ThisInterview with the Vampirereview contains spoilers.
The episode opens in the pall of the increasingly uncomfortable vampire home.
The camera pans tell us the melody is in his head.
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The cinema sequence is a brilliant mix of suspense and humor.
All while Claudia instigates her plot, and Louis ponders the climate in Buenos Aires.
Tom Anderson (Chris Stack) has all the right answers, but that wont save him.
It only makes him more appetizing.
The businessman who sold Azalea Hall to Louis is now on the sacred secret committee of Mardi Gras planning.
This isnt only because he knows how to work the acoustics in the vampire mansions dome-shaped parlor.
Tom doesnt need a mic to bear his secrets.
Where do you meet the devil and what are the terms of the agreement?
The whole neighborhood thinks Satan lives at 1132 Rue Royale.
He believes it is angels.
Like so many setups for this kind of payoff, it is an imperfect mousetrap.
The festivities open with vampires most horrific go-to move.
Lestats double-edged wit pokes twice the fun in a very inventive pickup line.
One says under the porch.
The balls displacements of the novel maintain an inner integrity, but adjust to the changing room.
It is interesting which parts of the plot and counterplot are telegraphed and which are kept hidden.
Antoinettes shadow play mirrors the convoluted route to violence the series offers.
The most gruesome exhibitions have been parsed out generously, but intermittently, in the past few episodes.
Saving the gore until it is at its most memorable.
The finale lets loose with the violence.
The feeding frenzy is a nightmarish funhouse game.
Spoiler alert, Louis pulls off a guys jaw.
In the heat of the most suspenseful sequence of the installment, comic relief cuts two ways.
I hope it was intentional, because it works too well as comedy.
There is also a staking in the final battle, which is a nice touch.
This is also vampire love.
Throughout interview session number 7, Molloy is distracted, once to the point of cutting into Louis narrative.
It is artfully done, not in particularly dark tones, and carries an ambiguity to intent all around.
After hints and foreshadowing, the revealing of Rashids (Assad Zaman) true nature is very well done.
Why would a 514-year-old vampire follow any religion?
A whole book was named for him.
The cameras also imply something going on under the surface.
The Thing Lay Still is a complicated finale to the first televised chapter of Rices first novel.
It comes to the same conclusion, keeps the copout, and attacks itself for it.
The closer leaves us primed to escape to a new world for season 2.
Rating:
5 out of 5
