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That\u2019s the atmospheric aspiration for Mayfair Witches<\/em>. AMC\u2019s investment in Anne Rice\u2019s creative world is enormous – they have purchased her literary works<\/a> to build an entirely new genre franchise around what the network calls the \u201cAnne Rice Immortal Universe\u201d. Anchoring this source material is a block in the Garden District of New Orleans that has been tasked with building the proper witchy atmosphere of modern day coven politics.<\/p>\n While the reviews for the actual show have been mixed, commentary on its use of location has been universal:<\/p>\n They nailed its stylized sense of place.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_font=”||||||||” header_2_font_size=”21px” header_2_letter_spacing=”1px” header_2_line_height=”1.4em” custom_margin=”||5px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.19.4″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n The Garden District is an oak-lined neighborhood with huge, archaic, and imposing mansions of mixed influences built pre-Civil War. When you conjure up the image of a southern mansion, this is where you find the real thing. The Anne Rice-owned house<\/a> that was the influence for Mayfair Witches<\/em> is a Greek Revivalist style with a two-entry-level porch, Corinthian columns, and over 7,600 square feet of dust and ghosts and things that creak in the night.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/fablehouse.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Mayfair-Witches-house-01res.jpg” alt=”Mayfair Witches house” title_text=”Mayfair Witches house” show_bottom_space=”off” _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”25px||5px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”||on||||||” text_font_size=”13px” text_letter_spacing=”1px” text_line_height=”1.5em” text_orientation=”center” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Photo credit: AMC<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.19.4″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n To capture the ambiance that Anne Rice wrote back in 1990 in the first of the Lives of the Mayfair Witches<\/em> trilogy<\/a>, the production needed complete authenticity (and cinematographers familiar with broody mystery<\/a>). While they weren\u2019t able to film inside Anne Rice\u2019s actual home, Mayfair Witches was shot in the Soria-Creel mansion on the same block at 3102 Prytania Street<\/a> in the Garden District.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/fablehouse.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Mayfair-Witches-03-res.jpg” alt=”Mayfair Witches” title_text=”Mayfair Witches” show_bottom_space=”off” _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”25px||5px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”||on||||||” text_font_size=”13px” text_letter_spacing=”1px” text_line_height=”1.5em” text_orientation=”center” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Photo credit: AMC<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.19.4″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Now, not everybody is enthralled with all these witchy hues – some Reddit fans think the filters are too artificial<\/a>. Well, here\u2019s an observation:\u00a0<\/p>\n The scenery is both lush and old, the feeling like you stepped into an abandoned world overgrown, meant to be left undisturbed. Scenes are draped in cool blues and greens, like this is a nu-wave version of 1632 and the viewer may find themselves attending a blood sacrifice to a synth soundtrack. Is this a bad thing? I don\u2019t think so. It\u2019s distinct. It fully dives into its \u201cgothic gloss\u201d.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_font=”||||||||” header_2_font_size=”21px” header_2_letter_spacing=”1px” header_2_line_height=”1.4em” custom_margin=”||5px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.19.4″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Rotten Tomatoes says Mayfair Witches<\/em> has \u201ccompetent gloss\u201d. If you like witch stuff, the reviews don\u2019t matter – you\u2019re gonna watch Mayfair Witches<\/em>. American Horror Story<\/em> and True Blood<\/em> have a baby, you have to at least see if the baby is cute or ugly. What matters here, for our analysis, is how the critics have responded to its success in establishing the Mayfair home. In a deep dive for Time Magazine<\/a>, Judy Berman said:<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Witchcraft rules the world in Anne Rice\u2019s Mayfair Witches, but the show is most electrifying when it immerses us in the everyday magic of New Orleans.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.19.4″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n In a similar sentiment, Nick Allen of RogerEbert.com<\/a> expressed how the stylized city contrasted with a mediocre plot:<\/p>\n There’s a vital excitement needed for the latest and main chapter of Mayfair lore that’s gravely missing here, despite it having some style that includes the pervasive presence of dark teal and more sumptuous New Orleans production design from Rice’s developing TV universe.<\/p>\n In the middle of all this talk is the fact that this franchise is built around a haunted house family that acts out its spell-wrought drama entirely within the boundaries of New Orleans<\/a>. It\u2019s a franchise from a network that has bought the rights<\/a> to 18 of Anne Rice\u2019s books. Mayfair Witches<\/em> has already utilized Baton Rouge VFX studio Crafty Apes<\/a> for its effects work. If it follows the path of The Walking Dead<\/em>, this is a creative universe that could provide income for Louisiana crews and businesses for the next decade and a half.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Garden District, get comfortable with the attention. Sexy witchcraft looks good on you.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.19.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_4_font_size=”19px” global_module=”7463″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\nMayfair Witches<\/em> was filmed on Prytania Street where Anne Rice wrote the novels<\/h2>\n
Reactions to \u201cdank, gothic mystery neighborhood\u201d are mostly positive<\/h2>\n
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