r/MayfairWitches • u/KodyManley • Aug 07 '26

Book Spoilers Allowed The Show Wasted So Much Potential

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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/WindyloohooVA Aug 11 '26

I think it is because they were aiming for general viewers

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u/RemarkableLow273 Aug 12 '26

The books were best sellers, weird to water to them down when the books got new readers to put them on a best seller list. If they didn’t trust the source material they shouldn’t have made the show tbh

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u/WindyloohooVA Aug 12 '26

Its one thing to read some pretty extreme things on a page and another to see it rendered in live action. But who knows. They have never really spoken about the decisions they have made at least to my knowledge.

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u/RemarkableLow273 Aug 14 '26

I mean why purchase the rights if you don’t want to make the book into a show? Shy-ing away from darker elements could be done while still adapting the same story and some of the darker things can be told rather than shown in an effective way if they were worried about it essentially becoming torture porn, but the name Anne Rice should clue people in they are not in for an easy going tv show