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Louis plans to turn Daniel.
He approaches the man again only when he is terminally ill (which Louis knows and seems unhappy about). Couple this with Louis eating live struggling animals, then human donors — and in episode 5 outright speaking to Daniel about how he would consider human blood tasting like and describing its allure, in such a way that has Rashid comment on how he wouldn't even let Daniel bite his neck.

Louis almost seems to be testing him.

Whether this is a merging of Talbot or something separate remains to be seem.

  • He offers to in episode 6.

Rashid is Raglan.
It would explain why various things he says implies him potentially older than he looks, but at the same time Louis feeding on him implies him to be human.

Raglan also thought greatly of vampires (although with him it was wanting to be one).

  • Jossed. Rashid is the vampire Armand.
Louis and Daniel had slept together in 1973.
They first met at a gay bar called Polynesian Mary's, and in episode 4, Daniel smiles when he reveals to Louis "I've been dreaming about old Mary's ever since you sent me the tapes," which sounds like he may reminiscing about something pleasant that occurred between them. There's also the Bitch Slap that Daniel gives to Louis in episode 5, which carries the same amount of force as a slap done by a (ex-)lover who has been wronged.

In the 1973 scene of episode 6, Louis is flirting with Daniel, buys him a drink, and invites the young man to his apartment. After expressing his wish to interview Louis, Daniel adds "I mean, if something happens, you know, I'm cool." That suggests that he's open to having a sexual interlude with Louis.

Lestat will turn Antoinette into a vampire.
On the show, Antoinette (a singer) may be a Gender Flip of Antoine (a musician) from The Vampire Lestat, who was turned by Lestat.
  • Confirmed in episode 7; she has been a vampire since at least episode 6.

Akasha not only exists in this universe, but she's also the Greater-Scope Villain of the entire show.

Armand is controlling Louis.

From the way that Louis even looked and said about how Armand is the love of his life, the bookshelves storing information too high for Louis to reach but easy for Armand, the dismissive way Armand early on in the series mentions the possibility of Louis missing the natural world (not sunlight - outside, implying Louis is not leaving the apartment) - and finally the not quite fitting memories and clear fact that Armand has editted even Claudia's book and accounts there with a surgical precision, a book which notably has already shown Louis much more affectionate with Lestat than when Louis narrates.

Armand it should be noted has a very powerful mind gift in the novels.

Louis asked for his memories to be edited.

The above is willing essentially. In a parallel to agreeing to let Lestat turn him into a vampire, unable to cope with all of his anguish and terrible memories - Louis agreed himself to let Armand edit them, resulting in his even further unreliable narrator status to this day and Armand's protectiveness of that.

Armand is not mentally controlling Louis.

Armand is controlling in the almost "human" toxic sense - gaslighting, controlling who Louis sees, where he goes, what he does - in the manner that he learned how, if his backstory is in the books of when he was bought and groomed throughout his childhood by Marius. There is no mind gift used - Armand loves Louis very intensely, but is simply expressing that in the incredibly unhealthy way that is how he knows how to.

Armand has said himself at points, that he at least believes he is both preventing Louis from acting out and protecting him from himself with what he does - and he very much could believe this at least.

He does so similarly in the books when he falls in love with Daniel, emulating his groomer/maker. As does he seem to feel the need to be controlled, begging at points to be told what to do - which his calling Louis a God to Daniel and speaking in such reverence can very much remind of.

The final scene Louis only looked off because he was very triggered and uncomfortable, with Armand revealing himself and stepping forth in a protector/guarding him from Daniel sort of move.

Devil's Minion has already happened

Daniel Molloy has already been through the events of the book, but his memories of it have been erased - after being let go instead of killed or turned.

  • Whatever happened here is perhaps why "Rahid" looked so furious, when Louis offered Daniel (seriously or not) the Dark Gift.

Daniel isn't going to be allowed to leave.

The apartment has already been described as essentially a coffin and Daniel has already walked into it. For whatever reason - whether it was already set the moment he agreed to come, or the conclusion is reached further in the sessions - Daniel is not going to be permitted to walk out after.

At least one of Daniel's daughters will appear some point in the story.

Daniel has brought them up quite a few points now, with him even saying episode 7 how he is badly estranged from them but hopes this can at least get them some money. It's possible Daniel's personal life here will be featured more at some point.

Louis is grappling with and denying to himself how he chose Lestat over Claudia.

...And doomed her yet again. Claudia is later killed for the attempted murder of Lestat in the books, after Lestat - in a very bad way - is coerced into confessing her to be the attempted killer. All of this could only be possible because Lestat wasn't burned, which Louis prevented her from doing.

Hence why in the original version of the narrative, which Louis himself was convinced of, it was a mutual decision. It wasn't just his, violently enforced. That way, what goes on to happen to his daughter wasn't just his fault. He chose Claudia over Lestat, not the other way around.

Louis has even said how he is struggling with reading the ways he failed in the diary. How he wants to make sure Claudia's voice is heard as well - makes sure to be clear on his love for her, a very notable contrast to his never saying he loved Lestat to Daniel. It's his guilt for choosing Lestat over her when it truly mattered - and what that then led to happening to his daughter - that is a driving force throughout the sessions and perhaps for the second interview being done as well.

Why Louis wants the interview is exactly as simple as Daniel guesses.

Much like with Lily, he just needs/wants someone to talk to - who isn't so close to the situation, as who he lives with.

The throat slit scene is not how it happened.

We see the scene, Louis in flowing sleeves resolutely slitting the throat of a non-struggling Lestat who tells him it's glad that it was him in the end.However, when it starts flashing back to that scene as Daniel confronts him about inconsistencies - Louis is seen screaming as he cradles the deceased Lestat, in a completely different non-sleeved tshirt.

We know the aftermath of the murder did not go down as it was initially depicted, but the murder itself didn't either.

Lestat’s abusive and negative behavior was actually Claudia's actions.
Louis has been proven to be an Unreliable Narrator in both the books and the TV show. In particular, he has been shown in canon to paint Lestat as a villain and either exaggerate or outright lie about him. Subsequent books have shown that Louis portraying Lestat as the “villain” was more or less a means of excusing some of Claudia’s more abhorrent behavior. Louis ultimately is forced to face how much of a monster Claudia was in the book Merrick, when Claudia’s vengeful spirit tells Louis that she’s always hated him.

Lestat has been shown in the show to be abusive towards Claudia and Louis, more or less showing a justification for why they ultimately try to kill him. However, the abuse that is shown is the story Louis is telling Daniel. What may be the truth is the abuse and awful behavior that Louis describes is either an exaggeration of what really happened…or it didn’t even happen at all. What may have happened was that Claudia was the abuser. She was the one abusing Louis and Lestat, and their attack on Lestat was Claudia’s attempt at murdering the hypotenuse to have Louis to herself.

Louis, however, canonically has blinders on when it comes to Claudia. It literally takes him centuries to acknowledge that the way he had portrayed Claudia in his mind and with words was wrong. So, to alleviate his own guilt he has managed to convince himself that Lestat was the abuser in this situation. In his mind, he needs to rationalized why he chose his abuser over Lestat.


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