Yes, Season 3

Mayfair Witches Season 3
AMC/Immortal Universe

Just the other day, I was on Facebook, looking at what, exactly, I don't recall as nothing much happens over there.  But--up popped a new video from the official Mayfair Witches page (for the series, you understand).  At first, I couldn't figure out those were crystals, but the other items, the sage, salt, candles and Tarot cards, were pretty much a dead giveaway.

It only said "Manifesting" but what else could it be?

Later, I went ahead and shared this video to the site's Facebook page.  Just as soon as I did that, I saw a second post for the first time that had been made just a few hours earlier.  I was right.

Season 3.

Now, my original site has always been about the novels.  It still is, though it does indeed have a section devoted to the AMC series.  I'm well aware of the many who absolutely hate the show, and I see the reasons why.  They make it clear in the comments they leave on social media as to why they hate it.  The divergence from the novels in key ways like the timeline, the characters, and things that weren't in the novels are among the biggest reasons.  Some changes, like the appearance of the Mayfair emerald necklace, make sense.  Others, like adding characters that weren't in the novels (like Ian Mayfair), don't.  

The exclusion of Michael Curry and Mona Mayfair, though...

Well, let me put it this way.  Those who have read the novels will probably know what I mean when I say there might have been a very good reason for that particular change.  What that reason is...  I will not go into it here, but I will direct you to the beginning of the novel, Lasher.

Get it, now?

Okay, let's move along, here.  There are people with strong feelings about the show.  I get that.  So, I try to be fair to both sides.  Do I wish the show followed the novels more closely overall?  YES.  Do I think things were added or changed that I kinda wish hadn't been?  YES.  However, I don't need to be a filmmaker to understand that when adapting novels--any novels--to the screen, there are things that have to be done differently to tell the story onscreen.

I think that's as true of television as it is of movies.  Even if a television series would give more leg room to telling such a rich story across several episodes divided into seasons, there are still going to be differences for whatever reason.  Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't.

I've seen comments about the way the Interview With the Vampire series works, but a similar formula for Mayfair Witches does not.  Another novel series about vampires in Louisiana, the Southern Vampire Mysteries novels by Charlaine Harris, was adapted into the series, True Blood.  It was an extremely popular series despite divergences from the novels it was based upon.  It's been years since I read the Sookie Stackhouse novels, but I do think that while some differences between page and screen were pretty pronounced, others weren't so much.  My impression overall is that in their own ways, the two series, Interview With the Vampire and Mayfair Witches, weren't so different with respect to where the screen diverged from the novels to one extent or another.

Yes, I've read other series.  I've even read Dracula.  I've read A LOT of books I don't talk about.  Or I've talked about them but have decided to ultimately remove discussion about them from my website because I want the site to focus only on the Mayfair Witches.  If I decide to discuss other novels I've read, it will either be in the context of the Mayfair Witches, or it will be separate from where I discuss the Mayfair Witches.

When AMC made the decision to renew Mayfair Witches for a third season, what went into making that decision is anyone's guess.  One thing that does come to mind is that whatever its shortcomings, it is successful enough with enough interest in another season to justify another season.  There are, after all, three novels in the Lives of the Mayfair Witches series.

No idea when filming of Season 3 will begin, but if the time turnaround is like that of the previous seasons and other shows like Yellowjackets, we've got a wait of a couple of years...