""We watch and we are always there," goes the organization's clumsy motto, embossed on the thick white business card that a woman calling herself Helen (Elizabeth McGovern) hands to recent graduate Guy Anatole (Nicholas Denton) after he emerges triumphant from a job interview with a New York law firm. Helen also makes a job offer to Guy-who, not incidentally, can read minds-but she's pretty cagey about the nature of the work."
"In Talamasca- which features a few characters from Rice's books but is otherwise made of fresh material-that noninterventionist mandate has been jettisoned. The series is essentially a supernatural spy drama, replete with all the goodies of that genre: blackmail, double agents, shady arms deals, renegade operatives, internecine warfare, moles, safe houses, fake passports, people dashing down rain-slicked alleys in warehouse districts, and impossibly rich old guys laying sinister plans on Chesterfield sofas. Plus, vampires and witches."
AMC expands the Immortal Universe with Talamasca, a distinct series that reimagines a secret society dedicated to studying the supernatural as an active organization. A recent graduate who can read minds is recruited after a law-firm interview and introduced to the group's clandestine operations and motto. The show abandons the society's traditional noninterventionist mandate and becomes a supernatural spy thriller filled with blackmail, double agents, arms deals, safe houses, and covert violence. Vampires and witches share the stage with espionage mechanics, delivering energetic genre entertainment that could strengthen the franchise after mixed earlier entries.
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