![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Since Daniel is hardly “the boy” of Rice’s book, this series can almost be viewed as a sequel - or at least a critique of unreliable narrators, since the version of his life’s story that Louis is now prepared to tell has little in common with what he once recounted. A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Daniel has gone professionally fallow, so he jumps when Louis summons him to Dubai - chosen, presumably, as an isolated place where money can make your past disappear - for another extended conversation and the chance to actually publish this one. The framing device introduces us to Eric Bogosian’s Daniel Malloy, an aging gonzo journalist, who, 40+ years earlier, conducted an interview with a vampire (Jacob Anderson’s Louis). Unlike the Neil Jordan feature, which Rice scripted herself, Jones’ adaptation maintains the shape of the book but very few of the specifics. ![]() It isn’t quite scary, but it’s at least unsettling at times. But through five of the first season’s seven episodes, I appreciated the way this Interview solidified the source material’s central relationship, refined some of its more humorous aspects and plunged thoroughly into the campiness of others. It’s a worthy goal if not a perfect execution, and I think undead devotees preferring one extreme or the other - as if genre progenitors like Bram Stoker’s Dracula weren’t already half soapy melodrama and half horror - will be frustrated. 'Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches' Renewed at AMC ![]()
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