Despite Hudson Williams, Canadian Witch Mystery ‘Yaga’ Is No ‘Heated Rivalry’: TV Review

Despite Hudson Williams, Canadian Witch Mystery ‘Yaga’ Is No ‘Heated Rivalry’: TV Review hakkında magazin dünyasında yaşanan en son ayrıntılar ve sıcak gelişmeler netleşti. Oct 23, 2026 6:30am PT Despite Hudson Williams, Canadian Witch Mystery ‘Yaga’ Is No ‘Heated Rivalry’: TV Review By Alison Herman Plus Icon Alison Herman TV Critic aherman2006 Latest ‘The Gilded Age’ Team on Paramount Merger Parallels and Going From Budget Cuts to a Season 3 Breakout: ‘You’re Part of a Very Fortunate Minority’ 23 hours ago Olivia Cooke on Returning to ‘Slow Horses,’ On-Set Injuries and That Shocking Finale Cliffhanger: ‘I Want a Showdown!’ 2 days ago Hulu’s Mother-Son Mystery ‘Phony’ Mutes Connie Britton’s Charisma Under Visual Effects: TV Review 3 days ago See All Add us as a Google Preferred Source Comments The witchy thriller “ Yaga ” is a Canadian production that co-stars Hudson Williams, now hot enough off of “Heated Rivalry” to earn a “with” before his name in the credits. That’s about where the similarities with the hockey-themed megahit end, though not for lack of trying: “Yaga” — which airs on streaming service AMC+ in the States — painfully strains for the eroticism and insight into sexuality that came so easily to “Heated Rivalry,” resulting in an eight-episode season that’s often cringe without ascending into camp.

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But other blunders are all “Yaga”’s own. Choppy pacing, poor casting and facile feminism all combine to make “Yaga” a misfire, one viewers in search of seasonal scares should overlook in favor of alternatives.

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Related Stories Tom Skerritt, ‘Picket Fences’ and ‘Alien’ Star, Dies at 93 Adapted by creator Kat Sandler from her play of the same name, “Yaga” introduces itself as a missing persons mystery centered on Williams’ Henry Park, a billionaire heir whose concerned parents send family fixer Rapp (Noah Reid) to track down somewhere in rural British Columbia. But the story’s real interest is right there in the title: Sandler wants to rework the Baba Yaga myth of cannibal witches in chicken-legged huts for the modern day.

(“Yaga” foreshadows this project with Slavic covers of various pop standards, a legitimately fun detail.) Unfortunately, the show can’t muster a take more interesting than platitudes like “a witch is just someone society has decided they’re afraid of,” coming more than a decade after touchstones like “The Witch” and “American Horror Story: Coven” advanced similar ideas in a more artful way. Popular on Variety “Yaga” could deliver excitement in other areas, and tries to.

Rapp quickly discovers Henry and his lookalike roommate Logan (also Williams, minus colored contacts and plus a prosthetic nose), both college students, had an uncommonly close relationship with their professor Katherine (Carrie-Ann Moss), an anthropologist known as the “bone lady” for her academic interest in ossified remains. When he meets Katherine in a hotel bar, not realizing she’s about to be a person of interest, Rapp’s idea of a come-on is asking for sexy facts about bones.

Such clumsy and futile attempts at chemistry are not the fault of Moss, who’s pretty much the only person in the ensemble to project the earthy, seductive vibe “Yaga” is clearly going for. Rapp himself is part of the problem: Reid’s performance renders him a loudmouth bro whose effect on the town’s women, including but by no means limited to Katherine, utterly baffling.

(At times, the question of Rapp’s inexplicable attractiveness is more pressing than that of Henry’s whereabouts.) There’s also a clash between the gorgeous, haunting atmosphere implied by the scenery, all fog-bound waters and shady forests, and the buddy-cop banter between

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