SummaryNeurosurgeon Rowan Fielding (Alexandra Daddario) learns she descends from a family of witches that are haunted by a dark spirit in this series based on Anne Rice's Lives of the Mayfair Witches series.
SummaryNeurosurgeon Rowan Fielding (Alexandra Daddario) learns she descends from a family of witches that are haunted by a dark spirit in this series based on Anne Rice's Lives of the Mayfair Witches series.
While the first season of Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches is ultimately a very different beast than the books upon which the show is based, it’s also in many ways, a better, more coherent experience. A slow-burn saga that is heavy on atmosphere and low on easy or immediate answers.
While there are some promising moments, Mayfair Witches fails to offer much to really hook in viewers who aren’t already excited about a shared Anne Rice universe on AMC.
While there are surprising turns, and the series does improve as it progresses, “Witches” never grabs you with the power that “Interview” did. Stick to the books instead.
There’s a bit too much dross amid what works. ... Through it all, Daddario proves herself an able performer once again. Even as one wishes something more from the show surrounding her, she makes the part her own.
A paint-by-numbers take on the supernatural melodrama genre, working from a palette of dull grays and washed-out blues. Everyone involved seems to be sleepwalking through each plodding story beat.
A disappointment, a superficial and miscast take that left me cold. The themes of empowered women coping with male oppression are still in the mix, but what a dull mix it is.
There’s a point at which an alluring enigma begins to look like frustrating opacity. ... Absent characters worth loving or a plot clear enough to follow, what we’re left with is faint exasperation at a world that, for all its superficial and fleeting charms, seems to make no sense at all.