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Sanctuary: A Witch's Tale (2024)
The transition is killing me
First of all, the fade-out/ fade-in transition is so amateur. It instantly drew me out of it. Like when the camera focused on Sarah's angry face, it faded out too soon. The mood set, causal or tense, is completely gone.
Drama with magic, witches. An absolute yes! But this one had murder-mystery main, with just little magic in it. Not enough. I need mooooreee.
All other characters with magic were too similar to each other. Morgan Lynch showed magic was used in the warehouse. Robert Alton discovered Sarah had been using forbidden magic. And Shula Maloney recognized the old sign of destruction. Do you really need 3 characters to tell these?
And the muggles were so fickle. Like Beatrice despising her mother in the past few episodes, but in finale suddenly was quite neutral towards Julia, even comforted her while leaving the execution. What changed?? Also when Bridget said "I take over from here" to Cheryl after all those arguments shown, I genuinely thought Bri would just get rid of her. But then, they were such a loving family again in the execution. What kind of besties are these two, Julia and Bridget? Sarah was right to leave the town without saying goodbye to these people.
The ending was a bit rush. Abi's and Michael's death were fine. But Ted? I thought Remy would come and arrest him after DCI Knight showed Remy what was happening. But like the other plots in this show, it just disappeared.
American Horror Stories: Bloody Mary (2022)
Basic story. Things don't add up
Starting with 5 stars
-3 star for the plot.
1) How many years since Blood Mary became Blood Mary? Century and a half? It is a long period. Why does she get free now? Especially you make Blood Mary so powerful, causing hallucinations through mirrors or reflections to be exact. It should be so easy to lure many "victims" to free her, just like what she does. And why are there so people missing but she is still there in the mirror?
2) There is a reference to Mami Wata, mother of water in the African culture, according to Wiki. Linking water and reflections is a smart move. But the reference is thrown to the audience in the last few minutes, no explanations or elaborations. This makes the reference a bit random. And it's also a miss that Blood Mary should be able to show herself in reflections of water and even the knife. Here just mirror. Cool effect tho.
3) Why does Elise have to kill to get innocent blood? Can't she steal blood?
I saw a comment pointing out there are very few actors of other races. I agreed but once I found that it's about the black culture. I think this is a safe move and I am okay with it. Still looking forward to the perfect balance between diversity and faithfulness.
Overall, the story is quite basic. There are interesting references but none of them helps. Things just don't add up.