Thursday, 4th February 2021 at 7:14 pm
The final episode of A Discovery of Witches’ second series airs on Sky One on Friday 12th March, bringing another action-packed season to a close.
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And luckily fans won’t have to wait quite so long between seasons as they did last time out: while there was a gap of more than two years between the first and second run, there’s little chance of that being the case this time around, with season three filming having already wrapped.
The news that production had concluded in February was followed by a steady stream of casting announcements later in the same month, with five new additions revealed alongside a major recasting.
In this week’s episode of
A Discovery of Witches, we move to the present where trouble is brewing as Peter Knox, Gerbert, and Domenico plot to destroy the de Cleremonts.
Here are key moment to note:
Knox, Gerbert, and Domenic Team Up
Knox heads to Venice where he tells Gerbert that the Madison coven finally cracked and revealed that Matthew and Diana formed their own shadow cabal of three witches, three daemons, and three vampires in secrecy. The witch is sure that whatever the group is planning has to do with the Book of Life. He convinces the old vampire that they need to pool their resources together if they are to stand a chance against them. Gerbert agrees and shares with Knox everything he’s known about Ashmole 782 since the 13
A Discovery of Witches season 2 spoilers follow – including its ending.
Dashing vampire Matthew De Clermont and his new wife, trainee witch Diana, had a busy old time of it in season two of
A Discovery Of Witches, and by the end of the season there were numerous cliffhangers to be resolved and questions to be answered.
After learning she could time-walk at the end of the first season, Diana travelled back in time with Matthew to Elizabethan London to escape the clutches of witch Peter Knox, to learn more about witchcraft, and to search for the Book of Life, also known as Ashmole 782, which may contain vital secrets about vampires, witches and daemons.
Doctor Who’s Alex Kingston and Valarie Pettiford). There’s even some
Game of Thrones essence thanks to the casting of Owen Teale who played Jon Snow’s Night’s Watch nemesis Ser Alliser Thorne as villainous witch Peter Knox. By the end of season one, Diana and Matthew have pissed off enough influential creatures that the plot
must dip into the fantasy Filofax and call up
Outlander, sending the couple back in time (conveniently, “timewalking” is one of Diana’s newfound abilities).
In the past, they hope Diana will be able to learn to control her magic without her enemies some are angry about the witch-vampire thing, some have personal vendettas,