The Reel Rejects - Oh God... LESTAT & HIS MOTHER?! The Vampire Lestat Ep 2 REVIEW -Interview With The Vampire Season3

Episode Date: June 15, 2026

WE WERE NOT READY FOR THIS! The Vampire Lestat Episode 2 Reaction — Interview with the Vampire Season 3! The glam-rock tour rolls into Toledo and the gothic chaos hits a boiling point as Jennifer Ehle arrives as Lestat's ancient mother, Gabrielle de Lioncourt. Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial today at http://www.SHOPIFY.com/rejects This episode split the studio in half. Roxy is calling it her least favorite of the entire franchise — repulsed by the explicit portrayal of Lestat and Gabrielle's romantic codependency. Greg, meanwhile, loves it: the hyper-self-aware meta satire, the fourth-wall-breaking narration, and its full commitment to dark vampire absurdity. We also break down the Lestat and Gabrielle scene, the Toledo band scene, the meeting with Thomas Pitt, the Louis merch reveal, and that haunting present-day sequence with Daniel Molloy spotting Louis on the balcony. Follow Greg Alba:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ Twitter:  https://x.com/thegregalba Follow Roxy Striar YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@TheWhirlGirls Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/roxystriar/?hl=en Twitter:  https://twitter.com/roxystriar Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Anyway, let's watch. Let's go. Well, ladies and gentlemen, we just watched. Don't even. The vampire. List at Toledo, if you want to do a full reaction watch along where you sync up to this, that's at Patreon. Thank you guys for supporting us. Being so kind and patient with us.

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I love this episode. And you just seem so miserable. This is definitely my least favorite episode of the series so far, and I'm actually genuinely concerned about the season if she remains a character on the show that I won't be able to... That's too bad. That sucks. Did you bring that?

This? The orange one? No, Alex just got new ones. They came like an hour ago. Why is it so cold? She put it in the freezer. And then I grabbed it right before this. I see.

Why? It just looks tasty, is it? Do you want one? I can have one later. Shout Alex's name. No, that's okay. Please continue. Well, you say it like I stole it from you.

I just want to make sure it's not the last one. No, it's the first one. Look, that's a Greg hair, not a Roxy hair. How is that possible? I don't know, but my hairs don't look like that. Maybe not the hairs on your head. Roxy, please take the mic away. Okay, so like genuinely,

this is like, as you know, It was one of my favorite shows. Right before we started this, I said, I'm so out there. I was like, I'm so excited because this is, it's my favorite thing that I watch for the channel. I love, love, love this franchise. I've loved watching with you guys. I look, my favorite thing if you guys have been following was from day one is like how sexy this show is to me. And it's just not fun for me to watch Lestat hook up with his mom.

It's not sexy. It's not fun. It takes me out of the show. No matter how many times it's self-aware, he says it's different for us. I'm still human looking at two humans and mom. It's concerning because, as you know, the actual movie, I had one issue with the movie, and it ruined the whole movie for me,

which was a child kissing and an adult, and that being a real child in real life. Now, obviously, that's different than this. They're not really related in real life. That we know. That we know. Jesus Christ. But genuinely, I was missing parts of the episode, and I just, while I'm so invested in the Bruce storyline at the end that they introduced, or when we see Louie's across the table and all those scenes were amazing.

Like, that's why I love this show, the tension between Louis and La Statt and the stuff with the band. And I'm so intrigued by everything they've presented. But I do not want to watch a season of Lestat and his mom boning. It's not fun It's not enticing It's not But it's also not like So it's not gross in the way that I'm like

Ugh this is like watching something disgusting Like body horror Where you want to watch I don't want to see it So it completely ruined the episode for me And that might turn some people off But for me This is definitely definitely the worst episode

Of the entire franchise Okay so talk to me about why you love incest Dude it's okay dude I understand I can't fault you I mean it's a mom and it's son of course it's gross and disgusting

and they really put it in our face oh yeah they did oh yeah remember last week when I feel like that's part of the humor is they're like totally fucking with the audience I'm like yeah and it's working it's working and it's not gonna get me it's not gonna get a response like me

which is like this shit so weird and funny or someone like you who's like this is not funny this is so disgusting and disturbing and I hate it do you think that there are me's or absolutely oh my god I'd be worried if everyone was me I think everyone's you I'm a picture I don't believe that because this fan base is wild

I know I don't know how well the fan base honestly I didn't know there was a book after an interview with the vampire apparently this is based on an actual thing oh so maybe they already knew maybe this is maybe they were ready and waiting for the stats mommy to show up because the stats been around uh yeah i mean i i was able to as someone who is uh you know we used to watch a lot more fucked up horror movies on my own

time and when you're doing like writing stories that no one's ever seen but you're like trying to explore characters that i don't know i kind of got used to the subject matter they used to disturb me but like 10 years ago i kind of got over it and it's like like incest as a subject matter. Especially like mother and son stuff. Like it was a, it used to be like the most disturbing subject. But I kind of

would list that in here. I'm so aware that it's fictional and whimsical and that it's their vampires. And even when they weren't vampires, like a different time period not saying it's okay or that I accepted. It's just I'm not as like I find it

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because it doesn't seem like the storyline's going away. I think it's here to stay, man. I feel like there's more to come. I'm going to be so upset if it ruins the show for me because I just love this show so much. It's a big ask, dude. It's a big ask of the audience. They know they are asking big.

Yeah, that's what they kept hedging. They said it at the top, and I like the self-awareness. I'm just so on board with it. It's just so absurd and so ridiculous and so meta and hyper self-aware. What's the meta part? The meta part is the self-it's like the self-awareness in the meta part, I think, kind of go hand in hand. Because they're dealing with modern day satire whilst also dealing with like the vamp.

His narration is very meta. His narration is like the breaking of the fourth wall and saying what the audience is thinking. They literally will like say what you're thinking. Yeah. And I love that because it's like, they know, not everyone's going to be on board with this thing. So you just kind of have to like roll with it. And then so I love, I guess I love something that decides like, fuck it, we're just going to commit to it. We're just going to be hypersexual and we're going to have them go to a strip club and they're going to be like talking sexual.

Like it's, it's of course not cool. It is, of course, disgusting. Yeah, I know. In a real life situation, I would find this vomit-inducing, right? but in a fictional show that I've been accustomed to vampirism and weird relationships It's just not edgy to me

And it's not pushing boundaries Like I wouldn't say that either yeah In the way that like You know when we watched Famously on the channel And you and I watched challengers And

The dynamic of the trio Was not sexy to you But it And like I think we both find cheating in real life to be incredibly not sexy Greg and I actually have spent a lot of time

speaking about how absolutely fucking repulsive we think that cheaters are so that's and shame on you out there if you're watching this. If you're cheating right now cheating in this moment. If you're watching us while cheating, if you're Netflix and Chile watch over the wrong channel. Just saying like I think you and I are equally

10 toes down on the fact that we find that repulsive in real life I just happen to find that movie sexy and whatever I understand like the fantasies of stepping out or whatever, like watching it. But I don't think anybody on planet Earth, or that's not true because incest is real, but I don't think anybody okay on planet Earth finds this to be sexy. And so that's kind of where I'm having a problem with it because it's like...

The portrayal of it being sexy? Well, I want my vampire shows to be sexy. And it's the only sex we're getting right. right now and it's so repulsive to me like this is so funny to me i know i just i just wow man and like i i totally get where you're coming from i'm not sitting here on the moral high ground like how could you like this episode i get it because like you said you're just able to like find the humor in it i just didn't find it enjoyable at all in those scenes and then in the other scenes it was distracting to me because really this episode is excellent like the other thing the other ways we're

moving the story. Everything with Louis. I was like, God, that scene was hilarious. Yeah, the Louis scene was amazing and the finding out

about Bruce and even the backstory stuff with the siblings and the dad and the stutter and finding out that that's real. All of that is stuff that I'm like, oh, yeah, I love this show. I love how cutting edge the show is.

But just like deciding to do incest for incest's sake, I'm like, what? Like, this show is like my sexy gay lover show. Why do we have to have it be the,

the mom son lover show. Like, ugh. I just, it just isn't a, it for me, I just think it's a bad choice. I, hey, respect. Yeah, and respect to you too, my incest loving. Yeah.

I hope people remember this, as the day Craig said. You know what? Sometimes. You said it's NBD. Start with Adam and Eve, and here we are now. You said there's a lot of weird relationships.

Yeah, that was, you know, it is funny. when he was like, there was this many people on the ark. He's talking about that. It's like, this show does a lot to try to justify why it's okay that they're boning. Ew. But I like the, I like the dark sort of like, I like that dark type of hypocritical mirror because when you take time to break down the theology of that, of like Adam and Eve and Noah's art, you're like, wait a minute.

That would mean. that would mean there was a lot of incest and that's how we got to hear. So when they're like holding a mirror up to that theology, it's kind of like a funny justification to me. Do you think that pitch went over well? Like you think somebody came in the room and was like, oh, you think it's from the book? Okay. I mean, I have no.

I like, okay, that's the thing is it doesn't surprise me about his character. I guess that's a big part where you and I probably differ is that information happens. and I go, yeah, I can see that. See, oh, I feel like it's a weird commentary on people who are sexually open and fluid and, like, love to be with men, women, like, as if they don't have boundaries. Oh, yeah. Now, for a show that is hailed as one of the few, like, popular unapologetically queer shows, I do worry about those who embrace that.

Yeah, those who embrace that. And then how this show is now going to, like, throw a massive career. for those in that realm. Because he is such a buy icon and I really respect how open he is with his partners about who he's sleeping, whatever. Like even with the person he's working with,

it's all like, okay, this is a little edgy what you're doing. But then it's like, oh, and yeah, I bow my mom. It's fine. I'm a vampire. And it's like, oh, God. Oh, my God. It's so gross. Let's ask Google.

How common was 18th century incestine? But now they're not in the 18th century, Greg. Yeah, but you know. Or modern day. No, it was considered severely taboo. Parent child. Apparently, it's always been bad. In France.

You never know. Condemned by the Catholic Church. But that's why I mean, it was like so, as it should be, it's fucking gross shit, awful and traumatic. But we get on board with it, but Game of Thrones. For some reason, Game of Thrones. We're like, it's Game of Thrones. What? I'm, like, completely blanking.

Danny and John are cousins or their siblings. In Game of Thrones? I believe they're cousins. But like the Targaryans, they're like... No, there's so much incest and it's disgusting. Like, Damon... But it's also not our world...

Like, this is current day, 2025. They're vampires. Yeah, I guess. I mean, yeah, I just... But I never found it hot on Game of Thrones either. I just found it more realist. I'm sure.

I just found it more realistic. like for the world they had created. Yeah, this is just like, I feel like they didn't, I feel like they did his character dirty here. Wow. To me, I'm like, this makes so much sense. I don't know why. I'm just like, yeah, I buy it.

All of my sexually fluid friends, of which I have plenty, none of them attempt to bone their moms or dads. What did you? Okay, you're looking up. Is Ms. She is in the book? I don't want to read it in case. Is there incest in?

Because it says their relationship. The blood, okay, so the relationship is intensely codependent. Where the lines between Mother, Creator, and Lever, is there incest in their relationship? I'm just going to find out of it's in the book. Yes, there is explicit emotional, romantic incest between Lestat and Gabriela. Yeah, because I guess they're new people and reborn.

But it was also saying the incest was happening before they became vampires. Well, yeah, we saw that. Yeah. We saw her wankham. That's the only time I thought it was hot. Well, I really, really, really hope we get away from this quickly. Because imagine if I don't like the season of the show. Imagine me, I'm over the moon about it.

I thought this was a great episode. So I thought it was hilarious. I love the fish out of water stuff with, him being like the odd vampire amongst the band i love louis like the irony that louis is not apologetic about the book but instead has used this as a case to have more power over the stat a man who's held power over him this whole time dude i'm dreading this god what a brilliant turn for like like it's so different for louis than i thought louis was going to be like i'm sorry but he's just so opposite the louis stuff was great in this episode yeah i thought was brilliant did we air our yeah whatever

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this is Dwayne Dwayne sitting here watching a day that's hot very specific guy in mind Dwayne sitting here fucking bull hair

I'm really stereotyping here I don't even know how this is a stereotype this is the image it's conjured up a stereotype of something who loves incest just like creepy

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