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Is My Very Nature That of a Devil?

For @iwtvfanevents' Rewind the Tape, I’m rewatching the first season and going over some old posts about it too. This one is shorter than the first two, finally, so I’m not breaking it up into sections. It also took me like three weeks to finish because I just couldn’t sit down with it. Hopefully I’ll get to catch up with the rewatch before the start of the second season!

This is the only opening scene without any modern-day context, no narration or anything until we’re almost eight minutes in —episode six opens in the past, but with Louis narrating and a cut to the interview almost immediately.

Love Louis’s look here, so gorgeous. After reading Carol’s insights, I’ve been trying to pay more attention, and I think this is the first time stripes are such a central element in Louis’s outfit.

Is okay what you desire?

Getting ahead of the story, but to me this is one of the aspects in which Claudia is least like Louis and most like Lestat, she has no existential guilt or moralism that keeps her from following her pleasure.

I don’t remember noticing this before reading one of the recent Rewind liveblogs, the two potential victims Lestat points out are Black and he doesn’t point out the white guy, Louis does.

You’re ashamed of what we are.

Bringing us back to the way the show ties vampirism/sexuality/blood/sex. “Could you not use the word in my place of business?” “No one goes upstairs, Miss Brown.” Later he’ll call himself a vampire for the first time after the first time he gets called a sodomite on-screen, and Louis “embracing his vampiric nature” in killing Anderson is, in his own narrative, the catalyst that begets Claudia’s “birth” into darkness, with Louis leaving behind human attachments to build instead a vampire nuclear family. Don't know what I'm trying to say but it's probably something Nyong’o already said in “Out of the Closet—and into the Coffin”.

Lestat and the man on the next table both look at Antoinette while Louis and the other woman look at them. This show is sick.

Lestat’s jab about Louis’s generous capitalist facade. Of course that Lestat’s critique comes from his feudal-ass worldview so I don’t agree with him on principle, but it’s funny how the show has made a point to remark on this every episode so far. We should meet communist vampires in Paris.

Time’s inevitable hammer, my absolute favorite scene in the entire episode!

I barely had the energy to hold up a book. My libido was not what it had been. I understood the indulgence. I let it happen.

I don’t think I have anything to add to the topic of the affair, but every time I watch this episode I’m amazed by how effectively it’s utilized. The scene by the incinerator is one of the best character-building moments of the season, tells us so much about Louis, about Lestat, and about their relationship. Louis is never going to show vulnerability again.

Louis: I gave five percent of the business to my girls, made 'em all owners. Tom: How's that help you? Louis: Lawyer said if they were owners, we can file a writ, saying 4118 was a… How you put it, Bricks? Bricks: Deprives us the use of our property without due process of law, denying us equal protection under the Constitution of these United States. Fenwick: Sounds like some kind of Russian Bolshevik scheme. Tom: You diddled the man's money, and he bought himself an end-around. It's pure capitalism, Mr. Fenwick.

And, from my chronological timeline, in Feb. 1917, Commissioner of Public Safety Harold Newman proposes Ordinance No. 4118, stipulating Storyville must be fully segregated by March 1st (see the Historic New Orleans Collection for more information on the real life mixed-race madam who challenged this ordinance in court) and the Times-Picayune reports on the murder of Alderman Fenwick on Sept. 1st. So either the following night or in the weeks that follow, the Azalea, along with much of Storyville, is burned down in a race riot. In reality, Storyville was shut down by the army in 1917 and razed in 1939; but there were several incidents of racist violence against Black people across the United States during WWI, including in 1917.

I do love Louis making the girls partial owners and having them present a claim against the city so that they can’t be removed from the area, it’s such a smart way to push the story close to the real history —a madame who sued the city— and perfectly in character for him.

These two moments of historical plausibility plus the moving flood of 1924-27 give us such a clear vision of what the show is doing in its treatment of history —skirting the Official History in such a way that the show is still very clearly placed within the reality and feasibility while taking a step back from concerns of accuracy, a very new historicist approach to realism. (Not unrelated, what Black Sails does with characters like Hornigold, Vane and Woodes Rogers.)

Something I only just noticed: as Louis starts getting heated in his conversation with Fenwick and the rest of those racists, his pupils start dilating.

Back to the affair, and Louis’s escapade with Jonah. Thomas and Jacob have such incredible chemistry, you totally buy the old affection between them, the familiarity, it’s one of those things that make Louis feel so grounded and so real despite the fact that we see and hear relatively little of his human life.

I do agree with the interpretation that Grace is kinda trying to homewreck Loustat by sending Jonah Louis’s way but to me that’s #allyship! She wants her brother to leave her white demon lover for a normal human sexy ass man and she’s so valid for that! Sad it didn’t work out. Louis and Jonah’s flirting and their little tryst in the bayou are tied for my second favorite scene.

Something from my original liveblog so I don’t type the whole thing all over again: “the whole scene sets up this dichotomy between the white straight couple who gets to be out in the open and the black gay couple who can't. i'm pretty sure jacob said that louis wouldn't have gone with just anyone, but jonah being 'an old love' was the push he needed. coming back to louis' inability to let go of his human attachments; but also the fact that he can't be free from human social constraints in the same ways that lestat can. i love how this sequence reinforces the point of the episode —the cost that louis has paid for this life he always wanted, the illusion shattering, his aspirations as a businessman and his existence as a vampire and his love for lestat all imperfect, all complicated, none of them enough. he's still hungry, he's still guilty, he's still unsatisfied. so he turns to nostalgia for an idealized past, a life he can never get back, those old days that must seem almost idyllic in contrast.”

The martinis scene has my favorite quote of the episode, and the whole sequence is tied with what follows for third favorite scene. I love watching blurry little Armand in the background. Blurry little Armand in the background, TELL ME YOUR SECRETS!!! And here comes the ghost! I’m obsessed with the perfect cut from the interview in Dubai to Louis’s visit to his family. I wasn’t very compelled by Rae Dawn Chong’s performance in the first episode but I liked her moment in the second and I love her in this scene, Florence is vindicated. Jacob is obviously fantastic but I think Kalyne does so much with her few moments on the screen, and I just love the way it’s shot, with the door flying through the hallway towards the camera and then Grace at the other end of a great distance and finally Florence and Levi standing firmly at the doorway while Louis sets the gifts down at their feet. Also, now I can’t help but think about Louis setting down the paper dolls on the du Lac home’s doorstep to the doll Claudia finds before Rue Royale.

Anyway, Lestat is so stupid and so terrifying and he needs to die a million times. He is transparently slut-shaming Louis with his line about soldiers being Louis’s type (plus blatantly misunderstanding what made Jonah attractive to Louis) and I still think that his use of the mind gift in this scene is first and foremost a show of power to subtly threaten Louis.

In the following scene, Lestat is also failing to come through in earlier promises (“If disrespect had been done to you, I would have killed him myself.) though of course, it would be painfully out of character for him to do anything but. He’s no hero come to save Louis, though he might think myself so, and he doesn’t even understand Louis’s struggle or empathize with it at all once he stops being able to see it laid before him with the mind gift.

Lestat playing solitaire while this shit is going down... kill yourself!!!

Anderson calling himself “the sun” and Louis embracing vampirism by killing him might be a little bit on the nose, but it’s very effective. All around an incredible scene, I love when the show goes full horror and Jacob Anderson truly delivers. I really like the pacing of these last ten minutes, they really pack a lot in such a small bit.

Lestat’s eye roll… he really needs to kill himself.

Jacob’s acting and Louis’s narration in this scene, oof. The desperation, the horror.

I could not save the Azalea. I could not save Storyville. I could not save the aunt on the wrong side of the wall, but I could save her. My light. My Claudia. My redemption.

What a heavy burden to put on a little girl. The ways in which the updates to Claudia’s turning make Louis both less and more guilty for her ultimate fate is so rich, I truly think it’s one of the smartest choices the show has made in this adaptation. I didn’t read far enough to meet Rose, but I’ve seen a few comments on how her “origin story” has been lifted to become Claudia’s, and I find that so interesting.

Another perfect episode, sorry, I can’t help it. This episode definitely is more eventful and action-packed than the second —I said I was gonna pay attention to that— and I never stop being amazed that the show can do so much with forty-five minutes. Strong contender for second favorite episode (with 2 and 5 tied for the first). Also second funniest prop puppet of the season.

#rewind the tape #is my very nature that of a devil #analysis and meta

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Rewind the tape —Episode 7 highlights

One of our favorite outfits is...

…the suit that Claudia wears to their meeting with Anderson. This is the first —and so far only— time we see Claudia wear a suit. Combined with her hair, which she started to wear pulled up in episode six, and her grown woman’s purse, this is the closest she gets to shedding the facade of youth while in public —but, of course, Tom’s “little girl” reminds us that she can never fully access womanhood. But she’s trying, and the suit symbolizes her new position in the family structure, the attempt to make herself into an equal: at the start of episode five she was still the daughter left home while her parents went to meet Anderson, now she not only attends the negotiations, but is an active participant, handing Tom the list that ends up defining his decision. The palettes of their outfits seem heavily symbolic too: Claudia, in beige, brown and red, stands apart from Louis and Lestat’s blue suits, but Louis keeps “a little shelf” for her, a touch of red in his tie that matches her crimson shirt.

What's a favorite look of yours? Claudia's high-waist pants and cape from the New Year party? One of their Mardi Gras outfits? Armand's unsubtly vampiric coat?

Reblog with your highlights, or make a new post with the tag #vampterview to join the conversation! And, if you're just getting caught up, learn all about our group rewatch here ►

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Post-Season 1 IWTV Podcast Transcript

Special Guests: Assad Zaman, Rolin Jones and Mark Johnson

"Armand is someone who comes into Louis's life in the second half of IWTV, they meet in Paris and Armand is immediately like most people completely entrhalled by everything about Louis and what he stands for. He's changed from the person he was before he met Louis, which is a person who's a bit lost in the monotony of his life is the way I would describe it. -Assad Zaman

[intro chit chat with Assad]

Assad: Armand is someone who comes into Louis's life in the second half of IWTV, they meet in Paris and Armand is immediately like most people completely entrhalled by everything about Louis and what he stands for. He's changed from the person he was before he met Louis, which is a person who's a bit lost in the monotony of his life is the way I would describe it.

N: Its been 500 years its definitely been monotonous. [514] Ok yes 514. Ok we get it. You need some love in your life. Now did you know from the beginning like when you got the sides, were you told you were going to be playing Armand.

A: I think if I knew I was auditioning for Armand, I wouldn't be here. I think just the prospect the notion would send me over the edge and I would crumble. I got the audition, a couple scenes with Daniel Molloy, a character named Rashid, I know who this guy is he's highly efficient and he's got skills, very clear part to play in. I kind of went in and did those tapes fairly confidently. Then I got a recall and another scene added, with a bit more subtext. Rashid has a bit of a sting to him with his status. Then I got a third recall and Rolin asked to have a meeting with me on Zoom, give some notes... I was thinking why is he wasting his time talking to me about Rashid when he's got Louis and Lestat to worry about so I'm terrified I get onto Zoom with him and okay okay so basically Rashid is in disguise, he's not Rashid he's actually the vampire Armand and he proceeds to tell me all about Armand. I'm think just don't lose your cool. This has to be a secret and we don't want to leak it but we want to see a bit more from you. And I got off the call and I almost started crying.

N: So how much time did you get then? between that first audition to the recall? You have to go from a no nonsense assistant to I am a vampire king?

A: They gave me maybe 8 or 9 hrs between the call with Rolin and the next tape I sent over. And then I did another 4 rounds after that... it was a grueling process.

N: Once you get to set, everyone knows or its still a secret you're witholding?

A: Apart from the main cast, a lot of the crew didn't know.

N: Sit quiet in a corner and don't attention?

A: That' was my initial approach to Rashid before I knew he was Armand. All he wants is to keep his job and not get killed.

N: Now while you're filming the first season, what convos did you have with Rolin about the plan for Armadn in the show?

A: We did discuss wth events in IWTV and where we're gonna see him in season 2, a lot of that is very important. Where Rolin has curiosity is when we look into Armand's past and where he came from, there's some obvious differences to me in what to explore and to see what we want to pick from it. His story.. its complex. He's messed up. He was messed up even before he became a vampire. The events that makes Armand have to be complex enough to see how he turned into what he is. .... I was also very aware as an actor a duty to the story being told in this moment, it's Louis's story and him recounting it to Daniel, their story is very important as well. As much as Armand is sizzling in the background, I have to honor their story as well. We don't want the audience to draw too much attention to it right now cause it deviates from the story and the themes that are important to explore in the season.

N: When Rashid revealed himself, I screamed. It only works cause Rashid has so cleverly.. you almost forgot about him.. "love of his life"? Louis?? Not another old vampire and this one who can stand in the sun.

A: We hope that he hasnt made the same mistakes all over again.

N: Why is he pretending to be Rashid this whole time?

A: I think it's incredibly painful for the love of his life describing another love of his life. There is also curiosity with Daniel about why he's allowing this interview to happen.

N: And Rashid was there in that first interview so that whole thing makes sense.

A: We actually don't know what transpired in SF, cause he was not there in the book. How far did Louis get and what Armand had to do to stop him? That could also be why this interview is happening.

N: A little taste of what's to come in s2?

A: Theatrics, vespas and romance is in the air. We're in Paris. It's a gorgeous part of the Paris and the journey they take to get to Paris and the showdown that has to happen in Paris.

Highlights of Rolin Jones/Mark Johnson

N: How are you feeling about Season 2? Is there pressure? Is there a feeling that OK we did one and now we can really dig in?

R: Actually I'm just sort of being excited about Season 2 and not being scared out of my mind with it. The second half of iwtv, there's some lovely passages but there's a lot of people sitting around talking.

M: It's a whole new continent, but it's characters Rolin has already created. Im feeling quite confident and excited and abuzz about what we're going to do next season.

N: I'm very curious what attracted you to vampires and the world of AR.

M: I was not familiar with AR to begin with, my excitement has to do with what Rolin did with it for the pilot and thought this is extraordinary and I read AR and realized all of the treasures, of what Rolin took advantage of and what needed redressing.

N: Rolin, can you explain to me the process, you know, how did you pitch yourself as the showrunner of this?

R: I had an overall meeting with them about a list of things I wanted to do and as I was leaving they said we forgot to mention our boss bought the Anne Rice books, I stopped and I put everything and I said we're gonna take another 45 min for the meeting. By the time I left, I knew that's what I was going to do. They put me thru the gauntlet to prove if I was a guy. It wasn't just about whats a good poilot or first season it's what does this look like 8 seasons from now.... I was really excited cause I wanted to do something grand and big. I had some of my theater pals create a visual world.

N: Let's talk about Louis being black. I feel as though we are in this age of adaptation or reboots if there will be a gender or race swap and that's the extent of it. It felt as though you making this change meant you got more story, you were able to mine that fact for more story points and a new dynamic. These two men are famously white... and I'm wondering about the choice to do that and what it was to execute that.

R: I came around to his ethnicity a sort of interesting way which is through Lestat. There's a famous rewrite of Lestat in book 2, he's sort of an aggressively different character than what he was in book 1 and that's the Lestat she carried on for the rest of time. So that's our Lestat. So we tried to take the given circumstances and put him back in this time period, so he had a super emo relationship wtih this guy with Nicki, then he had uhhh a very excitable relationship with his mother as his second companion choice (we'll get into that in season 3 y'all), and then I was like lets give him a legitimate a third attempt at figuring how to be with somebody for the rest of his life and how to not repeat your mistakes. And I started from there so it had to be someone with some money cause he had to be with his own folks and I thought he wanted someone who could fight back and who could be a challenge and would force him to restrain himself. And nobody at AMC was interested in 7 seasons of the regretful plantation owner, so we made Louis come from a lineage that did have a plantation and did own slaves. And the second thing was aesthetic if you take away the ruffle shirts and all the swampy goodness and you wanted to make this new, whats the new hot time and birth of jazz seemed right on. And there was a spot when a black man could get in on some business and have some morally gray thing that owning a plantation would. It all clicked into place pretty quickly. ... and the other thing is you're trying to build as much inherent conflict, enough not to burn thru in a season you want 7-8 years of conflict and distress and vulnerability in both of them. I wanted to load Louis with as many contradictions and things unsettled as possible.

N: How did you decide when to deviate from Anne's books? Were there rules in what you could invent ?

R: There were a couple caveats make it here and now, make it grand and big but we said she wrote a very transgerssive book in 1973 and tried to put her in the room in 2021 making a TV show... there's no point in making it if you're going to make a roughshot of it. You're constantly revisiting the book. That's when you're in draft, in after produciton draft, dropping in as much Anne as we could. We were going to write the heightened language thats in the novel.

N: Can you tell me about how you found Jacob and Sam?

R: Obviously 9 billion people auditioned. It was very clear something very dynamic was happening when they got in the Zoom. For Jacob, there's this genuine warmth, kindness, for a character who's going to make a number of questionable choices, how do you make you want to love him? .

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N: Did you always know the season was going to end with the reveal of Armand and the "murder" of Lestat?

R: Very early on, we were talking about making this thing in the writers room and pre-production. A lot had to do with lumber and covid. We were wrting scripts for the entire book and we got a lovely call from AMC "is there enough in this story to stay in new orleans this whole season?" So what we ended up doing, we made the first 4 into the first 7. We did that 50 days before we shot our first day.. it was a lot. And it was to the benefit of the show, we made a better product. We were not going to be able to do Europe in the same beautiful detailed way we were doing New Orleans. What was originally 8 episodes is now a 15 episode book. Was that the ending of my season 1? Not originally but it became the ending.

M: Now it's hard to imagine how we were going to pack all that into one season.

N: There's such a movement to that finale.

R: For me, that kind of episode. It's one for the people, the one for everyone else. you're doing twists and turns like a thriller. My favorite scene is the one that stops the action, the balcony scene...

N: Thinking this is all from Louis's memory.

R: Memory is a huge part of the show. We are only 7 episodes into a 15 episode story.

Audience Q: How sympathetic do you think Lestat is? Obviously this man has some major flaws like the whole next book is a whole lot of backpeddaling like he's not so bad he's not so bad. How sympathetic do you think he really is?

R: The more you spend time with it. I find Lestat wildly sympathetic. and the way it's built... You're not gonna see Lestat speaking for himself until season 3. Its a big deal right? You go ahead and have someone else tell the world about you from their POV. Who had the most traumatic entrance into the world of vampires? It's Lestat. You have no idea the baggage going into North America. We are playing with POV. Stick with Lestat, he's got a lot of pain.

Q: Why is Louis truly doing the interview? He says I wanna redo, but yet he's doing the same thing, he's dodging, cagey. Why did you bring this man to Dubai to do this?

R: It is absolutely THE question. IF you wanna know what we're still digging out, it's the why of it. There's a reason why this is the second interview. The first interview is very important. Something signifcant life altering happened in 1973 but they weren't the right people to do back then. There's a lot if meat on Louis's side, Daniel's side and most important Armand's side.. who's become the most fascinating character of season 2. There's a lot in Dubai left to be revealed.

Q: Do we think we've seen the end of Lestat and Louis's sexcapades?

R: So it's AMC, we are trying to sliding as much under the door as we possibly can. We are interested in the whole thing - the sex sure, the love story, the psychological torment, we are trying to write a love story that doesn't disappear after book 1. There's Armand coming..

N: Can we talk about what's to come? You're hinting this show can go on for many seasons, how long?

R: The real reason I wanted to do this show.. season 3. The Vampire Lestat. I really know how I wanna do The Vampire Lestat and I couldn't be more excited about it... and as goofy as body switching is, I think there's something in the tale of the body thief. QOTD... you gotta think on that one, how to do such a massive object, if you do it in one or two seasons.

#rewind the tape #the thing lay still #bts

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for @iwtvfanevents REWIND THE TAPE: a playlist masterpost

tracklists beneath the cut

I. "IN THROES OF INCREASING WONDER"

haunted by american dreams

music box — MICHAEL RIESMAN AND THE WESTERN WIND ORCHESTRA

ascension — SARAH KINSLEY

the man that got away (live) — JEFF BUCKLEY

i'll go running — SQUIRREL FLOWER

ghost — LIANNE LA HAVAS

things that scare me — NEKO CASE

old devil moon — ELLA FITZGERALD

crying — MADISON VIOLET

funeral bell — PHILDEL

to die today — CAROLINE ROSE

pointed at the sun — HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF

anger as beauty — HAWKSLEY WORKMAN

cocaine and abel — AMIGO THE DEVIL

so in love — KISS ME, KATE (marin mazzie in the new broadway cast recording)

II. "AFTER THE PHANTOMS OF YOUR FORMER SELF"

little lonely habits turn into sins

skydiving (acoustic) — LIGHTS

the day i drove the car around the block — INDIGO SPARKE

tears in reverse — LUCIUS

hungry ghost — JOHANNA WARREN

you do something to me — ELLA FITZGERALD

so afraid — JANELLE MONÁE

misguided angel — COWBOY JUNKIES

it's alright ma, i'm only bleeding — THE DUHKS

little lonely habits — EMILY BROWN

tonight will be fine — CHRISTINA MARTIN

where i want to be — FRANCES RUFFELLE

truth be told — SKYE WALLACE

clever meals — TEGAN AND SARA

all mirrors — ANGEL OLSEN

III. "IS MY VERY NATURE THAT OF THE DEVIL"

anger pure and real and sticky and moving and sweet

all along the watchtower — JIMI HENDRIX

never say die — CHVRCHES

merrily we roll along — MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG (the new cast recording)

entertain — SLEATER-KINNEY

american dream — ONDARA

what a little moonlight can do — BILLIE HOLIDAY

tooth for a tooth — JOHANNA WARREN

don’t let me be misunderstood — NINA SIMONE

fire — SARA BAREILLES

state — LAURA STEVENSON

trouble — THE NEW RESPECTS

a burning hill — MITSKI

don’t forget — SKY FERREIRA

looking for knives — DYAN

IV. "THE RUTHLESS PURSUIT OF BLOOD WITH ALL A CHILD'S DEMANDING"

i shine only with the light you gave me

my baby wants a baby — ST. VINCENT

if you could read my mind — ROSE COUSINS

wolf like me — TV ON THE RADIO

all the things you are — ELLA FITZGERALD

daughter — PEARL JAM

oh no darling! — SARAH KINSLEY

children will listen — ELERI WARD

adam’s ribs — JENSEN MCRAE

the moon will sing — THE CRANE WIVES

light of love — FLORENCE + THE MACHINE

diaries — MARTYNA BASTA

isn’t it a trial? — ALICE BY HEART (grace mclean & company in the original cast recording)

dress yourself — SLEATER-KINNEY

doll parts — HOLE

V. "A VILE HUNGER FOR YOUR HAMMERING HEART"

what if birds aren't singing they're screaming

salt and vinegar — LIGHTS

the wetlands — AIOFE WOLF

death of me — SKYE WALLACE

like a child hiding behind your tombstone — SLOTHRUST

nine lives — ODIE LEIGH

what if birds aren’t singing they’re screaming — ALDOUS HARDING

let me stay — JOHANNA WARREN

pushing the needle too far — INDIGO GIRLS

every day a little death — A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC (patricia elliott & victoria mallory in the original broadway cast recording)

any way the wind blows — HADESTOWN (original broadway cast recording)

special death — MIRAH

the kick inside — KATE BUSH

my least favorite life — LERA LYNN

stormy weather — ETTA JAMES

VI. "LIKE ANGELS PUT IN HELL BY GOD"

after midnight

phantom limb — SKYE WALLACE

black star — JADE BIRD

send in the clowns — ELERI WARD

as long as he needs me — OLIVER! (sally dexter in the 1994 london palladium cast recording)

stuck in the south — ADIA VICTORIA

chess — CHESS (the original recording)

walkin’ after midnight — PATSY CLINE

what’s the use of wond'rin’ — CAROUSEL (jessie mueller & renée fleming in the 2018 broadway cast recording)

these days — ST. VINCENT

:/ — JOHANNA WARREN

devils — AMELIA CURRAN

i don’t like mondays — TORI AMOS

looking for trade — SHOCK TREATMENT (jessica harper & cliff de young in the original soundtrack recording)

gimme gimme — DAMHNAIT DOYLE

VII. "THE THING LAY STILL"

the party's over

blood — MARIKA HACKMAN

his kiss, the riot — HADESTOWN (patrick page in the original broadway cast recording)

paint it, black — CIARA

love will tear us apart — AMYTHYST KIAH

new year — BIG JOANIE

it’s a man’s, man’s, man’s world — JAMES BROWN

angels in cages — CARAVAN OF THIEVES

the party’s over — LAURA BENANTI

if the poison won’t take you my dogs will — LINGUA IGNOTA

the wheel — LAURA STEVENSON

house of mirrors — JOSEPHINE ONIYAMA

shock treatment — SHOCK TREATMENT (original soundtrack recording)

the liars club — AMIGO THE DEVIL

the vampyre of time and memory — QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE

thanks for listening

#rewind the tape #fanmix

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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 1x07 | The Thing Lay Still Rosemary... and something else.

#rewind the tape #the thing lay still #edits and graphics #rue royale family

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Rewind the tape —Episode 7 highlights

One of our favorite scenes is...

…the Armand reveal. The show has been guiding our attention towards Rashid since the beginning, but this long-foreshadowed twist doesn't lose its emotional payoff, managing to both confirm our suspicions and subvert our expectations —and add a hysterically funny note to an otherwise harrowing scene. Even for those who know nothing about Armand, learning the true identity of this ever-present figure completely reframes both the interview and Louis himself, who we now see is once again in a "small box" with a man who loves him.

What's a favorite scene of yours? Claudia roping Lestat into her con? The proposal to Tom?

Reblog with your highlights, or make a new post with the tag #vampterview to join the conversation! And, if you're just getting caught up, learn all about our group rewatch here ►

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Ignorance is...Death

My favorite scene and quote for episode seven stem from the end of the feast. It was so satisfying to see the "king" be taken out by the queen and the rook. I will admit, I was a bit afraid he would foil the plan, but my gut told me he was not that smart. The feeling I got when he began gagging and Claudia mocked him was one I cannot describe. Watching this man crumble in every iteration will always make me happy.

"You should've let that train go, Uncle Les."

Exactly! Lestat was so concerned with trying to keep the both of them within his reach, he didn't realize it would drive them to this point. He even tried to bring in reinforcements to make sure they never left and thinking that would do something. Now look, the both of you are gone.

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#rewind the tape #the thing lay still

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All Dressed Up for Assassination

My favorite looks from episode seven are these two looks worn by Louis and Claudia as they were negotiating the Mardi Gras Ball. The energy they exuded throughout this scene was just immaculate. It was lovely to see Claudia step dressed up as the woman that she is and have this conversation where most times women were not expected to be in "men's business". She looked beautiful in her plaid suit and up-do, standing on business as she always has. I also adored the way Louis sat back like a mob wife knowing what was to come later and just waiting for the ball to drop. The brown, wool short coat draped over this bluish-grey suit and topped with the red polka dot tie is definitely one for the books. I love that even in his last days of being in New Orleans, Louis was still dressed to the 9's.

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iwtvfanevents · 8 days

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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 1.03 "Is My Very Nature That of the Devil"

#rewind the tape #is my very nature that of a devil #jonah x louis #edits and graphics

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iwtvfanevents · 9 days

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Rewind the tape —Episode 7 highlights

One of our favorite quotes is...

Love? I bled him like a pig and waited for the death rattle.

We couldn't resist this perfectly placed bookend! The show opens with Louis putting a blade to his brother's neck and threatening him:

Get on home, else I'll bleed ya like a cochon, bruh.

Over a century later, in a similar display of fake bravado, talking about bringing that same knife to Lestat's throat, his narration comes full circle, back to the same metaphor.

What's a favorite quote of yours? One of Daniel's questions? The balcony monologue? Claudia throwing his own words back at Lestat? Louis' very last line?

Reblog with your highlights, or make a new post with the tag #vampterview to join the conversation! And, if you're just getting caught up, learn all about our group rewatch here ►

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iwtvfanevents · 10 days

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Rewind the tape —an AMC IWTV group rewatch

Episode 7: ...The Thing Lay Still

In the time leading up to the second season, which premieres on May 12th, we’re hosting a group rewatch of season one! Today, Sunday, April 21st, we’re starting with Episode 7, …The Thing Lay Still.

You can watch with your friends or in your own time, and come talk about it in the #vampterview tag! We want to hear your thoughts, theories and burning questions, as well as your favorite moments, costumes and lines from the episode.

Come revisit the first season, and countdown the weeks to the second with us, here or on Twitter, using the tag #vampterview.

Click here to learn more about this dedicated tag ►

We’re kicking off discussion of the finale with a question:

The final scene of episode seven recontextualizes what we know about the events of present day Dubai as well as the aftermath of Mardi Gras, revealing that Louis is carefully curating Daniel’s experience of both. What do you believe motivates Louis’ need for control over Daniel’s perception of the story and the interview?

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Rewind the Tape — IWTV S1E04 Rewatch

Finally, I'm back with my rewatch for @iwtvfanevents after having to microdosing Ep 4 because of limited time, mood, and I just fell unconscious once I hit my bed. Again, FYI from before: this is my first time rewatching the show (excluding indirect watch through YouTube reactions), and its purpose for me to refresh my mind and noticing things. So, I won't dwell on certain ongoing or past theories, but I'll take notes about the possibilities I notice as the rewatch goes for myself. Also, disclaimer, because I've had people put words into my mouth before: When I'm assuming the reason a certain character does what they do, it's not to give them an excuse. It's my way of trying to understand what the writers have in their minds. For me, if the action of a character doesn't make sense in that character's eyes, based on their personality, then it's bad writing.

Okay, that's long enough. Be careful with the S2 spoiler alerts. Time to meet ✨ Claudia✨

• It's been 10 years since Daniel published a book and his publisher seems questioning his ability to write a book.

• Armand barely gets any sunlight here.

• *Googling* Levodopa is used to reduce Parkinson's symptoms, like tremors, stiffness, and slowness, which are caused by lack of dopamine. It works by being converted to dopamine in brain.

• "Electronic mailbox" Armand, you're so funny.

• Resting? Wait, have they ever did an interview during mornings before? Ep 1, it's night. Ep 2, during dinner time to late at night. Okay, it seems Ep 3 starts in the day to night. Gonna pay attention to this more.

• The interior designer is a woman. "Louis is missing the 'natural' world" What tree is that again? I'm bad with plants.

• Claudia wrote her name and the year on her first diary. Cute. (But ofc she probably stopped doing that after Loustat read her diaries)

• They arrived in Paris November 14, 1945. A week after Lestat's birthday, fyi. There's a headcanon Armand's (it seems people got it from a wikia, which was taken from an official calendar, but no one has checked that calendar) is November 11.

• They're in Ploiesti in 1941, eating POWs.

• My caption doesn't write it, but Lestat says, "Impossible. Elle est trop jeune." (She's too young) Oh, Louis 😔

• "I just need her not to die". And Lestat probably recalled Louis crying on their bed over not able to have a child, and there they went to doom themselves and Claudia. Anything (because unlike Louis, he knows all the consequences) to keep Louis happy AND stay with him.

• The contrast between Louis' and Claudia's transformation. Lestat doesn't let her to drink much, just enough to turn her. There's no gentleness or anything when Lestat holds her. In fact, the camera stays on his rough hold, highlighting the ugliness of it. Isn't in the books being turned without consent seen akin to rape?

• "Hell demons" lol. I wonder when she got his first diary and when she arrived at that conclusion.

• "It's my new house?" "It is if you want it to be" as if she has another option. Louis, you're so funny.

• Delaying to tell Claudia that she needs to feed on humans. Telling her there's another "choice" than eating humans. Expecting Claudia to feel regret the next day after killing a human. Louis, stop putting your own feelings in her.

• "He has to relay on my words to understand me. Just like humans." "We are a family?" Monsters who have to keep a bit of humanity to get along, who are also playing house like humans.

• You could tell Lestat is already sensitive about being left out in the telepathic conversation since the beginning.

• Claudia witnessing queer relationship for the first time is so amusing lol

• Claudia says ACAB 😌

• This scene doesn't feel "smooth" to me. I don't know if it's the editing or the writing. First, that last line by the cop is too long for such a short action. Second, i think they could pick a better intonation for "not a cop" there. Plus, the placement makes it feel like they almost forgot to put it.

• Claudia needs twice amount of blood than Loustat. She's still energetic when the sleep time comes. Noted.

• "Kill juice" Lestat and Claudia are bonding over vampirism.

• "Have you seen my slippers?" "Under the chair by the window" The domesticity uwu.

• The lines about Lestat talking about Claudia's writing habit are so witty when you remember he canonly writes the Vampire Chronicles books. A platonic kiss for IWTV writers again.

• Claudia's new coffin is called The Feathered Nest. A call back to Louis saying him in Lestat's nest in Ep 2.

• Since the beginning, Claudia likes to ask and figure out things that she doesn't know, while Louis won't say anything to not rock the boat.

• "We try to accustom her to the thought of coming home to God" Oh gosh, Louis is so bad at lying 😭

• Okay, seriously. We know in Ep 2, after Louis is just turned that /at least/ his sight and hearing becomes more sensitive. And in this episode, Claudia can smell the cop's blood from afar. But this lore doesn't consistent with the stinky bodies at their home in Ep 5 and the fact Claudia can stalk Lestat many times (and ofc Claudia and Louis at Antoinette's place in Ep 6 as well). This uncontinuity gives me a headache. OR after they manage to control their senses (Lestat's saying "focus on my voice, a single strain"), their senses basically become normal and only can do more when they willing it? I'm trying to make sense of it here.

• "I miss sleeping with you." So, in good days, they sleep together in Louis' coffin. They /probably/ haven't been doing it since Antoinette thing started (I mean, I wouldn't). That's 8 months. (The sanctioned infidelity narration is on Feb 1917, Claudia started to write her diary in late Sept 1917 and she still sleeps with Louis by that time. Based on this timeline)

• "Sometimes, you gotta be careful where you dig, you understand?" Not to fast forward to S2, but this sounds so ominous.

• Louis in the night with this pink striped shirt 🥰

• "Is that what he's up to when he goes out alone?" No wonder stalking Lestat is the first thing she does after Charlie.

• Do I believe Louis' answer is true? I do, because writing-wise, I don't see there's any reason for Lestat to cheat (as in having a relationship with someone else, because I could see him still making out with humans before eating them) when they keep spending their time together except when Lestat is hunting and Louis and Claudia go out together like in this scene. Plus, unlike in Ep 6, during this era Claudia still follows the no telepathic talking rule. (See: Claudia's "I'll tell Uncle Les you talk to me this way" later) Something, I assume, makes Lestat feel alienated from the two and goes to cheat to find a connection with another on his own. But I digress.

• "Used to caught up in human affairs. Then you."

• Okay, at least Daniel waits Armand to finish his sunnah prayer before interrupting him, though Armand should continue doing his Ashr prayer soon. Anyway, i wish they used adhan that's clearer. I mean, I could only listen the beginning of each phrase, not the end.

• Claudia throwing a thing at Lestat and he barely reacted and proceed to pick it off the floor right away. For a period of time, Claudia is indeed the queen in that house. "This was given to me by a marquis..." If that's from Lestat's father, which makes that a family heirloom, and he gave that to Claudia. That means big for a Provider man like Lestat. (hashtag me and Lestat loved Claudia once propaganda) They are supposed to have 6 years of "good time".

• "When they can't (figuring out their problems), I can always get between them and make it right." Claudia is literally a band-aid. I suppose she helps them communicating because as I said in previous episodes, Loustat tend to not address the real problem, just shift to something that will make them feel better and forget it until it comes up again.

• *S2 spoiler alert* No, never think about how Claudia's interest in acting probably grew from the times Loustat bringing her to watch picture shows and Lestat acting them out in front of them. And in the end, it's what makes her fall into the trap of the troupe easier in S2. No, we're fine.

• "Know what her last words are?" I love her psychopath side, obsessing over last words after being called a devil in one.

• Oh, Grace's inflection when saying "uncle". They have heard a lot of homophobic jabber and satanic accusations from Florence over the years, no doubt.

• This is from Claudia's POV, so it's interesting how she's paying attention and remembers to write it down.

• Louis really has put down his dutiful son and brother "hat" after having a family himself.

• I think this is probably the last time Claudia admits she has a lot in common with Lestat *insert xie lian's idk whether i have to cry or laugh here*

• That scene of Claudia eating the guy is so classic horror, complete with the blood splatter on glass. Love.

• Lestat really brings her to Lovers' Lane without thinking about the effects. He probably thinks because her appetite stays big like a kid, her mind will stay like that forever.

• "I don't remember buying that outfit" Lestat bought all Claudia's outfits ofc. (I don't regard interviews as part of canon, but Sam did say that Louis chose Claudia's outfits)

• My theory: Lestat could notice when Claudia and Louis telepathically speaking if he pays attention to their expressions. I mean, he clearly has a thing for being alienated by telepathic connection (for a good reason, if they adapt that part of the book, cmiiw), so it makes sense if he just can tell.

• THE HORSE IS CALLED BELLA LOL

• She really has a crush on the first good man she meets. So adorable, if not for her monologue

• She knocks the railing every time she walks towards Loustat's room? Oh I would like to know the backstory that causes this rule/habit 👀. But if it's a rule, it's an interesting when you recall Lestat's "Child. Intervening the romance of the parents" or something like that in Ep 6.

• Waiting on balcony just like her father in Ep 1. The writers are strong with their "Evil of my evil" propaganda.

• Claudia figures out how to block people's thoughts since teenager. Louis has never had a reason to do it

• Again, Claudia is such a curious girl. She dives right in with Charlie

• Sorry, but the editing in this episode is kinda sloppy. I keep noticing things 😭

• This connection Claudia has with last words. It's been awhile but I wonder if we'll get to see it again. *S2 spoiler alert* Perhaps Madeleine says something to her before you-know-what. Or Claudia says something to Louis instead. I just love patterns yknow.

• Daniel Hart is just slaying in the background with his music.

• Vampires feel "loose" when they're aroused, which leads to become very bitey.

• That's why she goes to find out how vampirism works right away. Suddenly Lestat can't do what he did to her. She realizes she knows nothing about her current life

• That scene of Lestat and Claudia at the incinerator... Past Louis doesn't know they're burning Charlie and what exactly what Lestat says there. Imagine reading the latter in her diary.

• The transition from Lestat's whole speech about not being close to a mortal to Daniel 🤌🤌🤌

• If Daniel is true that Louis has had all of the diaries in '70s, so my guess Louis doesn't look fine at all in the flashback is right. He's "wearing hats" again.

• I wonder what Louis wanted to say. But knowing him and judging from his reaction to Daniel's brashness, it's something that sugarcoats Claudia's position in their "family"

• The way Claudia knocks the railing but then it goes weaker, she doesn't really care about the houserules or childish habits anymore

• The last scene is a nice hint/nod to you-know-what, but also I once read someone saying that what she does is the equivalent of a teenager doing self-harming when they're depressed, and I can't unsee that anymore. I think that's a spot-on.

• This is the last episode we hear "In Throes in Increasing Wonder" as a closing music btw. You know, the music that represent Loustat's love. They really say we're going downhill

Summary:

For the previous episodes, I always finished my rewatch and tried to figure out what theme of that episode. Of course it's always about Louis because this is Louis' season first and foremost. But for the theme of this episode, I think it's: Louis' first meeting with Claudia and the first time he has failed her. The first part is obvious, the second part, like I said above, Louis only finds how far Lestat's action is to Claudia after he reads her diaries later. I think, he sees that as his first failure to her; unable to stop Lestat making it worse for her. And we will see Claudia criticize this more in Ep 6.

This episodes also shows Louis' misconception about Claudia. He expects Claudia to react the same way to vampirism as he is. And we will see more of this in the later episodes (but of course the most obvious one is in Ep 7)

This episode is in Claudia's POV, but I like to call it "the closest thing to ideal life Louis has ever gotten", at least until Charlie happens. Like Lestat says in the church scene, Louis wears a lot of "hats": being the good son and good executive in charge of their fortune for his family, being the good straight man, being the good savvy businessman for his family and his own people, and later being a good vampire for Lestat. This time, he gets to take most of them, if not all, off and focus himself wholly on Claudia and Lestat, his family. He says himself, Claudia's existense silences all the noise, chaos, the crisis of his former existence. He has a daughter who has literal telepathic connection to him, someone who can know what he feels without saying anything. Someone by whom he doesn't feel being judged because he can know what she thinks. He has a husband who spends most of his time with them as a family. Who takes their daughter together to shop, Louis choosing the stuffs, Lestat paying for it. Who protects their family when they need to fulfill their daughter's needs (see: the buying coffin scene). Who also has a quality time with their daughter, even though it's mostly about killing humans. Unfortunately, it's rigged to burn, because Claudia won't be a child forever despite her body, outgrowning the very particular role Loustat need from her to maintain their play house.

Oh, I almost forgot, I wonder what the arrangement is with Louis' diet during this happy period. He doesn't do as much action as he did in previous episodes and we do see him eating animals still, but it looks like his sex life is thriving. He has control over his emotions pretty well. So, I assume he doesn't starve himself completely. At least, not as bad as he did before. Perhaps, this is one of the problems Claudia says she has "to smooth out". Though we know later she has never said directly to Louis how she actually doesn't completely agree with his diet choice from Episode 7. *S2 spoiler alert* And we know he later decides to eat human every other day to survive their European trip. My long time theory is Lestat manipulates him into drinking from him at least once a week as a solution. (and that's why he's more powerful than his book counterpart when he's not completely starving himself) 🤔

By the way, since this is the middle of the season, I'd like to say I think this is overall my least favorite episode so far. Mostly from the technical side, but I still love how they sprinkle hints of Claudia's own personality. I think my most favorite episode overall is Ep 1. I just love how their built Louis' personality in it. The performance is crazy, and the directing set the tone of the rest of the season. The directing in Ep 3 is top notch as well, especially towards the end. You really could feel the growing tension. The writing weaving all this history and race problem into Louis' personal life is genius as well.

#rewind the tape #the ruthless pursuit of blood with all a child's demanding #analysis and meta

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