Interview with the Vampire (2022) / YMMV

Actor Shipping: Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid have coined their own Portmanteau Couple Name: Jam Reiderson. In a podcast, Reid mentions that when he and his co-star first met, "I can see that [Jacob] was gonna be a very easy person to fall in love with," while Anderson expresses in this interview "I really love Sam." According to producer Adam O'Byrne, "[Jacob and Sam] sort of fell instantly in love with each other."
Alternative Character Interpretation:
- There's plenty of debate among fans over how much of what is seen is the truth and how it may be skewed by narrators with an uncertain degree of unreliability.
- Was Louis' offer to turn Daniel into a vampire sincere, or a Secret Test of Character? If it was genuine, why did he offer? Sympathy or pity for Daniel's illness and his rocky relationships with his family? A desire to have him around as a friend or lover? Is it actually Armand who wants him? The two do have a thing in the books...
Award Snub: Despite its first season being lauded by critics, the series was completely shut out from the 2023 Emmys. Collider considers this to be the biggest Emmy snub of that year, especially the lack nominations for Best Drama and Best Actor for Jacob Anderson.
Best Known for the Fanservice: People who haven't watched the series, but who have seen animated gifs of Season 1 on social media know it as the show with "floating / levitating gay vampire sex" and "the blond guy ^note who's often naked." There's even an article by the LGBTQ+ online magazine Them entitled, "I Can't Stop Thinking About Interview with the Vampire's Levitating Gay Sex Scene: Finally, gay TV vampire sex that doesn't suck."
Diagnosed by the Audience: Paul is plagued by the "birds" in his mind that he claims communicate the word of God to him.
Fanon: Claudia's surname in life hasn't yet been revealed, and any alias she might use hasn't been heard, either. However, nearly the entire fandom agrees that, after becoming a vampire, she takes on Louis' surname and becomes known as Claudia de Pointe du Lac.
Friendly Fandoms:
- The show immediately picked up a lot of people from the Hannibal fandom, due to the overlap in horror, Gothic aesthetics, and toxic gay romance.
- Anyone who's a fan of IWTV's first season will naturally be inclined to love Fellow Travelers. Although they're part of different genres (Gothic Horror vs. conventional drama), what they share in common is that they're both Queer Romance Period Pieces (the earlier Flashbacks are set during an era in the 20th century when homosexuality was illegal in America, and a lot of the Background Music are jazz songs) about two men who are in a toxic, forbidden, All Take and No Give, Lover and Beloved Secret Relationship, and the story constantly jumps back and forth between the past and the present. There are also some similarities between Lestat and Hawkins Fuller, and between Louis and Timothy Laughlin.
  - Lestat and Hawk: older, handsome, has a smooth torso, Hollywood Atheist, unashamed about being attracted to men, promiscuous, domineering, Seme (although they both have one scene where they're extremely aroused by their beloved dominating them), Consummate Liar. They both feel Love at First Sight and seduce respectively the man who becomes their Second Love...
  - Louis and Tim: younger, Pretty Boy, has a hairy chest, Catholic (they both confess their sins to a priest), experiences Gayngst (although they both eventually come out of the closet), monogamist, submissive, Uke, Bad Liar. Their lover often addresses them with an Affectionate Nickname, they're both called a saint on one occasion, and they were held in a Bridal Carry. They're also treated as their lover's Property of Love.
  - Moreover, both Lestat and Hawk are self-serving and selfish; they're manipulative and withhold information; they love their mother, but hate their father; they keep a souvenir of their First Love, a young man who died in the past; they maintain a long-term relationship with a woman, but their true love is a man; they're Hypocrites because they have other sexual partners, but become very jealous when their beloved shows interest in someone else; they're guilty of Parental Hypocrisy and their child detests them; they've committed physical violence against a male lover.
  - Both Official Couples have a scene where they engage in violent foreplay which leads to rough sex as a result of one partner (who is clothed) possessively "claiming" the nude body of the other partner.
  - One partner never tells the other "I love you" in person, although they do admit their true feelings for their (ex-)boyfriend to someone else.
Jerkass Woobie:
- Lestat is an awful, awful person, but his backstory is genuinely horrific. He was abused by his father and brothers, and then was kidnapped by a Serial Killer who turned him into a vampire and then killed himself in front of him, leaving Lestat to figure out the "rules" of vampirism by himself. It doesn't excuse his actions one bit, but still, no one deserves what he went through.
- Claudia is a Serial Killer, but only because she's been thoroughly broken and traumatized by Lestat and the loss of her First Love, and the realization that she will never get to have a normal, healthy romantic relationship.
Like You Would Really Do It: C'mon, did anyone believe for a second that Louis was going to eat his infant nephew?
Love to Hate: Carrying over from the book fandom, dragging Lestat is a time-honored pastime. Virtually no one excuses his actions, even those that love him and/or ship him with Louis. He's among many fans' favorite characters, but he's also mercilessly ragged on for being a lousy boyfriend, a terrible parent, a Serial Killer, and a pretentious Drama Queen.
Memetic Mutation: "'which one of you suggested the open relationship and which one of you cries yourself to sleep every night' and Lestat is both."^Explanation
Portmanteau Couple Name:
- Louis/Lestat is Loustat (or Louistat).
- Louis/Armand is Loumand.
- Daniel/Louis is Danlou.
- Daniel/Armand is Armandaniel.
One True Threesome: There are some fans who like to ship Louis, Daniel, and Armand together.

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