Foreshadowing / Interview with the Vampire (2022)

• In the first episode, Louis confesses to Daniel that during his first meeting with Lestat, "I wanted to take the end of my cane and slit his throat with it." Louis does exactly that in the Season 1 finale.
• Lestat discloses that he's cursed with his father's temper, who had physically abused him when he was a child. In the fifth episode, Lestat violently lashes out at his fledglings Louis and Claudia.
• Louis asks Lestat "That's your thing, then? You like to watch?" when he notices that Lestat is ogling at him while Lily unbuttons Louis' shirt and later performs oral sex on him. In the third episode, Jonah does the same thing to Louis when they're at the bayou, and Louis is enraged when he finds out that Lestat had spied on them and "watched the whole thing like some creeper."
• Lestat's closed music box resembles a casket, and it's adorned with a lilies design at its center. It foreshadows Lestat's murder of Lily.
• Shortly before Paul commits suicide, he tells Louis that he should get married next. Louis later undergoes a Metaphorical Marriage to Lestat after accepting the latter's proposal to be his immortal companion and lover for all eternity (which actually requires a greater commitment than human marriages because mortals are limited to "Till death do us part"). Louis and Lestat's "wedding" even takes place on the altar steps of a church, they kiss, and they exchange blood in lieu of vows and rings.
• In the second episode, Lestat remarks "Amusing, their relentless questions at that age" when the tractor salesman chats about his daughter's countless questions about horses. Two episodes later, Lestat will create a vampire daughter whose Constantly Curious personality vexes him to no end.
• Lestat stealthily checks out a prostitute who exposes her breast while Louis is talking to Finn. Lestat's wandering eye becomes an integral part of the next episode's plot when he fools around with Antoinette, who also bares her breasts to him.
• The play that Lestat is worried he and Louis will be tardy for ("They'll seat us late, and we'll miss Nora's entrance with the Christmas tree") is A Doll's House, which is about a woman named Nora who is treated like a doll rather than a person by her husband Torvald. By episode 7, Louis and Lestat become Nora and Torvald respectively because Louis is being treated more like Lestat's property than a person because the former is now trapped in the latter's Gilded Cage ("the dollhouse").
• In the third episode, Louis is very upset with Lestat's philandering and asks his boyfriend, "Aren't I enough?" In the seventh episode, the answer is a resounding "No" because Lestat wants to form his own Vampire's Harem by adding Antoinette, whom Lestat has turned into a vampire, as his second wife (so she has been upgraded from The Mistress) with Louis having the dubious privilege of becoming his male Top Wife.
• Lestat says that he and Louis will "be together for 10,000 nights," which is 27.4 years. Their romance lasts for over 29 years, from late 1910 until Feb. 6, 1940.
• In the fourth episode, after Claudia learns that Lestat is bisexual, she asks Louis if he's sleeping with women when he goes out alone. A naïve Louis believes that Lestat is merely indulging in his "extravagant" kills out of sight from him, but the next episode reveals that on at least some of those nights, Lestat was bedding Antoinette, his mistress.
• In the fifth episode, Lestat warns Claudia that other vampires "would shred you to strips, because you are built like a bird." Later, she undergoes an Implied Rape by Bruce, who breaks her leg so that she can't escape.
• In the sixth episode, Lestat compares himself to Mélisande in his Villain Love Song "Come to Me", the character in the French play Pelléas and Mélisande who dies after giving birth to an abnormally small girl. In the Season 1 finale, his vampire daughter Claudia (Lestat is her maker, and he warned Louis in the fourth episode that "Elle est trop jeune" ^note "She is too young" to be turned) carries out her plan to murder him. Moreover, the verse "We'll mourn each other" applies to Louis, who is grieving after slashing Lestat's throat.
• Antoinette mentions while she's in a Ponchatoula hotel room, "Well, now that I'm dead, I can be whoever I want." The audience assumes that she's referring to Lestat faking her death, but we later discover in the next episode that she is indeed dead because Lestat had transformed her into a vampire, and she dresses up as a man (so putting her acting skills to use) while trailing Louis and Claudia to monitor their psychic communications, which includes the Jackson Square scene where Claudia bids farewell to Louis before she departs for New York by train.
• Claudia (while playing the black side) wins her first chess match against Lestat (who plays the white side) by trapping his king with her queen and rook. In the next episode, she (the black queen) recruits Louis (the black rook) as her accomplice, and together they defeat Lestat (the white king) in their respective murder plots.
  Lestat: Queen on one side, rook on the other. You have won.
• Rashid tells Daniel that "Dubai is a child," is unaffected by Louis drinking his blood, always wears gloves, refers to email as "electronic mailbox," and is shown to have looked the same since 1973. Episode 7 reveals that he's really Armand, a 514-year-old vampire. For fans of the books, his barely-disguised anger when Daniel insinuates that he's a prostitute is also a dark hint of his true identity, as Armand's traumatic past as a Sex Slave was a major reason he turned out the way he did, and led to his becoming a vampire in the first place.

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