'Domino Day: Lone Witch' Is a Propulsive Series Worth Feeding On
If you’re looking for a sexy, BIPOC-led, mile-a-minute witch series set in present-day North England – something audiences should always be looking for at all times – you could do a lot worse than Domino Day: Lone Witch. The six-part first season (a second season has yet to be announced) launched in the U.K. in January (where it was just titled Domino Day) as part of BBC3, a smaller channel for the nationalized broadcaster that specializes in youth-oriented programming. Historically, if a show was hip, genre-blending, and eye-catching, it would likely be on BBC3 – think Being Human, Torchwood, or In the Flesh.
It’s clear with that in mind that Domino Day is an attempt to relaunch that buzzy, smarmy, thrilling tradition for the recently revamped channel, so let’s hope that enough of an overseas crowd latch onto its sparky, entertaining modern fantasy on AMC+ (I mean, it’s not like anything blows up on Sundance Now, the other streamer you can watch it on). It certainly deserves your time – a brisk dip into the covert witch hierarchy of Manchester through the eyes of outcast witch Domino (Siena Kelly), whose succubus-type powers attract unwanted attention from a local coven looking to stay in the good books of punitive witch elders.
We meet Domino alone in a bar that’s trendy but “wanky” (commit this descriptor to memory if you ever want to truly understand the British lexicon) – it immediately doesn’t seem like her vibe, something picked up on by the flirty barman Leon (Percelle Ascott). That’s because she’s going on low-profile first dates with shitty men so she can “feed” off them – a violent process that looks like she’s sucking a glowing snake from their mouth to hers. This is not normal and alerts her lone wolf presence to a female coven operating from a nearby plant store – led by Kat (Alisha Bailey), whose subservience to the witch elder Esme (Lucy Cohu) means suppressing her inherited practice of Caribbean witchcraft.
