This article contains spoilers for Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire on AMC . Television has long favored legal dramas that dish out a case-of-the-week in beloved procedurals like Perry Mason, Law & Order, or The Good Wife. Sometimes, one murder trial is the focus, such as Apple TV+’s splashy new limited series Presumed Innocent by David E.
Kelley. Jake Gyllenhaal plays a prosecutor turned defendant in a role played by Harrison Ford in the 1990 movie based on Scott Turow’s best-seller, but this is not the most gripping trial on TV this month. No, that honor goes to the penultimate episode of Interview with the Vampire’s excellent second season.
It turns out that humans are not the only ones who must face the consequences of breaking the law. Season 2 of the AMC adaptation of Anne Rice’s 1976 hit novel introduced the Théâtre des Vampires, a coven doubling as a stage company that Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) and Claudia (Delainey Hayles) encounter in postwar France . Here, Louis began a now nearly 80-year relationship with Armand (Assad Zaman) that hit a stumbling block thanks to the discovery that Armand had played Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind on Louis in 1973.
Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) got to the bottom of what happened in that San Francisco apartment, causing this ripple, so the investigative reporter now turns his attention toward Claudia’s fate. The stage is set to recount Armand’s other source of betrayal and the time he sold.
