Alexandra Daddario‘s Rowan is forced to question if the power Lasher (Jack Huston) gives her is worth sacrificing her soul in the new teaser for Mayfair Witches Season 2. Rowan and the spirit Lasher were lovers in Season 1, but there’s a twisted mother-son dynamic between them now that she’s fulfilled the Mayfair prophecy and birthed Lasher’s new human form. Mayfair family members urge Rowan to kill Lasher in the new teaser above, but she seems determined to hold onto power and protect the magical family. Daddario is also featured in the fiery new poster (see below).
Here’s what we know about Mayfair Witches Season 2, including details shared by the cast and creators during the New York Comic Con panel and more. For an even deeper look into Season 2 with the stars and creators, see our NYCC video interview.
Is there a Mayfair Witches Season 2 trailer?
In the official trailer released on Halloween, child Lasher grows freakishly fast, and fans got the first look at Silence of the Lambs star Ted Levine as Julien Mayfair, a major character from Anne Rice‘s Lives of the Mayfair Witches books. The trailers also gives more in-depth glimpses into new characters played by Mad Men‘s Ben Feldman and Fatal Attraction‘s Alyssa Jirrels, hints that Rowan and Ciprien (Tongayi Chirisa) are no more, and shows Harry Hamlin‘s villainous Cortland Mayfair being released from the spell that turned him to stone, although he definitely seems to still be trapped in some kind of magical realm.
When does Mayfair Witches Season 2 premiere?
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Mayfair Witches Season 2 premieres Sunday, January 5, 2025, at 9/8c on AMC and AMC+.
Who’s in the Mayfair Witches Season 2 cast?
Daddario returns as Rowan, with Huston as Lasher, Chirisa as Ciprien, and Hamlin as Cortland Mayfair, among other returning supporting cast. Jirrels plays Moira Mayfair, sister of Tessa, who was killed in Season 1.
Feldman joins the cast as Sam “Lark” Larkin, a book character connected to Rowan’s past, and Levine plays another book character, Julien Mayfair, father of Cortland and an extremely powerful Mayfair witch. As Cortland says in the trailer, Julien is dead. The patriarch seems to appear to Cortland in whatever spell he’s navigating.
Alyssa Jirrels as Moira Mayfair (Skip Bolen / AMC)
What happens in Mayfair Witches Season 2?
Here’s the logline for the second season: “Based on Anne Rice’s Lives of the Mayfair Witches, Season 2 of Mayfair Witches continues the journey of Rowan Mayfair (Alexandra Daddario) after she has unwittingly given birth to the demon Lasher (Jack Huston). She is determined to understand what he has become — human or monster? — and to use him to fulfill her purpose as a healer, but when tragedy strikes, she must put aside her own desires and fight to protect her family.”
Chirisa, Hamlin, and Jirrels, along with showrunner Esta Spalding and Immortal Universe executive producer Mark Johnson, announced the Season 2 premiere date during their New York Comic Con 2024 panel on Thursday, October 17. The panel was preceded by a screening of the Season 2 premiere, and the panel gave more context into the Interview With the Vampire crossover teased in the San Diego Comic-Con trailer released this summer. The October 31 trailer doesn’t show the quick clip of Felix (Gabriel Freilich), the vampire seen in the IWTV Season 2 finale in present-day New Orleans, but it does show a woman vampire unknown to this franchise so far.
The panel revealed a lot of juicy details, including information about the upcoming crossover with Interview With the Vampire as teased in the San Diego Comic-Con trailer. Felix, Lestat’s (Sam Reid) vampire rat catcher from the IWTV Season 2 finale, makes his debut in the third episode of Mayfair Witches Season 2. That episode is when we “really start to feel the connection in the world” of the universe, Spalding said.
Johnson also revealed that the third series in the Anne Rice Immortal Universe, The Talamasca (filming now in England), will have “considerable crossover” with Interview With the Vampire.
IWTV characters that viewers have “fallen in love with or fallen in hate with” will appear in The Talamasca, Johnson revealed. Johnson and Spalding made clear that Felix is the primary IWTV crossover in Mayfair‘s second season and that the bulk of their current Immortal Universe crossover plans exist between IWTV and The Talamasca.
Tongayi Chirisa as Ciprien Grieve (Skip Bolen / AMC)
Spalding said that “two of the things that I loved the most in the Lasher book,” which are the Julien and Lasher backstories, are in Season 2 of Mayfair. “Both of those stories make it into the show in different forms,” she said during the panel.
“Julien is demented,” Hamlin said in the panel, adding, “No better person than Buffalo Bill to play my father.”
The panelists also said that the last few episodes of the Season 2 are set in Scotland and were filmed in Ireland. Glimpses of those Scottish scenes are played throughout the new trailer.
As for Sip, Chirisa said his “main mandate is to get the child [Lasher] to the Talamasca.” Sip also “can’t quite trust his superiors” at the Talamasca and is now making “independent choices” for the first time.
When asked by the moderator, TV Insider’s own Damian Holbrook, if there’s any chance of Sip appearing with the Talamasca in London, Chirisa replied, “Maybe.”
New character Moira is the “black sheep” of the Mayfair family and she’s a mind reader, Jirrels shared.
Prepare for a supernaturally good time.
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Harry Hamlin as Cortland Mayfair (Skip Bolen / AMC)
Jack Huston as Lasher (Skip Bolen / AMC)
Mayfair Witches, Season 2 Premiere, Sunday, January 5, 2025, 9/8c, AMC, Streaming on AMC+