Spin-off! Fadzai has finally seen Interview with the Vampire S2, so we download on Armand All Along, unreliable narration, the future of the Immortal Universe, and the vampire genre in visual media (Sandile also recounts the bizarre case of "Swifties v de Lioncourt, 2024").

Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of domestic abuse, gaslighting, grief and loss, manipulation, mental illness and related stigma, Nazism, sex trafficking, sexual assault and abuse, slavery, and suicide.

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Chapters:

(00:46) - Armand All Along

(03:20) - Claudia: doomed by the narrative

(05:00) - Changes for the movie vs the show

(06:11) - Vampirism and the frozen psychological state

(09:24) - Lestat's involvement in the trial

(10:46) - The Lestat de Lioncourt image rehab

(11:46) - Vampires, evil queers, and theatre

(12:46) - The future of the Immortal Universe

(13:46) - Swifties v de Lioncourt, 2024

(15:55) - Cousins Klaus Mikaelson and Lestat de Lioncourt

(17:44) - Merits and drawbacks of unreliable narration

(21:02) - Claudia and the vampires that failed her

(22:18) - Immortality, perspective, grief, and forgiveness

(23:48) - Santiago - a fraud and an opp!

(25:00) - The vengeful Louis precedent

(26:20) - Madeline Eparvier - controversial? Brave?

(27:55) - Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles

(29:10) - The eras of vampire media