Coinciding with its premiere at the SXSW festival, the American platform Peacock has unveiled the trailer for ‘Mrs. Davis’his promising new science fiction series that, beware, has a curious duet in its creation: Damon Lindeloff (‘The Leftovers’, ‘Watchmen’, etc.) and Tara Hernandez (‘The Big Bang Theory’) which already gives a clue that it won’t be as drama as they paint it.
With a premiere date scheduled for April 20 (here we will supposedly see it on SkyShowtime but who knows) the series presents us with the story of Mrs. Davis, an all-powerful Artificial Intelligence and Simonea rebellious nun who will dedicate an entire crusade to try to destroy it.
The algorithm of death
betty gilpin stars in ‘Mrs. Davis’ as Simone, accompanied by jake mcdorman like Wiley, her ex, who also has a personal vendetta against the AI. In the distribution are also Andy McQueen, Ben Chaplin, Margo Martindale, David Arquette, Elizabeth Marvel, Katja Herbers, Chris Diamantopoulos, Ashley Romans, Tom Wlaschiha, and Mathilde Ollivier.
Lindelof and Hernandez co-create the series, with the latter serving as showrunner. At the address are Owen Harris (‘Black Mirror: San Junípero’) and Alethea Jones (‘Evil’). ‘Mrs. Harris’ has a first season of eight one-hour episodes.