Plot: As Louis and Claudia escape to Paris after killing Lestat, and are ready to embark on new relationships in the new city. But they find themselves in a world influenced by Lestat, especially when they join the Theatre de Vampires, a performing group found by Lestat.
Review: Timed perfectly to Halloween, the 2022 debut of Interview with the Vampire beautifully updated the first volume in Anne Rice’s vast series for a new generation. With a young cast and a more overt take on the homoerotic elements of the novels, AMC’s series was designed to kickstart a cinematic universe of adaptations from the author’s works. While Mayfair Witches did not work as well, the second season of Interview with the Vampire is a welcome return to the stories of Louis, Claudia, Lestat, and more. Billed as “Part II,” the second season chronicles the back half of Rice’s novel.
Review: Timed perfectly to Halloween, the 2022 debut of Interview with the Vampire beautifully updated the first volume in Anne Rice’s vast series for a new generation. With a young cast and a more overt take on the homoerotic elements of the novels, AMC’s series was designed to kickstart a cinematic universe of adaptations from the author’s works. While Mayfair Witches did not work as well, the second season of Interview with the Vampire is a welcome return to the stories of Louis, Claudia, Lestat, and more. Billed as “Part II,” the second season chronicles the back half of Rice’s novel.
- 5/9/2024
- by Alex Maidy
- JoBlo.com
“Interview with the Vampire” Season 2 is headed to AMC and AMC+ on Sunday, May 12, and AMC has unleashed an extended look sneak peek at the new season today.
The new video is essentially a 3-minute trailer for “Interview with the Vampire” Season 2. Sink your teeth into the trailer below and read on for everything you need to know.
In the upcoming second season…
“The vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) recounts his life story to journalist Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian). Picking up from the bloody events in New Orleans in 1940 when Louis and teen fledgling Claudia (Delainey Hayles) conspired to kill the Vampire Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid), Louis tells of his adventures in Europe, a quest to discover Old World Vampires and the Theatre Des Vampires in Paris, with Claudia. It is in Paris that Louis first meets the vampire Armand (Assad Zaman).
“Their courtship and love...
The new video is essentially a 3-minute trailer for “Interview with the Vampire” Season 2. Sink your teeth into the trailer below and read on for everything you need to know.
In the upcoming second season…
“The vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) recounts his life story to journalist Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian). Picking up from the bloody events in New Orleans in 1940 when Louis and teen fledgling Claudia (Delainey Hayles) conspired to kill the Vampire Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid), Louis tells of his adventures in Europe, a quest to discover Old World Vampires and the Theatre Des Vampires in Paris, with Claudia. It is in Paris that Louis first meets the vampire Armand (Assad Zaman).
“Their courtship and love...
- 3/19/2024
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Season two of Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire has set a May 12, 2024 premiere date, with new episodes of the eight-episode season airing on Sundays on AMC and AMC+. David Costabile (Billions) has joined the cast in a guest-starring role as Leonard, a character described as a seasoned TV personality who has a run-in with Molloy.
Returning season one stars include Jacob Anderson as Louis de Pointe du Lac, Sam Reid as Lestat de Lioncourt, and Eric Bogosian as Daniel Molloy. Assad Zaman returns as Armand, Ben Daniels is back as Santiago, and Delainey Hayles takes over the role of Claudia.
Roxane Duran (The White Ribbon) recur as Madeleine, and Bally Gill (Slow Horses) recurs as Real Rashid in the upcoming season.
“In Interview’s eight-episode second season, which wrapped production last year in Prague, Paris and New Orleans, the interview continues. In the year 2022, the vampire Louis de...
Returning season one stars include Jacob Anderson as Louis de Pointe du Lac, Sam Reid as Lestat de Lioncourt, and Eric Bogosian as Daniel Molloy. Assad Zaman returns as Armand, Ben Daniels is back as Santiago, and Delainey Hayles takes over the role of Claudia.
Roxane Duran (The White Ribbon) recur as Madeleine, and Bally Gill (Slow Horses) recurs as Real Rashid in the upcoming season.
“In Interview’s eight-episode second season, which wrapped production last year in Prague, Paris and New Orleans, the interview continues. In the year 2022, the vampire Louis de...
- 2/6/2024
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Get ready to visit the Théâtre des Vampires soon. At the Television Critics Association winter press tour, AMC announced that season two of “Interview with the Vampire” will arrive this May.
The new season premieres on Sunday, May 12 on AMC and AMC+.
Season two will pick up in the year 2022…
“The vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) recounts his life story to journalist Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian). Picking up from the bloody events in New Orleans in 1940 when Louis and teen fledgling Claudia (Delainey Hayles) conspired to kill the Vampire Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid), Louis tells of his adventures in Europe, a quest to discover Old World Vampires and the Theatre Des Vampires in Paris, with Claudia. It is in Paris that Louis first meets the vampire Armand (Assad Zaman).
“Their courtship and love affair will prove to have devastating consequences both in the past and in the future,...
The new season premieres on Sunday, May 12 on AMC and AMC+.
Season two will pick up in the year 2022…
“The vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) recounts his life story to journalist Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian). Picking up from the bloody events in New Orleans in 1940 when Louis and teen fledgling Claudia (Delainey Hayles) conspired to kill the Vampire Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid), Louis tells of his adventures in Europe, a quest to discover Old World Vampires and the Theatre Des Vampires in Paris, with Claudia. It is in Paris that Louis first meets the vampire Armand (Assad Zaman).
“Their courtship and love affair will prove to have devastating consequences both in the past and in the future,...
- 2/6/2024
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
The second season of “Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches” is now in production in New Orleans and will return to AMC later in 2024. AMC announced the start of production at the Television Critics Association press tour on Tuesday, along with several new additions to the cast led by Alexandra Daddario.
New additions include “Hocus Pocus” and “American Beauty” star Thora Birch, who will join the eight-episode Season 2 as a guest star; “Silence of the Lambs” and “Monk” actor Ted Levine, who joins as a recurring guest star and Alyssa Jirrels, who joins as a series regular.
All the new cast members will play a role in the title Mayfair family. Birch stars as Gifford, a self-deprecating tarot card reader and wannabe-bohemian who lately spends a lot of time at her lake house. Levine will play Julien, Cortland’s (Harry Hamlin) father; a master manipulator and diabolical presence that haunts the family.
New additions include “Hocus Pocus” and “American Beauty” star Thora Birch, who will join the eight-episode Season 2 as a guest star; “Silence of the Lambs” and “Monk” actor Ted Levine, who joins as a recurring guest star and Alyssa Jirrels, who joins as a series regular.
All the new cast members will play a role in the title Mayfair family. Birch stars as Gifford, a self-deprecating tarot card reader and wannabe-bohemian who lately spends a lot of time at her lake house. Levine will play Julien, Cortland’s (Harry Hamlin) father; a master manipulator and diabolical presence that haunts the family.
- 2/6/2024
- by Haleigh Foutch
- The Wrap
With two shows on the air and a third in development, the Anne Rice universe continues to take shape at AMC.
The basic cable network used its time at the Television Critics Association’s winter press tour Tuesday to provide updates on the second seasons of Interview With the Vampire and Mayfair Witches while reiterating its development of a third show in the franchise based on the secret society The Talamasca.
Here are the latest updates in the franchise:
Interview With the Vampire
The second season of Interview returns for its second season on Sunday, May 12, and has added David Costabile (Breaking Bad, Suits) as a guest star. The eight-episode season wrapped production in 2023 in Prague, Paris and New Orleans. Jacob Anderson and Eric Bogosian return to lead the cast in season two, which AMC says picks up “from the bloody events in New Orleans in 1940 when Louis and teen...
The basic cable network used its time at the Television Critics Association’s winter press tour Tuesday to provide updates on the second seasons of Interview With the Vampire and Mayfair Witches while reiterating its development of a third show in the franchise based on the secret society The Talamasca.
Here are the latest updates in the franchise:
Interview With the Vampire
The second season of Interview returns for its second season on Sunday, May 12, and has added David Costabile (Breaking Bad, Suits) as a guest star. The eight-episode season wrapped production in 2023 in Prague, Paris and New Orleans. Jacob Anderson and Eric Bogosian return to lead the cast in season two, which AMC says picks up “from the bloody events in New Orleans in 1940 when Louis and teen...
- 2/6/2024
- by Lesley Goldberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Thora Birch is getting back to her spellbinding roots with a role in Season 2 of Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches, TVLine has learned. The Hocus Pocus actress will play Gifford Mayfair, officially described as a “self-deprecating tarot card reader and wannabe-bohemian who lately spends a lot of time at her lake house.”
News of Birch’s casting was announced Tuesday during AMC Networks’ session at the Television Critics Association’s winter press tour, along two other additions: Alyssa Jirrels (Fatal Attraction) will play the series-regular role of Moira Mayfair, a mind reader who holds her family and Lasher responsible for...
News of Birch’s casting was announced Tuesday during AMC Networks’ session at the Television Critics Association’s winter press tour, along two other additions: Alyssa Jirrels (Fatal Attraction) will play the series-regular role of Moira Mayfair, a mind reader who holds her family and Lasher responsible for...
- 2/6/2024
- by Andy Swift
- TVLine.com
AMC’s “Interview with the Vampire” Season 2 is coming in 2024, and TV Insider has debuted the very first image of Sam Reid as the vampire Lestat from the upcoming season.
The series, which debuted last year, is a “modern, unforgettable retelling of Anne Rice’s best-selling novel.” Rolin Jones (“Friday Night Lights”) serves as the showrunner.
“A sensuous, contemporary reinvention of Anne Rice’s revolutionary gothic novel, Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire follows Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson), Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid) and Claudia’s (Delainey Hayles) epic story of love, blood, and the perils of immortality, as told to journalist Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian).”
TV Insider previews, “Season 2 will see Louis and Claudia in Paris, far from New Orleans and Lestat, whom was left just barely alive after Claudia fed him the blood of the dead and Louis slit his throat. Louis couldn’t...
The series, which debuted last year, is a “modern, unforgettable retelling of Anne Rice’s best-selling novel.” Rolin Jones (“Friday Night Lights”) serves as the showrunner.
“A sensuous, contemporary reinvention of Anne Rice’s revolutionary gothic novel, Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire follows Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson), Lestat de Lioncourt (Sam Reid) and Claudia’s (Delainey Hayles) epic story of love, blood, and the perils of immortality, as told to journalist Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian).”
TV Insider previews, “Season 2 will see Louis and Claudia in Paris, far from New Orleans and Lestat, whom was left just barely alive after Claudia fed him the blood of the dead and Louis slit his throat. Louis couldn’t...
- 12/18/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
A second season of “Interview with the Vampire” is on the way, and AMC teased the upcoming second season with a sneak peek clip at Nycc that’ll whet your appetite for the vampiric story ahead.
The clip below teases the Théâtre des Vampires and the vampire coven of Armand (Assad Zaman), just as it’s time to devour dinner. The sneak peek also gives us a closer look at Delainey Hayles as Claudia, taking over for Bailey Bass after she exited last season.
Fans of Anne Rice’s novel will know not to expect smooth sailing for Louis and Claudia when they encounter the Théâtre des Vampires. That’s especially the case with Ben Daniels‘ Santiago, the leading vamp thespian of the Théâtre des Vampires who grows increasingly suspicious of the American vampires Louis and Claudia.
The series, which debuted last year, is a “modern, unforgettable retelling of Anne Rice’s best-selling novel.
The clip below teases the Théâtre des Vampires and the vampire coven of Armand (Assad Zaman), just as it’s time to devour dinner. The sneak peek also gives us a closer look at Delainey Hayles as Claudia, taking over for Bailey Bass after she exited last season.
Fans of Anne Rice’s novel will know not to expect smooth sailing for Louis and Claudia when they encounter the Théâtre des Vampires. That’s especially the case with Ben Daniels‘ Santiago, the leading vamp thespian of the Théâtre des Vampires who grows increasingly suspicious of the American vampires Louis and Claudia.
The series, which debuted last year, is a “modern, unforgettable retelling of Anne Rice’s best-selling novel.
- 10/12/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
A second season of “Interview with the Vampire” is on the way, and AMC teased the upcoming second season with a sneak peek clip unveiled today at Sdcc.
The teaser below begins with Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) asking vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) to resume where they left off, setting the stage for a second season centered around the Théâtre des Vampires and the vampire coven of Armand (Assad Zaman). The sneak peek also gives us a closer look at Delainey Hayles as Claudia, taking over for Bailey Bass after she exited last season.
Fans of Anne Rice’s novel will know not to expect smooth sailing for Louis and Claudia when they encounter the Théâtre des Vampires. That’s especially the case with Ben Daniels‘ Santiago, the leading vamp thespian of the Théâtre des Vampires who grows increasingly suspicious of the American vampires Louis and Claudia.
The teaser below begins with Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) asking vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac (Jacob Anderson) to resume where they left off, setting the stage for a second season centered around the Théâtre des Vampires and the vampire coven of Armand (Assad Zaman). The sneak peek also gives us a closer look at Delainey Hayles as Claudia, taking over for Bailey Bass after she exited last season.
Fans of Anne Rice’s novel will know not to expect smooth sailing for Louis and Claudia when they encounter the Théâtre des Vampires. That’s especially the case with Ben Daniels‘ Santiago, the leading vamp thespian of the Théâtre des Vampires who grows increasingly suspicious of the American vampires Louis and Claudia.
- 7/21/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Anne Rice’s Immortal Universe is expanding, with AMC Networks actively developing a potential third series.
The untitled show is set in the world of the Talamasca, a secretive organization featured
in a number of Rice’s novels, dedicated to studying the supernatural world
and keeping mortals safe from its darkest elements.
John Lee Hancock (“The Blind Side”) is attached to the project as showrunner and writer.
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“The enthusiastic critical and fan reception to Interview and Mayfair is a great sign of
what is yet to come in this immersive universe based on the works of Anne Rice,” AMC Networks president of entertainment and AMC Studios Dan McDermott said in a statement. “We’re excited to be in active development of the next installment in this growing franchise, written and to be showrun by the incomparable John Lee Hancock.
The untitled show is set in the world of the Talamasca, a secretive organization featured
in a number of Rice’s novels, dedicated to studying the supernatural world
and keeping mortals safe from its darkest elements.
John Lee Hancock (“The Blind Side”) is attached to the project as showrunner and writer.
Also Read:
Bret Easton Ellis’ ‘The Shards’ Adaptation Series in the Works at HBO
“The enthusiastic critical and fan reception to Interview and Mayfair is a great sign of
what is yet to come in this immersive universe based on the works of Anne Rice,” AMC Networks president of entertainment and AMC Studios Dan McDermott said in a statement. “We’re excited to be in active development of the next installment in this growing franchise, written and to be showrun by the incomparable John Lee Hancock.
- 4/19/2023
- by Lucas Manfredi
- The Wrap
[Warning: The following contains Major spoilers for the Mayfair Witches Season 1 Episode 8 finale, “What Rough Beast.”] The Mayfair Witches finale brought one of The Witching Hour‘s most famous moments to the screen when Alexandra Daddario‘s Dr. Rowan Fielding gave birth to baby Lasher. Confused? So are we. But that’s the intention. The questions about baby Lasher’s parentage/general existence — is he Jack Huston‘s character “reborn?” Is he Lasher’s son? Ciprien’s (Tongayi Chirisa) son? — won’t be answered until Season 2. But TV Insider chatted with Huston to get his behind-the-scenes knowledge of the Mayfair Witches Season 1 finale on AMC. The finale clarified that Lasher, Cortland Mayfair (Harry Hamlin), the Talamasca, and generations of New Orleanian conspirators knew the Mayfair family’s prophecy and, in people like Cortland’s case, were pulling the strings to make the prophecy come to pass as soon as possible. The prophecy stated that the 13th Mayfair witch...
- 2/28/2023
- TV Insider
AMC wraps up season one of Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches with episode eight, “What Rough Beast.” Episode seven was a game-changer, with Rowan not only discovering she’s pregnant but also taking back the necklace after Tessa was murdered. Expect the season finale, airing on February 26, 2023, to be explosive.
Alexandra Daddario leads the cast as Rowan Fielding. Season one also stars Jack Huston (Fargo) as Lasher, Tongayi Chirisa (Another Life) as Ciprien Grieve, and Harry Hamlin (Mad Men) as Cortland Mayfair. Beth Grant plays Carlotta, Hannah Alline is Suzanne, and Jen Richards is Jojo.
“What Rough Beast” Plot: Rowan inadvertently discovers her role in a prophecy that’s held the Mayfair family for generations. Sip’s investigation reaches its conclusion, uncovering secrets that could tarnish both Rowan’s family and his role in the Talamasca.
Season 1 Episode 2 “The Dark Place” Preview Season 1 Episode 3 “Second Line” Preview Season 1 Episode 4 “Curiouser...
Alexandra Daddario leads the cast as Rowan Fielding. Season one also stars Jack Huston (Fargo) as Lasher, Tongayi Chirisa (Another Life) as Ciprien Grieve, and Harry Hamlin (Mad Men) as Cortland Mayfair. Beth Grant plays Carlotta, Hannah Alline is Suzanne, and Jen Richards is Jojo.
“What Rough Beast” Plot: Rowan inadvertently discovers her role in a prophecy that’s held the Mayfair family for generations. Sip’s investigation reaches its conclusion, uncovering secrets that could tarnish both Rowan’s family and his role in the Talamasca.
Season 1 Episode 2 “The Dark Place” Preview Season 1 Episode 3 “Second Line” Preview Season 1 Episode 4 “Curiouser...
- 2/21/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Mayfair Witches Season 1 Episode 5, “The Thrall,” changed everything for Rowan (Alexandra Daddario) and Ciprien (Tongayi Chirisa). Lasher (Jack Huston) trapped them in a Groundhog Day-style time loop designed to make them forget Cip was dying from a fatal stab wound inflicted by Carlotta (Beth Grant). But they caught wise, and Rowan was able to barter for Cip’s safe departure from the house where he could get supernatural medical aid from Talamasca colleagues. Chirisa tells TV Insider that this dangerous adventure has brought Cip and Rowan together for good. “Oh, it’s huge,” he tells us of Episode 5’s impact moving forward, adding with a laugh, “This is a psychological damage right here.” “Issues of the heart are so complicated already, and everyone is doing it from a place of love,” he says. “When we do things from a place of love, where we don’t understand that our actions...
- 2/11/2023
- TV Insider
This article contains spoilers for Mayfair Witches episode 5.
In Mayfair Witches episode 5 “The Thrall,” Alexandra Daddario plays with double indemnity as her Dr. Rowan Fielding gets a taste of forbidden fruit, served up as a perennially fresh egg. Until recently, she was a neurosurgeon with a particularly special talent for predictive diagnosis, who found how to weaponize it. Now, as newly inherited designee of the Mayfair family, she is endowed with all the gifts of “the 13th Witch.” Rowan’s first dinner at the head of the table didn’t go very well, and it’s a damned shame. It started with a blessing.
For the majority of “The Thrall,” Rowan gets to spend quality time with Ciprien Grieve (Tongayi Chirisa), after the aftermath of the fiery and sticky attack of “Curiouser and Curiouser.” But the psychometry specialist of the occult research society Talamasca invests far greater quantity in the...
In Mayfair Witches episode 5 “The Thrall,” Alexandra Daddario plays with double indemnity as her Dr. Rowan Fielding gets a taste of forbidden fruit, served up as a perennially fresh egg. Until recently, she was a neurosurgeon with a particularly special talent for predictive diagnosis, who found how to weaponize it. Now, as newly inherited designee of the Mayfair family, she is endowed with all the gifts of “the 13th Witch.” Rowan’s first dinner at the head of the table didn’t go very well, and it’s a damned shame. It started with a blessing.
For the majority of “The Thrall,” Rowan gets to spend quality time with Ciprien Grieve (Tongayi Chirisa), after the aftermath of the fiery and sticky attack of “Curiouser and Curiouser.” But the psychometry specialist of the occult research society Talamasca invests far greater quantity in the...
- 2/6/2023
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
This article contains spoilers for Mayfair Witches episode 3.
Mayfair Witches episode 3 “Second Line,” is an extremely revelatory piece in the puzzle of Anne Rice’s magical circles. AMC’s second foray into the Anne Rice Immortal Universe, after Interview with the Vampire, is structured like the novels, not in its narrative, but in the emotional layout. Rice’s trilogy Lives of the Mayfair Witches takes its time laying out the story, and Mayfair Witches is happy to let the suspense boil.
“Be careful what you think,” a bubbling Dr. Rowan Fielding (Alexandra Daddario) warns as she grinds into the masked Lasher (Jack Huston), who is not a fan of caution. The satanically seductive entity smoked “the 13th witch” from the safety of a protected apartment to a spirited street procession, where the percussion conjures that New Orleans magic.
Fielding is an emotional wreck when she dances with a devilish stranger at the funeral march.
Mayfair Witches episode 3 “Second Line,” is an extremely revelatory piece in the puzzle of Anne Rice’s magical circles. AMC’s second foray into the Anne Rice Immortal Universe, after Interview with the Vampire, is structured like the novels, not in its narrative, but in the emotional layout. Rice’s trilogy Lives of the Mayfair Witches takes its time laying out the story, and Mayfair Witches is happy to let the suspense boil.
“Be careful what you think,” a bubbling Dr. Rowan Fielding (Alexandra Daddario) warns as she grinds into the masked Lasher (Jack Huston), who is not a fan of caution. The satanically seductive entity smoked “the 13th witch” from the safety of a protected apartment to a spirited street procession, where the percussion conjures that New Orleans magic.
Fielding is an emotional wreck when she dances with a devilish stranger at the funeral march.
- 1/23/2023
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Mayfair Witches Season 1 only has two episodes out, but as the mysteries of the Mayfair family continue to build, more questions arise about how the season could end. Ciprien Grieve actor Tongayi Chirisa and Cortland Mayfair actor Harry Hamlin sat down with TV Insider and TV Guide Magazine’s Damian Holbrook during The Television Critics Association 2023 Winter Press Tour. And in the video interview above, Chirisa and Hamlin tease the “roller coaster” ride that is the back half of the AMC drama. Ciprien (Cip) uses his empathic powers for the Talamasca, a magical agency tasked with protecting supernatural beings from supernatural threats. He’s been assigned to protect Rowan Fielding (Alexandra Daddario), but as seen in Episode 2 (streaming now on AMC+), he’s not afraid to break the rules of engagement with those under the Talamasca’s watchful eye. Alfonso Bresciani/AMC Hamlin tells us that Cortland believes the Mayfairs work well with the agency,...
- 1/20/2023
- TV Insider
This article contains spoilers for Mayfair Witches episode 2.
Mayfair Witches episode 2 is called “The Dark Place,” which is where magic practitioners go when they’re thinking of breaking bad. The episode opens in the home of a midwife, practicing the closest thing to medicine to be had in Donnelaith, Scotland in 1681. She’s treating a wound with willow bark and burdock. Healing arts have come a long way, yet some things never change.
The series stars Alexandra Daddario as Dr. Rowan Fielding, a neuroscientist so gifted she can think people to death. The story comes from the mind of Anne Rice, best known for her Vampire Chronicles, which is being chronicled on AMC’s series Interview with the Vampire. The Lives of the Mayfair Witches is Rice’s most ambitious nonvampire work, a trilogy of books which gets its sustenance from a bloodline of witches going back for centuries.
The...
Mayfair Witches episode 2 is called “The Dark Place,” which is where magic practitioners go when they’re thinking of breaking bad. The episode opens in the home of a midwife, practicing the closest thing to medicine to be had in Donnelaith, Scotland in 1681. She’s treating a wound with willow bark and burdock. Healing arts have come a long way, yet some things never change.
The series stars Alexandra Daddario as Dr. Rowan Fielding, a neuroscientist so gifted she can think people to death. The story comes from the mind of Anne Rice, best known for her Vampire Chronicles, which is being chronicled on AMC’s series Interview with the Vampire. The Lives of the Mayfair Witches is Rice’s most ambitious nonvampire work, a trilogy of books which gets its sustenance from a bloodline of witches going back for centuries.
The...
- 1/16/2023
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
One cannot think of Anne Rice without thinking about vampires. Over the course of nearly 50 years, the author helped to radically redefine the bloodsucking creatures for generations of readers through her wildly best-selling Vampire Chronicles series. A whole new audience has flocked to the late author’s world thanks to AMC’s impeccable adaptation of “Interview With the Vampire,” and now, the network is hoping that Rice’s other paranormal creations will keep viewers hooked. Move over Lestat, the Mayfair Witches are in town.
Alexandra Daddario plays Rowan, a brilliant brain surgeon who suddenly realizes that she has the ability to kill people with a mere thought. Her fears over her growing powers lead her to uncover her birth family, the infamous Mayfair clan of New Orleans. Generations of women have found themselves haunted by a seductive spirit known as Lasher (Jack Huston), including Rowan’s catatonic birth mother Deirdre...
Alexandra Daddario plays Rowan, a brilliant brain surgeon who suddenly realizes that she has the ability to kill people with a mere thought. Her fears over her growing powers lead her to uncover her birth family, the infamous Mayfair clan of New Orleans. Generations of women have found themselves haunted by a seductive spirit known as Lasher (Jack Huston), including Rowan’s catatonic birth mother Deirdre...
- 1/8/2023
- by Kayleigh Donaldson
- The Wrap
If there's one thing that author Anne Rice loved writing about, it was toxic, messy relationships. Her novels were soapy, supernatural southern gothics that luxuriated in dark sensuality. Her most famous series of novels was The Vampire Chronicles, which primarily followed the vampire Lestat, the Brat Prince of the undead, as he wreaks havoc on every person he meets — vampire, human, or otherwise. Her other major series was "Lives of the Mayfair Witches," which followed a family of witches in New Orleans who were forever entwined with an evil spirit named Lasher. Eventually, the two series crossed over when the witches appeared in the later Vampire Chronicles novels, setting up a whole Anne Rice universe.
Fans of Rice's novels are fervent, and AMC seems to be banking on setting up a television universe based on her world. "Interview with the Vampire," based on the first novel in the Vampire Chronicles,...
Fans of Rice's novels are fervent, and AMC seems to be banking on setting up a television universe based on her world. "Interview with the Vampire," based on the first novel in the Vampire Chronicles,...
- 1/6/2023
- by Danielle Ryan
- Slash Film
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With Anne Rice’s book series as a launching point, Mayfair Witches promises to be one hell of a broomstick ride. Alexandra Daddario stars as Dr. Rowan Fielding, a gifted neurosurgeon adept at uncovering clues beneath the surface. Initially, the house she rents appears to be merely haunted until Rowan is revealed to be the “13th Witch” in a multigenerational tradition that carries severe responsibilities.
“It’s really about family and dysfunctional family at the end of the day,” Daddario tells Den of Geek magazine. “Then you add this dose of magic and take everything to a crazier place.” Mayfair Witches is AMC’s second transfusion from the late writer’s work after Interview with the Vampire and shares more than blood relations. Both shows may prove risqué for TV, and not only for their occult ties,...
With Anne Rice’s book series as a launching point, Mayfair Witches promises to be one hell of a broomstick ride. Alexandra Daddario stars as Dr. Rowan Fielding, a gifted neurosurgeon adept at uncovering clues beneath the surface. Initially, the house she rents appears to be merely haunted until Rowan is revealed to be the “13th Witch” in a multigenerational tradition that carries severe responsibilities.
“It’s really about family and dysfunctional family at the end of the day,” Daddario tells Den of Geek magazine. “Then you add this dose of magic and take everything to a crazier place.” Mayfair Witches is AMC’s second transfusion from the late writer’s work after Interview with the Vampire and shares more than blood relations. Both shows may prove risqué for TV, and not only for their occult ties,...
- 12/1/2022
- by John Saavedra
- Den of Geek
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