a discovery of witches season 3 episode 4

Knox and Fuchs aren’t even the extent of the conflict, as Baldwin’s arrival at Mayfair showed. This is a magical story after all, if not necessarily a logical one.)

(A possibly dumb question: if Jack spent his early vampire life pining for Diana and Matthew, obsessed with proving himself as a true de Clermont, and met Philippe, why did he never cross paths with past-Matthew? And why wouldn’t Philippe have instructed Matthew to cull the blood-raged vampire with the rest of them instead of telling Jack to wait for Matthew to teach him control? Never mind. Here’s an idea – seeing as Knox hates vampires and Fuchs hates everything, why not sic the pair on each other, and everybody else can go for a picnic? While we were thinking Peter Knox was the villain of the piece, in snuck that sneaky Fuchs. Poor Jack was used as a tool by the biggest tool of them all – Benjamin Fuchs. First he was saved from the streets and then abandoned, before being saved from the plague and then groomed by a vampire with a grudge as old as the Crusades. The blood-raged killer responsible for last season’s grisly Oxford crime scenes wasn’t Benjamin Fuchs, or one of Marcus’ brood, but the little boy Matthew and Diana adopted in 1590. Like blood rage, torment runs through Matthew’s line, and both combine in his newest family member: Jack Blackfriars, played by The Last Kingdom’s Toby Regbo. No rest for the wicked(ly) handsome and tormented, I suppose. He’s got DNA to harvest, a disease to cure, a scion to form, and the not-insignificant task of coming out to a roomful of human PhDs who are definitely about to ask him if he can turn into a bat. Matthew de Clermont should be spending this time dancing sexy tangos with his magical wife and deciding on nursery décor for the twins, but no. Who’d be a vampire? Yes, the eternal youth, fashion, cars, French castles and beautifully wallpapered Mayfair abodes are one thing, but oh the guilt and inflexible hierarchy that goes with it. Warning: this A Discovery of Witches review contains spoilers.

A discovery of witches season 3 episode 4