Ok so wow, the Newfoundland stuff. On the one hand it’s not a super-retcon regarding Lena’s Irish heritage, Newfoundland has a lot of Irish decendents (hell there’s even a band with that exact name) but the framing definitely feels weird.
There’s no town called Fortune Bay, that I’m aware of, but there IS an actual bay with that name. Some of the panning shots were good and felt right for the province, but I the bar/restaurant setting felt wrong, no town with a population of around 800 is keeping up a business like that.
Also, witchcraft is not really a thing in our folklore, at least not of the Salem variety that the show seemed to be leaning into. If they had gone with something more like the Fae folk it may have felt a bit more authentic.
But the accents. My god. It’s true the province has a wide range of dialects but most of the people in this town didn’t even sound like they shared the same one. Really makes it feel like this was a last minute setting decision, even if that’s not actually the case.
And I think I pulled something cringing at Andrea when she said ‘Newfinlind’. That was old in the 90s, American media! How is that pronunciation still a thing?!