The Secret Order Debuts With 64% Rotten Tomatoes Rating

Talamasca: The Secret Order has debuted with a stable Rotten Tomatoes rating. The brand new collection is the third set in AMC’s Immortal Universe, a shared universe primarily based on Anne Rice’s novels, which started in 2022 with Interview with the Vampire and expanded with Mayfair Witches in 2023. The most recent spinoff premiered October 19 on AMC.

Now, following its premiere, Talamasca: The Secret Order has debuted with a 64% rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes. The present solely has 11 evaluations on the time of writing, so its rating might fluctuate as extra are printed. It would not but have an viewers rating, although with episode 1 having aired, it ought to very quickly. See how its rating compares to the remainder of the Immortal Universe beneath:

Created by John Lee Hancock, primarily based on The Vampire Chronicles and Lives of the Mayfair Witches, Talamasca: The Secret Order facilities on Man Anatole, a latest legislation faculty graduate who’s recruited by the titular Talamasca, a secretive group devoted to monitoring supernatural phenomena, to go undercover of their London Motherhouse and discover a rogue agent suspected of conspiring with darkish forces to destroy the group from inside.

The principle forged consists of Nicholas Denton as Man Anatole, Céline Buckens, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, William Fichtner, and Elizabeth McGovern. Particular visitor stars embody Jason Schwartzman and Eric Bogosian as Daniel Molloy, who final appeared in Interview with the Vampire season 2.

In ScreenRant‘s evaluation of Talamasca: The Secret Order, Sarah Moran writes, “With out William Fichtner’s scene-stealing vampire, this supernatural spy thriller would lack chunk… Anne Rice’s Immortal Universe grows with a supernatural spy thriller that is not horrible, however would not be practically pretty much as good with out William Fichtner.”

Regardless of its stable 64% Rotten Tomatoes rating, critics are considerably cut up on Talamasca: The Secret Order. Many are praising its performances, particularly Nicholas Denton and William Fichtner, and its daring growth of Anne Rice’s Immortal Universe into espionage-thriller territory. Others discover it clunky, uneven, or missing the model and emotional depth of Interview with the Vampire and Mayfair Witches.

General, whereas some critics see Talamasca: The Secret Order as a promising world-building bridge between the 2 reveals, others dismiss it as a bland procedural that by no means lives as much as its eerie supernatural premise.