![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But Sarah Waters’s writing is outstanding with a rich and detailed prose. The book is quite slow, and despite the wartime settings, not an awful lot happens. She was my favorite characters of all, the one that felt most true and honorable. I especially loved learning about Kay’s ambulance job during the war and rooted so much for her. The war serves as a horrifying context, especially in the last part of the book from 1941, giving the atmosphere and relationships more gravitas and a sense of urgency. ![]() The connections between them all their relationships are slowly unraveled through the backward storytelling. The storyline follows the fragmented lives and the strange interconnections between Kay, Helen and Julia, three lesbians Viv, a straight woman and Duncan, her brother, whose sexuality is ambiguous. The story begins in London in 1947 and works backwards to the end in 1941. ![]()
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![]() ![]() A spirit who shares a long history with the Mayfair family, Lasher longs to return to the world of the living and is willing to play the long game to do so. ![]() ![]() Though he appears in the guise of a handsome, well-dressed man with good intentions, Lasher has only his own intentions in mind. With Lasher set to be at the center of everything that happens in Season 1 of Mayfair Witches, visiting the source material to get an idea of who he is and what to expect from him seems like a reasonable option. When Deirdre emerges from the church into a flurry of flower petals in the sky, she catches a glimpse of the man, Lasher, played by Jack Huston. As her penance is assigned, it’s revealed that she’s etched the word “Lasher” into the confessional. While speaking to a priest during confession and carving away at the wooden confessional, Deirdre discusses a “man” that she says has been around most of her life and has always “known what she has wanted.” While the priest seems very concerned about the man’s continued presence in Deirdre’s life, she maintains that she doesn’t need him now that she’s older. Rowan Fielding, the episode cuts to a flashback to Deirdre’s youth, where she is played by Cameron Inman. Following the episode’s cold open which introduced Annabeth Gish‘s Deirdre Mayfair and Alexandra Daddario’s Dr. Episode 1 of Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches, “The Witching Hour”, wastes no time introducing one of the series’ most important and mysterious characters to the audience. ![]() |