Jul 30
Episode 5: The Vampire Lestat vs. Behind the Scenes: Laying Down the Tracks.
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Episode 5: The Vampire Lestat vs. Behind the Scenes: Laying Down the Tracks.
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Call to Action - Reporting Anti-Blackness in The Vampire Lestat (2026)
I'm not tagging this as "tvlcritical" because this issue goes beyond audience or critic opinions of AMC's The Vampire Lestat (TVL) also known as Season 3 of Interview with the Vampire. This isn’t a difference of character perspective, tone, “immoral characters”, “gothic fiction”—the writing in the "Montreal" episode is blatant hatred for Black people.
What happened?
The episode titled "Montreal" aired on Sunday, July 12, 2026 with Kevin Hanna and Ryan Kattner credited as writers; the rest of the writer's room consists of Rolin Jones, Hannah Moscovitch, Jonathan Ceniceroz, Anusree Roy, and Daniel Hart. There are zero Black writers on TVL.
3x06 is violently and proudly anti-Black, full stop. The language written and greenlit by AMC was racist, full stop. The Black actors—Jacob Anderson, Delainey Hayles, and Sarah Afful—are not responsible for the script written by a non-Black writer's room. These actors work in a deeply anti-Black industry and have to navigate the ever-present threat of being fired and/or blacklisted for any "flaw" in their performance and conduct on set/in promotional materials or events.
There is zero excuse or justification for the anti-Black language used in TVL to date. We cannot allow this hatred to be met with silence.
What can I do?
Report this episode to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Hollywood Bureau which specializes in anti-Blackness in television and film. Important details to include is the writers, episode release date, and the racist material in question. All of this information is available under the cut.
Emails to the NAACP should be addressed as "ATTENTION: Report, Hollywood Bureau" and sent to [email protected]
Emails to AMC can be sent to three TVL-specific Public Relations contacts:
The choice is yours, but I will personally be copying the AMC contacts on my email to the NAACP. This is a serious matter and it needs to be treated as such.
Many thanks to another concerned fan for pulling contact info together for the NAACP and AMC <3
the cast and producers of THE VAMPIRE LESTAT all being massively hungover (and possibly still a little high) in every new interview that drops because they did all the interviews the day after the vampire lestat concert is very, very funny.
Guaranteed to kill it onstage.
For folks wondering why "Black Licorice" keeps being referred to as a better song...imo it's because Lestat didn't write it. Satan's Night Out had already written the song before they ever met Lestat. Lestat claims he made a change to the chord progression, but did he really? And for sure some of the lyrics are his, but also the chorus almost certainly isn't (imo).
"Long Face" is his song. "Black Licorice" is not.
So when people tell him how much they hate "Long Face" but love "Black Licorice," it's actually, secretly, a source of pain and shame for him. Just further erosion of his self-esteem.
And then to add onto the meta layer, "Black Licorice" was a song Daniel Hart had already written and recorded over a decade ago. He didn't even write it for Lestat (although the lyrics are changed). Which is just such a *chef's kiss.*
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I just posted and @blueteainfusion helped me solve it already.
Yes, t-shirt is names of musical persona/band the other cast or crew have.
Man Man: Ryan Kattner's band
Dark Rooms: Daniel Hart's band
Sister Swire: Sarah Swire's band
Raleigh Ritchie: Jacob's persona
it's cute. i see it as a way to show their support for our occasional musician
EDIT: I love to feel vindicated 😌
Watching Sam sing this and hear Lestat is always such a whiplash.
Most of Lestat's songs are really good, you guys just don't know shit about glam rock. Rock in general, actually. It's silly, it's horny, heartbreaking and a little dirty, as it should!!! It has this feeling you can only totaly get when you listened to enough local underground bands.
The bass lines are insane, hearing it in a good headphone is a must. It gives me literal chills every time I listen to Your Biggest Fan. I also love TC's backing-vocals, they add so much dimension to the songs. Her lines in Big Bad Wolf are my favorite part of the song. Also, her in Stained Glass Eyes??? MASTERPIECE. She sings in almost the entirety of the music and almost feels as if her voice is Claudia haunting the song. When I Call Out Your Name is so fucking good, I can't stop listening to it. Cabbage became one of my personal favorites, so much fun!!!
Even the earlier songs, like Black Licorice. I love it so much! It reminds me a little of some music from Christian Death, I don't know why exactly. Something in the way Sam sang it. Also, SAM REID VOCALS!!!!
That being said, Long Face do suck. And that was intentional, so it automatically makes it good.
Anyway, TVL songs are not bad. Y'all are just fucking boring.