The film stumbles as its plot gets more complicated, introducing the house’s previous resident, evil warlock Isaac Izard (Kyle MacLachlan), Jonathan’s former partner-in-magic who turned to thedark side after an encounter with a demon named Azazel (Christian Calloway) during World War II.
2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How Talent Shows Became TV’s Most Bizarre Programmes”, inBBC Online[3], archived fromthe original on7 December 2021:
[P]revious finalists on the show have begun to speak out against issues they had to deal with when the cameras stopped filming.[…] But just as thedark side of the genre threatened to overshadow any previous genuine highs, in 2019, buzz spread in the US around a talent show that had to be seen to be believed.