Editor’s note: The under includes spoilers for the Season 2 finale of Interview with the Vampire.

As the curtain falls on Season 2 of Interview with the Vampire, the AMC series can really feel confident about taking a sweeping bow. Showrunner Rolin Jones‘s adaptation of Anne Rice‘s seminal novel has additional than earned its location as 1 of contemporary television’s greatest accomplishments. The sophomore season’s finale, “And That’s The End of It. There’s Nothing Else,” addresses each the instant and extended-term fallout of Armand’s (Assad Zaman) betrayal and Claudia (Delainey Hayles) and Madeleine’s (Roxane Duran) horrific deaths at the hands of the Théâtre des Vampires. The penultimate episode left its survivors in perilous situations: does Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) get his revenge against the French coven? What takes place to Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid) following his sham testimony? Does Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) root out answers to the overarching inquiries that have hovered more than the whole series, let alone survive his increasingly risky interview? And what the heck has seriously been up with Armand? Episode 8 has a lot to resolve but satisfactorily ties up loose ends when dropping some tantalizing hints about Season 3.

Interview with the Vampire

Based on Anne Rice’s iconic novel, adhere to Louis de Pointe’s epic story of adore, blood and the perils of immortality, as told to the journalist Daniel Molloy.

Release Date

2022-00-00

Creator

Rolin Jones

Cast

Sam Reid , Jacob Anderson , Eric Bogosian , Bailey Bass , Assad Zaman

Seasons

2

Does Louis Get Revenge in ‘Interview With the Vampire’s Season 2 Finale?

When we final left Louis, the coven had murdered Claudia and buried him alive in a locked coffin. In the present day interview, Louis somberly recounts how he spent months screaming, sobbing, and starving, the latter rendering him also weak to escape. Armand, meanwhile, has been usurped by the coven’s replacement leader, Santiago (Ben Daniels), who appears to relish his newfound energy. Armand’s punishment is belittlement and subjugation, a predicament that have to sting coming from his former followers. Being the schemer he is, Armand plays into Santiago’s ego by pretending to really feel appropriately ashamed. Once the coven stops paying consideration to his movements, Armand sneaks some of his blood inside Louis’s coffin, which restores adequate of Louis’s strength for him to escape.

Properly enraged and delirious with hunger, Louis seeks refuge in an abandoned crypt. He feeds on any unlucky souls who wander previous and frantically plans his revenge against the coven, scribbling an Arya Stark kill list of their names on the crypt’s stone floor. Armand contacts Louis by way of telepathy and urges him to flee Paris rather than attempt to rescue Armand — to which Louis shouts that saving his treacherous boyfriend from the coven’s clutches is the final factor on his thoughts. Nevertheless, Louis warns Armand to remain away from the theatre if he desires to survive.

Louis soaks all the things he can attain with gasoline and telepathically lights it up on fire like a specific Fall Out Boy song. The inferno kills half of the coven Louis’s knife capabilities and meticulously laid traps do away with the rest. Santiago tries to escape by way of the sewers prior to Louis telepathically interrupts him with some deeply individual and ridiculing taunts about Santiago’s previous. Suitably provoked, Santiago flies up out of a sewer grate — only for Louis to straight away decapitate him with 1 slice. The Théâtre des Vampires has fallen, the constructing burned to rubble along with them.

What Happens to Lestat After the Trial?

His revenge full, Louis and Armand have a tense reconnoiter. Armand reveals that he’s been lying to Louis given that the evening the latter turned Madeleine into a vampire the coven ambushed him, possessing scripted and rehearsed their “murder trial” months in advance. Armand vows to commit his really extended life repenting for his cowardice. Louis coolly confirms what we currently know: it is not possible for him to definitely forgive Armand exactly where Claudia’s concerned.

Before Louis can leave France behind, there is 1 loose finish left. Armand leads Louis to exactly where Lestat is hiding out inside his maker’s old lair. Lestat has been quietly reflecting on who he is and what produced him this way, but Louis and Armand are not interested in modest speak. They summon fire in their palms — and Lestat snorts, unimpressed. “I have the blood of Akasha in me,” he murmurs, which is Interview with the Vampire‘s initial Season 3 Easter Egg, and a enormous 1. Akasha was the mother of all vampires inheriting her blood tends to make Lestat nigh-invincible. Louis opts for the subsequent ideal alternative. He passionately kisses Armand in front of his old adore, condemning Lestat to an emotional death by way of eternal loneliness.

‘Interview With the Vampire’s Season 2 Finale Reveals the Truth About Armand

Having renewed their bond out of spite, Louis and Armand travel the globe prior to settling in Dubai. As they recount these years to Daniel, they look to extend an olive branch following Episode 5 kicked off their estrangement. Louis declares his story completed Daniel announces, “End of session.” But Daniel, a master of specificity, is not very completed. He begins calling out the blatant inconsistencies in Louis’s story, saving the kicker for final. If Lestat can telepathically manage an whole space, could not he have saved Louis’s life at the trial?

What at initial appears like a cruel dagger to Louis’s heart becomes Armand’s downfall. Daniel hands Louis a copy of the coven’s trial script (courtesy of the Talamasca, and, surprisingly, Sam the vampire) full with someone’s margin notes. Louis fumbles by way of the pages, realizing — with Daniel’s help — that Armand was portion of the plot from the starting. He directed the play with as a great deal detail as any other production, then delivered the functionality of a lifetime. What’s additional, it is Lestat who saved Louis’s life by psychically swaying the human audience. Armand did not lift a finger he just took the credit and altered Louis’s memories to reflect the falsehood. Louis was meant to die alongside Claudia and Madeleine.

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Reid also discusses no matter whether Lestat seriously has revenge on his thoughts and why he’ll be “forever haunted” by Claudia.

A silent Louis leaves the table with a panicking Armand hot on his heels. While they argue in the other space, Daniel tries to collect his items and make like undercover Talamasca agent Rashid (Bally Gill), aka, scurry out of there. He’s interrupted when half of the ceiling crashes down about him, Louis possessing thrown Armand challenging adequate to half-demolish the space. For the second time in their lives, Louis orders Armand not to kill Daniel. Louis then promises Daniel ten million dollars, shakes his hand, and sincerely thanks him, tears shining in his eyes.

Louis and Lestat Reunite in the Modern Day

For the initial time in at least 77 years, Louis returns to New Orleans. During a neighborhood tourist stroll that just so takes place to reference the Season 1 celebration exactly where Lestat and Louis massacred the guests (with the tour guide blaming a ne’er-do-nicely named “Lesander Lioncourt”), Louis spots a vampire gathering rats off the street. Reminded of his early days, he follows the stranger into a dilapidated old property only to come across Lestat pretending to play the piano. He appears ragged and wearied and conducts himself at a reserve. When prompted, Lestat reveals that he’s rehearsing for his upcoming musical tour (our second hint at Season 3), but has produced New Orleans at residence. He is not “enduring,” a term he previously utilised to describe a vampire’s baseline existence he’s “living.”

Then, Louis and Lestat do one thing uncommon: speak honestly. Louis admits his previous sins. He was selfish he treated Lestat’s Dark Gift as a curse he wanted Lestat to endure due to the fact he was miserable. Now, with the advantage of hindsight, Louis thanks Lestat for providing him eternal life. Going forward, his future is a blank slate chance for him to turn out to be a improved individual. Lestat, stunned, reveals that Armand psychically contacted him in 1973: the similar day that Louis brought residence a young Daniel and ran into the sun. He cries more than Louis’s suffering, prompting each males to confess how a great deal Claudia haunts them. Louis and Lestat embrace every single other by way of their grief when the hurricane batters the property. Proving that Interview with the Vampire is certainly, as Lestat claimed in Episode 7, a adore story, this volatile but eternally bonded pair never resume their partnership but nevertheless come across reconciliation and forgiveness.

How ‘Interview With the Vampire’s Season 2 Finale Sets Up Season 3

Some time later, Daniel — wearing a new pair of tinted glasses — clashes with a Television news host when advertising his bestselling hot-off-the-presses memoir, Interview with the Vampire. Once the segment wraps, Daniel contacts Louis telepathically when removing his glasses — revealing eyes with a suspiciously vampiric sheen. After Louis left the Dubai property, Armand turned Daniel in an act of petty revenge. Neither have heard from him given that. Daniel’s key concern, and Louis’s key dilemma, is the legions of vampires who want Louis dead for betraying his type.

Sitting with his feet in the zen garden, Claudia’s yellow dress now hanging on 1 of the walls, Louis broadcasts a worldwide message to just about every vampire. He challenges them to a fight, but not without the need of issuing a clear warning: “I am the night.” AMC’s Season 3 announcement confirmed that Interview with the Vampire will adapt the subsequent book in Anne Rice’s series, The Vampire Lestat, wherein the titular character becomes a rock star. The final we saw Lestat in AMC’s universe, he was prepping for a tour. Name-dropping Akasha previews her big part in Rice’s third Vampire Chronicles novel, Queen of the Damned. Louis does not contribute a great deal to either of these titles, but Season 2, Episode 8 tends to make it clear that he is not going anyplace. And woe betide to any individual who tries to kill the evening itself.

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