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A Discovery of Witches (2018) on Netflix

Season 1, episode 1

Witches, one who refrains from using her abilities, because it generally leads to disaster. She fines a very rare book that appears that she alone can access (???). She is Diana.
Vampires, one who works at the same university, pursuing Diana because like many vampire, he has been searching for this book. He is Matthew. Is he protecting her, or only trying to get the book?
Alex Kingston, not River Song, but Sarah Bishop, a witch, and mother aunt of Diana. Diana is British. Sarah has a North American accent (U.S., not Canada or Mexico)
Louise Brealey, not my heart throb Molly Hooper, but Gillian Chamberlain. Also a witch, and good pal to Diana.
Diana, Matthew, and Gillian are all at university.

That stuff out of the way, I've enjoyed episode one of twenty-five, so far. There are three seasons.
Vampires and Witches are enemies.

Mary Tyler Moore. It was on TV so I don't know the season or episode number.

A Discovery of Witches (2018) on Netflix

Season 1, episode 2

Keeping is short. Matthew is a professor of biochemistry. He is researching witching and vampires, and how they, as species, are dying out. Diana is helping him with his research. The other vampires and witches are not happy.

Matthew is drawn to Diana. He does not seem to mean her any harm. Other vampires are drawn as well, but because of her AB- blood type. To be honest, it may be AB+. I don't remember.

Gillian rats her out to the witches counsel about the book that the vampires and witches are seeking.

I am enjoying this series. It might be about inclusion. Inclusion is a theme, so far. Inclusion with a very strong resistance from the status quo.

I won't post every episode. Maybe every fifth episode.

Still watching our way through the first and only season of:

Kolchak: The Night Stalker [1974–1975]
<=>"One man's quest to uncover the truth,\o/"

Last night I finished watching the second five episodes:
6. "Firefall" [Nov 8, 1974]
7. "The Devil's Platform" [Nov 15, 1974]
8. "Bad Medicine" [Nov 29, 1974]
9. "The Spanish Moss Murders" [Dec 6, 1974]
10. "The Energy Eater" [Dec 13, 1974]

Having run out of traditional fictional monsters (vampires, werewolves, mummies, and such) the monsters now are less main-stream, that is, more contrived. I'm still enjoying them, nonetheless.

I agree. It is a fun series.

A Discovery of Witches (2018) on Netflix

Season 1, episodes 3 - 5

If you've seen Twilight, this is not Twilight. It is true it is about "forbidden love" <apply reverb to that>, but Diana, who has never shown a flair for witchcraft and spells, discovers she is a special witch. Not like Harry Potter, but she has science to back up the claim. Matthew has found her DNA contain markers that give her power over all the elements. I didn't say she was an Air Bender. She's a witch. Most witches have some of these markers, but not all.

Meanwhile, Gillian (Louise Brealey) gets "in trouble" with Matthew because she broke into his university research lab in an attempt to find out what Matthew is up to. Matthew tracks her down. Did he leave enough blood in her to survive their confrontation?

Fun fact, Matthew's mother, in France, has a servant, portrayed by Sorcha Cusack. Who? You know, she plays Mrs. McCarthy on Father Brown (with Mark Williams (again, Diana is not a witch like Harry Potter). I was excited because I cannot remember ever seeing her in another drama before. It was refreshing.

Also, Diana's dead mother (killed by witches) is portrayed by Sophia Myles. Who? You know. Reinette. The Girl in the Fireplace. Dr. Who. One of the saddest (not saddest) episodes on Dr. Who. Madame De Popmpadour. Well, it's one of my favorite episodes.
Two more episodes and I'll have season one of three completed.

Final words, if I had to compare this story to anything, it would be a story from the nineteen fifties or sixties about an interracial couple. Let's say Betty and Barney Hill, although no UFOs or aliens are involved.

A Discovery of Witches (2018) on Netflix

Season 1, episodes 6 - 8 (season finale)

The counsel of Vampires, Witches, and Demons have set out to capture Diana and Matthew. The last episode of the season ends with the same feeling I get when watching the last moments of the last season of Outlander. That's a clue what is about to happen, or not happen. I don't know. The witches have kicked the door in and the screen went to credits!

Oh. Matthew is played by Matthew Goode. One may know him as Henry Talbot from Downton Abbey (season 6).

The Penguin.

Taking place where The Batman ended, the Penguin plots to take over organized crime in Gotham by turning his enemies against one another, all the while they underestimate him as just a physically disabled thug. The title character is humanized when he is about to kill a Latino teenager named Victor who he had caught trying to jack his car, only to find he has a stutter; a thing that makes him seen a lesser by others, the same as the Penguin's club foot. He takes Victor under his wing, and incorporates him in the plan to seize the Gotham underworld.
First rate DCU show, with all the dark realism and grit of the Batman movie that had spawned it.

A Discovery of Witches (2018) on Netflix

Season 2

Season two takes place in the 1500's. Like Outlander (if you are familiar with it), there is a mixture of historical people and fiction (vampires, witches, demons).

To my eye, it seems the two make characters grow older in the past.

It was good. One more season to go, but first, I want to watch Formula One Free Practice 1 and 2 on F1TV.

Sheila Hancock plays an elderly witch, another weaver (a witch that can control the elements), like Diana. I know her from Hugh Laurie's Fortysomething, an excellent British series.

I might watch that

I'm watching Lucifer ATM . Not sure what series but I'm just working through them

A Discovery of Witches on Netflix

Finished season 3

This was a series where one knows how it will end, but it was still enjoyable watching how it got there.

The music was a little over the top and emotionally predictable, but seriously, that's just me. In a different frame of mind, I would probably think it was perfect. Regardless, it was not bad.

I enjoyed the visual effects. I enjoyed the acting.

Anne Rice's MAYFAIR WITCHES (2023) on Netflix

Season 1, episodes 1 and 2

Initially a little confusing who was who and what was going on. Episode 2 cleared things up.