Just Start the Tape: An Interview With the Vampire Rewatch Podcast

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Just Start the Tape: An Interview With the Vampire Rewatch Podcast

Show Notes

They’re back! This week, Bobbi, Kelli, and Kam dive back into the depths of the vampiric deep and revisit Season 2 Episode 1 of AMC’s Interview With the Vampire, “What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned?” The story picks back up as Louis and Claudia traverse a war-torn Romania as they chart out their new life. Discussions include the contentious and complex relationship between Claudia and her fatherbrother Louis, Armand’s involvement (officially) in the interview, and the inner workings of human-vampire relations.

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Episode Credits: Intro Music: Vibing Over Venus Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License ⁠⁠http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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