The best show on TV right now is AMC’s “Interview with the Vampire” and chances are you’re not watching. That’s because without a big advertising spend, too many titles fall through the cracks in today’s TV landscape. Especially if the show relies on cable viewers.
New episodes air 8 p.m. Sundays, but somehow this has become the old school option in less than a decade.
The show is also available on AMC’s streaming platform, which has just 11.5 million subscribers, barely a drop compared to Netflix’s 83 million in North America alone. There are discounts available for new AMC+ subscribers if you do some sleuthing online (none of which are being aggressively marketed) including a 30-day free trial with the promo code IWTV30SH.
I’m not here to shill for AMC, but it looks like you can get a plan for as low as $4.99 a month. That’s cheaper than pretty much any other streaming platform and it’s money well spent for this show alone.
Still unconvinced? The pilot episode from Season 1 is currently free on YouTube . “Interview with the Vampire” would likely reach a wider audience on another streamer, but it has a lot in common with other titles that established the AMC brand. The writing has the wit, confidence and swagger of “Mad Men.
” The story arcs have the brutal outlook of “Breaking Bad” and the monster premise of “The Walking Dead.” But it is resolutely its own titillating story — about unreliable narrators, fallible memories and emotions s.