00:00On the ninth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me a vampire TV show you really need to see.
00:05Who are you, Louie?
00:06I'm the reticent vampire of the night, Theron D. Small.
00:10I walk the night, capturing disappointment and regret.
00:14Wait, stop the tape.
00:17Now, when I put on Interview with the Vampire, which is a TV adaptation of Anne Rice's Vampire
00:23Chronicles, on a flight, thinking it was just gonna be some throwaway rubbish to pass the time,
00:29it's probably one of the most underrated shows on TV at the moment.
00:34It's absolutely fantastic.
00:35And, of course, you will know that Interview with the Vampire was made into a film in 1994,
00:38starring Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Kirsten Dunst.
00:42Here we have Jacob Anderson playing Louie de Pont-du-Lac,
00:46who is turned into a vampire by Lestat de Léoncourt, who's played by the absolutely
00:50fantastic Sam Reid.
00:51I mean, this guy was not on my radar.
00:53He's brilliant.
00:54He's better than Cruise was in the film.
00:56He really embodies the role of this powerful, you know, centuries-old vampire who has got
01:03this guy under his spell.
01:04And then they bring in young girls, played by Kirsten Dunst in the original, and it really
01:08messes with their dynamic.
01:10But it's set to the backdrop of Louie, years on in this contemporary age that we're living in,
01:15recounting his story to a journalist.
01:17So, yeah, the show, it throws you back a full three times.
01:21It's got a rhythm to it that's really intoxicating.
01:25It's really well done.
01:26I think the production values are high.
01:27It's made by AMC in America, so, you know, they did The Walking Dead, so they got a bit
01:33of money behind it.
01:34Available in England to watch on BBC iPlayer, and it's coming back for a third series,
01:39thankfully, because if it did get cancelled, I would have probably launched a petition
01:44to save it.
