She’s clearly a leader and the only thing in her way is- Photo by FreeFormīaby Bear. After having a row with Raelle herself, and being chastised by Tally, Abigail understands the value of having your friends close and your enemies closer. She tries to get reassigned and General Alder takes her down a peg. She’s obviously gifted and she knows how to spot an opportunity. She’s strong, stubborn but malleable once she cools off. As she’s parting with her boyfriend she basically excuses him to go live his life while she protects it. Abigail sees her service as a birthright. The first one to serve was a slave so Abigail’s mother tells her she was her ancestor’s wildest dream and she cannot fail. Her family’s warring matriarchs go back generations. Papa Bear is a legacy recruit by the name of Abigail Bellweather (Ashley Nicole Williams). Tally is still determined and that good-natured will is something that stays with her throughout the episode, even when times get tough. He thanks her for her service and bravery, but the other onlookers already see her as dead. In a remarkably touching scene, Tally is at the airport and a man gives up his flight for her. Her mother absolutely hates that she’s set on going and even went so far as to gain absentee status for her daughter, but Tally persists. She’s from a matrifocal (read: no dudes… ever) society in Northern California and is looking for a way to escape as well as honor her aunts who passed in their own wars. We have the bear family of contestants this go-round: Mama Bear is Tally (Jessica Sutton) who is looking forward to serving her time. ‘Say the Words’ offers a pretty epic beginning and it caps “Conscription Day” or the day on which all possible recruits enlist for the army. She’s a slight, pale red-headed devil who flies down the highway on fire. We see the young woman get into her car and she uses the car’s cigarette lighter to press to her forehead, thus burning on the “facade” she was wearing. 1600 are killed in this mass suicide and it’s all blamed on “The Spree”. The silence is deafening and soon hoards of people are climbing to the highest heights just to throw themselves onto the levels below. The young woman continues chanting and the balloon pops. A young blond woman is singing to a balloon (I know!) and teasing a little girl who’s watching her quizzically. With ‘Say the Words,’ we open in some Macy’s equivalent, where it’s about to turn into the worst shopping day EVER. I appreciate the utter sincerity of the characters and how much they commit to the world that Laurence has created. It had big ambitions with a middling budget so some of the effects are a bit lackluster, but the cast truly puts everything they have in conveying the gravity of the situation.Īnd it is heavy! I read a snippet of a review saying the show needed to embrace its camp, but I’m actually on the other end of that spectrum. The pilot, titled ‘Say the Words’, is wild and mostly in a good way. I was provided a free screener of ‘Say the Words’ for review. We follow the lives of these women, their caretakers, and a problematic rebel faction called The Spree (thankfully not the Polyphonic kind, and yes, the people who watch this show will not get this reference). Created by Eliot Laurence, the show centers around three female recruits to an all-witch army, the current first line of defense for a parallel United States. Photo By FreeForm It’s Women’s History Month and FreeForm is offering a healthy dose of literal girl power in Motherland: Fort Salem.
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