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Our August special episode is out, and you guessed it.... ✨🩸✨🩸✨
This one features @hellotailor AND @flourish (and @elizabethminkel as usual lol):
Much like the opening pages of Anne Rice’s The Vampire Lestat, the new season of the show formerly known as Interview with the Vampire immediately punches you in the face with a wild new tone—one perhaps best summarized as LESTAT. Fresh off recapping TVL for Fansplaning, Gavia Baker-Whitelaw joins Elizabeth and Flourish to discuss the season. Topics covered include that notable tone shift, audience expectations and the writers’ somewhat combative approach to storytelling, and specific elements like Gabriella’s presentation, Lestat’s music, and the Regina storyline. And, as you probably could have guessed, despite promising non-book-reader Gav not to talk too much about The Vampire Chronicles, Elizabeth and Flourish continue to do so, with a focus on the season’s unorthodox approach to adaptation.
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This conversation is close to an hour and a half long, and I still feel like we only just scratched the surface. It was a real pleasure to talk about this with Flourish *and* Gav, who come at the show from different angles and both have such smart things to say!
