Weekend Watch: Anne Rice's 'Talamasca' and 'Interview with the Vampire'

For Weekend Watch, you’ll find two recommendations: one timely pick tied to what’s new or returning, and one personal pick that may be less tied to the calendar but worth revisiting. Together, they’ll give you both something current to stream and something enduring to rediscover.

AMC has quietly built one of the strongest genre lineups on television. Interview with the Vampire reimagined gothic horror for a new century. Now comes Talamasca: The Secret Order, the newest branch in the expanding TV universe inspired by the late author Anne Rice’s bestselling works. It’s less about bloodlust and more about the people who study it.

The Talamasca, hinted at in Interview with the Vampire, is a secret society of scholars and spies who quietly track vampires, witches, and other supernatural beings. They’re watchers, not participants—until the boundaries blur. When a field agent dies under strange circumstances, the organization’s London leader, Helen (Elizabeth McGovern), recruits a gifted, wayward clairvoyant named Guy (Nicholas Denton). He can hear whispers from the beyond, though he’s never known how to control them.

What begins as a moody procedural gains intrigue halfway through, when Guy meets Jasper (William Fichtner), a wry and magnetic vampire with a taste for danger. Their uneasy alliance—part mentorship, part seduction—brings the show to life. Fichtner plays Jasper with self-assurance, gliding through candlelit rooms and dim London streets like a creature who knows he’s being watched and loves it.

At its best, Talamasca has a cool, eerie allure. It’s a series about curiosity and consequence, and a reminder that sometimes the observers are just as haunted as the monsters they study.

Anne Rice’s Talamasca premieres Sunday on AMC and AMC+.

Before Talamasca came Interview with the Vampire, the show that made Anne Rice’s world feel tangible again. Where the 1994 movie made vampires glamorous, AMC’s version makes them human. Rolin Jones’s adaptation takes the familiar tale and reimagines it with new urgency and elegance. The setting shifts to early-1900s New Orleans, where Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson), a Black businessman, meets the intoxicatingly cruel Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid). Decades later, from a Dubai penthouse, Louis recounts his story to journalist Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian)—a conversation that becomes its own kind of confession.

What unfolds is a love story disguised as horror. The series drips with atmosphere and intelligence, full of velvet, violence, and longing. Anderson plays Louis as a man at war with his hunger and humanity; as Lestat, Reid makes damnation look like seduction.

The second season deepened everything: the grief, the grandeur, the scope. Moving the story to Europe, it explored what immortality does to memory and what memory does to love.

If you’re watching Talamasca, this is where its mythology begins. But even on its own, Interview with the Vampire remains one of TV’s rare feats: a supernatural drama that aches as much as it thrills.

Interview with the Vampire is available to stream on AMC+ and Netflix.

Whether you crave the shadowy intrigue of Talamasca or the dark romance of Interview with the Vampire, I hope one (or both) keeps you company as the nights grow longer. Thanks, as always, for watching along with me.