NR Holt

So, just about every person who gave this series a poor review actually read The Witching Hour, the first book in the trilogy. And I agree with you 1000%! This mishmash is just a piece of cheese in a mousetrap set for a millennial audience. This over simplification of a rich, vibrant and twisted history of an extraordinary family of witches that was meticulously crafted by a truly gifted fiction author, Anne Rice, is criminal. Yep, I'm going there millennials...they hacked up this wonderfully historical story into small bullet-points just for you. AMC and their producers mistakenly skewed this story to gain your viewership. Big mistake...huge! The only way they could have given this book a proper script to film would have been to follow the formula that the writers and producers of the ORIGINAL mini series of Stephen King's IT wrote in the 90's with Tim Curry. This entire series is truly a smack in the chops to Rice readers. Shame on her son for green lighting this affront to his mother's legacy. One dimensional characters, omitting major characters, poorly dressed historical home sets filmed in low light to try to hide the skimp, and Lasher...one reviewer in this thread compared the AMC version to a skeevy type predator, not a supernatural, sophisticated being...I agree. I won't even delve into the ham-handed attempt to make the story more diversified by changing Rowan's love interest from Michael (in the original story) to Cip. It's a clumsy attempt to appear inclusive "just because". No one is impressed. Why do Rice fans care so much? Because we took the time to read these stories and used our minds to take us into this world of witches. It was fun, creepy and yes, somewhat historically educational. And because we waited for decades for Rice to allow a film version to be produced and her surviving family made a repugnant debacle of it. I challenge anyone who has not read The Witching Hour, take a few hours here and there to give it a read. Then honestly ask yourself if this drivel even comes close to conveying the author's vision. Then make your counterpoint comments.