Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches

"THINGS DON'T END well for the women in this family," warns one of New Orleans' Mayfair matrons at a wake for one of their own, who died under extremely bizarre circumstances.

- MATT ROUSH

Sundays, 9/8c, AMC (also AMC+)

Do tell. And do they ever, with reams of exposition to lay the foundation for Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches, which plays like a weak Gothic stepsister to last year's more compellingly erotic AMC adaptation of Rice's Interview With the Vampire.