![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 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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