The mystery and (duh) romance, and the academic setting with many, many references to actual historical figures and events that play into the plot, made the series catnip for bookish millennials like me. While the books are no great works of Literature, the trilogy is a page-turner I giddily devoured because being in a world of witches, vampires, demons, and secrets was just plain fun.

Her forbidden love interest is of course rich and handsome vampire Matthew Clairmont who has most recently been using his eternal life to publish a bunch of scientific papers. Said protagonist, Diana Bishop, is a historian of science/Witch-in-denial doing a visiting professorship at Oxford.

Thanks to Harkness' academic pedigree, the books and show adaptation have an incredibly nerdy appeal: The event that starts the supernatural drama is the protagonist checking a book out of the Bodleian library in Oxford. Season 3, which premiered January 8, finds protagonists Diana Bishop (a witch played by Teresa Palmer) and Matthew Clairmont (a vampire played by Matthew Goode) back from ye olden times ready to find and repair a missing manuscript, defeat their bigoted enemies who aren't down with inter-species love, find a cure for a catastrophic vampire illness, and safeguard the future for their babies. The series is the TV adaptation of the All Souls Trilogy by historian-turned-fantasy-novelist Deborah Harkness. SDH Drama New to the Shop Shop by Price: DVDs over $75 Video Video: Blu-ray Video: Drama Video: New Releases Video: Science Fiction add-to-cart ///s/files/1/0091/9378/3332/products/23823B.png?v=1671043356 40547618717732 Default Title 89.98 ///shopifycloud/shopify/assets/no-image-2048-5e88c1b20e087fb7bbe9a3771824e743c244f437e4f8ba93bbf7b11b53f7824c.I have so many gripes with the fantasy series A Discovery of Witches and yet the squeal of delight I emitted when I saw that its third season had premiered in January could have shattered glass. 7 nail-biting episodes, starring Teresa Palmer ( Hacksaw Ridge, Warm Bodies) and Matthew Goode ( The Crown, Downton Abbey).

Does it hold the genetic key to their survival? A “luxurious and intelligent” ( TV Insider) British fantasy thriller, based on the All Souls trilogy by Deborah Harkness.

What’s the worst that could happen if a witch and a vampire fall in love and have children? In their final, spellbinding season together, the newlyweds-historian/witch Diana Bishop and geneticist/vampire Matthew Clairmont-race through time to find a cure for blood rage, confront murderous rivals, and restore missing pages of the ancient and mysterious Book of Life.

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