Gay vampire show
Bisexuality in the book
Amid rave reviews, praising the novel AMC series for “finally letting the vampires be gay”, the conversation about the show’s treatment of bisexuality is silenced. To describe the show’s seize on bisexuality in one word, it is complicated. Simultaneously erased, elevated, trodden down, associated with bad, seductiveness, villainy, privilege, independence, and queerness. Laden with rich meaning, some of the scenes form a master class in cinematic storytelling through bisexuality, while others are the epitome of classic biphobia.
This is going to be a series of articles in which I show how Interview With the Vampiretakes the source material’s bisexuality and turns it into ambivalent biphobia, by depicting it as simultaneously oppressive and liberatory. I’ll examine bisexual erasure, the meanings given to bisexuality, and explain how these ultimately reveal bisexuality’s subversive authority against dominant social structures.
Let me start with a disclaimer.
Just so we’re distinct – this is a great show
Though much complaint is heard from fans of the Anne Rice books for deviating from the original, critics include bee
Watching TV has never been so hard. With more shows available in more places than ever, it's easy to lose hours, even days, to the hellscape algorithm of streamers like Netflix, desperately searching for something to survey amongst all the schlock.
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I am of course talking about Interview with the Vampire, AMC's horny and extremely homosexual adaptation of Anne Rice's already horny and already rather gay vampire saga which has returned to the BBC for its second season.
The difference this time around is that every homoerotic tease, every not-so subtle metaphor, is no longer subtext. Lestat de Lioncourt and Louis de Pointe du Lac are now obsessively in love with each other, acting on each based thought and sinful desire with a ferocious, animalistic relish that threatens to tea
Interview With A Vampire: 10 Optimal LGBTQ+ Vampire TV Shows & Movies
With each subsequent episode of the new series Interview with the Vampire, streaming now on AMC, the series makes it clear how much it wants to bring out the Queer elements of Anne Rice’s unique novel. In this respect, it is very much in conversation with the 1994 film version starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt.
However, it also takes its place among the other vampire movies and TV series which have included LGBQ+ themes in one way or another, either in terms of their stories or their general aesthetic. As every horror fan knows, there has long been a connection between the marginalized and the monstrous.
Interview With The Vampire (1994)
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Even though it is rather tame compared to the TV version of the story, there are still some Diverse elements present in the 1994 film version of Anne Rice’s novel. Among other things, there is a clear and potent chemistry between Tom Cruise’s Lestat and Brad Pitt’s Louis, and they even manage to create their own little family when Lestat transforms the girl Claudia into a ver
Interview With the Vampire Is the Leading Show Almost Nobody Is Watching
Perhaps no channel better encapsulates what my colleague Sam Adams defined as the cease of Peak TV and the launch of Trough TV like AMC and its neglected streaming arm AMC+, a service that is unfamiliar to virtually everyone I recognize. Gone are the days of Mad Men, Breaking Bad, and even Better Call Saul, which ended two years ago with less fanfare than you would think. Now AMC mainly treats us to an ever-expanding roster—six and counting, by my estimation—of uneven spin-offs of The Walking Dead. Middling zombie IP can only take you so far; where’s the next great present from the former network titan of prestige programming? The answer is a series that has been here all along and is, in fact, good into its second season: Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire.
AMC’s adaptation of Rice’s popular 1976 gothic horror-romance novel starts with a journalist. After an encounter gone close fatally wrong half a century prior, cynical Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) sits down for another interview with the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson), formerly a gay Ebony Creole human guy who suffered a toxic relat