Teaser: Lestat Will Take Over in Season Three of 'Interview with a Vampire'

I recently abandoned yet another Netflix series midway through, exhausted by its aggressive mediocrity, and instead finally gave in to the buzz surrounding AMC’s Interview with the Vampire. The chatter in our Slack channels is inescapable, so I finally relented. What followed was a 24-hour binge that left me gobsmacked.

At the risk of succumbing to recency bias, I think the second season may have surpassed Shōgun as this year’s best season of television. It’s outstanding, and it will be huge when it eventually lands on Netflix, although it is certainly worth an AMC subscription. It’s too bad we can’t sign up for only a weekend because that’s all it will take to watch the season.

Meanwhile, season three looms, drawing heavily from Anne Rice’s Queen of the Damned. The shift in source material suggests a Lestat-centric narrative. That’s great. Sam Reid is extraordinarily good-looking — what my daughters might refer to as a “baddie” — and the second season has given me a completely new impression of the character.

There was a teaser for season three released at Comic-Con over the weekend. I don’t expect it will be released before 2025, but I can’t wait, and this time, I won’t have any hesitation about watching as the season drops.

Here’s how AMC describes the third season:

“Resentful of the perfunctory portrayal in the trashy bestseller Interview With The Vampire, the Vampire Lestat sets his story straight in a way only the Vampire Lestat can — by starting a band and going on tour. Gabrielle. Nicholas. Magnus. Marius. Those Who Must Be Kept. They join Louis, Armand, Molloy, Sam, Raglan, Fareed and others we can’t tell you about yet on a sexy pilgrimage across space, time and trauma. No auto-tuning. No trigger warnings. All feels amplified.”