Gizmodo⁠57%

'Interview With the Vampire' Bites Back for Season 4 ⁠62%

By Jen Lennon⁠37%

7/24/2026, 3:45:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 15 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Availability Heuristic, and Halo Effect, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 30.5% saturation with 99 hits. Analysis detected 631 faulty-reasoning hits from 325 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 57.3% and a BS Rank of ⁠62% (8,387 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 61.70% of the article peer group.

Goodbye, The Vampire Lestat. 
Hello, Queen of the Damned. 
Interview With the Vampire has been renewed for a fourth season, based on the third book in Anne Rice‘s Vampire Chronicles series. 
Queen of the Damned revolves around Akasha (Sheila Atim), the mother of all vampires, and follows her from her time as a pre-Egyptian queen through to the modern day. 
No spoilers, but she‘s less than pleased with pretty much everything, and she‘s wildly powerful to boot. 
Check out a teaser trailer below. 
AMC announced the news during its San Diego Comic-Con 2026 panel for The Vampire Lestat. 
In a press release, Chief Content Officer of AMC Global Media and President of AMC Studios Dan McDermott said, “In The Vampire Lestat, Mark [Johnson, executive producer], Rolin [Jones, executive producer], Hannah [Moscovitch, executive producer] and this extraordinary cast delivered an unforgettable season filled with propulsive storytelling that captivated the passionate and engaged fans of this franchise. 
We can’t wait to continue the journey with Queen of the Damned, one of the most iconic stories in Anne Rice’s mythology, and watch our established and beloved characters confront Akasha with their world, and ours, very much hanging in the balance.” 
Moscovitch will serve as showrunner on Queen of the Damned, taking over from Jones, who created the series and was showrunner for the first three seasons. 
The Vampire Lestat just wrapped up its run last week, ending on a major cliffhanger that will lead right into Queen of the Damned. 
The Vampire Lestat stars Sam Reid, Jacob Anderson, Assad Zaman, Eric Bogosian, Atim, Delainey Hayles and Jennifer Ehle. 
There is currently no release date for Queen of the Damned. 
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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Jen Lennon: 0.3%Gizmodo: 4.1%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 8.0%Jen Lennon: 0.3%Gizmodo: 1.4%Anchoring Bias8.0%This article: 17.8%Jen Lennon: 2.2%Gizmodo: 3.1%Availability Heuristic17.8%This article: 5.5%Jen Lennon: 1.1%Gizmodo: 1.5%Representativeness Heuristic5.5%This article: 0.0%Jen Lennon: 0.0%Gizmodo: 0.7%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jen Lennon: 0.4%Gizmodo: 2.2%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jen Lennon: 1.5%Gizmodo: 5.5%Framing Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Jen Lennon: 0.1%Gizmodo: 0.5%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 12.9%Jen Lennon: 0.2%Gizmodo: 0.4%Status Quo Bias12.9%This article: 0.0%Jen Lennon: 0.2%Gizmodo: 0.3%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 1.5%Jen Lennon: 3.4%Gizmodo: 3.9%Optimism Bias1.5%This article: 0.0%Jen Lennon: 1.0%Gizmodo: 2.1%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 6.5%Jen Lennon: 3.7%Gizmodo: 7.5%Negativity Bias6.5%This article: 0.0%Jen Lennon: 0.3%Gizmodo: 0.9%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jen Lennon: 0.3%Gizmodo: 1.1%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Jen Lennon: 0.0%Gizmodo: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jen Lennon: 0.5%Gizmodo: 0.9%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jen Lennon: 0.0%Gizmodo: 0.4%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 17.5%Jen Lennon: 6.2%Gizmodo: 2.9%Halo Effect17.5%This article: 0.0%Jen Lennon: 0.0%Gizmodo: 0.2%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Jen Lennon: 0.0%Gizmodo: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 7.4%Jen Lennon: 0.8%Gizmodo: 1.6%Recency Bias7.4%This article: 0.0%Jen Lennon: 0.1%Gizmodo: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Jen Lennon: 0.0%Gizmodo: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jen Lennon: 0.0%Gizmodo: 1.1%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Jen Lennon: 0.0%Gizmodo: 0.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 17.5%Jen Lennon: 4.7%Gizmodo: 4.3%Appeal to Authority17.5%This article: 0.0%Jen Lennon: 0.4%Gizmodo: 1.4%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Jen Lennon: 0.1%Gizmodo: 0.6%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Jen Lennon: 0.0%Gizmodo: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Jen Lennon: 1.9%Gizmodo: 5.3%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Jen Lennon: 0.0%Gizmodo: 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 12.9%Jen Lennon: 2.0%Gizmodo: 0.9%Bandwagon12.9%This article: 30.5%Jen Lennon: 5.8%Gizmodo: 4.9%Appeal to Emotion30.5%This article: 0.0%Jen Lennon: 0.3%Gizmodo: 1.0%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 7.4%Jen Lennon: 0.4%Gizmodo: 3.2%Post Hoc (False Cause)7.4%This article: 0.0%Jen Lennon: 0.0%Gizmodo: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Jen Lennon: 0.0%Gizmodo: 0.5%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Jen Lennon: 0.1%Gizmodo: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Jen Lennon: 0.3%Gizmodo: 0.3%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Jen Lennon: 0.7%Gizmodo: 2.0%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Jen Lennon: 0.2%Gizmodo: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 5.2%Jen Lennon: 0.6%Gizmodo: 2.3%Ambiguity (Equivocation)5.2%This article: 0.0%Jen Lennon: 0.0%Gizmodo: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Jen Lennon: 0.0%Gizmodo: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Jen Lennon: 0.0%Gizmodo: 0.2%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Jen Lennon: 0.0%Gizmodo: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Jen Lennon: 0.0%Gizmodo: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Jen Lennon: 19.1%Gizmodo: 4.6%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Jen Lennon: 0.4%Gizmodo: 1.2%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 30.5%Jen Lennon: 17.1%Gizmodo: 13.5%Biased Writer Voice30.5%This article: 0.0%Jen Lennon: 0.7%Gizmodo: 1.6%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Jen Lennon: 0.0%Gizmodo: 1.3%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jen Lennon: 0.0%Gizmodo: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 12.9%Jen Lennon: 10.1%Gizmodo: 3.4%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…12.9%

325 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers35%attributed speech211writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 9 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 4 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 22 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 29 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 17 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 100.0% coverageAMC • 15 words • 0.0% coverageDan McDermott • 57 words • 100.0% coverageDan McDermott • 42 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 26 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 24 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 18 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 11 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 4 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 36 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

Dan McDermott

100%flagged-word coverage
99 attributed words87% of attributed speech75% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Dan McDermott: 100.0%100.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -19.9 ptsWriter: 19.9%Dan McDermott: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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