The Reel Rejects - INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE S1 EPISODE 3 REVIEW – LOUIS TAKES HIS REVENGE!

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Starting point is 00:01:06 gnarly to me is how with Louis race and how much like him being a black man of how much that factors into the storytelling of this and watching like the divide happening with how like Lestat

Starting point is 00:01:20 is so vampire like he's just like nothing but vampire right he's at a lot of time to become that yeah exactly and all this is happening like it's so much more than Louis wanting to be a human being

Starting point is 00:01:35 and what's going on. It's like, this is his people, like, who's watching them suffer right now. And you could kind of see in, like, Lestat's performance at the very end of, like, they're not your people anymore. Like, everything that is just human is just not, he, I feel like he associates not him.

Starting point is 00:01:51 Even when it comes to, like, being a black man, I think. Totally. Definitely. I mean, he's a part of many minorities. Like, when he's referring to his people, it's the sexually fluid people in the brothel where he can be himself and people can be themselves and be queer, it's black people, it's his family, and now none of them are his people because he's no longer a person.

Starting point is 00:02:17 Yeah. So I do think that that loss of humanity in him, whether it's as much as he's trying to hold on to it, even when we see in the last episode as he's sitting there talking, doing the interview and eating real food, human food, because he wants to hold on to that part of his humanity, But he's no longer that. So that struggle is really interesting to watch.

Starting point is 00:02:40 And also the power dynamic of while you are, you don't fit in with people anymore because you're a vampire. You're also still not as vampire as the person that turned you. Never will be. You'll never catch up to him. So it's like where do you belong and what is your North Star? Yeah. It's so well-written.

Starting point is 00:03:03 It's so good. It's so good. It's written so well. But I also thought it was sexy. I know I'm harping on that a lot, but like vampire stuff to me. I think that the relationship between Louis and La Statt is super toxic and super sexy. The fact that Louis is stepping out after permission and La Statt's been doing that. And Louis is like, am I not enough for you?

Starting point is 00:03:26 And then Lestat's like, no, do whatever you want. Then he followed him. That's because it was emotional. Yeah. And it was kind of hot. And like watching, again, wrong. Not hot if you're actually living it. Just hot to watch it.

Starting point is 00:03:37 But the Louis Woods scene too was super sexy. And even having all the men in the house. Like now that I know your type, like look what I've brought you, a bunch of soldiers. It's like, yeah, there's a lot. There's a lot to like about the show. I mean, I thought I'm the weird guy who's like, I think it's hot when he's killing the white. that's what I'm like man you seem pretty sexy guy right now

Starting point is 00:04:05 that's what I think that like that's really cool do you also like him is killing the cat no of course not you find that hot no I was how about the rats where's your line my line is animals if he's killing snakes I'm like I don't really care the rats were really gross to me

Starting point is 00:04:21 I have a weird thing where I'm like I don't like watch animals I but for some reason snakes I'm totally cool would you rather eat a cat or a rat if I had to choose a rat. I have four cats. I know.

Starting point is 00:04:36 Why would I eat a cat? Bigger, probably taste better. No. Oh, my God. Why would you eat a human, Greg? I would much rather eat a human. Humans are terrible. You'd really, in, in 2026, as Gregory Alba, you would rather eat a human than a cat?

Starting point is 00:04:53 Yes. Oh, my God. What? I could easily dexter this shit the way how he's wanting to justify it. That would be so easy. There's so many terrible people out there. Yeah, okay. But that's why I said as Greg Alba in 2026.

Starting point is 00:05:07 I didn't say you could. You mean just as a human being? Yes. If I had to choose. Yeah, absolutely. I would still go with the human being. We got overpopulated, man. There's too many bad people.

Starting point is 00:05:17 I love cats too. I hear you. Got to Dexter it up. But I also. You know that Dexter doesn't eat the people, right? Like, did you watch Dexter? I like that. He's not a cannibal.

Starting point is 00:05:29 With the way, how he was psychological. pushed to death. I know. The way how he was, how Louis was psychologically pushed to that point, how this, it all comes back to, what makes the writing so good to me is like,

Starting point is 00:05:46 it keeps coming back to the key ingredient is that it always in some way ties back to Lestat and Louis. Right. Even when we're so much focused on Louis' psychology and it's his narration, it's a story he's telling, and he's having adventures of his own, and he's having these struggles with all these fucking white businessmen and shit and what they're pushing him to and he's losing his family.

Starting point is 00:06:08 I love that it's like the emotional push that he's losing every, in order for him to like go to that breaking point, he's getting disconnected from humanity from the way how human humanity is treating him, not even knowing he's a vampire, just how he's being treated as a human being. When they think that he's just a black queer man in this world. Yeah. The fact that, like, he isn't accepted by all the white businessmen, which is all of the businessmen in this city, uh, checks out for the times. Like, it's horrible. But I feel like that he might be able to accept, not like, not like, but accept. The fact that his own mother doesn't accept him is what is like, to me, it's crushing my soul. Because when you go out into the world, you can't predict how people are going to treat you as anybody.

Starting point is 00:06:58 But at home, your mom, you provided the house that she lives in. Remember there was those early episodes where he was like, oh, Louis is going to figure it out for us. You know, he's like basically like he took over in the daddy's sugar business or whatever. Like he'll figure out how to keep this house for us. And then she just lost her faith in him and blamed the death of their other son on him. And then like almost created this monster by not loving her own son that was surviving. that that just so sad to me well it's all sad but it's an interesting like conversation about when they're talking about nature because when you're talking nature i'm like oh i usually associate that

Starting point is 00:07:37 with where you come from with your bloodline of like oh is it in your nature of that from where he's contemplating is it in my nature of the devil within me and the mom like holds onto pain and motivates her actions and it seems like when you look at the stat he's so free at least he at least he postures as a free spirit. And that's the way he comes across, right? Whereas Louis, he's so motivated by pain all the time too. So I think, like, there's a lot of great psychology to how he is in some ways, like still the product of his family environment.

Starting point is 00:08:10 Totally. By the way, how he chooses to operate, too. I was so sad to see his sister scared of him when she was, like, the last hope on that. Yeah, that's true. That was tough. That was tough. I was just like every little detail. Like even right down when he's hooking up with that one guy and that, um, Jonah, Jonah.

Starting point is 00:08:29 But yeah, how his heartbeat was just getting so fast and how it was, it was messing with, because it's, I mean, it always comes back to somebody to Lestat and Louie, but then it came to, like, Louie in that moment, how he was tempted to then feed off of him, you know, eat him because he could feel the heartbeat. Like, what a complicated like, how do you just, but if he's, that was hot too. If he's able to satisfy those urges by just eating humans, maybe then he can enjoy in the pleasures. But the subtlety of the conflicts that are rising within them, like he comes back home to Lestat, but he doesn't feel, you know, satisfied or like good about it. It's like, oh, I get it.

Starting point is 00:09:09 He doesn't come back like, oh, I get it now, Lestat. I could be on board with this open relationship. He seems even more distant with Lestat when he comes back home because he's still got so much of his. his psychological conditioning of the rules he's been taught to abide by-bye. Even though he's a queer man in a society that hates queer people, he still believes in like monogamy when it comes to relationships, you know? Yeah, and when he says, am I not enough for you? I was like, oh my God, that's a very real relationship conversation.

Starting point is 00:09:38 Yeah. Yeah. This is a really rich episode. So good. I agree. I agree. And they have like little touches of, but it's like even when,

Starting point is 00:09:50 Lestat though they have little touches that they constantly do at like tease of like cold even like the cultural appropriation side of him going with the music like he invented this music this blues music cue you know yeah this is so neat how much Lestat will even then charm a whole room full of black people right now in this very moment and that's been one of those things that I've always thought has been in the show a little bit of a guy who like gets this black guy then And they have so much commentary about that. And he kind of, he doesn't, like, call him directly a, he doesn't make him as slave, per se. But it's some ways he is his master.

Starting point is 00:10:33 Yeah. There's some other version of that. It's some weird thing. Yeah. For sure. I think that the, you mentioned this throughout a little bit, the concept of memory, too. But I'm really enjoying how the actual interview is unfolding because the, I think, this interview is taking place in 2022, and we're talking about 1917, which I don't know if you

Starting point is 00:10:55 know this, Greg, but we're talking about World War I era. That was World War I, I believe. Yeah, the World War I era. But the thing about that is, I often wonder, like, even when, okay, so that's, that's 105 years. My grandmother is 98 years old. My grandfather was almost 100 when he past and when they're telling stories of their childhood, you know, that's what they really are. They're stories. They're what you remember. And then you tell the same story a hundred times in your life. And that story kind of morphs a little bit. And I'm not saying people exaggerate on purpose, although some do, of course. But when we see that one scene with the rain, and he's like, I don't even know anymore. It's like I sometimes struggle, even memories from when I was in my

Starting point is 00:11:44 20s, which is 10 years ago. So it is interesting that this is a retelling. This is an interview when he's done so many in the past and things change. And it's like, how much is that of that is on purpose? How much of that is just by the nature of being human and retelling these stories. So he's not a reliable narrator. And that always makes things kind of interesting. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:12:12 The concept of writing of unreliable narrator and while he's talking to a writer. Right. And then to do an actual literal story of unreliable narration of how when time passes, your memory gets thwarted, but also who you are as a person where you are emotionally might remember that memory different because of where you are in the present at that point emotionally with it. Or was he protecting Lestat? because when we are our interviewer, what's his name? Henry, I think.

Starting point is 00:12:48 Is it Henry? No. It's not. Definitely not. I like that name, Henry. I don't want to say definitely not, but I don't think so. When he asks Louis, was it raining that night? Because we saw those muddy shoes and he's like, I don't know.

Starting point is 00:13:01 It could have been one thing in the court or one thing. Otherwise, what he doesn't say is, but he saw us. So, I don't know. Oh, damn. We got some questions. I didn't know that we had any because you weren't pulling it up. My bad. Hey.

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Starting point is 00:14:43 Talk about money. So we've got to say all that. Legalities. Thank you, Cash App, for working with us and for helping to keep us working with other people. Malik. Yay, our vampire. This is an episode where you really get a sense of the stats controlling nature. LaStat being upset about Louis being intimate with another despite him advocating for open relationship.

Starting point is 00:15:04 And Louis leaning into the Bowery, now has a lot of it. a vampire. Do you think that them bringing a new person into their lives would help fix things, or do you think it's just a small fixed distraction for a larger problem? Ladder. Definitely the ladder.

Starting point is 00:15:20 I would say it's the ladder, man. Yeah. How could them bringing in a new person help fix things? No. No. Certainly not. That's not the problem. I mean, they're two very, very different people, and they're both trying to, like, change each other. Like, neither one is truly

Starting point is 00:15:36 accepting of the other. They just keep judging each other. Yeah. Yeah. But are like addicted to each other at the same time. Mm-hmm. You know, I guess that's what they call a toxic relationship. Yeah. Right. Care bear. Carebear says, question, you created a new vampire

Starting point is 00:15:52 story in a uniquely hedonistic place slash time. Where would you go? 50s Vegas, 80s Bangkok, modern Ibiza, or your own pick. Wow, you really just threw out some interesting ones, Carebear. I don't know enough about 80s, Bangkok to choose there.

Starting point is 00:16:10 I choose World War I, specifically the grounds of World War I. Watch what it's like being a vampire. For some reason I thought that we were in the 1800 still, but I guess we were in the 1970. Soldier's outfit that gave it away. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. I was like, how's that possible? Vegas would be really fun.

Starting point is 00:16:36 But I kind of think, like, a farm, like somewhere, like, way more mundane. I know that might not be, like, uniquely hedonistic place in time. Like, what's a vampire doing? I have no idea. Like Iowa. Or Alabama. Okay. Our brains are not equipped for this question today, Carabair.

Starting point is 00:16:58 You're always participating, and we will answer better next time. Moderner Beezza, listen, if you want to do modern business and meekinos, put them on an island. it goes. Oh, sunshine. M. I know we're moving through this quicker than usual. It's just my fault, though. Sam Reed, who plays LaStat, said that part of the reason Lestat laughed and reacted the way he did during the open relationship conversation was because he was happy. Oh, it was his choice to react that way.

Starting point is 00:17:23 The first time, Louis came close to admitting he cared as much as Lestat did. Did you interpret that moment in the same way, or did you think he was being patronized? I thought he was being patronizing, for sure, like of control. I didn't interpret it like that at all. I really liked the choice, actually, because I thought that was open for interpretation. And I liked that. Louis said, don't laugh at me, you know?

Starting point is 00:17:45 And so I think Louis also thought that it was patronizing. But I don't think Lestat necessarily meant it that way. I think he found it humorous. I think, no, my initial reaction was that patronizing. But then when he started to say some dialogue afterwards, I understood that it was the affirmation like he's laughing because he cares so much about him. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:18:08 Yeah. Olivia Steele. Stale. Hi, guys. Great reaction series so far. Hell yeah. Hell yeah, son. My question for you today,

Starting point is 00:18:19 how do you feel about the relationship between Louis and the stat? As far as your opinion of the level of infatuation slash obsession slash true respect they have for each other, and is there any side of their relationship you're hoping to show

Starting point is 00:18:31 the show explores more in depth going forward? Thanks. what Rock is hoping for. Listen, I just don't want less of that. So just keep up the I definitely think there is a lack of true

Starting point is 00:18:47 respect. It's not giving true respect. You rarely see them get along honestly. Yeah, it's definitely not giving true respect. It is definitely giving obsession. Yeah. On both of their ends,

Starting point is 00:19:01 which I think has to do with infatuation. But we all aren't seeing them as intimate in this so like it's more obsession than infatuation I feel what do I hope they explore um I do want to I know this is less with them but I am curious with especially the sister storyline I kind of have a bad feeling that this is going to end in Laestat killing Louis mom but I am curious to explore more of Lestat and Louis with Louis family I'm also really really curious. curious of where Laestat was for the last 200 years and what he like where he comes from and exploring that I know that he mentioned to Louis like going on a vacation or a trip I would love to see where

Starting point is 00:19:47 they would go what that would look like you know I don't really remember how who the Kirsten Dunn's I honestly can't tell you who the Kirsten Dunn's character was I think it's who he just found in the corner no isn't Claudia the girl who's um I thought Claudia was the girl who would like work for him. No? Am I wrong about that? Like the money counter? Yeah, was that wrong about that?

Starting point is 00:20:11 I don't know. Oh. I thought that that was Kirsten Dunn's character. I could be wrong. Who does Kirsten Dunn? I might be wrong about that. Play in interview. Let's just get the name.

Starting point is 00:20:25 Oh, you're right. Oh, shit. Oh, damn. That re contextualizes that entire moment for me. I do not recognize. Oh, so yeah. I was like, oh, I guess I want to see how much they lean into the parental side of them as like the as like the fix of that yeah i'd be curious about that too i you know what i'm not

Starting point is 00:20:42 hoping for is any kind of romantic vibes with claudia and oh no we should bring that back 10fold tenfold all right last couple ones my choice if you were a vampire would you use your powers for good or evil oh my god for sure dexter style you know definitely for good fine if it's exactly these powers, find bad people, feed on them. Rid the world. Yep. There's some people in the news lately. Where I'm like, oh yeah. Totally. There's a whole group of certain people. Totally. Yeah. We've got to find a good chunk of people here. We may be able to find some good tasty people.

Starting point is 00:21:20 Do you think there's a person on planet Earth who would answer this question that they would use their powers for evil? Like, who's going to say that out loud? Depends in the definition of what good or evil actually is, you know? Maybe you do evil for the sake of good in the end. Do the ends justify the means? Jay Rushden. Question. Ever been to Mardi Gras? No.

Starting point is 00:21:38 What is your favorite Southern food or Southern drink? Yes, I have been to Mardi Gras. You did? The girls got wild. No. That's what I think of Mardi Gras. Not that, but I did go to Mardi Gras.

Starting point is 00:21:48 I was like the greatest trip ever. I've been to New Orleans a couple of times. I went once for Mardi Gras while I was in college. I was standing on top of a cooler and I looked across the parade and my cousin was standing right on the other side doing the same thing. We didn't even know each other were there. It was crazy.

Starting point is 00:22:02 Crazy. Um, favorite southern food. What, like, po-boys are so good. I like the, uh, vegan popcorn chicken from KFC. When did they had that? I don't think there are any vegans in the South. Yeah, there are. They sell vegan beyond chicken.

Starting point is 00:22:22 Okay. Those were our answers. Yeah. I do great in the South. Like, no, sorry, can I just have beans and mashed potatoes? You could get that for sure I love barbecue food I love barbecue

Starting point is 00:22:36 Brisket I love ribs Yeah pulled pork corn bread corn bread yeah that'd be nice I don't like corn though

Starting point is 00:22:48 But I like corn bread Is that weird No I get that It doesn't taste like corn Yeah I hate when there's like little chunks Of actual corn in there still though So you don't like corn on the cop I hate corn

Starting point is 00:22:59 I hate, I actually hate corn. It's corn. Pickles is the number one I hate. I have no idea what you're saying. What? It's a lot of, it has a juice, it has a juice. I have no idea what you're saying. Pickles, corn, sourcrap.

Starting point is 00:23:17 Do you like olives? No. Okay. That is part of the category, though, right? You would associate it in it. Yeah, yeah. Don't like olives. Um, does Olivia like olives and pickles?

Starting point is 00:23:29 She likes pickles. I don't know if she likes olives. That's supposed to be the thing. You're supposed to find a partner. If one person doesn't like them, the other person's supposed to. No. So you're good on the pickle front. I'll see if our marriage will last based off of this question.

Starting point is 00:23:44 You don't like olives or some serious deep shit, man. This is a problem. All right. I should take sure the pickles. But thank you guys so much for your participation. And thank you so much for being part of the Patreon page, you guys. and this is a great show. Damn, damn good show.

Starting point is 00:24:01 Really good. So thank you so much. We'll see you got soon.

The Reel Rejects - INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE S1 EPISODE 3 REVIEW – LOUIS TAKES HIS REVENGE!

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