While the forbidden romance between Matthew and Diana has always served as the engine that powers the rest of the show, much of A Discovery of Witches' first season, by necessity, had to spend a lot of time on exposition, explaining - or handwaving - the specific guardrails that hold up the series' universe for viewers who weren't necessarily familiar with the All Souls Trilogy of novels on which the show is based. Most of the modern-day storylines find themselves on the backburner in the seven episodes that were made available for critics to review, and the bulk of the action follows Diana as she attempts to locate a witch mentor to help her control her increasingly boundless magical abilities and find the mysterious text known as the Book of Life, which ostensibly holds necessary secrets to the creation of all the supernatural creatures - vampires, witches, and demons - that exist in the world.īut it is the trip back to a time where viewers are more familiar with the rules that makes Discovery of Witches' second season so much fun. ![]() But the dramatic time shift has made the series stronger than ever before. ![]() As the second season of the fantasy romance series A Discovery of Witchesopens, vampire Matthew Clairmont ( Matthew Goode) and witch Diana Bishop ( Teresa Palmer) have traveled back in time to Elizabethan England, a premise that sounds even weirder than that of its first outing.
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