Every ounce of antipathy streaming out of Master Roydon faced with that man felt justified. To be fair to Matthew, you wouldn’t need to be suffering from blood rage to find yourself snarling at Rudolf II. Supernatural fantasy or no, it’s a harmful portrayal that plays into damaging real-world domestic abuse narratives. In Twilight, in Buffy, and now in A Discovery of Witches, female characters are shown not only as the solution to, but also the catalyst for, a male vampire’s rage and violence.
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And Diana was standing right there! No wonder she could summon the book in the 21 st century she’d already read it in the 16 th.Ī Discovery of Witches Season 2 Episode 6 Review By Louisa MellorĬaptivating as that scene was, in a series that’s usually pretty well-tuned when it comes to gender and power, you have to question the usefulness of portraying possessive male violence calmed by female patience and compassion. It wasn’t a calm and deliberate decision, but the desperate act of a tortured man. It was a lovely bit of storytelling business to see Edward Kelley tear out the very pages of Ashmole 782 that we saw missing all the way back in the season one opener. All those trails of dominoes set up over the last seven weeks feel as though they’re just about to be toppled, leading to – fingers crossed – a dynamic, clattering payoff.ĭid I say seven weeks? More like two and a half years. The Book of Life, Matthew’s blood rage, the Oxford attacks and Knox’s pursuit are gathering for the final three episodes.
As season two nears the home straight, its many elements are being drawn together in a way that an episodic format could never provide. Exhilaration itself!Įnjoyable as that arrangement might be, we’d miss out on so much. Imagine it: Matthew and Diana through the centuries, tracking down magical items, exposing historical figures as massive, Anti-Semitic prongs, having punch-ups with the royal guards and, at the end of every episode, readying the horses for a swift getaway. This review contains A Discovery of Witches spoilers.Īn episode as fun as this one almost makes it a shame that A Discovery of Witches is a continuing story and not a case-of-the-week romp.
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