‘Mayfair Witches’ Renewed for Season 3 With Major Plot Change
Mayfair Witches has been renewed for Season 3. AMC announced the renewal during its upfront presentation in New York City on Wednesday, April 9. The renewal is paired with some major changes both on-screen and behind the scenes in the form of a new setting and a new co-showrunner hailing from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.
The series stars Alexandra Daddario, Harry Hamlin, Tongayi Chirisa, and Alyssa Jirrels, among others. Here’s all the details on the upcoming third season.
Is Mayfair Witches renewed?
AMC Networks announced on April 9 the renewal of Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches for a third season to be set in Salem, Massachusetts. Seasons 1 and 2 were both set primarily in New Orleans, which is basically a character in and of itself in much of the NOLA-born Anne Rice’s writing and the Immortal Universe shows.
Sam Reid, Eric Bogosian, Harry Hamlin, Alexandra Daddario, Tongayi Chirisa, Elizabeth McGovern, and Nicholas Denton attend the AMC Networks 2025 upfront (Jamie McCarthy / Getty Images)
What happens in Mayfair Witches Season 3?
Emmy Award-winning producer and writer Thomas Schnauz (a writer and executive producer for Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul) joins as co-showrunner with Esta Spalding on Season 3, which will dive deeper into the mythology of witchcraft, introduce new “spellbound” families and feature some of the historical happenings of Salem, the infamous town of witch trials and folklore. Spalding calls Season 3 “a contemporary twist on the Salem story.”
Season 2 came to a close on Sunday, March 2, on AMC and AMC+. The network says that Mayfair Witches remains among the top series on AMC+ in both viewership and acquisition.
“The drama and complexities of the Mayfair family continue to be an intriguing and enchanting source of story, and expanding that story against the backdrop of Salem, a historical haven of witchcraft, is an exciting next chapter for this series and our larger Anne Rice Immortal Universe,” said Dan McDermott, president of entertainment and AMC Studios for AMC Networks, in an April 9 statement. “Tom Schnauz has a storied history with AMC, and we’re elated to have him join the talented Esta Spalding and our Mayfair cast for a season that will explore a larger world of witchery and Mayfair family secrets as we continue to build out this dynamic franchise.”
“I am thrilled to welcome Tom Schnauz to our team for the third season of Mayfair Witches,” said Spalding. “A contemporary twist on the Salem story, it promises to be our most delicious yet.”
Development has already begun on the third season. As Schnauz said, “I’m incredibly excited to reunite with both AMC and Mark Johnson on Mayfair Witches. The work I’ve done so far with Esta Spalding on Season 3 has been fantastic and fun and we’re hoping that translates to the screen for fans and new viewers of the show.”
The Season 3 plans don’t mention if the series will be adapting the third book of the Lives of the Mayfair Witches trilogy, Taltos. Much of Taltos‘ plot takes place in New Orleans, London, and New York. The series seems to be taking a big turn with the Salem setting.
Mayfair Witches‘ renewal announcement also confirmed that the next Immortal Universe series, The Talamasca, will be called The Talamasca: The Secret Order and will premiere this fall.
More magic. More mayhem. More Mayfairs.#MayfairWitches will return to AMC and AMC+ for a third season. pic.twitter.com/bF28A9E02C
— Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches (@MayfairWitches) April 10, 2025
Who is in the Mayfair Witches Season 3 cast?
Daddario, Hamlin, Chirisa, and Jirrels will return. It seems Jack Huston, whose name is absent from the renewal announcement, will not be back as Lasher following his character’s death in the Season 2 finale. But death is hardly an issue for the supernatural beings of this show. Ted Levine played the very dead Julien Mayfair in Season 2, who was able to take over son Cortland’s (Hamlin) body and return to the land of the living. He was still in control of Cortland’s body when the season ended, and Rowan (Daddario) had secretly drank Lasher’s blood, heightening her powers like never before. Julien (as Cortland) also drank the blood, giving him similar strengths. They could face off in the third season.
When does Mayfair Witches Season 3 premiere?
A premiere date will be announced at a later time. Interview With the Vampire Season 3 premieres in 2026.
What happened in Mayfair Witches Season 2?
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Mayfair Witches Season 2 continued the journey of Rowan Mayfair (Daddario) after she had unwittingly given birth to the demon Lasher at the end of Season 1. She was determined to understand what he had become — human or monster? — and to use him to fulfill her purpose as a healer, but when tragedy struck, she had to put aside her own desires and fight to protect her family.
The New Orleans Mayfairs took the fight to Scotland in the penultimate episode of the season. Their mission: get Lasher back, or at least get a vial of his blood, so that Rowan’s powers could be restored (her abilities weakened when he wasn’t physically near) and she could free sister Jojo (Jen Richards) and cousin Daphne (Olive Abercrombie) from the thrall spell in which she accidentally trapped them. Their travels — as well as Ciprien’s (Tongayi Chirisa) trip to Talamasca Motherhouse in Amsterdam — revealed more depths of Julien (Ted Levine) and Albrecht’s (Dennis Boutsikaris) plot to control Lasher.
Episode 7 (of eight) revealed that Lasher is a Taltos born of Anne Boleyn and a Scottish man, just as described in the books. In Rice’s supernatural world, a Taltos is a superhuman result of crossbreeding between two human witches who possess an extra chromosome. He was reunited with his wife from his human years, Emaleth, and their supernatural children were born in the finale. The Scottish Mayfairs, by Julien’s direction, attempted to kill the children to empower the whole family. They were saved by Rowan, Moira (Jirrels), Lark (Ben Feldman), and Sip (Chirisa) and his Talamasca crew. The agents fled through a portal with the children, their destination unknown.
Rowan, meanwhile, returned to New Orleans, helped wiped Lark’s (her ex) memory of the whole magical ordeal with his consent, and freed her sister and cousin from the thrall. Cortland/Julien spied on the Mayfair house ominously to close out the season.
Daddario said there wasn’t much talk about a potential Season 3 while filming Season 2, which was a change from the first season.
“During Season 1, there were some discussions about Season 2. The writers were reading the book and sort of saying, ‘How do we adapt this? What is this? What does this look like on screen?’ And we did not have those conversations during Season 2 about Season 3,” Daddario told The Hollywood Reporter. “But I think there’s a whole rich world to draw from. As we know, Anne Rice has given us so much, so I would be curious where the writers would take it.”
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