Motherland: Fort Salem Archives

Well, the series finale of Freeform's Motherland: Fort Salem, "Revolution Part 2", has arrived, and with it the ending of a very lovely journey Motherland has been a show that continuously touches on subjects of importance unapologetically It constantly stands behind feminism and diversity and properly represents minorities and LGBTQIA+ characters without falling into clichés[...]

The witch hunt continues on this week's episode of Freeform's Motherland: Fort Salem S03E05 "Cession in Session," and things do not bring hope forth After a slow start, this was a great episode to start picking the pace up and start grabbing our interest This episode did manage to get me to raise my voice[...]

Just as long as they can survive this week's second season finale, Abigail (Ashley Nicole Williams), Tally (Jessica Sutton), and Raelle (Taylor Hickson) will be back for a third and final season of Freeform's Motherland: Fort Salem The news comes a day before the show wraps up Season 2 with a huge standoff between our witches[...]

Heading into this season's penultimate episode "Mother of All, Mother of None", Freeform's Motherland: Fort Salem has done an impressive job of throwing twists and turns at the viewers, taking things in directions that most of the time they don't see coming Which is why we're not buying into Alder (Lyne Renee) being as big[...]

Things just keep getting tougher for our favorite witches with this week's episode of Freeform's Motherland: Fort Salem, "Irrevocable" Last episode tables were turned and left us with a cliffhanger that promised things could get worse… and they really did Between attacks coming in from all ends: The Spree, the Camarilla, and the muggles; and[...]

Things just keep getting darker with each episode of Motherland: Fort Salem and even got us screaming with the most recent, "My Three Dads" This episode was a wild ride We finally get some answers and our witches seem to be getting on the right track, but things get cut short and it seems we[...]

Our favorite trio of witches confesses to struggling a bit on their new academic tracks on this episode of Freeform's Motherland: Fort Salem, "A Tiffany" Raelle (Taylor Hickson) is struggling with her new-found fungal power, Abigail (Ashley Nicole Williams) is struggling to find her worth as a witch without being tied down by tradition, and[...]

Things start growing tense for many in this week's episode of Freeform's Motherland: Fort Salem, "Abomination", as some characters face hard truths Our unit of witches is off to War College and to meet their coven However, after discovering the source of that weird power, things might start falling apart soon The Spree and Army[...]

This week the new season of Freeform's Motherland: Fort Salem premiered with "Of the Blood", and holy wow it was off to a great start It started off exactly where season 1 left off and picked up quickly from there with a flowing story and fast pace The plot presented itself effortlessly and made sense,[...]

Evil Dead, Strike Back, Iron Fist, Power, Nightflyers, Halo, Altered Carbon, and Motherland: Fort Salem Promoting her latest film Endangered Species for Lionsgate, I spoke to the writer and director about comparing film and television, and why the FX TV series Alien, based on the film franchise, is her dream project "It's night and day[...]

With the second season of Freeform's Motherland: Fort Salem set to cast its spell beginning Tuesday, June 22, viewers of the series are being introduced to some of the friendly (and potentially not-so-friendly) new faces they'll be meeting when it does Deadline Hollywood is reporting exclusively that Victor Webster (Workin' Moms), Mellany Barros (Chad), Praneet Akilla[...]

With Lyne Renee's General Alder on board as a series regular and the second season set to cast its spell in a month, viewers of Freeform's supernatural-drama series Motherland: Fort Salem are being treated to not only two teaser previews of what's to come but also the overviews for the season's first two episodes[...]

Fans of Freeform's supernatural-drama series Motherland: Fort Salem have another reason to be excited for the summer, with the popular series set to conjure up its second season on Tuesday, June 22, at 10 p.m ET When the series was first renewed, it was also announced that Lyne Renee (General Alder) would be promoted to a series[...]

At Friday's Television Critics Association (TCA) winter press event, Freeform worked a little magic for fans of Motherland: Fort Salem During the panel event, Walt Disney Television's young adult network announced that the Eliot Laurence-created series would be heading back to screens during Summer 2021 In addition, the cabler also released an overview of what[...]

The highlight of Freeform's Motherland: Fort Salem is its portrayal of women: powerful, assertive, embracing their sexuality, and willing to show their faults as a part of their strength Whether out of duty, honor, enjoyment, or even blatant power-seeking, they are not shamed for any of it This creates such a wonderful parallel against our[...]

The last day of Comic-Con@Home aka kicked off on the television/streaming side with Motherland: Fort Salem, the cast and showrunner discussing the show, their characters, and answering questions The panel was moderated by Lindsay McDonald (TV Guide), who was joined by Eliot Laurence (Showrunner), Taylor Hickson (Raelle), Ashley Nicole Williams (Abigail), Jessica Sutton (Tally), Demetria[...]

The warrior witches of Freeform's Motherland: Fort Salem will be storming their way into this year's Comic-Con@Home event, with the cast and crew set to take fan questions, offer a look back on the first season, preview what's yet to come in the second season, and delve deeper into the series' expanding universe On Saturday,[...]

This week's episode of Freeform's Motherland: Fort Salem continued right where it left off, packed with action and showing just how far our witches have evolved with their training As always, we get some inconsistencies with our "rebel" heroine but we also see how much the other two have grown We witness some particular nastiness[...]

This week, Freeform's Motherland: Fort Salem finally brings us the urgency and pacing we have been craving This episode has been the best one so far, putting our witches-in-training in a situation even professors at Hogwarts would cringe at Viewers finally get a chance to see our threesome in a bit of action and showing[...]

This week's episode of Freeform's Motherland: Fort Salem sparks up something very important that I need to address: viewers need to start having a serious conversation about Raelle (Taylor Hickson) Her petulant character continues to take the attention away from the matters at hand and distracts from the storyline with no real character development While[...]

Last episode of Freeform's Motherland: Fort Salem picked up right where it let off previously, and it was packed with lots of little details and world-building The show feels like it is starting to pick up and tension is building faster There are still a lot of questions that have yet to be answered Viewers[...]

The second episode of Freeform's Motherland: Fort Salem is much more concise and feels more linear—not sure how to explain it Pretty sure it might be since our main characters have probably been introduced, our story can move freely and smoothly.  Though I am still a bit confused about the way time seems to be[...]

Okay – we're not gonna' lie: the opening scene to Freeform's Motherland: Fort Salem completely caught us off-guard That terrorist attack by The Spree was so disturbingly horrific, it had me checking to see if something screwed up and I was watching American Horror Story The series doesn't exactly believe in the term "subtle" –[...]

As first episodes go, Freeform's Motherland: Fort Salem did a strong job of meeting season-starting expectations It set the series' tone and introduced us to our main characters without having to beat us over the head with their pasts It grabbed my attention and kept me watching By the time the hour passed, I was[...]

Freeform's Motherland: Fort Salem has been doing a great job in getting interested eyeballs up-to-speed on the series' alternative history, but now it's time to get personal with Claws creator Eliot Laurence and executive producers Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, and Kevin Messick's upcoming supernatural drama. What follows are the first two in what we're assuming is going to be[...]

We've been tracking production on Freeform's upcoming Motherland: Fort Salem for some time now, so we're pretty excited to get our eyeballs on the show's magic when it premieres Wednesday, March 18 Claws creator Eliot Laurence and executive producers Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, and Kevin Messick have offered previews and teasers that gave viewers a better sense of[...]

With Freeform's upcoming Motherland: Fort Salem set to work its magic on Wednesday, March 18, the hour-long drama from Claws creator Eliot Laurence and executive producers Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, and Kevin Messick released a new teaser that show what impact our warrior witches can have when they "Answer The Call" to national glory and greatness. And as you're about[...]

It was in March 2019 when Freeform gave a 10-episode series order for Motherland: Fort Salem, an hour-long drama written by Claws creator Eliot Laurence, directed by Steven Adelson, and executiveproduced Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, and Kevin Messick Now with the series a little more than a month away, the cable network released a new teaser showing that in[...]

It was in March 2019 when Freeform gave a 10-episode series order for Motherland: Fort Salem, an hour-long drama written by Claws creator Eliot Laurence, directed by Steven Adelson, and executiveproduced Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, and Kevin Messick Now with the series a little more than a month away, the cable network released a new teaser trailer that offers https://youtu.be/oqSaZYJaeqQVideo[...]

It was in March 2019 when Freeform gave a 10-episode series order for Motherland: Fort Salem, an hour-long drama written by Claws creator Eliot Laurence, directed by Steven Adelson, and executiveproduced Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, and Kevin Messick Now with the series more than a month away (more on tht below), the cable network released a new teaser trailer[...]