Interview With the Vampire on AMC is the best show almost nobody is watching.

Perhaps no channel better encapsulates what my colleague Sam Adams defined as the end of Peak TV and the start of Trough TV like AMC and its neglected streaming arm AMC+, a service that is unfamiliar to virtually everyone I know. After an encounter gone near fatally wrong half a century prior, cynical Daniel Molloy sits down for another interview with the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac, formerly a gay Black Creole human man who suffered a toxic relationship with the unstable, intemperate, manipulative yet alluringly captivating vampire Lestat de Lioncourt some years ago. Although one might expect the show to be dripping in soapy melodrama, akin to that of the Brad Pitt–and–Tom Cruise–led cult classic 1994 film adaptation, today’s Interview is praised as much more well balanced. When the show isn’t taking on the nuanced ins and outs of abusive couplings, it’s taking on the ins and outs of race, having made Louis’ origin story one of a Black gay man trying to become a successful entrepreneur in the Jim Crow South of 1910 New Orleans. But for all of the things AMC’s Interview is—a prestige drama, a rumination on love and life, a campy fantasy romp—a hit it is not.