News Talamasca: The Secret Order Talamasca Trailer Shows Off Supernatural Spy Thriller With a Hint of Orphan Black They’re always watching. By Molly Templeton | Published on September 4, 2025 Screenshot: AMC Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: AMC The previous teaser for the latest series in the Anne Rice Immortal Universe, Talamasca: The Secret Order, looked very Torchwood meets Buffy‘s Watchers Council—a potent mix already. A new trailer treads similar ground, but leans hard on supernatural-spy-thriller vibes, with a hint of Orphan Black. It’s not just that the trailer opens with someone stepping in front of a train; it’s also the sense of the fully modern world running up against something else. This series probably isn’t veering off into humans with tails, but it is full of technology and mysteries and tangled histories. And witches and vampires, too. (Yeah, okay, maybe there’s a little bit of Grimm in this show’s DNA.) There are certainly secrets in the history of Guy Anatole (Nicholas Denton), who is recruited by a strange woman named Helen (Elizabeth McGovern) to work for the Talamasca, which keeps watch over the supernatural. (He thinks she’s a spy at first. He seems not entirely wrong.) Interview with the Vampire’s Daniel Molloy (Eric Bogosian) shows up to warn him away. His handler, Olive (Maisie Richardson-Sellers), tells him he’s in so much trouble. William Fichtner’s vampire tells him he’s already in hell. And clearly, little Guy saw something very traumatizing. His was no ordinary childhood. TV Insider‘s fall preview spotlight on the show includes an intriguing detail about the show’s relationships: Helen’s recruitment of Guy is long-planned. “He’s actually had a lot of his life sort of mapped out for him by this woman and the Talamasca,” Denton explains. “It’s really quite horrible… She’s made this complete fictitious world for him, and it’s quite a heartbreaking [reveal] for Guy, and for Helen in a way, because she has to admit that she’s done these things to him.” Why? Because, as the trailer says, he can hear things other people can’t. (Spidey sense, is that you?) Talamasca seems designed to require little to no previous Immortal Universe knowledge, and is not based on any specific Rice novels. The Talamasca appears in her books about vampires and witches—and Talamasca agents appear on Interview with the Vampire—but showrunners Mark Lafferty (Halt and Catch Fire) and John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side) seem to have had a lot of freedom to concoct a whole new side to the Immortal Universe. Talamasca: The Secret Order premieres on AMC and AMC+ on October 26.[end-mark] The post <i>Talamasca</i> Trailer Shows Off Supernatural Spy Thriller With a Hint of <i>Orphan Black</i> appeared first on Reactor.