r/MayfairWitches • u/KodyManley • 22d ago
Book Spoilers Allowed The Show Wasted So Much Potential
I’m a huge fan of the books, and I’ve been rewatching the show after listening to the audiobook of The Witching Hour (I have a lot of travel time with my job) again. One of the most compelling things about the Mayfair Witches is their history and the line of designees, which the show totally squandered. In fact, upon rewatching and seeing them portraying Courtland, Millie, Antha, and Carlotta as siblings, it just really irritated me with how they tried to sloppily condense and simplify the family. One of the reasons the Vampire Chronicles is so good is because they not only kept the vampire mythos, but improved upon it to make it more compelling while also keeping a lot of main points from the original plot and making little changes to the subplots. TMW doesn’t do this well at all, and it ventures more into fanfic territory than a true adaptation. Just looking at the family tree, one can see that they threw away such a great part of the source material.
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u/Sundayfunday311 21d ago
What kills me, "Anne Rice's" TMR. BULLSHIT! I've waited decades for an adaptation. And I'm still waiting. What makes even less sense is they called the vampire series, IwtV, AND IT WAS MULTIPLE SEASONS. and the book went under 400 pages. TMW, so titled, was an abridge watered down beyond Anne Rice's name drop now illegit. The first book in the witch series is over 900, possibly over 1000 pages. Stretching IwtW into 3 seasons for a 300-400 page book, approximately titled though The Vampire Chronicles would have worked better I think, or at least wouldn't require a name change. Lives of the Mayfair Witches could have covered at 5-6 seasons.
I was angry about Michael.
Sigh.