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Positive:
5
Mixed:
11
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews
Jan 10, 2019
Season 1 Review:
While the longing looks and cravings for blood might make some roll their eyes, every second of A Discovery of Witches is pure catnip for fans of this genre, and it's nice to be able to dive into a decadent love affair for a few hours of escapism at the end of the day. ... There's also more than enough unique elements and impressive world-building going on alongside those tropes to sustain the series' weaker elements.
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Jan 15, 2019
Jan 17, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Palmer does have an easy chemistry with Goode. Their shared excitement over every discovery, scientific or otherwise, keeps us invested in the story even when it’s just some carefully worded nonsense. Most important, their relationship is an equitable one, one that’s built on trust, which is far more romantic than a certain sparkly vision that came before it.
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Jan 14, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Even in 2019, A Discovery of Witches proves some tropes are immortal for a reason. [18 Jan 2019, p.49]
Radio TimesJan 3, 2022
Season 3 Review:
A Discovery of Witches can get a little bogged down with all the political manoeuvring and lore, and earlier parts of this new series do drag on a little in this manner. ... Still, series three makes up for it by maintaining a strong grip on the emotional through-line of its characters.
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TV Guide MagazineJan 17, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Luxurious and intelligent escapism though hobbled by Palmer's less-than-bewitching blandness. Goode more than compensates with his usual grace while hinting at his inner beast. He's the ghoul to watch. [21 Jan - 3 Feb 2019, p.13]
Jan 16, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Both better and worse than Harkness' book. ... If making Diana even more of a Mary Sue than she was on the page is a bad adaptive choice--don't get me started on Diana as a character only being activated by the sexual ritual known blushingly as "bundling"--Brooke smartly recognizes the dramatic structural flaws of Harkness' book. ... A Discovery of Witches picks up as it goes along through eight episodes.
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Jan 16, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The series lays out its world and characters briskly and intelligibly, and the early episodes invest the fantasy clichés with some elegance and picturesqueness. (Shooting in Oxford and Venice, where the creatures’ HQ occupies a hidden island in the lagoon, helps.) As the action, physical and supernatural, picks up in midseason, the writing and direction start to lose some of that restraint, taking a turn into pulpy, B-movie territory.
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ColliderJan 9, 2019
Jan 11, 2019
The GuardianJan 8, 2021
Season 2 Review:
A Discovery of Witches is quite well staged, quite well written, has quite good special effects and is quite imaginative in how it deploys them. It now offers a quite evocative rendering of 16th-century England. But it’s not very anything. Its pulse is much too steady.
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