Real Women of Gaming

The exploration of grief is a hard and messy thing. To really take a hard look at how it will change your brain. Change your relationships and how you remember them. How it changes what you think you deserve. How it warps how you look at the rest of your life. Like a filter is dropped on your eyes and suddenly everything looks different, but sort of the same underneath. 

Grief is at the center of this story and one of the main reasons it even exists. Anne Rice wrote Interview With The Vampire to explore her grief over losing her daughter. To pull it outside of herself and stick it to paper. Louis is her grief personified. He bears the burden of her loss. 

This season did a great job of showing both grief and the distractions one seeks when trying to heal. The moments where things start to be bright again. When you feel happiness and then some part of your brain reminds you of that loss. An actual ghost haunting you. How this can harden a person to keep the pain from happening again.

Claudia and Louis have left America in search of other vampires. Their search leads them to Paris. Finally they meet some of their own and start to explore new ways to live. However unknown danger is still looming. A sinister part of their past that they cannot outrun, even with vampiric speed. 

What happens next will forever change everything.

Like in season one we are listening to the story through an interview. Scenes switch between the past and the present. Fans watch as Louis comes to terms with those faithful events and how they have shaped his life now. We watch as Louis tries to pull himself together. It seems as he never totally can, though, as he is still wrapped so thoroughly in his own grief. 

This season was a masterpiece. The costumes were masterfully made and tell us so much about every character. The sets. The sets were phenomenal. To transport the viewer to 1940s France, then 1970s San Francisco and then the present day is a tall order. The crew did it through and the show was so much better for it. The soundtrack continues to be a well used tool to amplify every scene. 

In my personal opinion this season finale was the best season finale I have ever seen. 

It should come to a surprise to no one that I would highly recommend season two of Interview With The Vampire. It was a masterclass in storytelling. 

Just proceed with caution. This is a dark story. So maybe do some research or ask a friend who has watched first to make sure you can take steps before viewing certain episodes. Not that I think the show should be sterilized. I just know there were parts that I could have prepared myself for better.

Interview With The Vampire was a great ride. It made me think about my own grief and working toward my own healing. The actors deserve every award under the sun for their hard work. I am very excited for season three.

Enjoy.

ALWAYS KEEP SPARKLING!!!