When you call your cinematic universe the Immortal Universe, I guess you have to deliver. The second of AMC’s Anne Rice adaptations, Mayfair Witches, has just been renewed for a second season. It joins Interview with the Vampire in continuing said Immortal Universe for… well, ever, perhaps?
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AMC has cancelled a whole pile of other shows, including Pantheon (which had completed its second season) and Moonhaven (which had previously been renewed). But the network is all in on zombies (with the ever-shambling Walking Dead universe) and vampires, apparently.
Mayfair Witches stars Alexandra Daddario as Rowan Fielding, a young surgeon who discovers some witchy family secrets (in New Orleans, of course). According to The Hollywood Reporter, “Mayfair Witches has performed well for AMC, outdrawing Interview With the Vampire both on air — it averages about 560,000 viewers for initial airings, to 490,000 for Interview — and on streaming.”
That’s just weird, but okay! While the first season primarily followed Rice’s first Mayfair Witches book, The Witching Hour, season two will get into its sequel, Lasher. Showrunner Esta Spalding told Slashfilm that while “it’s still Rowan’s story,” Lasher (played by John Huston) is “much more of an antagonist in the first season and he’s really one of the protagonists in the second season.”
The first season of Mayfair Witches is now airing on AMC; the second season will saunter witchily along eventually. In the meantime, have you watched Interview with the Vampire? Because you ought to.
