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Mayfair Witches

AMC's coven of shows based on Anne Rice grows larger.

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AMC, having already dabbled into the late great Anne Rice’s supernatural world with Interview With the Vampire, is now trying some dark magic. Alexandra Daddario stars as Rowan, a young woman who learns that is actually the heir to a long line of witches who have all been haunted by an entity known as Lasher.

Mayfair Witches, an adaptation of Rice’s Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy, also stars Tongayi Chirisa, Jack Huston, and Harry Hamlin. Beth Grant, Erica Gimpel, Annabeth Gish, and Jen Richards have recurring roles.

  1. Episode 8 What Rough Beast
    Mayfair Witches Season-Finale Recap: Meet Me at the Witching Hour You almost have to respect Mayfair Witches’ dedication to absolute nonsense until the very end.
  2. Episode 7 Tessa
    Mayfair Witches Recap: The Rube Goldberg Machine Comes Together Rowan is kind of the worst.
  3. Episode 6 Transference
    Mayfair Witches Recap: We Are Never Getting Back Together Rowan decides to finally dump Lasher.
  4. Episode 5 Mayfair Witches
    Mayfair Witches Recap: Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss Sorry, but it’s impossible to take Rowan fighting off Lasher’s influence seriously when she’s dressed in a polyester flapper costume.
  5. Episode 4 Curiouser and Curiouser
    Mayfair Witches Recap: Death at a Funeral Here’s what we’re gonna do, gang. We’re gonna wipe Mayfair Witches’s slate clean and start fresh so we can pretend that this was the real pilot.
  6. Episode 3 Second Line
    Mayfair Witches Recap: Well That Was Infuriating What’s up with this creepy family? can only sustain one’s interest for so long.
  7. Episode 2 The Dark Place
    Mayfair Witches Recap: Dream State This supernatural soap opera might be lacking juice — and, occasionally, coherence.
  8. Episode 1 The Witching Hour
    Mayfair Witches Series-Premiere Recap: Demon Spawn it’s nice to see witch content today that gets back to the more depraved tropes of the genre.

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