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The working life of the human Louis is depicted through a rapid succession of increasingly savage outbursts in a single evening: he is first called in to attend to a client using N-words who has been punched at head and shit by a sex worker, then is interrupted to deal with a Bible-wielding fanatic harassing the employees, who turns out to be his brother, who refuses to leave and punches Louis in the face, causing Louis to pull an absolutely huge knife and to hold it around his brother’s neck so as not to be emasculated in those mean streets of New Orleans.

No respectable company would have him, he explains, because wealthy family or not, he’s a black man living in turn-of-the-century Louisiana. Here we go ! It’s 1910 New Orleans, where Louis is a wealthy man’s favorite son but makes a living as the owner of a brothel. “You have to let the story pull you in,” Louis tells Molloy at one point, a line whose melodrama is matched only by its delivery. This portrait of a depressed man in the twilight of his career who leaps at the invitation to redo the interview of his life, damn it, did not prepare me for the change in tone as soon as Louis (played with precision perfect by game of thrones‘s Jacob Anderson), begins to tell his story. We begin in the present day, where our grizzled and aging journalist Dan Molloy watches his own Journalism MasterClass, 50 years after he first interviewed Louis de Pointe du Lac. “In Throes of Crescent Wonder…” reintroduces audiences to the original’s core premise – a reporter interviews a vampire – before immediately branching off into its own thing. High on camp and low on subtlety, Interview with the Vampire literally delivers everything I’ve ever wanted from a vampire show (Sex! Catholics! New Orleans! Mind control!) and doesn’t ask me for anything in return. The pilot, at least, promises a zany spectacle that combines the rhythm of The Vampire Diaries with the production value and ~adult content~ of true blood.

Buckle up and hold on to your ass ’cause we’re only one episode away and Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire is already my favorite thing on TV, but not for its particularly innovative premise or slick storytelling.