Are you ready for some slightly trippy witch action? As one Anne Rice series adaptation winds down its first season, so another begins. Presumably that is the point of the Immortal Universe, as AMC is calling their (probably linked) multiple Rice adaptations: it’s immortal; it goes on forever (or close enough).
Interview with the Vampire‘s well-received first season came to its end last month; now, in just under a month, Mayfair Witches opens the doors to a slightly different corner of Rice’s world—one that also features strange happenings and beings of incredible power.
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The Witching Hour, the very long book first of this series, is hard to succinctly sum up, which might be part of why this second Mayfair Witches trailer is still more vibes than plot (and uses a lot of the same images as the previous one). Rowan Mayfair is a successful surgeon whose life changes dramatically when she discovers she has a mysterious power—and also that there’s an even more mysterious being who is bound to her family. Or, as AMC’s summary puts it,
Based on Anne Rice’s Lives of the Mayfair Witches, Mayfair Witches is an exploration of female power and the mortal implications of our decisions. Mayfair Witches focuses on an intuitive young neurosurgeon (Alexandra Daddario) who discovers that she is the unlikely heir to a family of witches. As she grapples with her newfound powers, she must contend with a sinister presence that has haunted her family for generations.
Along with Daddario, the show stars Tongayi Chirisa as Ciprien (a member of a paranormal-watching order called the Talamasca); Harry Hamlin as Cortland Mayfair; Annabeth Gish as Deidre; Beth Grant as Carlotta; Eric Gimpel as Ellie; Jen Richards as Jojo; and Jack Huston as the powerful Lasher.
Notably, no one in this trailer utters the word “witch.” But the witches are coming January 8th on AMC.
