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Let me say as a season overall I am really disappointed. Coming off the back of interview with a vampire I had high expectations, nothing crazy but some dark and freaky witch stories, I feel like we got the same old thing that has been done 100 times before. The season starting solid and just slipping down a slope it never seemed to catch a grip.

I am not trying to hate a show I rarely do I absolutely love the supernatural but my god, I feel like I have actually watched this show already, it's extremely slow paced with little pay off, it seems to just go in circles constantly with lasher. I don't want him, I do, I don't want him, I need him, I don't want him, I do, it's actually painful.

The finale to me, rushed all the interesting parts and dragged the life out of the plain and boring scenes ?? There was 3 good story line reveals and they kind of skipped passed them, why for the life of me I will never know.

The only thing that saved the show was the performances and some decent scenes in the odd episode, it is sad to say but I wouldn't recommend this show to anyone if your looking for something new, I think they missed the mark big time and I am not to bothered with S2 but you never know.

I liked the "Interview with The Vampire" series from a few months ago and decided that I'd give the Anne Rice shared universe another go with "Mayfair Witches" that is on the BBC IPlayer in the UK. Whilst not totally without merit, it's slower and duller than "Interview", though knowing me I'll probably come back for the second season.

Rowan Fielding (Alexander Daddario) is introduced to her birth family following her adoptive mother's cancer diagnosis. The Mayfair family are a dynasty of witches, but who are tied to Lasher (Jack Houston) a shapeshifting entity who's darkness and power they fear. Lasher is currently bound to Rowan's biological mother Deirdre (Annabeth Gish) who is kept in a catatonic state to deaden his powers. However, a new family doctor is secretly cutting the medicine and allowing Deirdre and Lasher to recover.

There are a lot of performers that I quite like in this. Alexander Daddario is perhaps doing stuff similar to what we've seen her do before and Jack Houston too, but they're fine. Annabeth Gish is good for the brief part she's awake and Beth Grant is effective, though again it's not a wild departure from what she's played before. Harry Hamlin is interesting casting as I'm not sure I've seen him in anything since "Clash of the Titans".

I guess my problem was that I found the series dull. It's like "True Blood" but with all the campy fun dragged out of it and it progresses at a snail's pace. I struggled a lot of times with the motivation behind characters actions and to understand (or occasionally remember) what they actually wanted from a situation. There are other elements though that are thrown in when perhaps they could have been layered in a bit better - I'm thinking particularly of the witch hunter storyline that comes out of nowhere and becomes pivotal to the conclusion.

I'll probably watch the second season, I'm in it now, so can't do much about it, but in terms of a recommendation, I'd say there are better shows to invest your time with.