Watch these 3 incredible shows added to Max for a limited time

polygon.com:

In one of the more unusual updates to a streaming catalog, Max parent company Warner Bros. Discovery has struck a deal with AMC Networks to host seasons from seven AMC series in a pop-up catalog billed as “AMC Plus Picks.” From Sept. 1 to Oct. 31, Max subscribers on both ad-free and ad-supported tiers can stream episodes of Fear the Walking Dead, A Discovery of Witches, Gangs of London, Killing Eve, Ride with Norman Reedus, Dark Winds, and Interview with the Vampire.

That’s a solid roster of hits that are currently only streaming on AMC Plus, and a great way to check out some fantastic television shows that are hard to catch if your streaming options are limited. Granted, it’s also a lot of television, so if you’re short on time, here’s a little secret: The very best shows in this lineup are also the three shortest ones. Check it out:

This is easily the best thing AMC has put out in a while, and the one show I wish was more widely available. A luscious, bloody take on Anne Rice’s Southern Gothic opus, Interview with the Vampire is the follow-up fans of NBC’s Hannibal have been dying for: a horror story equally romantic and chilling. It’s a story told in flashback, as Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) tells a modern-day journalist his history as a wealthy Black man in 1910s New Orleans, and his encounter with the charming Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid), the man who will turn him into a vampire.

Like Hannibal before it, Interview with the Vampire succeeds because it foregrounds the homoerotic subtext of its central pair. In this retelling, Lestat’s siring of Louis is not a metaphor for a sexual affair; it’s very much part of a passionate romance with the worst person of all time. The entire seven-episode first