AMC’s adaptation of Rice’s Vampire Chronicles, which is also available to stream on Amazon Prime through its AMC+ add-on, updates the story for the age of COVID and makes several other subtle but significant changes to the narrative as well. Instead of setting the story in 1990s San Francisco, writer Rolin Jones sets the story in the city that is today’s most wondrous metropolis in some eyes — Dubai. Instead of the baggy jeans and backward baseball hats of the 1990s, the 2022 TV series features characters wearing black face masks and autoimmune-compromised seniors having concerned discussions about subvariants.
