The series, which debuts in Spring 2020, is set in an alternate America where witches ended their persecution over 300 years ago by cutting a deal with the government to fight for their country, Motherland: Fort Salem follows three young women from basic training in combat magic into early deployment.
In this world, the traditional roles of gender and power are flipped, with the more dominant women on the front lines fighting looming terrorist threats that are familiar to our world—but with supernatural tactics and weapons.
Set in an alternate America where witches ended their persecution over 300 years ago by cutting a deal with the government to fight for their country, Motherland: Fort Salem follows three young women from basic training in combat magic into early deployment.
In this world, the traditional roles of gender and power are flipped, with the more dominant women on the front lines fighting looming terrorist threats that are familiar to our world—but with supernatural tactics and weapons.
The one-hour drama was just greenlit for a 10-episode series, which is set in an alternate version of America, where witches have agreed to fight for the U.S. in exchange for an end to their persecution. And no, you did not misread any part of that sentence.
Motherland: Fort Salem will follow three young women from basic training in combat magic into terrifying and thrilling early deployment. In this world, the traditional roles of gender and power are flipped with women on the front lines, the fight looming and terrorist threats that are strikingly familiar to our world, but with supernatural tactics and weapons.
Taylor Hickson is Raelle, a recruit with “major authority issuesâ€; Jessica Sutton is Tally, who joins the fight “despite her mother’s passionate disapprovalâ€; Amalia Holm is Scylla, a suspicious recruit who is “not what she appears to beâ€; and Demetria McKinney is Anacostia, a “tough but wryly humorous†drill sergeant.
