Kerry Dixon

AMC Note: There are book spoilers for The Vampire Chronicles, so read at your own risk if you don’t want to be spoiled for possible plot points. A lot happened tonight in tonight’s episode of The Vampire Lestat, but there was one name brought up multiple times which show-only viewers likely won’t recognize… and book fans will recognize as a huge piece of canon lore. So let’s talk about it. More specifically, let’s talk about Amel.

Everyone in “New York” is trying to perform a version of themselves, and almost no one is sure which version is the real one. Lestat is in the studio recording an album he wants to be the perfect distillation of who he is, except he doesn’t actually know who that is anymore. So he is taking it out on the drum kit, the guitar, and most of all himself.

On this week’s episode of The Vampire Lestat, Armand (Assad Zaman) confirmed his love for Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian). And more than that, he confessed that he’s been watching Daniel for the last 52 years, quietly guiding his life and intervening when necessary, but always from the shadows.