Without spoiling too much - though the pilot wraps up as many storylines as it leaves open - we soon jump forward seven years to Alden’s return to Salem. Scared of the town’s ruthless overseer George Sibley, Mary goes off into the woods with a “friend” and things just get weirder from there on out. Played by Shane West (“Nikita,” “ER”), Alden is a more liberal-minded thinker than the Puritan society surrounding him, and not simply because he enjoys physically expressing his love for Mary, so much so that he gets her pregnant and skips town to go to war before she can tell him. In what could be a nod to another tale of literal interpretations of the Bible gone awry, “The Scarlet Letter,” an “F” is seared onto Isaac Walton’s forehead as a permanent reminder of his crime, despite objections from our story’s hero, John Alden. The show opens with a couple being whipped for “committing the sin of self-pollution,” or, as far as I can tell, seeing each other naked and kissing (maybe more). The premiere episode knocked me on my heels after growing up with WGN as a safe, family channel. 'Obi-Wan Kenobi': Everything You Need to Know About the Disney+ SeriesĪ History of Unsimulated Sex Scenes in Cannes Films, from 'Mektoub' to 'Antichrist'įor the most part, it works.
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While being held in suspense as to what’s real and what’s not has done wonders for television shows and movies of the past, “Salem” isn’t messing around with that stuff. It’s set on establishing a classic battle between good and evil with the souls of our early nation’s settlers in the balance - conventional, but shocking, and that’s most certainly by design. Choosing a horror show as their network’s first scripted series was no accident - WGN is betting on the shock and awe strategy to lure in new viewers, a kind of attention-getting announcement via sex and violence on a network previously known for airing Chicago Cubs baseball and old sitcoms.Įlle Fanning Rules 'The Great' and 'Girl from Plainville' - Long May She ReignĮlle Fanning Explains Why 'Girl from Plainville' Finale Had an 'Eternal Sunshine' Moment There’s no question in the viewers’ minds whether or not what they’re seeing is a trick, a mental illness, or even a mutant infection - these are demon-worshipping, seance holding, pig’s-head-wearing witches.
From the first scene forward, witches are portrayed as being very, very real. The dramatic retelling of the 1692 Salem witch trials posits that witches being hunted weren’t fallacies at all, but real Satanic beings manipulating the town folk into a state of paranoia and fear.Ĭreated by Brannon Braga (“COSMOS,” three of the “Star Trek” series) and Adam Simon (“The Haunting in Connecticut”), “Salem” deals with witchcraft in a literal manner. WGN America is looking to change that with “Salem,” its first scripted series.
As horrific as the fictional events were in Arthur Miller’s Tony-award winning play “The Crucible,” the genre of horror and all its caveats don’t immediately spring to mind. When someone mentions the tiny town of Salem, Massachusetts, your mind probably goes to false accusations of witchcraft, the dangers of a mob mentality, and lessons in junior high English class on the power of allegory.
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