Catch up on Interview with the Vampire
What’s Interview With the Vampire Season 1 Episode 6 about? What do Lestat, Louis and Claudia get up to? Who gets their blood sucked this week?
If you missed the other Interview With the Vampire episodes, head here:
- Interview With the Vampire Season 1, Episode 1
- Interview With the Vampire Season 1, Episode 2
- Interview With the Vampire Season 1, Episode 3
- Interview With the Vampire Season 1, Episode 4
- Interview With the Vampire Season 1, Episode 5
Interview With the Vampire Season 1, Episode 6 Recap: ‘Like Angels Put In Hell By God’
This week we get the fallout from Lestat’s brutal treatment of Louis. Molloy questions why Lestat hid his flying ability from Louis for so long (decades). “Hey Doc, did you know there’s a flying vampire apocalypse coming your way?”
In the past, Louis recuperates in his coffin, tended to by Claudia. Lestat returns frequently to try and woo Louis back, but it takes two years before Louis considers it. Lestat tries to gift Louis a new Rolls Royce but to no avail. After receiving a record of a song Lestat wrote for him, featuring the voice of his female lover Antoinette, Louis angrily confronts Lestat, which ends with them banishing Antoinette and falling into each other’s arms.
Lestat moves back into the house, much to Claudia’s protests. The trio sets some boundaries and ask questions of Lestat. Claudia asks him about his maker and demand that he kill Antoinette. They head out to hunt at night, and Lestat tells Louis he should feed on humans again. Claudia agrees, so Louis follows a potential victim.
In the present day, Molloy asks Louis why he took back his abuser. Louis replies, ‘The Vampire bond – there is no human equivalent.’
Meanwhile, World War 2 has begun, and the vampires are outcasts in New Orleans. Omens are left outside their front door, and people avoid them on the street. Claudia has had enough of Lestat and decides to leave once again. She stows away on a train out of New Orleans but returns shortly after. Later we see that Lestat forced her to return, citing Louis’ depression in her absence.
We also learn that he can hear other vampires, and he knows what Bruce did to Claudia on her last sojourn. Upon returning, she starts plotting to kill Lestat, letting Louis know of her plans via their special telekinesis that Lestat cannot hear. Lestat still sees Antoinette, despite having removed one of her fingers as proof of her death.
Molloy falls asleep after medication and dreams / reminisces of meeting Louis in the ‘70s, and another man he now realises is Rashid.
Interview With the Vampire Season 1, Episode 6 Review
This penultimate episode of the first season backtracks somewhat while also setting up Louis and Claudia’s eventual emancipation from Lestat. After ten years of Lestat’s attempts to woo Louis back, it is Louis’ jealousy that sends him to seek out his former lover. The skill of the narrative is that we both want them to reunite, as their relationship is the heart of the show, but also not to, as Lestat has proven himself time and time again to be an abusive partner who also has no love for Claudia.
Of their relationship, he says, “We endure each other for Louis’ happiness.” Louis is torn between his love for both members of his vampire family, even though he knows Lestat is toxic and self-serving. Lestat proclaims love for Louis but insists on keeping Antoinette around, unwilling to contain his affections to just one.
Lestat’s forcing of Claudia to come home is both blackly comic (he uses the severed head of the conductor to make a proclamation) and disturbing (he knew about Claudia’s sexual assault at the hands of Bruce and shows little sympathy). This crystallises her hatred of Lestat and steels her resolve to be free of him. But that can only be achieved if Louis is on board with her plan.
The modern-day segments see Molloy getting stuck into Louis and the doctor who comes to see to him and has to remind Molloy “he isn’t there” and not to include him in the book. The back and forth between Molloy and Louis continues to add both tension and humour. Molloy remains deeply cynical and combative, despite Louis offering him medical aid and at one point even saying he would turn him into a vampire now, in his time of need. Molloy scoffs at this, saying he would have to watch his daughter die of old age.
Given there is only one more episode to go, it seems we will see Louis and Claudia enact their plan to escape Lestat, setting up a (presumably) Europe-set second season as the show digs into the back half of the book.
Who’s part of the Interview With the Vampire cast?
- Jacob Anderson as Louis De Pointe du Lac
- Sam Reid as Lestat de Lioncourt
- Eric Bogosian as Daniel Molloy
- Bailey Bass as Claudia
- Assad Zaman as Rashid, Louis’ familiar in 2022
- Steven Norfleet as Paul de Pointe du Lac, Louis’ brother
- Kalyne Coleman as Grace de Pointe du Lac, Louis’ sister
- Rae Dawn Chong as Florence de Pointe du Lac, Louis’ mother
- Jeff Pope as Finn O’Shea
- Chris Stack as Thomas “Tom” Anderson
- Luke Brandon Field as Young Daniel Molloy
- Rachel Handler as Peg-Leg Doris
- John DiMaggio as Alderman Fenwick
- Dana Gourrier as Bricktop Williams
- Christian Robinson as Levi Freniere
- Maura Grace Athari as Antoniette, a blues singer
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