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Does anyone know the exact words Sam-Lestat said at the concert in New York? I couldn’t understand everything he said. At the end, did he say that he was being hunted?

Is there a link or a collection on this forum of all the reviews for the season? I’ve seen a few that were like glowing reviews etc and I thought I’d saved them to read at a later date but I must’ve lost them?

But yeh I want to have a look through all the published reviews of the upcoming season if anyone has curated them all in one place? I used to have access to a discord were people did that but it’s gone dead.

Cheers and no worries if nobody has, I’ll do it the old fashioned way but thought couldn’t hurt to ask! Cheers!

Don't forget to rate the new episode. We want a season 4!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32769464/?ref\_=ext\_shr

Coven, it's time for The Vampire Lestat to take the stage in Detroit!

Reminder, this thread is SHOW ONLY! Book spoilers must be properly tagged or discussed in the corresponding BOOK SPOILERS thread.

Synopsis: Lestat reflects on the events leading to his tour, including the formation of his band and the publication of a certain book, while experiencing a disquieting, drug-fueled spiritual trip and going head-to-head with a resentful coven.

Premiere: June 7th, 2026

Does anyone know if there is a legal way to watch the show on latinamerica? im from Chile and i do have an Amazon prime video subscription! I dont want to expect months to watch it!

Watching episode 1 again and I can't believe I missed >!the texting."Stuck in the mud. Far from the things of man." I don't think Louis would speak like that.!<

>!In the opening scene of E1 of TVL one of the auction lots includes a song cycle set to the poetry of Baudelaire.!<

Please note that this post was not written with AI in any way, either in research assistance or in drafting my thoughts. My own dumb brain is responsible for all of these words, in the order they appear below.

Many musicians over the centuries have been inspired by Baudelaire. He is considered one of the most influential figures of the French Symbolist and Decadent movements, and one of the first Modernists. It makes perfect sense for Lestat to be interested in Baudelaire.

Symbolism was concerned with dreams and feelings, rather than realism. We know this is a central theme of IWTV. The Decadent movement took this aesthetic even further into hedonism, fantasy. Classic rock star shit. Very TVL, as we've already seen.

So okay, that all makes sense. So what was the point of the Symbolists, and the Decadents? What was the point of Les Fleurs du mal? What can that tell us about Lestat, then?

Well, we already know that >!"the failures"!< are not going to be the objective truth. We already know this season is going to be bombastic and baroque. But I think what the >!Baudelaire song cycle!< confirms above all else is that it is both reactionary and intended to cause an incendiary reaction >!(quite literally, as we see in that opening scene, but also as the story unfolds to its audience)!<.

The Symbolist and Decadent movements are both essentially saying, the natural world, the real world, is insufficient. It sucks (haha we got vampire jokes), and living there just raw-dogging realism is pointless. What is real isn't the point, the effects of what is real are what matters. If you have to aesthetically bend or embellish or imaginatively editorialize something to convey its effects, in a way that is more real than reality.

Les Fleurs du mal is, to vastly oversimplify, about idealism and death. Aesthetically, it depicted its themes in such a provocative way, Baudelaire was formally prosecuted and the poems were banned in France until like the 1950s. I think we can also expect that kind of aesthetic boundary pushing from Lestat this season, with similarly prosecutorial (is that a word?) consequences for him as the author of his story.

>!If you have read the books, you probably already expected this, narratively speaking.!<But I like the way it is also being emphasized aesthetically, in the formal aspect of the story telling and not just the narrative (because I'm an art historian so I like to look at the pictures okay). And in a meta sense, not just Lestat's in-universe story >!recorded in "the failures"!<but also in the way TVL is being told to us, the audience. The concert? Let's all pretend this is real? Brilliant.

You can peruse Baudelaire's Intimate Journals on the University of Virginia Library website. Parts of them are really funny if you read them in Lestat's voice (although, as a content warning, Baudelaire viciously hated women and there is a lot of misogynistic garbage in these writings). Some bangers:

• Anyone, provided that he can be amusing, has the right to talk of himself.
• The Dandy should aspire to be uninterruptedly sublime. He should live and sleep in front of a mirror.
• To be a useful person has always appeared to me something particularly horrible.
• There are but three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the warrior and the poet. To know, to kill and to create.
• [Pages upon pages of disgruntled rambling about how much he hates George Sand]
• Do not punish me through my Mother and do not punish my Mother on my behalf

Kinda spoiler but I was wondering who is the voice narrating the titles of The Failures' tapes?

Can't wait for everyone to watch and discuss. I won't spoil it.