"A good spy series is hard to find. Long-form can be a great platform for the mystery, intrigue, and twists inherent in the genre - but it's not a catch-all for a weak story. Throwing in a supernatural element also has the capacity to make or break, as the next chapter in AMC's Immortal Universe, Talamasca: The Secret Order, dolefully demonstrates."
"Talamasca is based loosely on the work of Anne Rice, whose Interview with the Vampire has already been adapted ( and to great success) by AMC. After two seasons of intimate storytelling, Talamasca is set to kick the door to the Immortal universe wide open: where Interview only teased the inner workings of vampires, witches, and other creatures of the night, its spinoff had the freedom to explore it all with gusto."
Talamasca is an AMC spinoff set in Anne Rice's Immortal Universe that centers on a clandestine organization monitoring supernatural threats. The series adapts Rice's broader mythology more subtly and slowly than Interview with the Vampire, prioritizing human members of the secret society over flamboyant supernatural theatrics. Showrunners John Lee Hancock and Mark Lafferty create original characters to probe unanswered questions about the Talamasca. Despite near-total freedom to expand the franchise, the series feels half-baked and stagnant, with perspectives that lack sufficient compelling urgency or intrigue to justify the spinoff's existence.
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