Sci-Fi

'A Discovery of Witches' Season 2 is Lush, Indulgent Escapism

Lacy Baugher Milas

27 Jun 2021 — 5 min read

As the second season of the fantasy romance series A Discovery of Witches opens, 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. And it is, to be honest. But the dramatic time shift has made the series stronger than ever before.

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.

But 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.

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