‘Mayfair Witches’ Star Alexandra Daddario on the Deadly Season 2 Finale and Wishing the Show Took Rowan’s Powers Even Farther

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Hunter Ingram SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from “The Innocents,” the Season 2 finale of “Mayfair Witches, now streaming on AMC+.” The Mayfair family tree pruned of a few of its own branches in the Season 2 finale of AMC’s “Mayfair Witches,” and they probably aren’t putting away the shears just yet.

Even more family-on-family violence is brewing. In final moments of the Anne Rice adaptation’s sophomore run, newly anointed family leader Rowan (Alexandra Daddario) took a stand against her Scottish brethren to save her son (and former lover, it’s a long story) Lasher (Jack Huston) from being sacrificed in exchange for powers from the Taltos, a race of superpowered magical beings.

Yet, by the end of the episode, Lasher was dead for good, Rowan had taken out more than a few of her kin for their part in it, and she downed a chalice of blood that instilled in her an unlimited new power that, let’s be honest, no one should probably have. “She walks around saying she doesn’t want any of this, and she just wants to help everyone and be such a great person,” Daddario tells Variety. “But when you are actually tempted with having real power, I think it is hard to reject — and it is hard for Rowan to reject.” But we are getting ahead of ourselves.

Rowan’s rescue mission to the misty mountains of Scotland with her cousin Moira (Alyssa Jirrels), her love interest Lark (Ben Feldman) and her sorry excuse of a father Cortland (Harry Hamlin) all happened because her dad’s brother, Ian (Ian Pirie), had kidnapped Lasher, whom the Scots believe is an ancient reincarnated being known as Ashlar.