Louis and Claudia here are still learning and guessing the vampire lore as well because Lestat didn't tell them anything, so we're basically learning along with them. I won't spoil much, but basically for Anne Rice's vampires keep being alive for centuries is a very hard thing. It burdens their minds because of the loneliness, having to reconcile with the changing times, and all the memories they have to remember. That's why many go mad, kill themselves, go to "sleep" or get killed by other vampires.
The revenant vampires were in the books as well. They were vampires that were more like zombies. They were mindless and nothing like the other vampires we know up to this point. Morgan was asking Louis if he was a "red", or a communist. He thought Louis was either an American deserter from the military or an American Communist who wanted to defect to Soviet Russia. No, the part about the blood being bad because of the pervasive sadness was not in the book. That was added for the show, but it sounds like something that would be consistent with the books.
The only explanation [the books' author ]Anne Rice ever gave for why some vampires turn out like revenants instead of like normal vampires is that, somehow, they just weren't made correctly. As far as I am aware. Exactly how or why not is left entirely open to audience speculation-although because of the fact that Claudia was unable to create any new vampires herself(as was briefly touched on in season 1) in the books specifically because of her body being so small and simply not containing enough vampire blood overall or such to ever actually transform anyone else(although in the books this was because she was literally only 5 or 6 years old ..so I'm not sure if it would've still held true or not[ in the books] if she had actually been 14 like she is in the tv series, since there are other vampires in the books who were transformed while in the 12 to 17 age range but I don't off the top of my head currently recall if any of those 12 to 14 year olds made vampires in the books had ever made any other fledglings themselves or not ... however, seeing as Claudia isn't the only vampire whose age of transformation has been raised for the tv series from what it was in the books[ as Armand in the books was only 17 years old when he was transformed but in the tv series he was a little older than that] ..they've probably just increased the age at which a body is still too small to make another vampire successfully for the tv series in general, which is fine) it is possible that perhaps revenants might happen if someone receives enough blood to begin to transform them into vampires yet not enough blood to actually get the job done completely/properly.....but that's just my own personal best guess. 🙂💖 Lol
I’m pretty certain that when Louis said, “If you were the last vampire on earth, it would be enough…you and me…me and you…you and me…me and you…you and me,” he was actually talking to Lestat. Something tells me no matter who he's saying those words to...Claudia...Armand...he's always speaking to the one who’s never far from his mind and heart. ❤
@@remholloway2579 lol I know exactly what happens, but ever since he was introduced as Armand I fell in love with him, the way he moves, the way he speaks and the way he sees Louis and Daniel it makes my heart skip a beat. I'm in no way ready for the end of the season or to see what's coming :(
YESSSS ARMAND LOVERS UNITE!! Assad’s performance is so subtle and nuanced, I fall more in love with every passing episode. Same, goes for Louis and Armand - their love pulls at my heartstrings, it’s so dear to me. :’)
As for werewolves, Anne Rice did write two novels on them: The Wolf Gift and The Wolves of Midwinter. While characters had say they exist with the vampires, witches, mummies, Jesus, and horny spirits, Anne never wrote a crossover before she passed. But some fans consider it as a massive side section of her work.
@@angelaholmes8888 that's going to be my December reading. Fits with the winter/ Christmas atmosphere. Plus the song Mary Fahl wrote (Exiles - the wolves of midwinter) is the ultimate cherry on top.
I thought Anne Rice had said that her Werewolf novels actually weren't meant to be in the same universe as Vampire Chronicles & Mayfair Witches, despite also having an organization called the Talamasca in them and such? 🤔
🤣🤣 Getting to watch your reaction to the Armand reveal and all is priceless, I can only imagine how differently that must've hit to everyone not familiar with his character from the books or such-thank you for letting us all glimpse a bit at that perspective. 💖 As someone who read the books, the reveal of his character wasn't random at all(though timed a bit differently than expected.. sure), but without that added/outside/ context you're absolutely right that it kinda totally was completely out of left field at that point if all you know is the tv series.🤭
really curious on what cast interview you watched because their energies usually do match pretty well, they’re great. i’m excited for your reactions to the following episodes since they keep getting better!!
Hahah I’d have to look but they were all together and it seemed more like a “serious” interview setting, like access Hollywood or something and the actor Armand dropped the F bomb and it was just unexpected. They all laughed! It wasn’t bad! It just didn’t feel like it was the vibe to curse during that interview. Was awkward but funny!
@@BillyKearneyReactsyeah, it sounds like it was like a rule in the interview for them not to swear which some interviews do have but considering the show that they're on I don't know why the interview would have that rule tbh...lmao. the other actors have definitely swore in interviews so... They might have been a bit awkward when Armands actor accidentally slipped up?
I'm going to watch the second season of _Mayfair Witches,_ but the first season was a bit lacklustre overall. In interviews I've heard with the showrunner, what she was going for sounds great, but I don't think they really hit it. We'll see whether it hits its stride this time.
Like you I was disappointed in the Mayfair Witches. That show just didn't deliver the same brilliant, kick-*ss quality work that I'm seeing with Interview. IWTV is the perfect confluence of great writing, great acting, and eerily beautiful sets. I'm really hoping for a Season 3 in which we get Lestat's point of view and backstory!
They can try to force that Louis/Armand romance on me, as well as the idea from the books that it's normal for vampires to switch between companions because otherwise it would get boring pretty quick (by vampire standards). But I will always be a Louis/Lestat fan, no matter how toxic they were to each other.
Billy, I love your reaction to watching the 1st episode from my favorite show, "Interview with the Vampire" to see Sam Reid, Jacob Anderson, Assad Zaman and Delainey Hayles, who takes Bailey Bass' place, it was aired on AMC, I'm proud of you for that!!!
Honestly.... I believe the crazy old vampire lady in Romania did what she did in the end after tasting Claudia's blood deliberately to take away the one and only thing that really mattered to Claudia as much as the old vampire lady's decrepit revenant fledgling had mattered to the old vampire lady. (Daciana? was it??) But ..that's just my own theory. Lol I don't think anyone else has ever actually stated that this was really the case.😊😂😂💖💖💖 That's just what it seemed like to me, like she really wanted to hurt Claudia back because Claudia had hurt her but at that point Claudia and Louis still hadn't made up with each other enough yet that losing Louis would've hurt her as much as losing the idea of all her hopes and dreams for finding other vampires to connect with instead of Louis .. but then, somehow, it kinda backfired and ultimately just brought Louis and Claudia even closer together again, at least for a time. But maybe I'm guessing off! 🤷🤷♀️🤷🏻♂️ idekk!!! 😆😁😁
Mayfair witches does a great job with the material they had to work with the books are insane but the show is wonderful especially if you know how crazy the books were lol I'm grateful for the changes they made because the level of crazy is just clown shoes
@@BillyKearneyReacts lol it has moments that you're like "ok it's gonna get good from here" & then it doesn't it becomes a hate watch lol. However I will still watch the 2nd season hoping they made it better
The most interesting part of the story for me personally is that everyone is an unreliable narrator. We're not sure if what Claudia wrote is the truth, if what Armand or Louis says is the truth, and we never see Lestat's perspective as he's being talked about through the lens of others.
I liked Mayfair, it got a lot of hate from book fans for changes, but I feel like the changes weren’t crazy and made sense. Also the main character is kinda unlikable at first because she’s literally going through it left and right, but I think it’ll get better in season 2. I’m a fan of both book series and loved both shows. 😅
@@BillyKearneyReacts Tom Cruise shows his range in this movie as Lestat he did a great job! This was the movie that introduced me to Anne Rice and her books! It's technically more faithful then the show but I love the show so much!
Also it's been a while since I read the books, but I remember that when Anne rice vampires drink someone else's blood they do indeed gain memories from their victims and most likely their emotions.
The mayfair witches tv show isn't as great as interview with the vampire i read the witching hour book 1 in the mayfair series i understand why many fans are not happy with season 1
Mayfair the show is bad even ad a stand alone, but it's horrible as an adaptation. They mess up Rowan, the main characters personality and add in unneeded sexism. They made Rowan so weak compared to her in the books and the other main chatacter.... they picked the wrong actor to play him. He is not what people imagine when they think of Lasher. It was disappointing on every level. I've read all the Mayfair books and all the vampire chronicles books, so I understand I'm biased. But again even as a stand alone show, Mayfair is not good. I wish it was, I love the main actress.
@@BillyKearneyReacts I think there was a lot of viewership because of the main actress and some hype for the immortal universe. It was dogshit. It had certain peak moments that never were consistent. They also tried to stuff a 1000 page book into 8 episodes. Also the cgi was so bad and laughable.
Louis and Claudia here are still learning and guessing the vampire lore as well because Lestat didn't tell them anything, so we're basically learning along with them.
I won't spoil much, but basically for Anne Rice's vampires keep being alive for centuries is a very hard thing. It burdens their minds because of the loneliness, having to reconcile with the changing times, and all the memories they have to remember. That's why many go mad, kill themselves, go to "sleep" or get killed by other vampires.
🤯 damn!
The revenant vampires were in the books as well. They were vampires that were more like zombies. They were mindless and nothing like the other vampires we know up to this point. Morgan was asking Louis if he was a "red", or a communist. He thought Louis was either an American deserter from the military or an American Communist who wanted to defect to Soviet Russia.
No, the part about the blood being bad because of the pervasive sadness was not in the book. That was added for the show, but it sounds like something that would be consistent with the books.
The only explanation [the books' author ]Anne Rice ever gave for why some vampires turn out like revenants instead of like normal vampires is that, somehow, they just weren't made correctly. As far as I am aware. Exactly how or why not is left entirely open to audience speculation-although because of the fact that Claudia was unable to create any new vampires herself(as was briefly touched on in season 1) in the books specifically because of her body being so small and simply not containing enough vampire blood overall or such to ever actually transform anyone else(although in the books this was because she was literally only 5 or 6 years old ..so I'm not sure if it would've still held true or not[ in the books] if she had actually been 14 like she is in the tv series, since there are other vampires in the books who were transformed while in the 12 to 17 age range but I don't off the top of my head currently recall if any of those 12 to 14 year olds made vampires in the books had ever made any other fledglings themselves or not ... however, seeing as Claudia isn't the only vampire whose age of transformation has been raised for the tv series from what it was in the books[ as Armand in the books was only 17 years old when he was transformed but in the tv series he was a little older than that] ..they've probably just increased the age at which a body is still too small to make another vampire successfully for the tv series in general, which is fine) it is possible that perhaps revenants might happen if someone receives enough blood to begin to transform them into vampires yet not enough blood to actually get the job done completely/properly.....but that's just my own personal best guess. 🙂💖 Lol
@@jaginaiaelectrizs6341 yeah, that's a possibility.
I’m pretty certain that when Louis said, “If you were the last vampire on earth, it would be enough…you and me…me and you…you and me…me and you…you and me,” he was actually talking to Lestat. Something tells me no matter who he's saying those words to...Claudia...Armand...he's always speaking to the one who’s never far from his mind and heart. ❤
23:18The way Lestat makes you smile, ok same giiiiiirl
Hehehe 🤭
please, by now, Armand is my fav, he's just so amazing, i love him
I’m sure im going to too. It’s just I don’t know anything about him yet. Excited for it to all unfold 🧛🏻♂️
I think your gonna take back your opinion by the end of the season lol
@@remholloway2579 lol I know exactly what happens, but ever since he was introduced as Armand I fell in love with him, the way he moves, the way he speaks and the way he sees Louis and Daniel it makes my heart skip a beat. I'm in no way ready for the end of the season or to see what's coming :(
YESSSS ARMAND LOVERS UNITE!! Assad’s performance is so subtle and nuanced, I fall more in love with every passing episode. Same, goes for Louis and Armand - their love pulls at my heartstrings, it’s so dear to me. :’)
As for werewolves, Anne Rice did write two novels on them: The Wolf Gift and The Wolves of Midwinter. While characters had say they exist with the vampires, witches, mummies, Jesus, and horny spirits, Anne never wrote a crossover before she passed. But some fans consider it as a massive side section of her work.
I absolutely enjoyed the wolf gift I'm planning on reading the sequel soon
@@angelaholmes8888 that's going to be my December reading. Fits with the winter/ Christmas atmosphere. Plus the song Mary Fahl wrote (Exiles - the wolves of midwinter) is the ultimate cherry on top.
I thought Anne Rice had said that her Werewolf novels actually weren't meant to be in the same universe as Vampire Chronicles & Mayfair Witches, despite also having an organization called the Talamasca in them and such? 🤔
🤣🤣 Getting to watch your reaction to the Armand reveal and all is priceless, I can only imagine how differently that must've hit to everyone not familiar with his character from the books or such-thank you for letting us all glimpse a bit at that perspective. 💖 As someone who read the books, the reveal of his character wasn't random at all(though timed a bit differently than expected.. sure), but without that added/outside/ context you're absolutely right that it kinda totally was completely out of left field at that point if all you know is the tv series.🤭
Oh, are you in for one gory and gay as fuck season. XD This will be fun.
Ummmmmm YESSSS!! ❤️🔥🤗
really curious on what cast interview you watched because their energies usually do match pretty well, they’re great. i’m excited for your reactions to the following episodes since they keep getting better!!
Hahah I’d have to look but they were all together and it seemed more like a “serious” interview setting, like access Hollywood or something and the actor Armand dropped the F bomb and it was just unexpected. They all laughed! It wasn’t bad! It just didn’t feel like it was the vibe to curse during that interview. Was awkward but funny!
@@BillyKearneyReactsyeah, it sounds like it was like a rule in the interview for them not to swear which some interviews do have but considering the show that they're on I don't know why the interview would have that rule tbh...lmao. the other actors have definitely swore in interviews so... They might have been a bit awkward when Armands actor accidentally slipped up?
@@AnxietyRat in what I saw he didn’t slip. It was intentional which was like the jarring part. Idk I loved it. It was funny
Thank you for doing reactions and not some boring @ss recap or review for over an hour! Love your videos please keep making them!
Armand is one of my fav characters
I’m intrigued
Armand is my favorite character as well- both in the books and in the tv show. Assad is incredible!
I agree, Louis sounds sick
Yay! Good to see you back. I loved your reaction and I'm looking forward to the coming episodes of my favourite show.
I'm going to watch the second season of _Mayfair Witches,_ but the first season was a bit lacklustre overall. In interviews I've heard with the showrunner, what she was going for sounds great, but I don't think they really hit it. We'll see whether it hits its stride this time.
Like you I was disappointed in the Mayfair Witches. That show just didn't deliver the same brilliant, kick-*ss quality work that I'm seeing with Interview. IWTV is the perfect confluence of great writing, great acting, and eerily beautiful sets. I'm really hoping for a Season 3 in which we get Lestat's point of view and backstory!
@@hollyvanwye9294 I know. _The Vampire Lestat_ really gave an interesting backstory.
Idk wtf they were thinking trying to cram a 1000 page book in 8 episode. Was so disappointed
They can try to force that Louis/Armand romance on me, as well as the idea from the books that it's normal for vampires to switch between companions because otherwise it would get boring pretty quick (by vampire standards). But I will always be a Louis/Lestat fan, no matter how toxic they were to each other.
Billy, I love your reaction to watching the 1st episode from my favorite show, "Interview with the Vampire" to see Sam Reid, Jacob Anderson, Assad Zaman and Delainey Hayles, who takes Bailey Bass' place, it was aired on AMC, I'm proud of you for that!!!
Honestly.... I believe the crazy old vampire lady in Romania did what she did in the end after tasting Claudia's blood deliberately to take away the one and only thing that really mattered to Claudia as much as the old vampire lady's decrepit revenant fledgling had mattered to the old vampire lady. (Daciana? was it??)
But ..that's just my own theory. Lol I don't think anyone else has ever actually stated that this was really the case.😊😂😂💖💖💖
That's just what it seemed like to me, like she really wanted to hurt Claudia back because Claudia had hurt her but at that point Claudia and Louis still hadn't made up with each other enough yet that losing Louis would've hurt her as much as losing the idea of all her hopes and dreams for finding other vampires to connect with instead of Louis .. but then, somehow, it kinda backfired and ultimately just brought Louis and Claudia even closer together again, at least for a time.
But maybe I'm guessing off! 🤷🤷♀️🤷🏻♂️ idekk!!! 😆😁😁
Mayfair witches does a great job with the material they had to work with the books are insane but the show is wonderful especially if you know how crazy the books were lol I'm grateful for the changes they made because the level of crazy is just clown shoes
Lol Mayfair Witches is that bad lol. It's disappointing cuz interview with the vampire is so good
That’s why I like can’t accept it!!! Haha hopefully season 2 will be better…🤷🏻♂️
@@BillyKearneyReacts lol it has moments that you're like "ok it's gonna get good from here" & then it doesn't it becomes a hate watch lol. However I will still watch the 2nd season hoping they made it better
@@DirtyVegas17 yeah cause I’m thinking they had to know that it didn’t do good so maybe they’ll get different people in the writers room or something!
The most interesting part of the story for me personally is that everyone is an unreliable narrator. We're not sure if what Claudia wrote is the truth, if what Armand or Louis says is the truth, and we never see Lestat's perspective as he's being talked about through the lens of others.
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I liked Mayfair, it got a lot of hate from book fans for changes, but I feel like the changes weren’t crazy and made sense. Also the main character is kinda unlikable at first because she’s literally going through it left and right, but I think it’ll get better in season 2.
I’m a fan of both book series and loved both shows. 😅
SLAYERS ASSEMBLE!! 🧛♂️🗡💜
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Interview with the vampire movie HAS SPOILERS fyi
Yes. I was told to watch it after season 2. So that’s the plan :) and if there’s still spoilers I feel like at that point I’m kinda okay with it
@@BillyKearneyReacts Tom Cruise shows his range in this movie as Lestat he did a great job! This was the movie that introduced me to Anne Rice and her books! It's technically more faithful then the show but I love the show so much!
@@nebulous8389 ahh! I’m so excited to watch it 😆
Also it's been a while since I read the books, but I remember that when Anne rice vampires drink someone else's blood they do indeed gain memories from their victims and most likely their emotions.
The mayfair witches tv show isn't as great as interview with the vampire i read the witching hour book 1 in the mayfair series i understand why many fans are not happy with season 1
Mayfair the show is bad even ad a stand alone, but it's horrible as an adaptation. They mess up Rowan, the main characters personality and add in unneeded sexism. They made Rowan so weak compared to her in the books and the other main chatacter.... they picked the wrong actor to play him. He is not what people imagine when they think of Lasher. It was disappointing on every level. I've read all the Mayfair books and all the vampire chronicles books, so I understand I'm biased. But again even as a stand alone show, Mayfair is not good. I wish it was, I love the main actress.
with how bad everyone is saying it is I'm surprised it's getting a second season!
@@BillyKearneyReacts I think there was a lot of viewership because of the main actress and some hype for the immortal universe. It was dogshit. It had certain peak moments that never were consistent. They also tried to stuff a 1000 page book into 8 episodes. Also the cgi was so bad and laughable.