Summary
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Mayfair Witches season 2 onwardandInterview with the Vampire season 3 onward.There may be a huge crossover coming forMayfair WitchesandInterview with the Vampire,but the shows will have to carry out some heavy lifting first if they want it to work. In aMayfair Witchesseason 2 trailer drop at San Diego Comic-Con, Alexandra Daddario continues down her path as the troubled Rowan Mayfair, alongside some mysterious allusions to anInterview with the Vampirecrossover. However,Screen Rantwas at theMayfair WitchespanelatSan Diego Comic-Conand managed to secure some interesting updates for the show, which is based on Anne Rice’sLives of the Mayfair Witchesbooks.
Mayfair WitchesfollowedInterview with the Vampirein 2023 as the second Immortal Universe AMC+ series devoted to adapting the works of Anne Rice. Reviews ofMayfair Witcheswere middling compared to the rave reviews ofInterview with the Vampire, despite Daddario’s strong performance. Despite this,there are many reasons for the shows to enjoy crossoverswith each other, and with the upcomingTalamascaTV showin the works.
9 Ways AMC’s Immortal Universe Has Set Up Mayfair Witches Season 2
AMC’s Anne Rice television adaptations have already started setting up Mayfair Witches season 2 across Interview with the Vampire and The Talamasca.
Lestat & Rowan’s Immortal Universe Crossover Can Still Happen (Despite Their Book Endgames)
Lestat De Lioncourt And Rowan Mayfair May Meet
In one of Anne Rice’s more contentious moves, she pairedThe Vampire Chronicles' main character, Lestat, withLives of the Mayfair Witches’main character, Rowan. This will sound odd to viewers of the shows who haven’t read the books. Rowan inMayfair Witchesseason 1 was enjoying her fraught relationship with Ciprien Grieves, whereasInterview with the Vampireseason 2left Lestat only just starting to make amends with his on/off lover, Louis. In the books, these relationships are endgames - Ciprien replacing a character called Michael notwithstanding.There doesn’t seem like much space for Rowan and Lestatto get together.
Mayfair Witchesseason 2 will be released in 2025, as confirmed at SDCC.
Despite this, the two characters hit it off in one of thebooks inThe Vampire Chroniclesnearer to the end of the series. Neither TV show has yet got anywhere close to this point in their storyline, sothere’s still a very real chance that Lestat and Rowan could be heading for a crossover romancein either show or both. Adding to this possibility is the fleeting glimpse of vampires in theMayfair Witchesseason 2 trailer, one of whom appears to be Felix fromInterview with the Vampire.
Lestat Is Polyamorous So Rowan Could be A Fling
An Affair With Rowan Won’t Get In Louis' Way
The characters ofThe Vampire ChroniclesandLives of the Mayfair Witchesdon’t seem to have the same monogamy norm that is prevalent outside of Anne Rice novels, soRowan’s involvement with Lestat doesn’t need to spell the end for Lestat and Louis.Mayfair Witches’original character Ciprien is fine but forgettable, so the future that he may share with Rowan doesn’t feel like a high-stakes situation worth worrying about.
Alexandra Daddario herself commented at the SDCC panel that she is “down for vampires.”
It could make for a fun, suspense-heavy episode in either show for Lestat and Rowan to enjoy a steamy diversion in each other’s arms. This would work best as a set piece and one-off whereby the two characters were used as a foil for each other’s respective paramours. After all,no one expects any relationship involving Lestat or Rowan to be smooth sailing. Alexandra Daddario herself commented at the SDCC panel that she is “down for vampires” when asked about the crossover romance possibility, without disclosing any confirmed plans.
Rowan Is No Match For Lestat In Immortal Universe
Mayfair Witches Needs To Up Its Game
The elephant in the room of this crossover is thatInterview with the Vampireis amazing, andMayfair Witchesis just not quite that.Mayfair Witchesis fun, enjoyable, and passes the time, but it’s not changing the game, breaking new ground, or doing something important in TV, like its predecessor.Interview with the Vampireset the bar unfortunately high forMayfair Witches. Against Sam Reid’s Lestat,Rowan never stood a chance.
Daddario ticks certain boxes, but book Rowan was “boyish,” with short, white-blonde hair and a “husky” voice - that sounds like at least a start in terms of a match for Lestat, if not an end. Not because adaptations should be faithful, and nothing else, but because this Rowan broke the mold inside and out. She was brave and unique, whereasthe show sanitized her into a conventionally good-looking, standard sexy witch.Interview with the Vampireworked so well because it made its characters even more radical than they were in the books, not less. Anne Rice would have approved.
It didn’t help that Rowan suffered from some questionable writing in the show, drifting into a gratuitous, incestuous sex dream and showing no restraint around Lasher whatsoever, with none of the intriguing explanations that the books provided for these valid moments. There’s great source material forMayfair Witchesto adapt and AMC+ clearly have it in them to make bold moves, so a brief Rowan-Lestat moment could work ifMayfair Witchescan take notes fromInterview with the Vampire. But even then,Rowan and Lestat need to stand well clear of each other’s endgames.
Mayfair Witches
Cast
Mayfair Witches follows a young neurosurgeon who discovers her unexpected lineage as the heir to a powerful family of witches. As she navigates her emerging magical abilities, she confronts a dark force that has plagued her family through the generations. Created by Esta Spalding and Michelle Ashford.
