The Reel Rejects - INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE S1 EPISODE 1 REVIEW - LESTAT IS A ONE MAN CULT!!

Episode Date: January 20, 2026

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Starting point is 00:01:41 More on them in just a bit. Are you ready to do this? Read a Venture on. Let's go. I want to suck your blood. Well, ladies and gentlemen, that was a different experience and I was anticipating. My goodness. My goodness.
Starting point is 00:02:04 ladies and gentlemen. I want to think Prepper, first of all, for any down these highlights, editing these shows are not easy to get past YouTube's insane restrictions. Sometimes people question like, why are you censoring this? Well, I'll tell you,
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Starting point is 00:02:57 Let's talk first. Let's find out how we're feeling. How are you feeling, Roxy? You had some opinions about the film that we don't need to like pull back entirely. How are you feeling about the show? Are you able to divorce yourself from your thoughts of the film and just take this on its own? Or is there like a comparison happening in your brain? The number one comment on the movie reaction for me was that I would prefer the show and spoiler alert they're 100% right. Like this is so up my alley. I prefer it over to the movie. I was never a really big fan of the movie. Don't say that out loud, Greg. I could say it now. We're here, but I was never really like three times. I'm like, I don't know why. This is this isn't quite click for me. I think the people know my TV taste for those who aren't familiar with me.
Starting point is 00:03:36 I watched 130 shows this last year. This year I'll probably be on track to do the same thing, but there hasn't been a year I haven't watched more than 100 shows since I was five years old. So I'm a big, like just huge TV junkie. I like this medium better and I think it's a better format to adapt a book, to adapt a video game, to adapt a lot of different things because you can just let the characters breathe and explore more things that perhaps weren't even explored in the books are especially things that weren't explored in the movie. So this feels like a completely different property to me than the movie did. Yeah. It's just there, other than having some of the same characters, the way that we're going
Starting point is 00:04:14 into this, it's almost like not fanfic, but like what everybody was kind of hoping maybe, or what I was hoping the movie would really dive into with the relationships. So this is really cool. I think that the two main actors have a ton of chemistry. And I'm curious where we go from there, because I will say I'm not, I'm not above. and I'm sure, well, I'm curious how you feel about this, things that are super wrong that you hate are also really hot sometimes.
Starting point is 00:04:38 And like when we're sitting at the end watching the two of them and it's like, this is horrible? What you're doing is grotesque. His brother just died. You're not letting him grieve. You're being obsessive. You're being selfish. You're a murderer.
Starting point is 00:04:51 You're all these things. And yet, kind of want to watch you guys get it on. So that means that the show is doing its job. I'm also kind of curious about these B characters and where we're going with them. The sister has me intrigued. The mom's storyline really upset me, which means that they nailed it.
Starting point is 00:05:09 I'm sure that there's other women that work at the, was it a brothel that work at the brothel that we will kind of dive into more like the main madam. So, yeah, I'm really into this, into the characters. How about you? I thought it was great. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:05:25 I thought it was really good. It was so different than I had never seen a, trailer or knew who the cast was honestly. So I- Has anybody talked to you about this? Like, have you even heard people discuss this show? People have said it's a really good show. And this is one that's been asked here to be here for quite a while.
Starting point is 00:05:43 But I didn't know exactly what to expect in terms of, I was expecting something that was honestly going to be a lot more campy for some reason. And I found something that was a lot more poetic and restrained and composed in the they did it. I was really, really impressed with it. And I mean, you're right about the, that's part of the appeal of the, of the attraction is what it does feel kind of wrong. I was actually, uh, on like New Year's day. I was a couple of my friends who are like, two of my closest friends. They're a gay couple that's been together for, they're a couple who happened to be gay. Let's say that. I don't know why we always say a gay couple. It kind of shortens the conversation when you say that. There are a couple who is a
Starting point is 00:06:30 homosexuals and they've been together. Did I meet them at your birthday party? Yeah, they've been together for like 40 years or something. And they've been to get it for a very, very long time. They're my neighbors. And they, they were talking to me about, you know,
Starting point is 00:06:44 I honestly kind of liked them more when it was not as excited. They were like, they made it kind of like a joking, but also kind of serious way of like, it was hotter when it was like not as accepted because there was something that felt kind of wrong about what we were doing. That's hysterical. Oh my God.
Starting point is 00:07:00 It's like, of course, it's better now, of course. Like, the, however. Is this your official stance? This is my official stance. This you go back to being like a press, more pressed, more underground, that it's six years. Take away the rights. Yeah, take away the rights as much as possible.
Starting point is 00:07:13 Oster sides. No, it's in, and so in this form to put it in a time period to have such heavy religious symbolism over it, as we all know, you know, like I know there are some people who are Christian Catholic who actually are gay and I don't quite understand how that I my brain does not fully compute how that works but they are and and they're like out yeah they're like out and like also devoted like Christian Catholics and I've I don't fully understand how that works and I I do my best to not like I don't I've never dissected or understood the subject on that matter but in this time period it's like that wasn't really a thing you know and to have the extra
Starting point is 00:07:52 emphasis on being a black man in this time period who's also gay that is a lot to to deal with. So the weight of that and how this whole episode does wreak of temptation and lust and sin and starting off immediately with like sex, debauchery, gluttony. I, and then you got this guy of which, Lestat is the, that is the, is the, is the, is the, is the white, white boy, right? Yeah, yeah. Lestat is, is, uh, as opposed to Doolock. Louis.
Starting point is 00:08:27 This is hard when they're both names start with L and my brain just works in that way. So Lestat is white boy Louis. And you're in Louis' perspective. And part of being in Louis' perspective is recognize is that conflict when you are in that position. There's in a weird way they find a way to make Louie relatable. Even though it's like, I've never had a fucking life like this guy. But there's a we all kind of understand sometimes that position to be in where you're in a dynamic with someone. where you're like, every part of my brain is logically telling me this is not right,
Starting point is 00:08:59 but for some reason I'm feeling seen and accepted and I feel like this is where I belong. Especially when you're being rejected by your own mother. Yeah. When your mom's saying you did this thing and your brother is now gone and you feel pitied by your sister. I mean, a lot of that does make sense. His entire monologue when he's talking to the priest in the, what are those called? The door? The confessional booths?
Starting point is 00:09:21 Yeah, the confessional. When he's in the confessional and he is saying all that. It's like, there's clearly been his inner monologue for a long time. Yeah. About himself and yeah. Yeah, yeah. It was cool. I mean, do you like, uh, do you, do you like the performer of LaSalle?
Starting point is 00:09:36 I find him very captive. I see the magnetism behind him. Um, number one and most importantly, uh, oh, no, you're talking about LaStat. I was about to talk about Louis. Talk about it either. Louis so hot. I mean, beyond sexy. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:51 Like, beyond sexy. That was great casting choice. Lestat taught too in a vampire kind of way. He looks like a vampire. He's giving Robert Pattinson, like that classic. It's traditional. Holy crap. But yeah, I think they both are doing a great job because there's something about Lestat
Starting point is 00:10:09 when he's talking and we're doing that slow-mo stuff or the frozen, whatever it is. He is extremely captivating. And it's not just the eyes. It's not just the voice. It's kind of the entire package. He's also got this like quiet anger to him. And, you know, he says he has the temper of his father. whatever. And I think that it's also, when you feel like the chosen one by somebody who's a bit
Starting point is 00:10:30 of a loose canon, like Louis sees that Lestat can have anybody he wants, kill anybody he wants, we just watched it. We know that he took Lily's life. We know that he took the, that he's been, he is the fever. We watched him kill both priests. Yeah. But for some reason, Louis knows he's chosen. And feeling chosen by somebody with that much power, it's intoxicated. and it makes you want to just succumb to whatever it is that they want. And so I did, I think Lestat did a great job of making me believe that. And Louie did a great job of the duality of,
Starting point is 00:11:05 I don't want this, but I'm going to do this anyway, and I can't even actually explain why. And then going back to something earlier that you said, I know that he is with Lestat, but I think it's interesting in the interview portion. I don't even know that he, it would consider himself homosexual.
Starting point is 00:11:26 He clearly really liked Lily and said he had like dabbled in other men and things before. But to me, I would not to put a label on this man, but he's probably by, and he probably during this time period as a bi man probably was like, okay, I'm just going to do my best to end up with a woman because that's what this society is telling me. And I like Lily or whoever,
Starting point is 00:11:49 and I'm just going to try to do that. And then Lestat comes through. and it all goes to hell. He can't do what he thought he was going to be able to do, which is turn off the part of his brain that was interested in men. So that's kind of intriguing to me too. What do you think about the actual, how much time we spent in the actual interview with,
Starting point is 00:12:11 I forget the interviewer's name, Daniel, whatever. Yeah, I might be right. The interview portion versus the flashbacks. Well, I'm mainly here for the interviewer's. uncovering the flashback. So I'd rather spend most of the time in the flashback. But they do a good job of the overlay where the interview sounds like a natural narration versus sometimes like there are certain movies I can think of where people are having a conversation
Starting point is 00:12:39 and then they go into a flashback and it's like, why does this conversation sound like a narration? Yeah. It's like often I get a little pulled out. And that is not specifically think of Justice League for some reason when Batman and Wonder Woman are talking. but that is not the case here. I think it's a really good usage of it. And to make the interviewer actually like kind of an interesting guy, like he's not the most interesting,
Starting point is 00:13:01 but he's interesting enough to be someone curious enough to check back in with. I'm kind of curious about him. Like he did get bit. He didn't turn. Yeah. Is he hoping that he will now? He's got Parkinson's with this cure him. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:13:15 You know, I think that there's a lot on the table there too. As much as that is not even just a B, but like a C storyline. Mm. Curious? I feel like they'll probably evolve more. I like kind of remember the Christian Slater one from the movie. And that's not really a thing.
Starting point is 00:13:30 He's just there. And then there's a, do you remember what happens in it? I'm trying to remember. But now, I won't say in case it happens in here. It's so brief, but nothing like monumental really happens until the end with that guy.
Starting point is 00:13:42 Do you think there's any way Lily's alive? No. I don't know. I don't know. I'm trying to pick up on like allegorical things or something like there seems like there's things here that are so much deeper than I quite am grasping right now of like the conversation of queerness, likening to vampirism, you know, that I don't really know where to go with that other than I know I feel like there's a thing there that I would like to explore
Starting point is 00:14:12 a little more. Maybe I'll get a better thought process. But we got to get you out of here, Roxy. You got a thing to go to? You want to answer some of these cues? Yeah, I do. You want to ask the first, ask the first one from Malik. That sounds like a bad. Thank you to our patrons. Thank you to Malik, who says Louis deals with a lot before and after becoming a vampire. He seems to truly enjoy the power he was given, but he also hates the person he's become. If you were in his position, do you think you would have any regrets after achieving immortality? Do you? No regrets, Greg. I feel like I've no regrets. When people in life say that they have no regrets, I feel like that's either a lie or then you haven't lived because like I have. I have a lot. Because like I have a lot. thousands of regrets. I have many regrets and huge regrets. So I can't imagine becoming immortal and being like actually now I no longer have regrets. I would do a I think I would try a lot of things. And also you don't have full control over
Starting point is 00:15:05 yourself as you're transitioning and like and all of that. So yeah, I think that while we hear him, I definitely, I definitely would have plenty of regrets. I'm trying to think of like the first thing that I would do that I know that I would regret. Probably I would, you'd probably kill somebody on accident. is an immortal. It says it in more comes with the territory being an immortal.
Starting point is 00:15:29 Well, you wouldn't mean to, but like if you, you don't have the self-restraint yet, so. That's fair. Well, it depends on the level of immortality
Starting point is 00:15:36 that we're talking about here. Is the immortality mean you are immune to pain, you know? It's not like it just opens up, oh, now I'm suddenly wealthy. What if I'm immortal
Starting point is 00:15:44 and for like 45 of those years I'm broke because I couldn't figure out my finances in my career? You know what I mean? So what would the regret be? But then you can't not getting, you know,
Starting point is 00:15:52 getting a handle all money. career ahead of a time like you can't just suddenly be a hundred and then get your career handle because we're like what the hell is this guy been around for a hundred like what is the this opens up a whole new bag of worms here of the rules of immortality now in society of documentation that's why in like the internals camille nangiani had to keep changing his identity that sounds like a pain in the ass i wouldn't want to do it but that's what i liked about the show about how the show bring it back Greg bring that that was a question that was popping into my brain when he was dancing at the wedding of watching him like lose one life for another, which would sound
Starting point is 00:16:28 like Lestat has probably manipulated that whole thing, huh, in some way, maybe got to the family in some way. Who knows? However, yeah, like that idea of immortality can be something that sounds like a thing people desire yet, I think this show will probably deal with the suffrage that comes with being an immortal and how awful that can actually be, you know, you're talking about regrets and I feel like this is why the whole point is unpacking all this. I imagine the guys filled with so much regret. And that's a subject that I find to be like really interesting. Like this seems to be more about the themes of vampirism and immortality than it is about, you know, violence and blood sucking and all that stuff.
Starting point is 00:17:10 So that's why I think it's like a cool thing to explore. It's like really going to the soul of a being of the kind of beings where they say they don't have souls. So I think it's really cool. Oh, Rejected is now 2026. And I've been thinking a lot about what health actually means to me right now. And I'm sure a lot of you are, too. Last year I made a big deal about dropping like 50 pounds. All because I wanted to get those dang photos.
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Starting point is 00:19:09 She says, I know Roxy, she's in the 94 movie, but I don't know if Greg has yet. I have. The TV show adaptation has made a lot of changes to the source material while staying faithful to its core themes. Most notable being in the original book and movie adaptation, Louis is a white slave owner from the 18th century. Louis is crazy because I was like, oh damn, let's that white guy stepping in here taking power over a black guy and that's where I was going with that. Here he is a black brothel owner from the Earth. That's crazy from the Earth, early 20th century. And this has led to major changes to the story due to the affect is race what they were saying he's a white slave owner like he owned white slaves you're saying
Starting point is 00:20:01 he's a white he's a white slave word there's not really been many white slaves i was like wow that's an interesting book joy yeah he's a big white fiction here i thought white was describing change history. I was like, huh, it's okay, good for him. Anyway,
Starting point is 00:20:20 continue. And another major change was to bring Louis and the Sats romantic relationship to the forefront in the movie book.
Starting point is 00:20:28 It was all implication and homoerotic subtext. Oh, yeah, screw that. So obvious. Yeah. What do you think
Starting point is 00:20:35 of the choice to emphasize and expand on the explicit romance and sexual aspect of the stats relationship in the show? Well,
Starting point is 00:20:43 I'm glad it's not a white I really like this change because I do think that the movie already exists and the books already exist and we've done a lot of vampire material I remember the first vampire thing that I ever fell in love with was there was a soap opera
Starting point is 00:21:02 an ABC soap opera called Port Charles that did in the 90s they did a whole vampire year a year of vampire stuff and the tainted love was a theme song. I was like, oh my God, vampires are so hot. This is amazing. And then after that, there was the whole Twilight craze. And then I watched that here. But I, the original was vampire
Starting point is 00:21:23 diaries. All that to say that I think that so much has been covered in vampire lore. Yeah. So why not switch it up? Why not change, especially because we're in, we're in Louisiana, we're in New Orleans. You guys are making some adjustments. You know that this is of interest to people to see like what is the homeroticism of vampires so why not why not have him be this version of louis we've already seen the other versions 15 times yeah that's true that's true well i imagine maybe if if the characterization of louis in the book is a white slave owner there must be something to do with owning slaves as part of the themes and yeah because do you have an understanding of what happened with his dad
Starting point is 00:22:11 you mean La stat or Louis? Louis's dad? Oh yeah. Oh yeah, we never explore that. Because they say that he died and then he feels bad for running something like sugar cane. I imagine we'll impact that. I don't know what that is. I'm not educated enough to understand what that means. But the stat's relationship of him being, at least it seemed like to me part of the idea was to prey on the mind of like Louis is essentially becoming a slave to La stat. but he's giving him the illusion of choice, you know. That's part of why I think of like the segmented green, the corruption of that,
Starting point is 00:22:47 the disorientation of reality that they keep choosing with a color palette with him, is to give this idea that he is going along with this one. I'm like, actually, there's, there's no. When you look at the exchange of how you become a vampire in this world, I don't think it has anything to do with saying, yes, I feel like he, he wants, he wanted to push him to that point where he would say it's that way it would be more, the idea that he feels like Louis would actually want to be along there, but the idea weaponizing this guy and turning him into a slave for him
Starting point is 00:23:15 and having that bit of commentary there and leaning into the fact that Louis is black in this show. I see what you're saying, yeah. At least I think that's what the show's doing. Not really sure. What do you think about this part of the question, the emphasis on the explicit romantic and sexual aspects? I know you throughout the episode,
Starting point is 00:23:31 you continued to say how surprised you were that this was AMC. So you feel like they really went there with the sexual aspects. Sagsual for YouTube. For AMC, yeah. I'm just not used to AMC going that far, so I'm wondering if it's an AMC plus exclusive. But as somebody who just watched heated rivalry, do you feel like this was stepped back from that?
Starting point is 00:23:53 I wouldn't say step back. I feel, I... Like in terms of the sexual nature of it. I mean, in comparison, yes, but still like... It's only one episode. But no, as a television, show? No, I think they went pretty all out and for what TV and even movies do. And I, I was under the impression watching it, it seems just more natural that they would go full on homosexual,
Starting point is 00:24:20 lovemaking versus subtext. Because I was a part of the subtext that always seemed kind of weird to me. Yeah. When, when watching the movie, at least, the movie, I'm sure it translates better in the book, but in the movie, I was like, this is kind of weird. Why are they just going gay? You know, it clearly seems that way. So why not just go that way? And when they went like I was under the impression this was more of an accurate adaptation. And from what you're telling me, it's like they make
Starting point is 00:24:46 some major changes here. Yet the book readers also seem more satisfied. So I find that to be an interesting take. Let's go. Jay Rustin. You want to answer? Question. Thank you, Jay. Question. What is your take on Eric Bogosian and Daniel
Starting point is 00:25:00 Malloy being so cynical in the introduction? I have a follow-up question to your question, Jay. Who's Eric Pocosian. He's got to be Daniel. What? Daniel Devere for the interviewer. Oh, as Daniel Malloy.
Starting point is 00:25:14 I read it as and Daniel Malloy. I understand. Good, good. Using context clues. I think that makes perfect sense, don't you? Is he cynical? I mean, I'm more reading into, why are you emphasizing the cynical?
Starting point is 00:25:33 Is he supposed to change? Are you giving an illusion, alluding to something that's supposed to happen. Because like, of course, this is a vampire. He was high back in the day and he's frustrated and there clearly is a lot of history between them. We see the bite on his neck. What did happen there?
Starting point is 00:25:50 What went down? He compliments him on his career. So, yeah, I would be pretty, I don't know, even if I would identify him as cynical as like frustrated or he has got Parkinson's. He said I'm older. That's, well, this is what comes with the territory. I thought his performance was really good. What have I seen Eric Bogosian in before?
Starting point is 00:26:10 I have no idea. No, I've seen him a vigillion time. He's very talented. But yeah, as a story was going, though, I was wondering. I like it because he's a guy who, as a journalist, journalists, good ones at least seem to value, you know, integrity and the truth. And he's had this thing, the answer to a truth that he's never been able to truly expose, put out there in a way that would be validated, accepted as truth.
Starting point is 00:26:48 And because he feels he botched it as the interviewer, you know. And maybe that changed his whole life botching it. Yeah. It's a notoriety. Like it talks about how he wants truth and reconciliation, Louie. And it sounds like Daniel wants that as well. It's the one case that's haunted him. He's been in a million things.
Starting point is 00:27:10 He has 144 credits, which makes sense. But some of the things that now I'm like, oh, yeah, he was in billions and succession and uncut gems. He's been on a thousand TV shows. So, yeah, he's very good. And his face is very recognizable to me. And shout out to Woburn, Mass, where he's from, Massachusetts girl. Woo! Mass.
Starting point is 00:27:32 Last one. This is an interview with the vampire. He's a question. would you say yes or no to become a vampire and with the attracting system of the stat have anything to do that decision i would say no i would not be a vampire i would obviously say yes You would say yes to being a vampire. In one heartbeat. What? Less than a heartbeat.
Starting point is 00:27:48 I would rather be a vampire than be anything else in the world. But it depends on the rule of a vampire. Because if you have to like kill people all the time, that sounds like a pain in the ass. Well, no, you just have to turn them. Oh, yeah, that's much easier having that around your neck. It sounds like when you turn someone, there's a connection. Like, I don't know what the rules are. I know some vampire rules, you can bite.
Starting point is 00:28:11 And then you can wipe their memory. You can eat animals. Which you don't do, but I already do. So give me that blood. Yeah, I mean, I'm more likely to eat a human than I am an animal, honestly, if I'm a vampire. I saw an owl yesterday. Isn't that wild? Have you seen an owl in L.A.?
Starting point is 00:28:28 Yeah, I saw one in my neighborhood. It was like right on my telephone pole wire. Well, I saw one, too. That's crazy. Anyway. Did you eat it? No, but if I was vampire, maybe. This, yeah, I wouldn't mess with you.
Starting point is 00:28:42 Then I wouldn't want to hang out with you. I call you. I'd be like, you can't hang out with that vampire. I understand, but I'm just saying I would say yes in a heartbeat. I've always wanted to be a vampire
Starting point is 00:28:49 my whole life. I want to live forever. I think I would be... You love the beach. You can't go to the beach. Yeah, I'm a sunshine girl, but I would get...
Starting point is 00:28:58 I want to know about what the rules are with like saunas and like, maybe tanning beds because if I can't die from skin cancer, maybe you could do like UV tanning beds
Starting point is 00:29:08 and stuff. So you like the sunshine, not for the sunshine, but for the warmth. But for the warmth and The tanning? Not the tanning,
Starting point is 00:29:15 like that feel of the UV. I thought it was like the environment of like the beach and the sun. Yeah, but you could do that at night. You could go to the beach at night. I would still go to the beach. I like nature. I want to feel warm.
Starting point is 00:29:25 I'm cold all the fucking time. Greg, you know. But you can't see the sun. You missed the sun. You could give up the sun. There's like rings that they make for that. Yeah, that's good supplementation. Yeah, no, no, no.
Starting point is 00:29:37 I don't like in a lot of... I just watch videos. No, no, no. I'm saying a lot of vampires, like they find rings. Like on the originals of Vampire Diaries, they were certain daylight, day walker rings. You see, it always depends on, if we could have every...
Starting point is 00:29:48 I would say yes anyway. If we could have every rule. Yeah, you don't care. You wouldn't want to know the mechanics here of sunlight. Usually the general rules, you can't go to the sun. But if you're twilight, you can go to the sun. Yeah, they spin and they sparkle. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:02 That's dope. Oh, you'd be down for that. Oh, my God. I want to be a glitter girl. Yeah, I know you'd like to spark. Let the sun jude. Glitter me up. Anyway, guys, that's interview with the vampire episode one.
Starting point is 00:30:12 leave your thoughts down below would you become a vampire would you own a white slave leave your thoughts down below or are you a white slave are you a white slave owner in need of being purchased or are you are you a white slave owner we'll see you guys

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