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Image: AMC | Alfonso BrescianiThe Immortal Universe at a GlanceAMC has bought the rights to 14 of Anne Rice’s novels, from both her Vampire Chronicles series and her Lives of the Mayfair Witches series. In June 2021, AMC greenlit the first foray into the Immortal Universe with Interview With the Vampire, which premiered in October 2022. The first season of Interview With the Vampire began airing on AMC on October 2, and is currently available to stream on AMC+.The first season of Interview With the Vampire was seven…

Image: Alfonso Bresciani/AMCWhen Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) gets whisked off to a Dubai apartment in the middle of the pandemic, we already know something’s up. It’s only the first episode of Interview With the Vampire, but if you are a Vampire Chronicles fan, there’s something strange about this characterization.After the first episode ends it becomes even more clear that this apartment, which is made of concrete, isolated, and full of incredible art, feels wrong for Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson). That’s…

Photo: GizmodoA couple of weeks ago G/O Media had a casket delivered to the office. We received a crimson red burial fixture from Titan Casket because my colleague, Kevin Hurler, has made Taylor Swift a facet of his personality that can be mined for blogs, and this casket (in a different colorway) was featured in her Anti-Hero music video. Naturally, he attempted to sleep in it, lasted about 30 minutes, and went about the rest of his day.I don’t have any particular feelings one way or the other about Taylor Swift (she’s…

Image: AMC | Alfonso BrescianiAs fans of Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire know, when Louis and Claudia first attempt to murder Lestat in the books, it’s a much less gory affair than the AMC series—which just released its season one finale—might lead you to believe. Instead of show’s campy Mardi Gras ball followed by a massacre at the Rue Royale, the original story has Claudia working alone to poison and exsanguinate her maker. Then, as she and Louis make their escape to Europe, Lestat shows up and attempts to stop…

Here we are fledglings, nearing the end of our time together with AMC’s adaptation of Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire, and I have to say, it’s been a ride. I’ve said as much elsewhere, but this show constantly surprised me with its intricate storytelling, nuanced characters, and unyielding dedication to the drama of messy queer vampires.And now, the season one finale, “The Thing Lay Still.”We open on Daniel Molloy’s computer as he begins a new session. Rashid walks by, holding a bowl of blood for Louis. Rashid, if…

Image: Craig Barritt / Stringer (Getty Images)I hold up a little toy to the camera; it’s a Lorme, a resin art toy that my friend made. “Is that a plague doctor?” Jacob Anderson, star of AMC’s Interview With the Vampire, asks as I turn it around to show him the little details. Anderson has a collection of art toys himself, so I thought I’d share a few of my own small collection before we start our interview. “Oh, hello.”The man said hi to a little toy. Honestly, what a charmer. I tucked wee Mister Scratch away as Anderson…

Screenshot: AMCIn this exclusive clip from the finale episode of AMC’s Interview With the Vampire, Louis, Lestat, and Claudia approach local businessman, Tom Anderson, with a proposal. Episode seven airs on AMC this Sunday, November 13. The following clip isn’t all that spoiler heavy, but if you’re protecting your viewing experience, you might want to skip it.Watch an Exclusive Clip From the Finale of Interview With the VampireThe show, which has garnered near-universal critical acclaim and fueled a massive fandom revival…

Image: AMCAfter a brutal fifth episode that divided the fandom, episode six of Interview With the Vampire, “Like Angels Put in Hell By God,” had a massive task ahead of it. The episode couldn’t downplay the horror of the violence that occurred, but it still had to find a way to make Lestat at least a little sympathetic—while also balancing the intricate family dynamics that had been absolutely shattered following the ending of episode five.Star Wars: Shatterpoint Announcement Trailer02:27The First Things To Do In VR, Part…

Image: AMC | Edits by io9If anyone has been paying attention to me over the past few weeks (there are, what? Three of you? Welcome! Join me) you might have noticed that I’ve been working through an all-consuming obsession with AMC’s new series, Interview With the Vampire. You might think to yourself, “wasn’t that a kind of cheesy, not-gay-enough movie in the ‘90s?” and you’d be right. But you would also be wrong. The new Interview is not just a campy reimagining of the original novel, but an incredibly decadent prestige…

Explanation of a text compression algorithm with implementation in PythonIn previous articles of this Algorithms Explained series, we went through six different types of algorithms (#1: recursion, #2: sorting, #3: search, #4: greedy algorithms, #5: dynamic programming, #6: tree traversal). In this article, we will do a deep dive into a practical use case of a greedy algorithm used for text compression — Huffman coding.Huffman coding is a frequently used technique to compress text to a smaller size without information…