Whether you’ve read Anne Rice’s or not, Part II of Rolin Jones’ adaptation for AMC has been an exquisite season of storytelling. Readers and viewers alike have been reeling from the onslaught of revelations burbling up from journalist Daniel Molloy’s (Eric Bogosian) dogged questions about the past directed at Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) and his longtime lover Armand (Assad Zaman). Season two’s narrative has been split between post-WWII Paris and contemporary Dubai, with Jones and his writers using the unreliable nature of memory to peel back the tortured truths Louis and Armand have been running away from for 80 years.
And in , there’s a reckoning for many characters while the door is left open for future chapters. got into a lively with Jones to dissect the twists and turns of the last three episodes and to get a sense of where the story might go in season three. It’s so hard to go back to all the permutations because we really were building 15 episodes instead of a regular season.
Season two has its own structural issues. I’m trying to think of what was surprising..
.. The destination for Molloy [Eric Bogosian] I knew at the beginning.
I kind of always knew that the first 20 minutes would be a Liam Neeson movie and the structure of the trial. Before the timeline took over, in my first read, I was like, “What if [Louis and Lestat’s] reunion happens during [Hurricane] Katrina?” Then I was like, “Well, it doesn’t have to be Katrina. It can .
