Sunday’s Mayfair Witches premiere might not have included any demonic crock-pots magically springing to life, however the kickoff to AMC’s newest Anne Rice adaptation nonetheless delivered a shock ending match for a Pearson.
The primary episode introduces us to Dr. Rowan Fielding (Alexandra Daddario), a superb surgeon with dedication points and untapped magical potential. (Certainly we will all relate to at the very least one of these issues, no?) When Rowan learns that her adoptive mom’s most cancers is again, she turns to her hospital’s chief of surgical procedure, who not solely sneers on the concept of Rowan getting her mom into an experimental stem cell trial but in addition chastises her supposed conceitedness. These unkind phrases don’t sit properly with Rowan, who kinda-maybe-accidentally offers the jerk a mind aneurism.
Rowan’s mom Elena insists that she isn’t guilty for the incident, however the follow-up cellphone name Elena makes to a mysterious company tells a special story. She’s determined to seek out out if one thing has “modified” about her daughter, and he or she’s assured that an agent is being despatched to research. The agent, Ciprien Grieve (Tongayi Chirisa), assures Elena that Rowan is protected from “the person” for now and guarantees to proceed defending her after Elena is gone.
Rowan then applies to work at Revenia, the corporate liable for the aforementioned stem cell trial, however she and her new boss don’t precisely get off on the precise foot. He first pees in entrance of her (what even?!), then tells her to decide on which affected person she’d like her mom to interchange within the trial. None of this sits proper with Rowan, so she reads Jerk No. 2 for filth, in the end sending him toppling to the ground similar to the final man who pissed her off. Sensing a sample but?
The premiere additionally introduces us to Dierdre Mayfair, a younger troublemaker who is shipped to stay together with her aunts after her mom’s alleged suicide. She doesn’t consider her mom purposely jumped from the balcony, a suspicion she shares together with her uncle Cortland (Harry Hamlin), a southern gent whose legendary events are as over-the-top as his accent. It’s at one such occasion the place Cortland introduces Dierdre to a boy named Patrick, they usually hit it off instantly. They share a dance, which results in some bizarre intercourse — and earlier than you realize it, Patrick is being taken away in a stretcher.
Patrick and Dierdre’s evening collectively, whereas tragic, additionally leads to a being pregnant. An more and more determined Dierdre makes an attempt to take her personal life months later by leaping from the balcony, however she’s stopped by a person named Lasher (Jack Huston). The twisted character tells her that the child she’s carrying will change her life, and he asks Dierdre if she’ll take him to be hers perpetually.
We’re then handled to an actual intestine punch of a montage, juxtaposing the start of Dierdre’s child with the loss of life of Rowan’s mom.
As for the massive This Is Us-style twist I discussed earlier, right here it comes: We’ve been watching occasions unfold in two completely different timelines, and Dierdre’s child grows as much as be — look forward to it — Rowan! Current-day Dierdre, now 47 years previous (and performed by the nice Annabeth Gish), suffers from an odd affliction that stops her from talking. Or is it simply that she’s too closely medicated to speak with anybody? Both manner, her doctor is decided to determine who she actually is… and one thing tells me that Rowan will quickly be doing the identical.
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