Things are getting witchy with the release of Crave and AMC+’s upcoming series Yaga.
The series stars Carrie-Anne Moss, Noah Reid, Clark Backo and Hudson Williams. Alanis Morissette soundtracks the two-minute trailer with a cover of “Season of the Witch.”
The trailer, released Friday morning, kicks off with Backo’s Carson, a local detective, and Reid’s Rapp, a private investigator, looking into the disappearance of Henry Park (Williams). The trailer is full of spooky and steamy antics.
Yaga is based on a play by series creator Kat Sandler, who serves as the show’s writer and showrunner, and reimagines the myth of Baba Yaga in a coastal town. Crave dubbed the series “not your grandmother’s Baba Yaga” in a recent Instagram post.
The eight-episode, half-hour drama recently premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. The first two episodes will debut on Oct. 23, followed by weekly debuts before a two-episode finale on Nov. 27.
The show follows Rapp as he heads to a small coastal town to investigate the disappearance of Henry Park, the young heir to a powerful fishery. The show’s synopsis reads, “[Rapp] finds himself at odds with an apprehensive local detective, Carson (Backo), a charismatic university professor with a taste for younger men, Katherine (Moss) and a labyrinth of enigmatic suspects, secret lives and ancient magic.”
Sadler said in an initial release that the series has evolved from “myth to stage” to her first greenlit series, “reclaiming the wicked witch and reshaping her as an incendiary feminist antihero for our time. It reflects the kind of storytelling I love: propulsive, accessible, dark, funny and unapologetically bold.”
Sheila McCarthy, Megan Follows, Ezra Franky, Patrick Gilmore, Katharine Isabelle and Hiro Kanagawa also star in the series, along with Emilija Baranac, Georgia Acken, Anisa Harris and Sam Krochmal. Williams is also set to tackle a dual role in the show.
Yaga is produced by Front Street Pictures and Blink49 Studios. Along with Sandler, the executive producers are Mackenzie Donaldson, Andrew Miller and Moss. Charles Cooper serves as a producer. David Frazee and Rachel Talalay directed.
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