Bailey Bass is the fourth person to appear on Interview With the Vampire. She is different than anything we have seen before. She isn't the 5-year-old of the book or the 10-year-old of the film. She is just too young to know what to do about it, but she knows that something is changing. A maniac character who is both developed and un-developed, a hunk of clay that never gets fired, and a child who is always a child. I adore this version ofClaudia, she is wonderful and I am excited to talk more about her. Before we discuss her many issues, we need to check in with our old man, Daniel Molloy. He is currently dealing with the oncoming symptoms of Parkinson's and he is concerned about missing a treatment. Don't worry! Louis paid an enormous amount of money to have extremely expensive equipment and medical professionals brought in to treat his almost ex-boyfriend, because he had tapped his phone and wanted to know if he was still alive. The reading room has a flowering tree and floating bookshelves and is where things get interesting. As Daniel picks up a small journal, we are about to be catapulted into an entirely new perspective. He should begin on the left. Daniel picks up the furthest-right journal, which opens to an entry dated November 14, 1945, which indicates when the vampire might arrive in Europe in the already-announced second season. Six months after World War II ended, all of France was still rebuilding and recovering from the invasion, occupation, and destruction it had suffered. An interesting time in the history of Paris. It's time to return to the episode. The earliest journal he picked up was the one he picked up first. She began her narration immediately. She describes how Lestat turned her into a white angel and how Louis saved her. The scene by the bedside where Louis convinces Lestat to turnClaudia into a vampire is an amazing performance. Two men are using each other to survive, while also knowing that they are hurting each other to do so. It is amazing that this is communicated with a few gestures and their eyes. Louis is trying to do something good and Lestat is trying to get him to stay. Lestat became jealous of the bond that Louis andClaudia shared as they were introduced to the world of the vampire and her caretakers. The family was taken out for a hunting trip by him. I swear to god, I would go to war for this mentally ill French bottom, as Lestat said, "I'm not sure about that pleated skirt." Lestat was reminded that it was chiffon, and I ascended into the plane. The episode is full of these off-the-cuff moments and jokes, the humor cutting through at odd odds against the murder, coercive sex, and general toxicity in the air. There is a drunk man at the fountain and a white policeman. Someone who will be missed and remembered. She made a mistake due to her passion. Lestat noticed that her teenage metabolism was permanent when she demanded more. The irony of Louis being a vampire who hates killing is a great twist. She is too young to be picked up and carted away, but soon enough she will become everyone's problem. I can't overstate the amount of humor that is woven into this show. Interview With the Vampire is hilarious, from Louis and Lestat arguing in French, to the visit to the funeral home to purchase a coffin forClaudia, to her gasp of wonder as she jumps into a lush, pink-lined coffin. The whiplash the writers take the audience on is amazing. Lestat whispered that he missed Louis when he climbed into his coffin. After this we get a touching moment between Daddy Lou andClaudia as they talk about the details of love, secrets, and murder while paddling out on the water. Louis admits to trying to like the taste of fish blood in a line where he says he "pretended to like girls" He tried to explain how to distinguish between human affairs and vampire kills. A portrait of a family. We are returning to Daniel. I kind of like her. I too, what the fuck. In this scene, he is praying. He is a Muslim who is called to prayer five times a day and he does it on his knees. He makes a mistake. Daniel, as much of a bloodhound as any of the beasts he surrounds himself with, catches on, and asks where he is from when he speaks in a language that is not Arabic. The person says that nobody is from here. TheBrooklyn Co-Op Finances>Household Help.doc is a barely-hidden folder on the computer. He ponders, "What is his end game?" I have to ask Daniel what hiss is. The second diary was picked up by him. She received a jewel that Lestat says he got from a Marquis, and she asked how old he was. According to Lestat, he is 159. If she was turned in 1917, this conversation would take place in 1920, which would make his birth year in 1760. Back to the episode. The jewel is up to the woman's neck. She wants to know when she'll grow into this. Louis said that he would find something in her size. They can't stop laughing when they watch Nosferatu in their living room. Louis' mother passes away. It's like every interaction with his family. Grace asked for the house and Louis gave it to her.
For the first time in our entire trip, we don't have him in the scene at all when we leave from Louis. Lestat took her to a lovers lane for a late night meal. Claudia doesn't understand what's happening in the cars with all the innocence of a child She watches before ripping these humans apart. It's time for her to act like it when she wears a red dress and pearls on her 18th birthday.
It is as powerful as what she writes in her diaries. She can do adult things, but she can't say what they are. She is trapped in the body of a 14-year-old. She is not fooling anyone with her appearance. The nice man who distracts her from killing three mean girls across the street who are gossiping about her performance is not convinced that she is anything but a child wandering the streets.
She can't express her feelings but she wants it. I want to know what he likes to eat. If he looks up, she says, he likes you. He looks up in the air. He leaves flowers on her door. Louis wants to know who Charlie is but he can't see it. Something may be fracturing in the family. It has always been possible for Louis and Lestat to come together. She is nearly 19 years old. The only thread that keeps her family together is her.
He turned her down because she was young. They end up messing around in the back of his carriage after she insisted she was not. She is still a young vampire, and when she takes Charlie, she leaves a husk of a man. He delivered a harsh lesson when she dragged his corpse home. We don't get close to mortals because of this hurt.
The episode is ending when Louis arrives. Daniel, my best friend, my home boy, my rotten soldier, my sweet cheese, my good time boy, said, "like Anne Frank meets Stephen King" as Louis remarked onClaudia's talent. I am aware that Daniel wants to die, but I want you to survive a few more episodes. The threat of violence is real and I adore this character.
Daniel wants to know where the diaries were in 1973. Louis usually doesn't say anything. He talks about the joy of being a father and how it made him feel loved. Louis said that if you could read about every single time that you failed your child, would you share that with a reporter?
I feel God in this Chili's tonight. When we return to her diaries, the script quickly becomes angry and rushed, and Louis admits that he might have felt like a Band-Aid trying to fix a broken marriage. She talks about the failures of her body, her parents, and then Bailey Bass gives a narration that should be in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
She describes how much she hates herself, her horrible demon instincts, and as she yells at her diary, in pen and ink, she opens the car and lets the morning go down on top of the unused piano. She circles it like a predator and comes to an understanding as her feet press against the keys. Claudia sticks her arm under the sun and her skin and flesh turn to sand.
The episode is about mania. The baby doll of the books and the 10-year-old movies are very different in appearance. She doesn't want an adult to be her mother, she wants to be her own person, and instead of taking her to a hospital, Louis demanded that Lestat turn her into a woman. In the next episode, the family will be broken apart by the consequences of impulse.
New episodes of Interview With the Vampire will be aired on Sunday. The show is on AMC One week early, AMC+ is showing episodes online.
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