Has Two Mommies: Diana was raised by her lesbian aunts after losing both of her parents as a child.It contains all magical secrets of everything.
Great Big Book of Everything: The Ashmole Manuscript, also called the Book of Life. He appears to refrain from drinking human blood at all, and is never anything less than a kind man who's a proper English gentleman. Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: Matthew. Does Not Like Magic: Diana's refused to use magic ever since muggles killed her parents over having it. Daywalking Vampire: All vampires in this universe appear to be completely unaffected by sunlight. Until we find out that it was actually witches who killed them and covered it up. Dark and Troubled Past: Diana's parents were killed by muggles who'd found out they were witches. In the series, Diana kills Juliette Durand, a mixed race vampire, and Emily Matther, Diana's aunt (a Black woman in the adaptation) is the next to be killed. Black Dude Dies First: In the books, Matthew kills Gillian Chamberlian first, but her fate is left ambiguous in the series. In the books, when Ysabeau refers to Diana as her daughter-in-law in public, Diana lampshades this by saying, "Second marriage, younger wife", as Ysabeau looks younger than she and Matthew. Word of God from Deborah Harkness explains that she imagined Lindsay Duncan as Ysabeau and that all the tragedies she has endured have aged her, even as a vampire. Probably to make it less confusing for viewers that a man Matthew's apparent age is calling her "mother". 
Age Lift: In the books, Matthew's sire Ysabeau looks slightly younger than he, but here she looks middle-aged.Agatha and Nathaniel Wilson are also black. Adaptational Diversity: In the TV show, Em is a black woman, descended from Tituba.
The series had three seasons, covering the events of the three novels in the All Souls trilogy. While working together, they strike to uncover the book's secrets and protect it from the threats in the world of magic. She receives help from the mysterious vampire and geneticist Matthew Clairmont, in spite of the mutual antagonism between their people. Herself a witch by birth, Diana has refused to do magic for years, but is forced to face it again because of the secrets this book holds. There Diana soon stumbles upon a bewitched book in the Bodleian Library. A Discovery of Witches is an Urban Fantasy TV series based on the book of the same name which began airing in 2018, starring Teresa Palmer and Matthew Goode.ĭiana Bishop (Palmer) is an American professor of history from Yale visiting a college at Oxford in the UK.
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