The dwarves have marched south toward a great battle with Nilfgaard. The officers spend their days playing dice poker. A dwarven regiment of the Mahakam Volunteer Army is stationed near my estate. Being the smartest woman in Oxford looked a whole lot more appealing.Anonymous "Summer, 1263. That’s when the two aren’t pledging eternal love to one another and not having sex. Upholstered in the most complicated, cumbersome and restrictive of dresses and surrounded for the most part by a bunch of blokes who don’t trust her, she spends much of the series attempting to placate Matthew’s former social circle. Matthew Goode is good as Matthew and this period setting suits him well, but aside from the lovely witchy bits, the show seems a whole lot less fun for Palmer. It also means young vamp Marcus (Edward Bluemel), Matthew’s ‘son’, doesn’t get as much screen time as we’d like – he’s a bit of light relief in a show which in season two has a tendency to be a bit serious and overblown – so much so that his subplot in the show feels like a breath of fresh air after the muddy mustiness of ye olde London. And that’s even without the contemporary power play ticking along with The Congregation, The Knights Of Lazarus and Ysabeau de Clermont (Lindsay Duncan) who is housing Diana’s aunts (both witches), as well as demon couple Nathaniel and Sophie who are having a baby which might just be a witch. With Matthew juggling the political machinations of church and the royal court, as well as trying to disguise that he’s a future version of himself and convincing his old chums he’s not lost his mind because he’s hanging out with a witch, there’s a lot going on for the couple. Instead she and Matthew bicker about who is protecting whom as he urges her to stay hidden for her own safety, and she gets roundly insulted by everyone.Ī Discovery of Witches Season 1 Recap: Diana, Matthew, The Prophecy and The Congregation By Louisa MellorĪs with the first season, Witches 2 is epic and sumptuous in its cinematography and settings and does just as much globetrotting too. Add in scenes set in the modern world Matthew and Diana have left behind and the scale feels bigger still, but also less focused. Matthew’s character is distinctly more at home here than Diana’s (which makes logical sense because Matthew lived through this era once already and is reunited with old friends) but it does mean that at times Diana struggles for agency. History buffs and fans of Elizabethan literature should get a kick out of this alt timeline, though some might find the references a bit ‘clever-clever’ (if you found Shakespeare in Love hilarious you’ll probably be fine). This Elizabethan setting allows a host of real life historical characters to be brought into play including Christopher ‘Kit’ Marlowe the playwright who in this universe is a demon. Just beginning to get a handle on her considerable powers, Diana has discovered she’s a ‘timewalker’ and transported her and Matthew back to Elizabethan era London where the two plan to search for The Book Of Life, or Ashmole 782, the ancient text which is said to contain the secrets of witches, vampires and demons and may help to explain why these creatures’ power is diminished in the modern day (the major concern of season one). Season two finds our protagonists witch Diana (Teresa Palmer) and vampire Matthew (Matthew Goode) hiding in time. There’s nothing that ruins a fizzy will-they-won’t-they relationship like the couple getting together and being happily in love. If the first season of A Discovery of Witches was like cooler, sexier Twilight for grown ups then season two might be likened to the later, less sexy installments of that saga.
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