. Haunted by the hallucination of Lestat, Louis accidentally kills a man and leaves him at a park. This leads to Santiago and the coven demanding Armand discipline Louis. During the initiation, Santiago reads The Five Great Laws to Claudia, including prohibiting killing another vampire. She is given her first role for the next 50 years: a baby. Armand decides not to kill Louis; the two bond over their shared history with Lestat and kiss. Lestat walks Louis home, and Louis invites him into his apartment.
Episode 4
I Want You More Than Anything in the World
Sun, Jun 2, 2024
Claudia gradually loathes her play My Baby Loves Windows despite its success. She develops a friendship with a mortal dressmaker, Madeleine (Roxanne Duran), which leads to her punishment and threat from Armand. The Théâtre des Vampires, led by Santiago, confronts Armand about his special treatment of Louis and plots a mutiny. Santiago sneaks into Louis' flat, where he discovers Claudia's old notebooks, containing Lestat's final words. After hearing about Armand's past and difficulties managing the coven, Louis bids farewell to his hallucination of Lestat and resolves to pursue a committed relationship with Armand. In the present, a mistake in their archive sparks a heated disagreement between Louis and Armand. Daniel continues to recover his memories of Armand and discovers images of the three of them from the first interview in the Talamasca's archive.
Episode 5
Don't Be Afraid, Just Start the Tape
Sun, Jun 9, 2024
After Armand departs for a hunt, Daniel and Louis speak privately about what transpired during the first interview in San Francisco in 1973. With the help of the files Raglan James gave to Daniel, the two start to piece together the details of that night. In San Francisco, not long after Armand's intervention, Louis and Armand enter into a heated argument. When Armand brings up his relationships with Claudia and Lestat, Louis finds it too hard to stomach and attempts suicide by going into the sunlight. Armand intervenes and saves his life. Louis writhes in pain for four days before Armand moves him to his coffin and aids his recovery. Armand taunts him by revealing that he has found Lestat telepathically. Lestat tries to reach out to Louis through Armand, but Armand refuses to pass along his message of love. Armand psychologically tortures and attempts to kill Daniel, but Louis stops him. Back in Dubai, both Louis and Daniel realize that Armand had heavily manipulated their memory of what happened that night.
Episode 6
Like the Light by Which God Made the World Before He Made Light
Sun, Jun 16, 2024
In the present, Daniel returns to the same restaurant to meet Raglan James, who informs him that Talamasca cannot protect his life and advises him to fear Louis rather than Armand. The conversation between Armand and Louis is increasingly heating up, and Armand notices Louis has regained memories of what happened in San Francisco. The flashback in Paris continues, with Santiago discreetly circulating Claudia's journals within the coven and organizing a coup. An attack on Madeleine causes Claudia to reveal her vampire nature, leading Madeleine to seek transformation into Claudia's immortal companion. Following Armand's rejection to sire a new vampire, Louis turns Madeleine. Armand informs Louis that he has left the coven after being given a choice. The scene concludes with Armand allowing the coven to ambush Louis, Claudia, and Madeleine and present them as the accused in a dramatic trial-style matinee, with Lestat revealed to be alive and in attendance. (from Wikipedia)
Episode 7
I Could Not Prevent It
Sun, Jun 23, 2024
The sham trial continues with Santiago serving as the "ringmaster," riling up the jeering human audience, charging Louis, Claudia, and Madeleine with violations of The Five Great Laws, and reading out Claudia's diary, with Lestat testifying as the victim and Armand being forced to watch from the balcony. Claudia and Louis try to speak in their defense, but the coven cripples their feet and uses their collective power to disorient them. Lestat reveals that Louis demanded him to turn Claudia despite being fully aware of the plight of a child vampire, and he goes off script to apologize for dropping Louis from the sky. Claudia and Madeleine are condemned to death, but Armand uses his powers to commute Louis' sentence to banishment. However, Louis is shoved into a coffin, filled with gravel, and locked in a crypt to die from starvation. Claudia threatens to kill every audience member post-execution, before she and Madeleine are executed by a shaft of sunlight. (from Wikipedia)
Episode 8
And That's the End of It. There's Nothing Else
Sun, Jun 30, 202456 mins
Freed from the coffin by Armand, Louis sets the Theatre aflame, kills the vampires of the coven, with Sam the only one to escape, and saves Claudia's diaries. He reunites with Armand and they meet Lestat in Magnus's old lair, but Louis only "kills" him symbolically by choosing Armand for the rest of his life. In the present, the interview ends there, but Daniel, having been sent Armand's original script for the trial, reveals that Armand was the director of the trial and that Lestat, not Armand, had saved Louis from receiving a death sentence. Louis fights with Armand but leaves him and Daniel behind in the Penthouse. He travels to New Orleans and meets Lestat; the pair finally reconcile. Some months later, Daniel, turned into a vampire by Armand, has published the interview as a best-selling book; though he openly says it is all true, the rest of the world considers it a PR stunt. Back in Dubai, Louis hears the telepathic rage of vampires around the world demanding his death but calmly dares them to come for him. (from Wikipedia)
