Mayfair Witches

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I am, however, optimistic, as The Witching Hour included many of my favorite supernatural things.

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These are not Glendas or Halliwell sisters fighting the forces of evil.

The Mayfairs are doing real witch shit like spawning demons (potentially) and giving mansplainers magic aneurysms.

Oh yes, there is also some shoe-horned feminism which Im choosing not to let bug me.

So lets go, gang.

Whos ready to fight the patriarchy?

Shes adoctorwhochoosesto live on aboatlike some kind of dropout.

(Thats the Uber mans word, not mine.)

But Rowan is happy on her boat.

Gaslighting is frowned upon even during chemotherapy, Rowans mom.

And if theres a code, we can crack it!

And if we can crack it, we can hack it!

Now, I am a practiced enough television viewer to know when Im being serviced.

Well, maybe first most interesting, second-most important.

The three live in what looks like the same moss-covered haunted house from the first scene.

Young man, Cortland says, addressing the floppiest-haired one in an Antebellum accent.

I have a job for you.

What kind of job?

The job turns out to be to seduce his niece, which is not what I was expecting!

Briefly pivoting back to the A-plot, even though Rowans mom, a.k.a.

This mysterious institution employs at least two people by my count.

One is the middle-aged woman who answers the phone and walks with a cane.

The second is the implausibly named Ciprien Grieve, who is the agent assigned to Rowans file.

Ciprien only promises that he will be the one to protect Rowan, presumably from said man.

Okay, back to Deirdre.

Time to give birth!

and that this child must never learn who she is.

Just minutes to go and weve still got one more revelation and a jump scare to go.