Shying away from the scope and the horror of Anne Rice's 1990's witch trilogy, AMC's latest installment in the Immortal Universe is a dreary series.
I wish I liked Rowan more, but her character is watery and her motivations are constantly shifting, creating a season that quickly begins to feel aimless. It’s unfortunate that Daddario cannot seem to find any energy in her performance either, Rowan’s guarded stoicism never quite reaching Daddario’s stunningly blue eyes. She is at her most exciting when she’s playing off her Talamasca-assigned guardian, Ciprien Grieve , who has the psychometric ability to touch an object and witness the past.
ut rather than adding to the mystery, it simply creates frustration as he slides in and out of dreams and darkness. He becomes, a kind of nebulously all-powerful, mind-controlling asshole whose only purpose is to gaslight Rowan at various points in the series. Hurston does what he can with the material provided,. The bigger narrative issue is that Lasher’s
gaslighting doesn’t work when someone can literally manipulate reality. Because there is no truth, no stability, and no emotion that the demon cannot change, Rowan becomes twisted around Lasher’s little finger, but in the most dreary, agreeable way. There is no real anger, or extended conflict, or even remaining upset. She simply...There’s another part of this show that will disappoint many fans of Rice’s original trilogy.did not focus exclusively on Rowan, and created a vast, family epic that spanned generations.
of the series results in a show and characters that feel self important without justification. There is little history or depth to the family, and without that extended sense of paranoia fostered over 400 years of demonic obsession,becomes a relatively standard haunted house horror with a poltergeist who seems very attached to linen suits.nothing that moves beyond swamp-standard horror of an evil house.
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