After watching the show’s two-episode premiere, I’m left with one big question that I’m stunned I don’t know the answer to: What is Talamasca: The Secret Order ’s hook even supposed to be ?

I’m not asking this with a sense of preemptive judgment in my heart. I’m a huge Interview With the Vampire (the show) fan, and one who really likes what the show’s writers have done by going beyond their source material. Futzing around with Anne Rice’s canon (as Talamasca certainly is, considering it’s AMC’s first Immortal Universe that isn’t adapting a series of Rice novels wholesale) has worked pretty well on basic cable before, and I believe it easily could again. I want Talamasca to succeed!

I’m also not trying to be glib. I’ve seen the marketing for this show. It is supposed to be a s

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