This weekend I’ve … an hour, and I’m bored with zombies.
‘Anne Rice’s Interview With the Vampire’
When to look at: Sunday at 10 p.m., on AMC.
It appears like simply yesterday we have been within the throes of a TV vampire craze, however right here we’re once more with a brand new, lushly envisioned and erotically succesful adaptation of “Interview With the Vampire,” this time set principally in New Orleans within the 1910s. “Let the story seduce you, simply as I used to be seduced,” Louis (Jacob Anderson) murmurs to a reporter (Eric Bogosian) within the current day, and it could be foolish to withstand; the present nails its mixture of murky, seductive and juicy. “Vampire” has already been renewed for a second season, and “Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches” is scheduled to debut on AMC in 2023.
… a number of hours, and I’m bored with the identical reveals.
‘Jungle’
When to look at: Arrives Friday, on Amazon.
TV has lengthy struggled to discover a option to make a dramatic musical sequence, and it appears “Jungle” might have lastly cracked the “Cop Rock” case. The six-episode sequence is ready in a shadowy, trippy model of London, and its characters usually slide into drill rap, typically as soliloquies and typically in shared numbers. The present’s music-video visuals make these transitions surprisingly seamless, and the songs facilitate a form of prompt, vigorous intimacy different bleak dramas usually battle to search out.
… a number of hours, and I’m bored with ready.
‘Ramy’
When to look at: Arrives Friday, on Hulu.
Season 3 of the dramedy “Ramy” is lastly right here, and it’s one way or the other deeper, extra fraught and extra stunning than the earlier two. Ramy (Ramy Youssef) remains to be unmoored after his hourslong marriage, however that’s a symptom of his broader incapability to see himself as an actualized one that comprises multitudes and never as a free assemblage of unresolved inside conflicts. That’s the theme of the season, the problem of reconciling disparate items into an entire, easy methods to see all of the dangerous or limiting components of one thing — of your self, of your loved ones, of geopolitics, of faith, of communities — and nonetheless see its grander, greater objective. The primary half of the season is great, and the second half knocked me out.