History Recap / InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E6LikeAngelsPutInHellByGod

* TheSeventies: One scene is set in 1973.

* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: Louis [[OpenSaysMe barges into Antoinette's house]], [[InterruptedIntimacy interrupting her and Lestat in the midst of sexual intercourse]]. Louis argues with Lestat, pushes his naked boyfriend to the floor, shoves him against the dresser (Lestat's expression shows that [[CasualKink he's aroused being manhandled]] by Louis in this fashion), kisses him, stabs Lestat on his left side with his [[AbsurdlySharpClaws vampire fingernails]], and bites his neck. While eagerly embracing Louis, Lestat is grunting in pain as [[SexyDiscretionShot the camera pans away]]. In the next scene, Lestat's face, neck, left ear and right arm are covered with scratches, bruises and bite marks -- it's evident that he and Louis had rough, angry sex.

* DecapitationPresentation: Lestat holds up the severed head of the train conductor that he has just murdered so that Claudia can see it.

'''Daniel''': But in the air, with a "fսck you to Newtonian physics" flying?\\

* GiftOfSong: Lestat pens the love song "Come to Me" as an ApologyGift to Louis after the former's horrific DomesticAbuse of the latter, which left Louis almost dead from Lestat's pummeling. Lestat arranges for the phonograph record to be delivered to Louis on Valentine's Day with the message "For Louis, My Muse!"

[-Aired November 6, 2022-]

* DomesticAbuse: Lestat is abusive towards his mistress Antoinette. While they're in a Ponchatoula hotel room, his fangs have left behind two large puncture wounds on her neck, but he doesn't heal them with his vampire blood, so he's treating her worse than Louis after TheirFirstTime (where [[HealItWithBlood Lestat put in the effort to mend the injury he caused]]). After Antoinette asks, "How am I supposed to make a career here?", Lestat abruptly puts his hand around her throat and replies, "I seek refuge from complaints when I visit you, dear." He somehow persuaded her to [[{{Fingore}} cut off her finger]] so that he can [[FakingTheDead fake her death]] in order to ''win back Louis'' -- who is Antoinette's romantic adversary -- and for her trouble, she now has a maimed right hand that she must conceal with a glove ("That's what gloves are for," as he callously tells her). She then meekly says to Lestat, "I didn't mean to make you mad," which sadly illustrates that Anoinette is thoroughly under his thumb.

* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: Louis barges into Antoinette's house, [[InterruptedIntimacy interrupting her and Lestat in the midst of sexual intercourse]]. Louis argues with Lestat, pushes his naked boyfriend to the floor, shoves him against the dresser (Lestat's expression shows that [[CasualKink he's aroused being manhandled]] by Louis in this fashion), kisses him, stabs Lestat on his left side with his vampire fingernails, and bites his neck. While eagerly embracing Louis, Lestat is grunting in pain as [[SexyDiscretionShot the camera pans away]]. In the next scene, Lestat's face, neck, left ear and right arm are covered with scratches, bruises and bite marks -- it's evident that he and Louis had rough, angry sex.
* InterruptedIntimacy: Louis storms into Antoinette's bedroom while she and Lestat are in coitus, with her on top. She immediately gets off Lestat and [[ModestyBedsheet covers her breasts with her blanket]]. Louis orders her to leave. Lestat actually welcomes the disruption because he prefers his boyfriend over his mistress.

* ModestyBedsheet: A naked Antoinette hastily covers herself with the bedsheets when Louis bursts inside her bedroom when she's in bed with Lestat.

* OffWithHisHead: Lestat rips the head off of a train conductor and plays with it like it's a ventriloquist dummy.

* PsychoStrings: A [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8l3jdo discordant violin melody in a minor key]] underscores Lestat's TranquilFury at Claudia, whom he catches on a train bound for New York, for running away from home for the second time. His stony exterior belies his turbulent temper because he coerces her to go "Back in your [[GildedCage cage]], sweetheart," or else "I'll turn your bones to dust." Claudia and the audience never doubt for a second that Lestat will hack her to pieces if she doesn't obey him.

* UnkemptBeauty: After Louis breaks into Antoinette's house and [[InterruptedIntimacy intrudes on her and Lestat fornicating]], Lestat has the option of either continuing to have sex with his mistress, who's perfectly coiffed and made-up, or have sex with his boyfriend, who's drenched in dirty water from head to toe after swimming the ''extremely'' polluted Mississippi River. Lestat unequivocally chooses [[PrettyBoy Louis]] despite the latter's untidy appearance.

* DramaticShattering: Louis confronts Lestat about the song the latter wrote as a Valentine's Day present because he's so offended that Lestat's mistress Antoinette sings it. Louis drops the record in front of them to demonstrate his hatred of it and the disc shatters. (Please note that this is not an example of VinylShatters because the scene takes place over a decade before large-diameter vinyl records were mass-produced, so the phonograph record is made of shellac.)

* TheMuse: On the sleeve of the phonograph record of "Come to Me", Lestat's first composition in a century, his Valentine Day's message is "For Louis, My Muse!" Louis is Lestat's SecondLove.
* MuseAbuse: It's only after [[DomesticAbuse Lestat mangles Louis into a broken, bloodied heap]] that he's inspired to write his first song in a hundred years. The [[VillainLoveSong end result]] is "Come to Me", which Lestat gives to Louis as both a Valentine Day's present and an ApologyGift.

* RecordNeedleScratch: Louis listens to Lestat's song "Come to Me" (which Lestat had sent to him as a Valentine's Day gift) on his gramophone, which features Lestat's mistress Antoinette as the vocalist. The tune isn't even halfway done before a fuming Louis removes the needle from the disc, grabs the record and storms out the door. After six years of giving Lestat the SilentTreatment, Louis is finally going to confront his boyfriend.

* ApologyGift: After Louis barely survived a [[DomesticAbuse violent thrashing]] from Lestat, the latter attempts to buy the former's forgiveness with expensive gifts, such as an extremely rare 15th-century antique book and a brand new Rolls-Royce. For over six years, this strategy is unsuccessful because Louis continues to [[SilentTreatment ignore him]], but Lestat then switches gears and records a love song entitled "Come to Me" that he penned himself. Louis receives it on Valentine's Day, and it finally provokes the reaction that Lestat had yearned for because Louis takes him back after a heated bout of [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence hate-sex]].