Leave it to Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) Louis (Jacob Anderson) The interview creates a final, crucial upset that leads to troubles in Arman’s (Asad Zaman) marital life.
While Molloy plays like a daytime roast host, he says it’s a massive revenge for our entertainment. Molly or Divorce Court Because the episode will be shouting out loud to AMC and AMC+ with its eighth episode, “And That’s the End. And Nothing Else.” Interview with a Vampire Season 2. In this episode Showrunner Lorin Jones He wrote the script for the final episode, a shocking vengeance and revelation directed by Revan Arkin.
The story reaches Louis’ end. In the aftermath of the trial, Louis is buried alive, recounting the lonely, suffocating pain of guilt over Claudia’s death. Armand feeds him blood and looks after his coffin. Louis survives on a desire for revenge, and when he’s strong enough, he flees. Madness, rage and determination drive Louis to go into hiding, rather than flee as Armand would have hoped. No, Louis gets revenge for what Santiago (Ben Daniels) and his cruel coven of witches did to them.
Santiago, of course, now runs his own vampire theater and enjoys the power that comes with it. It’s nice to see that momentum come to a halt when Louis shows up and burns down this shitty troupe. Louis burns a few of the weaker coven members alive in their coffins, but Santiago, Celeste and Estelle, the main culprits in Claudia’s death, escape. The immortal mean girl duo get their comeuppance when their motorcycle explodes, but it’s really fun to root for them in this Tarantino-esque moment. When the show gets ultra-violent, it’s even more entertaining, especially in the chase scene between Santiago and Louis. Daniels, as always, plays the gestural villain and drama queen who runs like a rat into the sewers to escape. At this point, Louis knows Paris better than he does, and he carries out a literal medieval execution by knife, decapitating the short-term manager and stomping on his head as payment for the truly awful things Santiago says he did to him with Claudia’s ashes. The laugh-out-loud moment came when Louis scored a goal by kicking Santiago’s head off the screen like a soccer ball, a true TV treat.
The story seems to end with a “live happily ever after” moment for Armand and Louis, finally freed from the coven. They confront Lestat (Sam Reid), who has sought solitude in his dead master’s cell. There, the charismatic vampire is devastated for what he has done to his daughter, but Louis doesn’t care; he’s still drunk from the violence. To punish Lestat, they do not Kill him — that was reportedly Louis’ original intention. His ex-lover taunts Armand that it will be difficult since he has Akasha blood in his veins. Armand knows nothing as it is a reference to Lestat and Marius’ rendezvous, but he realizes that he may not have known that his master knew about the ancient creator. It’s a brief moment that winks at us Vampire Chronicles fans. The story continues, with Louis giving Lestat the death of his soul and choosing Armand before him to embarrass him. True love and “the end”, right?
No! Molloy got a copy of Sam’s (another surviving vampire) script from the real Talamasca, Rashid. trial! With annotations by the play’s director Armand. It turns out that Sam opposed Armand’s intentions to destroy the witches’ coven and became a spy for the Talamasca. Perhaps to protect himself from Louis’s wrath, he was waiting for the day when he could help him ruin the bullshit of his ethereal, kind-hearted husband.
This is Molloy at his best. Molly and Judge Judy There is a cantankerous, cranky old journalist who wants revenge on Armand for San Francisco. They review Armand’s notes on the screenplay and find that he was not the victim Louis had been led to believe. In fact, he was an accomplice from the beginning and Louis was destined to die. The sentence of “banishment” was improvised by the show’s only guest, who proved he could charm an audience. As Molloy reminds Louis, the audience knows that with his psychic powers he drove an entire New Orleans army out of his hometown, but only with the blood of the Akasha. Lestat saves Louis and Armand gets the credit!
In a word, divorce! Louis and Armand get into an argument and Molloy is told to run away. Louis sets fire to the laptop, but we already know that the Talamasca had backed up Molloy’s files. Louis decides to leave to repair his relationship with the person who truly saved him, and Armand is instructed to keep Molloy alive.
Lestat lives in the familiar landscape of New Orleans. Louis goes on a ghost tour following a trail that may lead him to Lestat, and soon finds a nervous grub, leading him to a dilapidated little shack. There, he finds an iPad for music and a board with piano keys scratched with claws. Louis has lost his mind after losing Claudia and Louis, and while haunting the house as a ghost, he carelessly keeps a millennial vampire grub and plans his music “tour” (a teaser for season 3). Louis cuts straight to the point and asks why he let Armand take the credit for saving him, and the self-conscious and egotistical Lestat, as complex as ever, says, “I don’t like to point out my own merits.” A hurricane rages around them as the emotional walls between them crumble due to his love for Claudia and being a terrible father. Louis assures Lestat that it’s not his fault. Sure… but they certainly played a big role in her fate. I still hope she stays with them! They kiss and make up.
At the end, there is a scene where Molloy talks about his book in a TV commercial. Interview with the VampireThe humans think it’s a joke, but the vampires are starting a war. The Talamasca and Molloy work together to make this plan a reality, but the local covens are furious at being exposed, and the rumors they whisper among themselves reach Louis’ ears. They’re after Louis, and they’re not going to stop. Oh, what about those whispers? Molloy can hear them now, because Armand turned him into a vampire. We’re happy for him and his future in publishing, and it also gives us another chance to move his true madness forward on the show.
I can’t wait for the next season, where Lestat forms a band and uses the truth of their existence as a gimmick to deflect his anger towards his subordinates. It looks like it’s going to get even wilder and crazier. Let’s get started!
Interview with the Vampire It’s currently streaming on AMC+.
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