Just Start the Tape: An Interview With the Vampire Rewatch Podcast

This week on Just Start the Tape, Bobbi, Kelli, and Kam recount their experience at THE VAMPIRE LESTAT: One Night Only concert in NYC and react to Season 3 Episode 1 of THE VAMPIRE LESTAT, Detroit. Lestat is now our narrator, retroactively recounting the events of his tour and the documentary that Daniel is now making about him in a collection of albums called The Failures. In this episode, we begin our journey with The Vampire Lestat and his band on tour, making a pitstop in Detroit, MI. In this episode, we see how Lestat's band was formed, we learn about regional vampires, and meet a very *interesting* person in Lestat's life.

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The end…the beginning. This week, Bobbi, Kelli, and Kam revisit Season 2 Episode 8 of AMC’s Interview With the Vampire, “And That's the End of It. There's Nothing Else.” Louis goes crazy on the coven (RIP BOZOS), Louis and Lestat reunite, and Daniel begins a new chapter of his life. 

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YURI BELIEVERS, IT’S SO OVER! This week, Bobbi, Kelli, and Kam revisit Season 2 Episode 7 of AMC’s Interview With the Vampire, “I Could Not Prevent It.” Louis, Claudia, and Madeleine are brought to trial for the attempted murder of Lestat. 

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YURI BELIEVERS, WE’RE SO BACK! This week, Bobbi, Kelli, and Kam revisit Season 2 Episode 6 of AMC’s Interview With the Vampire, “Like the Light by Which God Made the World Before He Made Light.” Claudia reveals her vampiric nature to her lover, Madeleine, and the two decide to spend eternity together. Discussions include Claudia and Madeleine…that’s it, nothing else. Only positive lesbian moments, we ignore the horrors.

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The episode of all time (again). This week, Bobbi, Kelli, and Kam revisit the second part of Season 2 Episode 5 of AMC’s Interview With the Vampire, “Don’t Be Afraid, Just Start the Tape.” An episode so good that we needed two episodes to talk about it. 

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The episode of all time. This week, Bobbi, Kelli, and Kam revisit Season 2 Episode 5 of AMC’s Interview With the Vampire, “Don’t Be Afraid, Just Start the Tape.” An episode so good that we need two episodes to talk about it. Discussions include screaming about the greatest TV fight of all time.  

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Kelli's S2E5 post mortem

Kelli's interview with Jacob

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Sometimes you just have to...go bang. This week, Bobbi, Kelli, and Kam revisit Season 2 Episode 4 of AMC’s Interview With the Vampire, “I Want You More Than Anything in the World.” Louis and Armand establish their (alleged) relationship while Claudia and Madeleine reconnect after two years. Discussions include Claudia’s disappointment with her infantilizing role within the Théâtre des Vampires, Armand gives his tragic origin story, and Louis says goodbye to Dreamstat.  

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Kelli’s interview with Delainey 

Kelli’s interview with Jacob

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Is it fact or is it fiction? Who knows? Memory is a monster.

This week, Bobbi, Kelli, and Kam revisit Season 2 Episode 3 of AMC’s Interview With the Vampire, “No Pain.” Armand tells the story of how Théâtre des Vampires came to be and his torrid love affair with Lestat while Claudia is officially inducted into the coven (with a major catch). Discussions include Armand’s recollection of his relationship with Lestat, Claudia and Louis getting their story straight with the coven, and Daniel continuing to dive deep into the information provided to him by the Talamasca.  

Special thank you to Matt Stevens for making this episode sound crystal clear!

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Bienvenue à Paris! This week, Bobbi, Kelli, and Kam head to the city of (vampire) love and revisit Season 2 Episode 2 of AMC’s Interview With the Vampire, “Do You Know What It Means to Be Loved by Death.” Claudia and Louis have made it to Paris and have been introduced to the Théâtre des Vampires, a theater troupe/coven led by the Vampire Armand. Discussions include the new role that race and racism play in this season, Claudia and Louis exploring new love, and the fact that this show’s amazing makeup design lost an Emmy to a light blush on Olivia Cooke.

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They’re back! This week, Bobbi, Kelli, and Kam dive back into the depths of the vampiric deep and revisit Season 2 Episode 1 of AMC’s Interview With the Vampire, “What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned?”

The story picks back up as Louis and Claudia traverse a war-torn Romania as they chart out their new life. Discussions include the contentious and complex relationship between Claudia and her fatherbrother Louis, Armand’s involvement (officially) in the interview, and the inner workings of human-vampire relations.  

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