A striking brunette with porcelain skin, piercing blue eyes, and a body that’s been a meme since True Detective Season One, Alexandria Daddario is the perfect lead for Mayfair Witches. Sure, she can act, which is also true of the rest of the show’s core cast: Annabeth Gish, Beth Grant, Harry Hamlin, Tongyi Chirisa, and Jack Huston. But, and I stress, she’s also one of the most attractive women on god’s grey earth, and that counts for a lot in the endemically horny world of Anne Rice’s witches.

I reviewed this week’s episode of Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches for my Patreon.

Alexandra Daddario impresses here, too. True to her filmography she’s playing Rowan Fielding as a sort of White Lotus character, a brilliant and accomplished woman who chafes to the point of physical tics at being condescended to — by anyone for any reason, but especially men — but who’s been given the supernatural ability to make people’s brains explode instead of just sleeping with their husbands or ruining their vacations or whatever. 

I reviewed this week’s episode of Mayfair Witches for my Patreon.

Until things get down and dirty — not just sensual or half-naked but genuinely perverse — Mayfair Witches is doomed to feel like one of those sexy supernatural CW shows. Interview worked right out of the gate; Mayfair has a lot of work left to do.

I’ve decided to cover Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches for my Patreon, starting with my review of the series premiere.