Worth Watching: Rediscovering 'Witches, ...'A Discovery of Witches (Saturday, streaming on Sundance Now, Shudder, AMC+): A hit for Sundance Now, the romantic supernatural spellbinder based on Deborah Harkness's fantasy trilogy takes on a sumptuous Masterpiece sheen in its second season by borrowing from the
Outlanderplaybook. Which means time travel, when powerful witch Diana (Teresa Palmer) and her ancient vampire lover Matthew (Matthew Goode) zap back in time to 1590 London. Fantasy intersects seductively with history as Diana, a scholar who knows everything except how to control her abilities, flees her modern-day enemies and Matthew confronts his treacherous past as a spy for Queen Elizabeth I. Diana's goal is to learn, with the help of a local coven, how to control her gifts even as she and Matthew continue to seek the mysterious Book of Life, rumored to explain the origin of their occult species. As their Elizabethan contemporary Shakespeare might put it: Something wickedly irresistible this way comes.
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