This is part of the problem: the show’s pace is glacial, and because its perspective is not limited to Rowan, the audience quickly learns the answer to every question Rowan has long before she does.īefore Rowan even appears on screen, Mayfair Witches introduces us to Rowan’s biological mother, Deirdre Mayfair (Annabeth Gish), a woman descended from a family attuned to the supernatural that’s stalked by a mysterious entity known only as Lasher (Jack Huston).
This leads her on a journey to discover the family history her adoptive mother hid from her - and unfortunately, the malevolent being she was being hidden from.ĭespite the reminder of the wider universe the story is set in, Mayfair Witches is a relatively self-contained story, mostly focusing on Rowan’s journey to find her family in New Orleans and her slow discovery of their supernatural secrets. Rowan Fielding (Alexandra Daddario of The White Lotus), a gifted neurosurgeon who makes a horrifying discovery: In moments of intense anger, she can psychically rupture the blood vessels in others’ brains, severely injuring if not outright killing them. Mayfair Witches follows the blueprint laid out by Rice’s Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy, taking most of its material from the first novel, The Witching Hour. Mayfair Witches, then, is the follow-up act that widens the scope of the supernatural universe to include the occult - and unfortunately mediocre television. It would be a hilarious act of Dark Universe-esque hubris if it wasn’t for last fall’s Interview With the Vampire - a clever, sumptuous reinvention of Rice’s most famous novel. The first thing that appears on screen for every episode of Mayfair Witches is the ornate, wrought-iron logo for the Immortal Universe, AMC’s burgeoning effort to turn the works of gothic horror novelist Anne Rice into a sprawling franchise à la The Walking Dead.
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