Editor's note: The below interview contains spoilers for The Vampire Lestat finale. It may seem hard to believe, but The Vampire Lestat took its final bow tonight with the premiere of its season finale. Over the last few weeks, we've been on quite the wild ride, courtesy of none other than Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid) himself taking over primary narrating duties, but, instead of ramping up to a climactic concert, the season's curtain call becomes more of a surreal, emotional meditation. As Lestat is forced to grapple with his greatest failings as a vampire, a maker, a lover, a human being, it doubles as a trip down memory lane, with reappearances from characters you likely never expected to see again. One cameo, especially, serves as the closure Lestat needs to better understand his on-again, off-again companion Louis (Jacob Anderson), while another sequence may very well have put an end to his immensely complicated dynamic with Gabriella (Jennifer Ehle) — but at the end of it all, the experience of nearly dying and being brought back to life is poised to change Lestat forever, right as AMC's vampire thriller is on the verge of moving into a completely new era. Ahead of the premiere of "The Failures," Collider had the opportunity to speak with Reid about some of the biggest revelations Episode 7 unearths for Lestat regarding his failures, the major shifts in his most important relationships, how much he knows about where the show is headed, and more. COLLIDER: The conceit of the finale, at least for Lestat, starts with a dinner party at the long table with his fledglings, the “failure finders.” What did you enjoy about getting to look back at some of Lestat’s most defining moments from previous seasons through this new lens? SAM REID: “Enjoy” is a strong word. [Laughs] It's the framework of the whole season, this long table, from when he has the apparition of Baby Jenks falling above the ceiling in Episode 1. She says, “They're coming for you,” and he says, “Who’s coming?” Magnus tells him that they’re eating his soul at the long table, getting towards this place where Lestat does finally accept that he has failed fundamentally as a human being and as a vampire. This character who has such a joie de vivre and attempts to brush off all trauma, and every time, he hits the floor. He rises out of a burning car, and brushes his shoulders off, and keeps going. That's his modus operandi. Then, it's all coming to a grinding halt where he is dying, physically dying, and in his death, acknowledges that he has failed as a vampire and as a human being, and as an individual. So, whether or not that's the real figure or that's his own reflection on his life, it's kind of sad because it's a closing. It's a ribbon around this character's mental state, but that does lead him to acknowledge that he is responsible for this post-apocalyptic event, that he's recording this Failures album to whoever it is that has bought the recording. It's loads of fun to see the actors who we had in the show throughout multiple seasons, who you haven't seen for five years, turn back up again. Also, because the long table's caricatures of those characters were so grandiose and so fun and twisted and grotesque, like Lestat in that space, as well. So, it's a really fun, kind of wacky place to do it all. When the long table pivots to the concert, Lestat does have that declaration of, “I was pretty fucking great,” but then he says, “If I failed, that means I actually attempted something.” What did it mean for you to have Lestat come to that conclusion about himself? It feels like it brings the whole season full circle, in a way. REID: Exactly. But then you look at the whole speech. He says, “Even if you hated me, even if you found me too grotesque in the way that I loved and the way that I desperately needed your love and attention, even if you feel these things about me, at least I was trying. I know I have all of these faults, and I know that they are inescapable and irredeemable, but at least I am trying. At least I tried. And actually, I think I was pretty fucking great,” but immediately he’s hit by, “No. You can't have that.”