Winter's Cumin' Streaming 24' - Mayfair Witches - Seasons One

OK, OK, OK, so Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire gave hot True Blood vibes, Mayfair Witches (returning for season two in 2025) was just a bit blah.

Based on the novel trilogy Lives of the Mayfair Witches by Anne Rice. Starring Alexandra Daddario as Rowan Fielding, Harry Hamlin as Cortland Mayfair, Tongayi Chirisa as Ciprien Grieve, and Jack Huston as Lasher.

Mayfair Witches is the second television series set in the Immortal Universe, a shared universe based on Rice's novels, which started in 2022 with Interview with the Vampire. How many more will AMC roll out I wonder? This series had a total of eight episodes, back when it aired in January last year. Now like Interview with the Vampire, it streams free on ABC iView.

So what are these witches all about? Neurosurgeon Dr. Rowan Fielding learns she is the heiress to a dynasty of powerful witches haunted by a sinister spirit.

Last February, the season one finale, What Rough Beast aired. So where did it leave off before returning some time in 2025? SPOILERS BELOW!

Commanded by a wounded Rowan, Lasher burns Keith alive. Cortland refuses to tell Jojo the truth behind his obsession with Rowan. Ciprien discovers that Cortland ordered Deirdre's murder, and any psychic trace at the crime scene was wiped by the Talamasca. Lasher draws Rowan into a vision, where she learns she can heal herself and others, and they have sex. 

So there is also a lot less sex in comparison to Interview with the Vampire.

After Odette calls the Talamasca looking for a missing Ciprien, they erase her memories of recent events. Ciprien touches a mask owned by Cortland, learning that Cortland raped Deirdre and fathered Rowan.

Jojo is horrified, and takes Ciprien to the First Street house. He touches the designee fetish doll, seeing a vision of Lasher's prophecy, "the 13th witch is the doorway". 

While Rowan is trapped in the vision counting down to midnight, "the witching hour", her pregnancy has accelerated and Cortland takes her unconscious body to the Mayfair mausoleum. 

Rowan awakens with the knowledge that Lasher will be reborn via her child. She goes into labor, and the spirit of Suzanne helps deliver the baby. Rowan turns Cortland to stone for raping Deirdre. Ciprien tries to take the child, but Rowan leaves with her baby.

So we have to wait till next year for season two to land on AMC. However AMC did recently commission a second season of 61st Street, then cut it. Will this also be cut? And to be brutally honest, that was a way better series.

Either way, season one of Mayfair Witches streams free on ABC iView.