Freeform’s ‘Motherland: Fort Salem’: TV Review

Selma Blair makes her way back to her car after visiting boyfriend Ron Carlson at his house on Monday afternoon (March 30) in Los Angeles.

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For Selma Blair, having to stay in self-quarantine due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak hasn’t been a dramatic change for the actress, who says she’s been essentially self-isolating for months amid her various medical treatments in her battle with multiple sclerosis.

For Selma Blair, having to stay in self-quarantine due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak hasn't been a dramatic change for the actress, who says she's been essentially self-isolating for months amid her various medical treatments in her battle with multiple sclerosis.

With U.S. theaters closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, Disney is releasing Harrison Ford’s “The Call of the Wild” early on digital on March 27.

While you’re sheltering in place or just trying to observe the proper social distancing, streaming TV is an excellent way to keep yourself occupied and connected.

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"Motherland: Fort Salem" is Freeform's latest highly anticipated TV series that puts its female actors and character on the front lines -- both literally and figuratively. The drama series follows characters Abigail (Ashley Nicole Williams), Tally (Jessica Sutton), and Raelle (Taylor Hickson) who are witches training to fight on the front lines for our country.

RIO RANCHO, N.M. -- The first attempt of the historic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965, led to police violence against peaceful African American demonstrators. The beatings, known as “Bloody Sunday,” generated anger across the nation 55 years ago this month and prompted President Lyndon Johnson to push the Voting Rights Act through Congress.

The new supernatural alt-America drama Motherland: Fort Salem, in which witches revealed their existence to the world 300 years ago and have since served as the nation's soldiers, offers the kind of sprawling world-building for which television is an ideal medium.

Freeform's latest dive into the world of supernatural YA is one for the history books — literally. Motherland: Fort Salem presents an entirely new world where witches not only exist but have made up the bulk of the U.S. military force for over 300 years.

NEW YORK -- Anyone tuning into the new TV series “Motherland: Fort Salem” will find a few changes in the America depicted. For one thing, women are in charge of the military. For another, they're all witches.

The Plot Against America, HBO's six-episode limited series from The Wire's David Simon and Ed Burns, is an allegory in the vein of Arthur Miller's The Crucible.

Forbidden romances. Female rivalries. War. Witches. And that's just in the first episode of Motherland: Fort Salem, Freeform's befuddling new supernatural drama, which premieres Wednesday, March 18. Creator and showrunner Eliot Laurence tries to replicate the meaningful messiness of his previous series, Claws, with this darker, confounding attempt to subvert the traditional female witch narrative with one that gives them unflinching agency. It doesn't always land.

Freeform’s new witch drama “Motherland: Fort Salem” imagines an alternate universe where witches play a major role in American government.