‘Severance’ & ‘Interview With the Vampire’s Love Stories Share One Devastating Theme
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[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for both seasons of Interview With the Vampire and Severance.]
The success of Interview With the Vampire and Severance proves that viewers yearn for high-quality art about devastating romances — and that grief is the primary theme of our current TV landscape. That’s hardly a surprise when coming out of a global pandemic. There are scores of shows that have premiered during the COVID-19 era that center grief in the narrative — WandaVision, Yellowjackets, The Pitt, to name a few — but of these grief-stricken shows currently on TV, Interview With the Vampire and Severance both deploy a narrative device to answer the question of whether life would be better if we could just forget the pain of losing the ones we love most. Both titles also take this idea further by having the antagonist both control this narrative device and exploit it.
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