[Warning: The following contains MAJOR spoilers for Mayfair Witches Season 2 Episode 3, “Cover the Mirrors.”]
Jack Huston‘s Lasher interviewed a vampire within the latest episode of Mayfair Witches. Season 2 Episode 3 featured the primary Interview With the Vampire and Mayfair Witches crossover by Felix (Gabriel Freilich), the “pale younger vamp” who was catching rats for Lestat (Sam Reid) in Interview With the Vampire‘s Season 2 finale. TV Insider requested Mayfair Witches showrunner Esta Spalding how this crossover got here to be and what it means for the way forward for AMC‘s Immortal Universe, and he or she says it got here from a dialog with Interview With the Vampire showrunner Rolin Jones. Spalding additionally reveals that there might be one other Immortal Universe crossover this season that can assist lay extra basis for The Talamasca sequence popping out later this 12 months.
The crossover opened the episode. Felix had adopted Lasher to Jackson Sq. in New Orleans’ French Quarter due to his unfamiliar scent, and he might inform immediately that Lasher wasn’t human despite the fact that Rowan (Alexandra Daddario) had birthed the spirit into human kind (the blood on his fingers was additionally intriguing, clearly). Lasher has no reminiscence of his previous life, and he sought solutions from Felix upon realizing that he wasn’t human both.
“What the rattling hell are you?” Felix requested Lasher within the opening scene. “I don’t know,” he replied. Whereas sitting on a bench Louis (Jacob Anderson), Lestat, and Claudia (Bailey Bass and Delainey Hayles) frequented in New Orleans in Interview With the Vampire‘s first season, Lasher tried to make sense of the little or no recollections he has and why he’s being drawn to seduce and kill Mayfair ladies. That is the place the scene wanders into the narrative territory of Interview With the Vampire Season 1 Episode 3’s opening scene, by which Louis means that he and Lestat solely kill “the worst” of the people and Lestat says that looking ought to be all intuition and calls purpose a “set of leg irons.”
“I bear in mind praying, kneeling on the chilly stone ground of a church asking for forgiveness. Perhaps I used to be a priest, that’s why I really feel like this,” Lasher questioned. Felix then imparted knowledge he realized from his mentor, Lestat.
“That feeling’s guilt,” Felix defined. “That’s a human factor. Makes them behave like sheep. Simple to kill.” The fearful Lasher stated he doesn’t discover killing to be simple. “Oh, it’ll get simpler. Did for me. However I had a very good trainer,” Felix assured.
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“Please, inform me what he stated,” Lasher requested. Felix then shared a perspective that seems like a mixture of knowledge from each Lestat and Louis. “We’re meant to cull the herd,” Felix stated. “It’s a pure factor, like Mr. Darwin taught.”
Louis struggled with killing people in Season 1, and in Episode 3 he prompt they be extra selective when looking whereas studying a Charles Darwin ebook about pure choice in Jackson Sq.. “Culling the herd” means eradicating weak animals from a inhabitants based mostly on sure standards. Lestat thought that weeding the unhealthy people out from the great was pointless, as a result of all people are “able to abomination, even those worthy of admiration.”
Lasher fears that there’s nobody else like him in existence. Felix sees that as a very good factor. “You’re a brand new factor,” he stated, and meaning he could make “new guidelines.” “Take heed to your appetites, your instincts,” Felix suggested. “It’s all you are able to do. You reside by their guidelines, and also you’ll go loopy.”
Lestat appears to have taught Felix that the vampire’s intuition to kill people at random matches into Darwin’s idea of pure choice. However we additionally know that Lestat’s been residing off of rats in present-day New Orleans, so the trainer isn’t working towards what he preaches proper now. The crossover scene ends with Felix killing a human for dinner and Lasher nonetheless as confused as ever.
Spalding explains how Felix ended up in Mayfair Witches, saying that they had been brewing up this concept across the time Interview With the Vampire was filming its Season 2 finale in New Orleans (TV Insider’s Damian Holbrook was on set for that IWTV episode — examine what he noticed right here).
“We needed a vampire who was in New Orleans, and we needed anyone who linked to Interview and carried among the mythology of Interview,” Spalding tells TV Insider. “And it was only a dialog with Rolin [Jones] about how that will work. After which trying on the [Felix] scenes, I feel that they had simply completed capturing them once we had been engaged on this concept. I can’t bear in mind the timing, however he was known as Pale Younger Vamp of their present. And so we gave him a reputation and so forth. However the thought was that he was Lestat’s scholar and we might see the enjoyable.”
“It’s not only a cameo, it’s not simply an Easter egg of a man, but it surely’s truly anyone bringing Lestat’s worldview into our present and making an attempt it out with Lasher,” Spalding continues. “And that felt attention-grabbing and vital. After all, it doesn’t stick. That’s not what sort of being [Lasher] is, but it surely was actually enjoyable to check out.”
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Felix’s recommendation “doesn’t stick” with Lasher transferring ahead, however he positively was extra embracing of his violent instincts afterward within the episode when he tried to assault one other Mayfair lady, Evelynne (Ok Steele), and her son David in her bar. She survived, and he or she’ll be again.
As for future crossover this season, the Talamasca’s significance will proceed to construct by Sip’s (Tongayi Chirisa) work. He’s making an attempt to finish his mission by apprehending Lasher, however Rowan is making an attempt to do the identical. She introduced the entire Mayfairs to her home to attempt to draw Lasher dwelling, each to position a protecting spell on the household so Lasher couldn’t hurt them but additionally to revive her powers that had been weakening the additional Lasher was from her presence. Lasher wandered again to the home and begged his “mom” to not harm him, however then Sip jumped in to attempt to seize him. Rowan jumped in entrance of her “son” and was immobilized by a magical vapor Sip deployed, after which a automobile pulled up and Albrecht (Dennis Boutsikaris) had his henchmen took Lasher.
The Talamasca’s mission to manage Lasher will proceed all through the season. Spalding says that Season 2 Episode 7 might be a serious episode for the company.
“Episode 207, which is by far our wildest, wackiest, and form of funnest episode, was written by Mark Lafferty, who’s the showrunner on Talamasca,” Spalding says. “So he was with us breaking that story as he was coming into on the planet of interested by Talamasca with [The Talamasca series creator] John Lee Hancock.”
Immortal Universe govt producer Mark Johnson stated at New York Comedian Con 2024 that there’s going to be “appreciable crossover” between Interview With the Vampire and The Talamasca, so put together to see these worlds proceed to collide.
— Further reporting by Damian Holbrook
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