This show reminds me of budget youth series I would watch on telly after school. It's a fantasy universe that's very serious and profound with a lot at stake all the time, typical adolescent prententiousness (even though the main character is an adult woman). It's (rather refeshingly) free of any irony.

So it's a nice guilty pleasure with simple racism themes with clear-cut good and bad people and our heroes lounging around in libraries and big houses reading books older than USA itself (the All Souls Trilogy is an American romantic view on Brits after all). Ah, the pleasures of the privileged...

Sociologically, it's interesting to se the white American middle class woman's fantasy to be smitten by an immortal British vampire, break free of her boring settler life and discover her European roots and true chaotic self, the witch within.