Mayfair Witches Boss Talks Finale's Multiple Losses (‘No One's Ever Dead'), Looks Ahead to Possible Season 3

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03-03-2025

Mayfair Witches' second season reached a bloody conclusion on Sunday in a finale that saw the death of a major character, the willing departure of another, and a haunting tease of what a potential third season would hold for Rowan and her family.
In a nutshell, Julien and his fellow Scottish Mayfairs proceeded with their plan to kill Lasher, drink his blood and inherit the full extent of his power — only for Julien to betray his co-conspirators and keep all the power for himself. Rowan also drank from the cup, but only in the hopes of gaining enough power to bring Lasher back, which turned out to be a futile effort.
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Just as the first season finale saw Rowan stepping into her power and accepting her destiny as a Mayfair, the second season finale marked another major turning point in her journey. A 'teleporting, lovely, powerful, transgressive, dark feeling' has emerged within Rowan, showrunner Esta Spalding tells TVLine — and it feels good.
Grade the finale and season in our polls below, then read on for Spalding's take on the episode's biggest developments, as well as how they could impact a potential third season of Mayfair Witches. When you're finished, drop a comment with your full review of the game-changing hour, plus any of your hopes for the future of the Immortal Universe.
While several characters met an untimely end in the finale, the most heartbreaking loss — and arguably the only heartbreaking loss — was that of poor Lasher, whose murder was orchestrated by Julien as part of his duplicitous power-gathering ceremony.
The question is: Have we really seen the last of Jack Huston in this role? And the answer is… complicated.
'I feel like no one's ever dead in this universe,' Spalding says. 'I mean, it is the Immortal Universe. Spirits come back. He died in the Middle Ages and then was called down by Suzanne. There's a cycle there, and it would be super fun to explore.'
But even if we do see the next iteration of Huston's character, it probably won't be anytime soon. 'It's the kind of thing that could happen in Season 4 or 5, should we be so lucky,' Spalding says. 'It doesn't feel like it's something that has to be there now.' In the immediate future, 'Rowan will be asking herself who she is without him, and what she will do without him.'
Lasher — or Ashlar, pick your poison — may be no more, but his legacy lives on in the son he conceived with Emaleth. And if he's anything like his daddy, that little baby won't stay cute and cuddly for long.
'The Taltos are born in the morning, then they're four or five years old by the afternoon,' Spalding reminds us. If Mayfair Witches returns for a third season, 'that little baby that Emaleth was holding, who we hope escaped with her, would now be her fully grown son.'
Unfortunately, the finale also marked the end of Rowan and Lark's relationship. After barely surviving his encounter with the Scottish Mayfairs, he isn't exactly itching to pursue Julien, which is pretty much Rowan's sole focus moving forward.
Spalding says Rowan and Lark's issues can be boiled down to three little words: 'He's a human.' More specifically, 'he doesn't understand the burden of the power Rowan has where she feels like she can't just sit around and do nothing when she knows there's evil operating out in the world. She has to do something about it.'
Rowan initially tried to downplay Lark's concerns during their long journey home, knowing full well that 'power corrupts.' As Spalding points out, 'she's not going to let on that she wants this power because he's essentially moralizing and telling her how she should behave.'
'That scene is really about Rowan leaving the last remnants of her totally human life behind,' she says. 'He's the one who says he can't be there for this. She's willing to try, but she also understands that he's right. He's from this moral plane that no longer exists to her.'
Lark reluctantly drank a potion that would erase his memories of Rowan, and she made sure to watch him drink it before she disappeared from his life forever. Well, maybe not forever.
'Maybe his memories come back, who knows?' Spalding teases.
So, what would Rowan and her fellow Mayfair witches do in a potential third season, aside from giving their family home some much-needed TLC? The final shot of the episode — Rowan standing fearlessly outside while Julien lurked surreptitiously in the bushes — paints a decent picture of the struggle to come.
As Spalding puts it, 'that last moment is [Rowan saying] 'game on.' She's not going to back down from a battle with him. And they really are mirrors a little bit. She's not corrupted like Julien, and she hasn't done the terrible things he's done, but she does have the same kind of desire for power that he has.'
'It'll be interesting to see where that goes in a family that's known to takes sides,' she adds. 'Rowan and Julien are both designees, or have been designees, so it's fun to think about what could happen.'
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