Any time zooms in on ’s face, the expectation is we’ll get lost in his soulful eyes and expressions. And you know what? It bloody works. Anderson, who plays vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac, crushes it whenever the writers throw a monologue his way.
Fitting, then, that season two of AMC’s drama gives him another banger before wrapping up, as seen in this exclusive clip from the finale, ominously titled “And That’s The End of It. There’s Nothing Else.” The episode picks up in the aftermath of the horrific trial in 1940s Paris that led to the Lestat de Lioncourt’s (Sam Reid) return and the gruesome deaths of Claudia (Delainey Hayles) and Madeleine, not to mention Louis being locked in a coffin filled with gravel.
That’s a lot of trauma to process, so how is he coping, journalist Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) wonders in the present. “Darkness was delirium,” Louis says earnestly, launching into a speech about his past. No one can say the man isn’t elegant.
As seen in the footage, Louis recovers and seeks revenge on the Théâtre des Vampires members who tortured him. He’s annihilating bodies and roaming around in suave jackets like a hero returned to form. But on the inside, he suffers from “lucid what-ifs.
” What if he hadn’t met or fallen in love with Lestat? What if he was stronger or had made different choices? But he knows it doesn’t matter. In the end, he’s either kissing or trying to kill Lestat, while Claudia is still dead. Oof.
Per usua.
