After suffering the Twilight movies it's hard not to make a comparison. I do appreciate that this series is based on a different literary work, and that it's cinematographically superiror and has good actors playing fully developed characters who show developement throughout the two seasons. Still, the breaking of the genre conventions lands it squarely in Twilight territory. Witches, vampires and demons, as presented in this show, are all ordinary people with the odd supernatural quirk. There's no grand evil, no true monsters and no otherworldly terrors, just regular folks who now and then conjur up some flimsy effect and hunt deer naked in the highlands and... nope, that's it. There's nothing supernatural about the demons in this show so far. And there's the forbidden love subplot, overdrawn of course.

It's a decent show, I watched it, it was fine. I do take issue with the manner in which the film industry reuses monster figures though. Horrors of the collective imagination that have lost their potency are being recicled and used to represent the misunderstood outcasts. It's just wrong.