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During tonight’s episode of The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice devotees got a special surprise: a new teaser for the upcoming season of Mayfair Witches, its sister series in the interlinked Immortal Universe. The series has been missing in action since its second season concluded in the spring of 2025, but now we know when it’s coming back.
The brief teaser sees Rowan Fielding (Alexandra Daddario) trying to leave the world of witchcraft behind and return to her calling as a neurosurgeon. However, that world isn’t done with her yet: we see her attempting to use her healing powers on a patient, only for her eyes to blacken as she levitates off the ground. A rapid-fire montage of images follows, as the series will take audiences to the infamous town of Salem, Massachusetts, to investigate the origins and mythology of witchcraft.
The new season will feature several new cast members, including Betsy Brandt (Breaking Bad), James Frain (Star Trek: Discovery), Eliza Scanlen (Dope Girls), and **Omar Maskati **(The Recruit). There’s no set release date yet, but we now know it will return to AMC in 2027.
Your answers point to the iconic universe your values, your instincts, and your particular way of seeing the world were built for. This is where you would find your people — and your purpose.
You believe in the cause — in the idea that freedom is worth fighting for even when the odds are impossible and the empire is vast.
You understand, in the deepest part of yourself, that the journey matters as much as the destination — and that the world’s beauty is worth protecting even at great cost.
You believe that love, loyalty, and doing what’s right are not naive sentiments — they are the most powerful forces in any world, magical or otherwise.
You see the world clearly — its power structures, its hypocrisies, its brutal arithmetic — and you are not paralysed by that clarity. You use it.
You believe the future is worth building — that curiosity, cooperation, and the expansion of understanding are not just ideals but the most practical path forward for any civilisation.
In Season 2, Rowan and the rest of the Mayfair family attempted to raise the centuries-old entity Lasher (Jack Huston), whom Rowan gave birth to in the previous season. However, he began seeking out and killing other members of the family, forcing Rowan to seek out her sinister father, Cortland (Harry Hamlin), for aid. They end up needing assistance from a power more evil than even Cortland: his long-dead father, Julien (Ted Levine). Lasher falls into the clutches of the Scottish branch of the Mayfair family, who intend to mate him with another being of his kind, with horrifying consequences. Rowan and Talamasca agent Ciprien Grieve (Tongayi Chirisa) foil their plans, but Lasher is killed in the struggle. Meanwhile, Julien’s spirit takes control of Cortland’s body, allowing him to enact his own sinister agenda.
Mayfair Witches is adapted from Rice’s Lives of the Mayfair Witches novels; Season 3 will presumably draw from the third book in the series, Taltos. The series is showrun by Esta Spalding and Thomas Schnauz; they also executive produce alongside Mark Johnson, who oversees the Anne Rice Immortal Universe for AMC Networks, as well as Michelle Ashford and Tom Williams.
Season 3 of Mayfair Witches will premiere on AMC in 2027. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.
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