TV Show Review - A Discovery of Witches - Season 1, Episode 4
Description: We meet Ysabeau, Marthe, Baldwin, and we get to see The Congregation assemble. Seriously, what could go wrong? Dinner, dancing, glaem, romance, ALL fantastic! Until Domenico shows up ... (plays suspense music right here). We're at the pivotal mid-point of the series; we laugh, swoon, rail, and wail!SPOILER ALERT! We (The Daemons) approach this podcast with an assumption that the listener has read All Souls universe books, including the trilogy (A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night, The Book of Life), and Time's Convert + snippits from The World of All Souls. If you haven't, and you don't mind, we certainly don't mind! Please be advised, we will approach the television series (A Discovery of Witches) the same way when it is released in the US/Canada. 😊 Let's do this. *Note - this podcast is labeled 'explicit'
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For newcomers to the series:- Our Daemon Guides to the All Souls Trilogy are available for download: ADOW, SON, TBOL
- If you'd like a ready-reference from the author herself, be sure to download the All Souls Real-Time Reading companion (free e-book at online booksellers via Penguin and Headline books). For a more in-depth view of the trilogy, The World of All Souls is available at all major book sellers, as well as the continuation volume into this world, Time's Convert.
- Deborah Harkness usually conducts a real-time reading on her Facebook Page (starting in September), and shares her posts across social media. Check out her website for all of her social media links, and of course all that she has to offer her readers! Be sure to sign up for her newsletter while you are there!
- To see what's available on the web as far as the All Souls universe fandom, check our links page.
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| It's time to meet Ysabeau! |
Official episode summary:
EPISODE 4
From the press release:
Matthew’s hope of keeping Diana safe at Sept-Tours appears short-lived as Ysabeau refuses to welcome the warmblood under her roof. Knox calls an emergency meeting of the Congregation to denounce Matthew for abducting a witch but Matthew’s ferocious older brother Baldwin plays a careful game to maintain control in the face of Gerbert foretelling the end of the de Clermonts – and throws Diana to the lions. Diana isn’t the only witch facing persecution. Satu pays a shocking price for her curiosity when Knox discovers she has been searching through the Witches’ Archive and learned his guilty secret. Meanwhile, things turn nasty in Oxford for Marcus and Miriam as Juliette attacks.
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| Those of you on the #TeamBaldwin bus, strap in. |
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| Peter is not winning our hearts and minds here. He's putting us in a position of defending Satu! |
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| Well, Matthew ... hiding away at your mom's was a good idea ... at the time. Whoops! |
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| Although, not what we pictured in the books, the end result was both spectacular and heartbreaking. |
Where to start? Well, let's start with Ysabeau. Ysabeau is not so pleased that her son has brought home a witch, and it seems her inner thought bubble is a bit leaky when she chides that "modern warmbloods are so poorly educated..." -- and that's in the first few minutes of meeting Diana! But in this remote place in France, Diana and Matthew are allowed to have some peace, and get to know each other a little more.
In the meantime, the Congregation is meeting. What's on the agenda? Diana and Matthew. Poor Baldwin. He cannot escape the drama that his brother has served a heaping plate of.
Peter did not appreciate Satu's contradiction in the chamber, so he teaches her a lesson. He's got us feeling bad for Satu! One would have to be REALLY evil for us to feel that way!
Back at Sept Tours, we got to see horseback riding (didn't they both look ecstatic while galloping across the field?), dinner, dancing -- and the magic that went with it! What spell has this show put on US?!
But then ... DOMENICO. Domenico has arrived to Sept Tours on a congregation errand; he's to collect Diana and bring her to the congregation. Welp, Matthew made sure that didn't happen. Domenico limped away with without any success.
After a discussion with Ysabeau, Matthew decides to end this 'fling' with Diana now. An incredulous Diana cannot believe Matthew is worrying about an ancient rule made by ancient creatures. But then Matthew finds out the lab has been broken into. Time to go, leave Diana with Ysabeau, and head back to Oxford. We feel Diana was drawing the collective tears of fans when she conjured that witchwater in that heart-breaking scene we were left with.
Join us next week when we discuss Diana's time with her babysitters, Ysabeau and Marthe. Oh, there may be other stuff too. Who knows! 😝
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| Magical sparkles or dust motes? You decide! |
- A Discovery of Witches soundtrack on iTunes/Apple music & Spotify
- The show, A Discovery of Witches, is available on SundanceNow and Shudder (in the US/Canada! Other countries, we aren't leaving you out -- it's just that the majority of our listeners reside in the US/Canada. Those of you in the UK/Ireland and have never heard of the series (what?!) it will be available for you on SkyOne and NowTV. Please check with your television providers outside of the countries we mentioned
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