Oh, and Diana is also about to discover that that magic she’s been keeping at bay is about to start exploding out of her every orifice. Very quickly, Diana’s life is in danger, as is her virtue since things with Matthew begin to get all hot-and-heavy in ways that may threaten that exact balance the Congregation is meant to keep. Matthew begins to look even better in comparison to ultra-ominous witch Peter Knox (Owen Teale), part of the shady Congregation, a Venice-based group taxed with maintaining balance between creatures and humans. But he’s also dreamy as heck, especially when he starts sniffing her. Matthew believes that Ashmole 782 may be the famous Book of Life, a text documenting the origins of witches, vampires and daemons, a tome that could offer secrets essential to all species.ĭiana doesn’t want anything to do with Matthew. Soon, other mystical creatures begin to take an interest, including Matthew Clairmont ( Matthew Goode), an ancient vampire and professor of biochemistry. ![]() It may be tied to far greater things, though. Working in the Bodleian Library one day, Diana discovers a previously unrecorded manuscript - drink every time a character says “Ashmole 782” and you will die - that may be tied to her work. Other than performing menial tasks, Diana avoids using her magic, or at least she thinks she does. Diana is also a witch, the reluctant heir to a legacy dating back to Salem and beyond. ![]() Teresa Palmer plays Diana, an American scientific historian doing research in Oxford. In hasty fashion, it points to everything good and bad about the TV adaptation of A Discovery of Witches, which proves both better and worse than Harkness’ book, already a piece of flawed supernatural romance occupying the breathless space somewhere between Twilight and Outlander.
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