The Vampire Chronicles (2022)

The Vampire Chronicles (English title: Interview with the Vampire) is a lush, gothic drama-horror series based on Anne Rice’s iconic novel. Framed as a confessional conversation in present-day Dubai, famed journalist Daniel Molloy listens as the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac recounts his life — beginning in early 20th-century New Orleans — and the fraught, obsessive relationships that shaped him: the charismatic and dangerous Lestat de Lioncourt and the eternally trapped child vampire Claudia. Their triangular “family” navigates love, power, violence and the corrosive loneliness of immortality as they wander from New Orleans to distant lands. Watching the series, you’ll experience a richly atmospheric blend of period detail and modern framing: sumptuous costumes and locations, melancholic monologues, and sudden, brutal flashes of horror. The story balances elegiac introspection — questions of identity, morality and what it means to live forever — with shocking, visceral moments that make the stakes feel immediate. Themes of desire, grief, and the human cost of eternal life are explored through intimate performances and moody cinematography. Expect an emotional, morally complex ride that’s as much about longing and loss as it is about blood and survival. The show invites viewers to sit with uncomfortable truths, to be haunted by beauty and brutality in equal measure, and to judge for themselves whether immortality is a blessing or a curse.

Actors: Jacob Anderson, Sam Reid, Assad Zaman

Genres: Drama, Horror

7.4 /10 7.4 /10