Yes! The twilight generation is now in their twenties and has realised how ridiculous twinkly skin is... Bit late but never mind. Of course now however, they've been to university and/or worked in the real world for a few years and have (probably) grown up a bit. Therefore the girly emo's and girl emo's need some new dodgy vampire love stories that are a bit more mature (or, well....less idiotic) Enter, "A Discovery of Witches" woohoo!!!

So far I've found it to be failing on some writing and/or production quality. The plot scenario's are not properly developed for the viewer and the premises are just thrust in your face like they're all perfectly normal occurrences... Which I'd like to point out to everyone, they're not...despite how much of this kind of stuff has been on the screen in recent years. TV isn't real. I personally find the all-too-common rush through the important prelude and setting up the story much worse in movies recently, but in series where they have ample time to deal with all that properly I just wonder...why?

Slightly irate rant moment over with, A Discovery of Witches is pretty good aside from my aforementioned grievances. The underlying premise of the storyline is good and aside from the overly obvious romantic entanglement (sure to be filled with lots of talking and conflicted emotions while reliving some form of slightly less childish angst....errr, sorry the overly emotional drama that's almost certainly coming is pre-aggravating me) the plot has depth and intrigue slapping you about the face and neck, the camera work is slick and the actors are quality for the most part. Direction seems good except where magic is involved, I don't know what's going wrong here exactly, but it's just unrealistic. Wooo, unrealistic magic I hear you scoff. To which I reply, Harry Potter, Star Wars etc. etc. ad infinitum. Sets are very well put together and the on location filming captures Oxfords ancient streets quite well, if that is Oxford, I've never been there but I'm assuming it is.. What I'm sure will interest many viewers is the inside look at the Oxford university life, it does show a nice little snippet of the microcosm of Oxbridge academia.

All in all, worth a watch. Just be prepared for some less-than convincing magic hands....