Mayfair Witches Season 3 has added Breaking Bad‘s Betsy Brandt to the cast in a role that could be from Anne Rice‘s Lives of the Mayfair Witches books.
Brandt will be a series regular in Season 3 as Katherine. While AMC didn’t note if she is a Mayfair witch, there is a Katherine Mayfair in the books. She’s the deceased sister of Julien Mayfair, who was played by Silence of the Lambs star Ted Levine in Season 2. In the books, Katherine tried to reject the role of being the Mayfair witch who could command Lasher. Julien became the eighth Mayfair to command the spirit as a result.
AMC announced the casting on Tuesday, October 29, as the third season begins production this week in Vancouver. Jack Huston is not among the cast list, implying that his character, Lasher, really did die in the Season 2 finale. Mayfair Witches Season 3 stars Alexandra Daddario, Harry Hamlin, Tongayi Chirisa, and Alyssa Jirrels. Brandt’s casting marks a Breaking Bad reunion with executive producer Mark Johnson and Thomas Schnauz, the latter of whom joins Esta Spalding as co-showrunner for Season 3.
October is a busy month for AMC’s Immortal Universe. Its third series, Talamasca: The Secret Order, premiered with two episodes on Sunday, October 26. The Vampire Lestat (Season 3 of Interview With the Vampire) wrapped filming as of Friday, October 24. And now, Mayfair Witches is back in production.
As previously announced, the third season of the supernatural drama is moving from New Orleans to Salem. The season will dive deeper into the mythology of witchcraft, introduce new “spellbound” families, and feature some of the historical happenings of Salem, Massachusetts, the infamous town of witch trials and folklore.
Mayfair Witches was renewed for Season 3 on April 9 after the Season 2 finale in March. Here’s everything there is to know so far about the upcoming season.
Has Mayfair Witches Season 3 started filming?
Production begins this week in Vancouver. Season 1 was filmed and set in New Orleans, with Season 2 filming in New Orleans and Ireland. Ireland served as the production location for the show’s scenes set in Scotland.
Who is in the Mayfair Witches Season 3 cast?
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Daddario (Rowan Mayfair), Hamlin (Cortland Mayfair, now possessed by the spirit of his dead father, Julien), Chirisa (Talamasca agent Ciprien Grieve), and Jirrels (Moira Mayfair). Brandt is known for playing Marie Schrader on Breaking Bad, a role she reprised in Better Call Saul, Heather Hughes in Life in Pieces, and more.
Levine played the very dead Julien Mayfair in Season 2, who was able to take over son Cortland’s body and return to the land of the living. He was still in control of Cortland’s body when the season ended, and Rowan had secretly drunk 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.
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When does Mayfair Witches Season 3 premiere?
A premiere date will be announced at a later time.
Talamasca premiered on Sunday, October 26, at 9/8c on AMC and AMC+, with new episodes from the six-part first season coming out weekly. The Vampire Lestat premieres in 2026.
The first two seasons of Interview With the Vampire were recently added to Netflix. Mayfair Witches Season 2 will soon be added (Season 1 is already there as part of the AMC Collection, and Talamasca will be added next year). All available episodes of the three Immortal Universe shows can be streamed on AMC+.
What happens in Mayfair Witches Season 3?
Emmy Award-winning producer and writer Schnauz (a writer and executive producer for Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul) joins as co-showrunner with Spalding on Season 3. Johnson, Spalding, and Schnauz serve as executive producers alongside Michelle Ashford and Tom Williams. Ashford created the series for television and wrote the pilot.
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.”
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
“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.”
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.
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 (Chirisa) trip to Talamasca Motherhouse in Amsterdam — revealed more depths of Julien and Albrecht’s (Dennis Boutsikaris) plot to control Lasher.
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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, under 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 wipe 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.”
Stay tuned to TV Insider as we continue to report the latest Immortal Universe updates.
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