At the same time, as a disembodied, supernatural being, like many of Rice’s characters he’s not exactly bound by mortal notions of gender and sexuality. Possibly the family’s most powerful witch (until Rowan), he’s also the only male Mayfair to spark Lasher’s supernatural sexual interest.Īs for Lasher himself, without giving much away, his ultimate motivation is decidedly heterosexual in nature. He’s described as having both male and female lovers, and he’s the only male member of the Mayfair family to wield significant supernatural powers. In the late 19th century, Katherine Mayfair is described as frequently dressing as a man to go out carousing around New Orleans with her brother Julien.īut it’s Julien who is the queerest member of the family.

Large sections of the first book are devoted to the family’s history dating back to the late 1600s, which includes a couple queer characters. It feels more like a daytime soap opera but with a higher budget.Of course, Rice was one of our great polymorphously perverse popular novelists, and the saga of the Mayfair Witches isn’t without its queer elements. It's like they have one scene per character set or timeline that is just stretched out throughout the episode and they go back and forth. The first season of Interview With the Vampire, while losing a bit of luster towards the end of the season, was mostly very good and I paid attention! When I'm watching this show, I'm multitasking because again, so little happens. Normally on shows like this I pay rapt attention and make sure I don't miss a minute. I'll watch it to the end and then see the reviews for season 2 before I commit to this. Are they as bad as this show? There are a handful of episodes until the season is over. I read the Vampire Chronicles but not the Mayfair Witch books. So little happens in each overlong episode. Again, I know she can act, so maybe it's the direction? And so many lines in the script, even after the first two establishing episodes, continue to just be exposition exposition exposition. I loved Alexandra in some of her former roles but she's very wooden in this. I'm not sure if it's the writing, the directing, the acting, or all of it.

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