I was watching this show Talamasca, but after the main character proved himself to be a huge dumbass episode after episode and the only interesting character — a witch named Kevis — got killed in the same ep in which she was introduced, I stopped watching it.
It’s not good and it’s extremely repetitive. It needed more of what Kevis brought and less of everything else.
“the only interesting character — a witch named Kevis ”
Very bizarre storytelling…. give a character a major character introduction and then knock her off almost immediately…. makes no real sense. Were they trying to sucker punch the audience or did they not realize how much the actress did with Kevis?
Elizabeth McGovern is doing what she can with her underwritten character (and Burton in the first episode had promise) and I even like the idea of a vampire listening to Georgia Satellites, but the main character is just a black hole of infantile anger and dumb-assery and I keep wanting terrible things to happen to him.
I’ll probably finish the season but wow, what a waste of potentially interesting source material.
When Kevis was introduced I was like, “Wow, she’s obviously going to be a main character for sure, so we’ll have something better than that impulsive, clueless sop of a protagonist sometimes!”
And then the writers fridged her right away. I think they didn’t realize how much the actress brought to the character in such brief screen time. And if they did, really failed to capitalize on it. I was almost yelling at my screen when she was killed off.
Jason Schwartzman was good as Burton, though. The show had so much potential, so poorly realized.
Both. The Hollywood logic is the main character has plot armor no matter how stupid he is and Kevis is a manic pixie dream girl who gets fridged along with anyone who’d care about her death. The show’s not willing to go with the implications of what little they’ve written which might make the show more interesting but weird out the target audience.
Yeah, I think the writers probably intended Kevis to be a MPDG but the actress made the character so much more than that in her screen time.
That’s a good point about how the writers aren’t willing to follow through on the logical implications of the world they’ve half-built. It would certainly repel the intended audience. Their softening of what legitimately should be some very dark themes and their refusal to push those arcs to their (if it were an actual world) logical end points makes the whole thing feel like cosplay of horror instead of actual horror. “What if vampires and witches were in a sitcom” is a question already better answered by other shows and films.
The fridging of Kevis was a plot beat that was tired and stereotypical 30 years ago so it’s a mystery why the writing team felt the need to use it yet again. It just caused most viewers I suspect to be angry at the show and Guy (both deserved), instead of having sympathy for the protag’s plight.
I think I could complain about that show all day.
“I think I could complain about that show all day.”
I watched the rest of it… and it didn’t get any better. It could have been interesting but instead they go for incredibly obvious beats and idiot plots.
There are some talented people involved but they were wasted so bad.
They named a vampire “Twilight Dark Horse” in Romanian which is like “Bitey Fangs “, I think? (I don’t speak Romanian so I don’t get why so many folk songs feature sad singing about horses.)
I know some Romanian and have listened to several crap tons of Romanian pop-folk songs and hardly remember anything about horses….
Albanians are the ones who put horses in about half of the pop-folk videos I’ve seen (which is also a lot)
Hungarians too, though they have a kind of cowboyesque tradition (though they used whips more than ropes).