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Sanctuary: A Witch's Tale, the Sundance Now (and AMC+) original series based on the VV James novel Sanctuary, will return for a second season. The surprise announcement came in mid-August 2024, over six months since the show's original January debut. Despite the tiny viewership numbers (which,
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Sanctuary: A Witch's Tale is at the halfway point of the season, and already there have been major revelations about the ugliness of the town hiding beneath the surface. While the facts coming to light are enough to make one's hair stand on end, perhaps the
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AMC+'s shows about contemporary magic have been headlined by adaptations of the American Anne Rice novels Interview with a Vampire and Mayfair Witches. But the European old world is where many of those tales originate from, so it's not surprising that the latest offering, streaming jointly
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In Sanctuary: A Witch’s Tale, the small and affluent UK town of Sanctuary is rocked by the death of the most popular teen boy. The series explores grief, trauma, power, and fear against a backdrop where magic and witchcraft exist but are not entirely accepted. Magic is often used
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In the AMC+/Sundance Now limited series Sanctuary: A Witch’s Tale, the small UK town of Sanctuary is home to “registered” witch Sarah Fenn (Elaine Cassidy) in a reality where magic is real and witchcraft is regulated by the law. Based on the novel by V. V. James, a
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Witch hunts, whether literal or figurative, are based on generally fear. Fear of the other, of the non-Christian, fear of anything that's too different or strange. And, historically, whether we're talking about 14th century Europe or 17th century America, they're almost always about women.
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Sadly, witch hunts never seem to go out of style. Humanity has been obsessed with rooting out evidence of witchcraft --- and punishing women who were deemed to be too different or too powerful for society’s liking --- for hundreds of years, and well before the infamous trials in
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Sundance Now is one of the multiple niche titles under the larger AMC+ banner. It is part of the only streaming service that's diving up its content to serve micro-audiences rather than combine into a larger behemoth. It's also a bit of an oddity, as it