The Vampire Lestat season 3 review: wild, weird and boldly unhinged

The Vampire Lestat, the retitled third season of Interview With the Vampire, shifts the story away from Louis and into Lestat's chaotic orbit. After two seasons many found underrated, showrunner Rolin Jones leans into riskier choices, loosely adapting Anne Rice's second Vampire Chronicles novel and opening the series to stranger, louder territory.

The season begins with a flash-forward to a post-apocalyptic future and spends most of its time on the road as Lestat tours North America with an undead Daniel Molloy, performing punky glam-rock anthems and leaning fully into a hedonistic rock-star life. Sam Reid ramps up the excess—sex, drugs, a tour-bus shower bathed in blood—and the show offers a string of memorable, often over-the-top images, from hovering stage poses to a daylight recording that literally scorches his skin.

That intensity is double-edged.

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