Like many of you I was very excited to find out that AMC was going to be bringing the Mayfair witches to the screen. The Witching Hour and its sequels are some of my favorite Anne Rice books. And after seeing the fantastic job that AMC did interpreting Interview With The Vampire I was hopeful they’d be able to do the same for the Mayfair witches saga. But Mayfair Witches is an entirely different type of story, so the two adaptations really aren’t comparable. While IWTV has a narrow focus and a

AMC’s Interview With The Vampire had one big problem from the start: how to reinvent the story for today without completely obliterating the legacy of the 1994 film that many fans love. Within the first 15 minutes of episode 101 of Interview With The Vampire they manage to skillfully weave the legacy of that film with a new jumping off point that makes more sense for this day and age. I was skeptical, like many fans, when I heard what AMC was planning to do. But it’s done so deftly that fans do