Casting Claudia with an 18 year old is just stupid.

The fact that she looks like a child is the anchor of her entire story.

Making the melancholic Louis into a black person who was more brutal (being a pimp in the early 20th century we can assume he did more than was shown) in life than as a vampire was already weird - this change however breaks my heart.
Make her black, asian, whatever - but she has to be a child - otherwise the whole story has no point (which will probably be remedied by more crying about how unfair life as a black person in america is).

Why does every story have to be changed in existential ways these days?
It would probably have been better to leave this story be instead of making this.

Don't get me wrong, the show isn't plain bad - but calling it "Interview with the Vampire" and saying it is based on Anne Rice's novel is a stretch. Other than the name there aren't many simmilarites left.

- They changed the era to early 20th century (FROM 1791!!!!!) making Louis a bit over 100 years old
- This is "another meeting", so Louis hadn't even lived a full human lifespan when he first did the interview
- Claudia is not a child
- Louis was in a brutal line of work - quite successful and black instead of a white drunk
- Louis keeps in touch with his family for a long time

These changes already preclude some of the storylines, showing a total disrespect towards the source material - it is just another one of these instances where they want to push a message to ppl who have no interest in it by using a successful IP.

7/10 if it was an original work, -6 points for the impunity makes a 1/10!