Interview with the Vampire retitling its third season to The Vampire Lestat is quite an unconventional move for traditional serialized television. The striking shift is, however, perfectly in accordance with creator Rolin Jones' magnificent adaptation of author Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles series. Rice's transgressive material and Jones' transformative interpretation scrutinize how traumatic experiences can frame an individual's perspective and distort their memories — especially when a concept as simultaneously harrowing and freeing as immortality enters the picture.

Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for The Vampire Lestat Episode 1.