Interview With the Vampire Brings Out the Bodies

The fandom is divided about this. There was a lot going on in the final act of this episode, and while I don't have time to dive into some of the nuances in this recap, I will be writing about this in a post later in the week. I will only be looking at what happens at the end of "A Vile Hunger For Your Hammering Heart."

The episode begins with a man getting his blood sucked. Mister du Point du Lac latched onto Rashid. As if daring Daniel to say something, he stared across the table.

One of the prevalent fan theories is that Daniel and Louis are playing into the idea of bad exes who never get around to fuck out their feelings one final time. Some people think that Rashid might be Armand, but having Louis suck his blood for sustenance makes him a human. I apologize to y'all.

A list of last words was read out by Daniel. She wrote "Let my dog live" in parentheses and it was a particularly sad one. There is a slightly different style in each entry. She is thought to have killed two to three people a night. He keeps going.

The man is still being consumed by Louis. Talk about being invited into a room. They are pushing each other's buttons.

There is nothing more fucked up than 42 pages of murder victims. "What do you think will happen to Mr Du Lac when you publish this book?"

There is a twist here. Louis and Daniel are trying to save a thing. It may be a suicide pact. Daniel might die of Parkinson's after his greatest failure, but it's likely he'll be murdered by the vampire as well. Louis pulled off Daniel's throat and came for him. He asked if Daniel wanted to know what his friend liked.

Daniel said he didn't ask that. Louis said that he was thinking it. He says that Rashid tastes like honey and pineapple. Daniel said he would wait for Damut. Daniel doesn't let Louis have the last word without a challenge, even though Louis has an advantage. He is capable of reading Daniel's mind.

When we slip back into the past, Louis is trying to get her out of her coffin by breaking the birds off. He doesn't know the extent of her kills, and he thinks she's refusing to leave her coffin after Charlie, the first boy she liked, died after she got carried away while feeding on him

Louis went to Lestat to make sure that he wasn't going to starve himself. He opened her coffin and found an empty one. Louis protested when he tried to get her diary. Lestat starts to read out loud. The first glimpse of a woman who hates herself, who is tearing herself apart trying to grow up, is what we get. As she sneaks back into her room and tries to get into her coffin, her parents ambush her, asking what the fuck is she doing with all these bodies?

Lestat pushed her against the drawer. "You're going to let him do this to me?" The tension rises as she denies, and then she admits that she weighed them down by burying them far away. It is three feet below the Mississippi River's water line, which means that the next storm will bring all those bodies floating up, necks torn out, and empty.

The water rises and the bodies with it. Tom Anderson, who is being considered for a position in the government, is asking for monetary support from Louis and Lestat. They learned from him that 56 bodies were found in the mud. They learned that they should expect a police visit. The two vampire returned home to a deputy, drunk on the couch, and a few other cops.

Louis and Lestat are making excuses for their incinerator. A man is in her closet as she spins the coffin. A deputy knocks on her door after she sprays perfume to get rid of the scent.

As Louis and the cop trade threats, the deputy reminds him that sodomy carries a five year prison term. Human mores are not behind even when Louis tries to ignore human affairs.

Louis tried to be measured when the two men confronted their daughter. They argue and she asks who she is supposed to love. The burden of immortality is being helped by Louis and Lestat, but what aboutClaudia? She stood and screamed, asking which one of these men would fix it.

The audience can understand her and this is terrifying. We know how bad it is for her, how irresponsible she is, and here is a young girl asking for someone to take responsibility for forcing her to live like this. It might seem like the end of the world for Louis.

Lestat has been stepping out on Louis and she demanded a companion, but Lestat refused and she tried to force Louis to her side. Louis tried to convince her to stay when she ran upstairs. Louis can see his fight with Lestat from five years ago. She could have been alive if she hadn't died. She's dead, a mistake.

She was made out of remorse and selfishness. Daniel continually reminds Louis that he is making excuses for her mass murder when he tries to convince him that she was simply traumatised by the storm of puberty. He won't let Louis convince him that she's a victim. Daniel thinks that she's a mass murderer and that she makes you and Frenchie look like queens.

I couldn't help but gasp out loud. There is challenging a source, but then there is asking if the knife hurts. Daniel has something more honest to say after this. Daniel knows that the fascination with her will be a draw and he doesn't want to exploit her. It doesn't matter what anyone's intentions are, what gets put out there Once the audience sees it, they decide what it is.

It is a warning for both of them. This is where the writers are commenting on their own work, and I mentioned earlier that this is brutal. This is a sign that the writers are aware that what they are doing will divide people. We will make a decision. Each one of us will have to do it for ourselves.

Now that they are under suspicion, Louis and Lestat have to adjust to their new surroundings. There is nothing they can do to distract them from their resentments. They spat at each other as they got into their coffins. After seven years, Louis and Lestat will no longer be living in a home. They destroy themselves, waiting for a miracle that will make them feel loved again.

She has traveled across the U.S., visiting universities and taking a life here. She met another vampire, Bruce, and they connected over a meal. They flirt and he gives her a book aboutiquette. He broke her arm when she tried to resist him. She was on the ground as he stood over her.

Daniel said there were four pages torn out. She wrote about it and he would like to read it. Daniel knows thatClaudia is getting to Louis, he is snapping at him, and he is losing his cool. When Daniel raises his hand, it shakes as he reads the last lines aloud and asks for the truth.

His face is covered in panic. This is the first time we have seen real fear in someone who has been in the presence of a vampire for a long time. Louis is trying to mimic the symptoms of Parkinson's disease. It's a low tactic for someone like Louis to threaten Daniel. Louis has all the power in this situation, he is a vampire, he has money, he is giving Daniel the story, and he uses Daniel's fear to intimidate him into telling the story the way he wants it. That doesn't work. He stood and slapped Louis across the face after regaining control of himself. He turned around and sat down, pushing his glasses up and writing notes on the recorder. Daniel won't be intimidated into telling the story the way Louis wants it told, he's still human, and Louis has no right to fuck with him like that. Daniel can give as good as he gets, but this boundary pushes him too far. He will eventually die from his chronic illness. Louis knows a thing or two about things. He should improve.

We're going to New Orleans. Louis was on the bed eating rats and asking Lestat if it wasClaudia. Lestat claims that he is the one standing in front of Louis. Lestat tried to get Louis to pay attention to him. When Louis doesn't, he leaves to meet his mistress. Louis doesn't pay much attention.

After getting a call from Grace, Louis was able to get out of his bed. They meet at their mother's grave, and she just wanted to say goodbye, since she, Levi, and the kids are heading north in search of work. We can see the flowers on the grave. Louis de Pointe du Lac is underneath Florence de Point du Lac. October 18, 1930, dead He was a beloved brother.

She realized that she had been made so that she could take the place of Grace. Even though he wasn't going to fit in as his child, he might be able to change his mind if she showed up with him.

She doesn't waste time when she comes back home. Before she leaves for Europe, she is here to pick up Louis. There is a tug of war going on between Lestat and Louis as Lestat demands that Louis ignore the ridiculous statements made byClaudia.

It breaks down. Lestat pushedClaudia against the wall. Papers fly and Lestat beats Louis. They drag each other through the dilapidated house, metaphorically shattering the facade of a happy home they had pretended was still standing. Louis and Lestat are fighting.

Lestat grabbed Louis and dragged him into the steet. He said that he never harmed Louis until the point. Lestat grabbed Louis and flew with him up above the clouds. Lestat wants to be left alone, and he wants Louis to say that he won't love him. When Louis wants to be let go, Lestat does.

He falls to earth, battered and broken, a horrible image of a black man who was viciously beaten. The episode ends withClaudia staring at Lestat, who is still looking nearly perfect.

It is a terrible way to end a show that should have been about reconciliation and destruction. It's difficult to end an episode if you can't see how brutal and explicit the characters are. I was upset at the end of A Vile Hunger for your Hammering Heart. We have had five episodes where the writers have proved again and again that they know what they are doing, and I hope that in episode six we will learn exactly what they were doing. We decide what to do with it once it's out there.

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