The Vampire Lestat Unveils Jaw-Dropping Penultimate Episode

Spoilers follow for The Vampire Lestat Season 3, Episode 6 - “Montreal,” which is available on AMC and AMC+ now. Season 3 of AMC’s series formerly known as Anne Rice's Interview With the Vampire has raced along like Lestat’s tour bus on nitrous.

Season 3 of AMC’s series formerly known as Anne Rice's Interview With the Vampire has raced along like Lestat’s tour bus on nitrous. “Montreal,” the penultimate episode of this season, is an emotional roller coaster ride. For “Loustat” shippers, this episode gifts viewers with Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid) and Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) being on the same page, sharing emotional intimacy like we’ve never seen before. On the flip-side, the witch Merrick Mayfair (Sarah Afful) summons Claudia (Delainey Hayles) back to this earthly plain to metaphorically rip everyone’s hearts out in a devastating sequence that ranks as one of the show’s best.

For everyone who’s been holding out for a romantic episode for Lestat and Louis this season, they certainly get their wish with “Montreal.” Executive producer Hannah Moscovitch tells IGN that the writers’ room asked themselves what might it look like if they gave the pair their own version of Before Sunset, and voila!

“It started with the image of Lestat and Louis rambling around Montreal on the eve of Lestat’s concert,” Moscovitch says of how it unfolded on the whiteboard. “From there, came Louis’ restaurant and a joint interview for Daniel Molloy [Eric Bogosian] with Louis and Lestat, rehearsal for the concert, and the release of the sex tape. Through it all is a slow finding their way back towards each other. The slow negotiation of their flaws, their failures of each other, and of course, of their biggest joint failure and grief, the killing of Claudia.”