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Season 1
- The two "Family Portrait" promos
have "When I Am Laid in Earth (Dido's Lament)" from Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell as the Background Music. - The Claudia-centric TV spot is set to The Marriage of Figaro "Overture".
- The image featured on the puzzle that Daniel works on is The Fall of the Rebel Angels by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
- The triptych behind Daniel when he interviews Louis in the latter's living room is Francis Bacon's Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion.
- The first opera that Lestat and Louis attend together is Iolanta by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (who was a homosexual).
- A few costumes were inspired by illustrations done by J.C. Leyendecker, a gay artist.
- Lestat's◊ suit◊ when he dines with Louis' family.
- Lestat's◊ gold-and-black robe.◊
- The tuxedos◊ worn by Lestat and Louis◊ at the opera.
- The tie◊ that Louis sports◊ on his Season 2 character poster.
- Lestat's
- One of the paintings in the dining room of the penthouse apartment is Rembrandt van Rijn's The Storm On The Sea Of Galilee.
- The large charcoal artwork next to it is Transformation by Ron Bechet, an African American artist based in New Orleans.
- Daniel quotes John Irving with "Memory is a monster. We forget, it doesn't." (The author's original phrasing is "Your memory is a monster: you forget — it doesn't.")
- Lestat is concerned that he and Louis will be late for the live performance of A Doll's House (written by Henrik Ibsen) and that they'll "miss Nora's entrance with the Christmas tree."
- The next opera Lestat and Louis see on-screen is Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti. Lestat is indeed remembering correctly that it premiered in 1843 note at the Salle Ventadour in Paris.
- Daniel quips, "Ken Burns can choke on the footnotes."
- The Egon Schiele painting Young Man Kneeling Before God the Father hangs in Louis and Lestat's bedroom.
- Lestat, Claudia and Louis are giggling while attending a screening of Nosferatu.
- Daniel compares Claudia's writing style to "Anne Frank meets Stephen King."
- In Claudia's Kill Tally diary, she jotted down that she had killed a man who sat in the last row of The Son of the Sheik picture show.
- While arguing with Louis over Claudia's eating habits, Lestat plays on his piano "24 Preludes, Op. 11: Prelude No. 15 In D Flat Major" by Alexander Scriabin.
- Daniel doesn't have much sympathy for Claudia because she's a murderer: "Look, Charles Manson wrote a couple of beautiful songs. Still, he was Charlie Manson." His song "Home Is Where You're Happy" plays over the fifth episode's end credits.
- Daniel thinks that the publication of Claudia's journals may usher in "a cool dismemberment trend amongst the suburban Sylvia Plath set."
- While reading a book by Gustave Flaubert, Louis notes that "Flaubert's style is so dense. The absence of metaphor is so striking."
- Lestat suggests that he and Louis go see Louis Armstrong perform at the Pelican.
- The novel that Louis reads when Claudia returns home after being away for seven years is Chéri by Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette.
- A shot from the controversial episode "A Vile Hunger for Your Hammering Heart" replicates a scene from the also contentious Hannibal episode "Mizumono" where Lestat/Hannibal Lecter (on the right side of the screen; both rich, European, manipulative, remorseless murderers who consume their victims) has nearly killed Louis/Will Graham (on the left-hand side; both younger American Pretty Boys with severe emotional problems who are reluctant to kill others), and the abuser grasps the face of the man he loves dearly with his left hand.
- When Daniel asks if Lestat can fly "Like Superman?", Louis answers, "Not like Superman. Superman is a fictional character."
- In the sixth and seventh episodes, some shots of present day Louis talking is framed with Jean-Michel Basquiat's painting Slave Auction.
- While recovering from his numerous injuries, Louis reads Marriage in Free Society by Edward Carpenter, a gay writer and activist who inspired Maurice.
- After Claudia reads Emily Dickinson's poems, she hypothesizes that Dickinson was (or even is if she's still living) a vampire.
- Daniel Hart's "Come to Me" which features Sam Reid on vocals has Lestat comparing himself and Louis to the doomed lovers in Pelléas et Mélisande, a French play by Maurice Maeterlinck (or considering that Lestat is an opera fan, he'd be more familiar with the French opera adaptation by Claude Debussy).
- While contemplating suicide, Louis brings up "Dante's Wood of the Self-Murdered," which is from the Inferno part of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri.
- While Louis is decorating their Christmas tree, Lestat is nearby playing on his piano Johann Sebastian Bach's "Partita in B-Flat Major, BWV 825: II. Allemande".
- Claudia holds the music book◊ Épigraphes antiques by Claude Debussy; she and Lestat then play "Pour invoquer Pan, dieu du vent d'été" on their piano as a duet.
- The visual theme of the Mardi Gras ball is The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch. Some elements of the triptych can be seen on the artwork of the invitations and the decor of the venue.
- Lestat's flamboyant costume on the float for the Krewe of Raj is a homage to Lucy Westenra's wedding gown from Bram Stoker's Dracula.
- It's heavily implied that in the late 1920s, Lestat had a quickie with the wife of a scholar under the stairs during her husband's dull lecture on Don Giovanni (composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart).
Season 2
- In a Season 2 20-second TV spot, Armand tells the young Daniel that he can offer him an "easeful death," which is from the John Keats poem "Ode to a Nightingale".
- The extended Season 2 trailer is set to the "Prelude" of Das Rheingold by Richard Wagner.
- On April 8, 2024 (which is the date of the total solar eclipse in North America), the official Immortal AMC Facebook page posted a parody image of The Twilight Saga with Louis as the Bella substitute, and he has the choice between Team Lestat and Team Armand (which is reminiscent of the Team Edward vs. Team Jacob debate).
- The illustrated cover of the April 30, 2024 issue of TV Guide features Lestat, Louis, Claudia and Armand in a tribute to the William-Adolphe Bouguereau painting Dante and Virgil in Hell.
