6.5/10 - A Discovery of Witches has the bones to be a great supernatural TV series, but is ultimately let down by poor dialogue and pacing issues. The storyline, especially the romantic elements, seems rushed/forced and the writing often cringeworthy and clichéd. It's hard to imagine the relationship between the main characters as something organic, especially set in a universe where inter-species relationships are taboo - you'd expect there to be more hesitation in starting the relationship initially, and instead have it something that could have been built up over the first season or so.

I'm focusing a lot of this review on the romantic elements because, yes, it is a dominant element of this storyline. So if you were expecting something other than a racy/romantic grown up version of Twilight you might want to skip this one.

What the show does well, however, is looking visually stunning and at least contributing something even somewhat different to a genre that has seen it's fair share of copy-paste narratives. Matthew Goode plays the role of an intense love-obsessed vampire with conviction, however, the jury is still out on Teresa Palmer's doe-eyed witch who seems to look perpetually startled (I must mentioned I've only seen up the the end of season 1).