About Just Start the Tape: An Interview With the Vampire Rewatch Podcast
They’ve rewatched it so many times already, why not watch it together? Just Start the Tape is an unofficial rewatch podcast for AMC’s Interview With the Vampire hosted by media connoisseurs Bobbi Miller, Kelli Boyle & Kamryn Ryan. Join them as they go back to the beginning and unpack their viewing experience of every episode, look ahead to Season 3 & analyze the craftsmanship that brings the show to life, all from the lens of TV/film/pop culture critics. New episodes every week, available wherever you get your podcasts. Not affiliated with AMC Network.
THE VAMPIRE LESTAT: One Night Only Concert & "Detroit" Reaction
Hosts Bobbi, Kelli, and Kam discuss their experience at The Vampire Lestat concert and react to "Detroit," exploring Lestat's band formation and regional vampires in this interview.
8 Jan 2026
The End, The Beginning
The end…the beginning. This week, Bobbi, Kelli, and Kam revisit Season 2 Episode 8 of AMC’s Interview With the Vampire, “And That's the End of It. There's Nothing Else.” Louis goes crazy on the coven (RIP BOZOS), Louis and Lestat reunite, and Daniel begins a new chapter of his life.
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Episode Credits:
Intro Music: Vibing Over Venus Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com (http://incompetech.com)) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
30 Dec 2025
F**k These Vampires
YURI BELIEVERS, IT’S SO OVER! This week, Bobbi, Kelli, and Kam revisit Season 2 Episode 7 of AMC’s Interview With the Vampire, “I Could Not Prevent It.” Louis, Claudia, and Madeleine are brought to trial for the attempted murder of Lestat.
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Intro Music: Vibing Over Venus Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com (http://incompetech.com)) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
23 Dec 2025
Our Love, Our Light
YURI BELIEVERS, WE’RE SO BACK! This week, Bobbi, Kelli, and Kam revisit Season 2 Episode 6 of AMC’s Interview With the Vampire, “Like the Light by Which God Made the World Before He Made Light.” Claudia reveals her vampiric nature to her lover, Madeleine, and the two decide to spend eternity together. Discussions include Claudia and Madeleine…that’s it, nothing else. Only positive lesbian moments, we ignore the horrors.
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Intro Music: Vibing Over Venus Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com (http://incompetech.com)) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
15 Dec 2025
The Titular Episode pt. 2
The episode of all time (again). This week, Bobbi, Kelli, and Kam revisit the second part of Season 2 Episode 5 of AMC’s Interview With the Vampire, “Don’t Be Afraid, Just Start the Tape.” An episode so good that we needed two episodes to talk about it.
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Intro Music: Vibing Over Venus Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com (http://incompetech.com)) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
9 Dec 2025
The Titular Episode (pt. 1)
The episode of all time. This week, Bobbi, Kelli, and Kam revisit Season 2 Episode 5 of AMC’s Interview With the Vampire, “Don’t Be Afraid, Just Start the Tape.” An episode so good that we need two episodes to talk about it. Discussions include screaming about the greatest TV fight of all time.
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Kelli's S2E5 post mortem (https://www.tvinsider.com/1139097/interview-with-the-vampire-season-2-episode-5-cast-san-francisco-dubai/)
Kelli's interview with Jacob (https://www.tvinsider.com/1193936/interview-with-the-vampire-season-2-jacob-anderson-louis-claudia-armand-lestat/)
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Episode Credits:
Intro Music: Vibing Over Venus Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com (http://incompetech.com)) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
24 Nov 2025
Go Bang!
Sometimes you just have to...go bang. This week, Bobbi, Kelli, and Kam revisit Season 2 Episode 4 of AMC’s Interview With the Vampire, “I Want You More Than Anything in the World.” Louis and Armand establish their (alleged) relationship while Claudia and Madeleine reconnect after two years. Discussions include Claudia’s disappointment with her infantilizing role within the Théâtre des Vampires, Armand gives his tragic origin story, and Louis says goodbye to Dreamstat.
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Kelli’s interview with Delainey (https://www.tvinsider.com/1138585/interview-with-the-vampire-season-2-episode-4-claudia-baby-lu-louis-delainey-hayles/)
Kelli’s interview with Jacob (https://www.tvinsider.com/1138317/interview-with-the-vampire-204-louis-lestat-armand/)
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Episode Credits:
Intro Music: Vibing Over Venus Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com (http://incompetech.com/)) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
14 Nov 2025
Fanfiction
Is it fact or is it fiction? Who knows? Memory is a monster.
This week, Bobbi, Kelli, and Kam revisit Season 2 Episode 3 of AMC’s Interview With the Vampire, “No Pain.” Armand tells the story of how Théâtre des Vampires came to be and his torrid love affair with Lestat while Claudia is officially inducted into the coven (with a major catch). Discussions include Armand’s recollection of his relationship with Lestat, Claudia and Louis getting their story straight with the coven, and Daniel continuing to dive deep into the information provided to him by the Talamasca.
Special thank you to Matt Stevens for making this episode sound crystal clear!
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Intro Music: Vibing Over Venus Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com (http://incompetech.com)) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
5 Nov 2025
Wrestling Time to the Ground
Bienvenue à Paris! This week, Bobbi, Kelli, and Kam head to the city of (vampire) love and revisit Season 2 Episode 2 of AMC’s Interview With the Vampire, “Do You Know What It Means to Be Loved by Death.” Claudia and Louis have made it to Paris and have been introduced to the Théâtre des Vampires, a theater troupe/coven led by the Vampire Armand. Discussions include the new role that race and racism play in this season, Claudia and Louis exploring new love, and the fact that this show’s amazing makeup design lost an Emmy to a light blush on Olivia Cooke.
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Intro Music: Vibing Over Venus Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
27 Oct 2025
You and Me, Me and You
They’re back! This week, Bobbi, Kelli, and Kam dive back into the depths of the vampiric deep and revisit Season 2 Episode 1 of AMC’s Interview With the Vampire, “What Can the Damned Really Say to the Damned?”
The story picks back up as Louis and Claudia traverse a war-torn Romania as they chart out their new life. Discussions include the contentious and complex relationship between Claudia and her fatherbrother Louis, Armand’s involvement (officially) in the interview, and the inner workings of human-vampire relations.
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Intro Music: Vibing Over Venus Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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15 Oct 2025
Bonus Episode: SDCC & NYCC The Vampire Lestat Trailer Reaction (ft. Rose Dommu & Kaiya Shunyata)
There was much ado about vampires at San Diego and New York Comic Con, so we’re back with a bonus episode to give you all our thoughts on The Vampire Lestat trailer. We’re joined by author Rose Dommu and critic Kaiya Shunyata as we react to the new footage, give our predictions for where the season will go, and discuss how we need sex, drugs, vampires, and rock n’ roll. Bang bang.
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Intro Music: Vibing Over Venus Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com (http://incompetech.com)) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
11 Jul 2025
Desperately Alive and Desperately Fragile
It’s the Season 1 finale, “The Thing Lay Still,” and it’s the end of the unholy family as we know it as Claudia and Louis carry out the plot against Lestat in New Orleans. In Dubai, the truth starts to unravel. We look back on what this rewatch experience has done for us personally and as a trio and look ahead to our next season after a brief hiatus. The end, the beginning.
Links to Kelli’s recent interviews with Jacob, Sam & Delainey: https://www.tvinsider.com/show/interview-with-the-vampire/ (https://www.tvinsider.com/show/interview-with-the-vampire/)
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Intro Music: Vibing Over Venus Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com (http://incompetech.com)) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
4 Jul 2025
Endure, Endure, Endure
Podcast hosts discuss season one episode six of *Interview with the Vampire*, focusing on the evolving family dynamic between Claudia, Louis, and Lestat as Claudia and Louis begin plotting against Lestat.
25 Jun 2025
Woe
The hosts discuss the difficult episode "A Vile Hunger for Your Hammering Heart," focusing on Claudia's departure and the family's breaking point in this interview.
11 Jun 2025
We Love You, Claudia!
Bobbi, Kelli, and Kam discuss Claudia's character development in Season 1 Episode 3 of "Interview with the Vampire," analyzing themes of girlhood and coming-of-age stories; this is an interview episode.
2 Jun 2025
Les-GET A FRIEND-stat
Bobbi, Kelli, and Kam discuss season one episode three of Interview with the Vampire, analyzing Loustat's relationship, Louis's self-acceptance journey, and iconic moments that resonate with fans in this rewatch podcast.
27 May 2025
Meet Me in St. Louis
Podcast hosts Bobbi, Kelli, and Kam analyze episode two of "Interview with the Vampire," exploring Louis's adjustment to immortality and the intersectionality of his relationship with Lestat in this interview episode.
19 May 2025
Just Restart the Tape
Hosts Bobbi, Kelli, and Kam analyze the latter half of "In Throes of Increasing Wonder," exploring character motivations and praising Jacob Anderson's performance in this rewatch podcast episode.
12 May 2025
Don't Be Afraid...Just Start the Tape
Podcast hosts Bobbi, Kelli, and Kam analyze the first episode of AMC's "Interview With the Vampire," exploring the introduction of Louis and Lestat in 1910s New Orleans and its impact as a television pilot.
Inside a recent episode
THE VAMPIRE LESTAT: One Night Only Concert & "Detroit" Reaction
Published 8 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] But really, the narration is him telling his story, however he wants to tell it. So you have to really be on and ready to go and stick with him and kind of, you know, in that chaos that's happening and it can get muddled and confusing if you're not ready for that ride. Yeah. Yeah. Try to keep up, you know, but that's the stat in a nutshell. That is him. It's like, if you don't keep up, you will get left behind. But I think that does segue into a question that I have, which is, how do we see Lestat as a narrator versus Louis as a narrator? And we don't really get Louis as a narrator proper in the way that we are with Lestat. […]
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