Everyone is bearded and angry in the trailer for A Discovery Of Witches' second season
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The wonderful thing about genre TV is that you can get away with all sorts of patently ludicrous things. Like, say, you can have a character in the trailer for the second season of your TV show say a line like “Matthew and Diana have disappeared into time,” and the immediate response from your audience will be, not bewilderment, but a knowing “Well, obviously, they timewalked on All Hallows Eve, what else did you expect to happen.” Which is to say that that’s exactly what happens in the new trailer for the long-anticipated second season of Sky One’s A Discovery Of Witches, the TV show in which Teresa Palmer and Matthew Goode play a witch and a vampire, respectively, who find themselves snogging and smooching (respectfully).
But all is not well in vampire-witch-kissing-land, as pretty much everybody the couple encounters during their time in The Past (including their various ancestors) seems to be both bearded and profoundly pissed off. (Plus, Goode’s character, who is also named Matthew—convenient!—appears to be tormented by his sins in a way that gives the impression that he might have actually timewalked into an episode somewhere circa the second season of Angel.) Adapting the second book in Deborah Harkness’ All Souls trilogy, the second season of A Discovery Of Witches looks lush and moody as ever, with all the vampire-witch lip-locking—and consequent drama—that its audience could hope for. The series returns for its second season on January 8; it airs in the U.S. on AMC and BBC America.
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All of my witches fled to Merilon in the Darksword trilogy.Whaddya mean nobody knows what I’m talking about?
I’ll watch this, of course. I love most of the cast (though the one cast member who doesn’t do much for me, unfortunately, is the lead). But, not having read the books, there was just something lacking in Season 1 and I’m not sure what. Maybe it felt too derivative? Or it felt like it was lacking some sort of… energy? Chemistry? It’s odd–I honestly can’t think of another show that I watched so regularly and even was kinda invested in, and yet felt so apathetic towards.
Please reconsider the use of “everyone” in the headline. I saw no bearded women.
The book it’s based on, SHADOW OF NIGHT, is one of my top fave books ever because of the time period it is set in & the way the author interacts the people living then (Kit Marlowe! Billy Shakespeare! Queen Elizabeth!) with her great characters. So much intricate & interesting historical fun, hopefully the TV series captures it.