For fans of the supernatural genre, Freeform’s “Motherland: Fort Salem” has a story whose concept is simply too tantalizing to resist.
The series, whose 10-episode Season 2 launches (at 10 p.m. ET/PT) today, follows three young witches—the headstrong Raelle Collar (Taylor Hickson), the sensitive Tally Craven (Jessica Sutton) and the independent-minded Abigail Bellweather (Ashley Nicole Williams)—who are trained in both combat and magic using sound and spells before they’re deployed to a world where traditional roles of gender and power are flipped.
Three hundred years ago, the world has ended the persecution of witches during the Salem witch trials after an accord…
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