Peacock launched the primary full trailer for Damon Lindelof (The Leftovers) and Tara Hernandez’s (Younger Sheldon) upcoming sci-fi thriller sequence Mrs. Davis on Tuesday and all we will say is hell yeah; that’s extra prefer it. After the primary, boring-ass teaser launched earlier this month, this new trailer presents a a lot better have a look at the weird and uncanny world of a luddite nun combating a battle concurrently in opposition to and on behalf of an omnipresent synthetic intelligence. This trailer lastly does justice by the sequence’ premise.
As this new trailer covers, and as we wrote concerning the first teaser final week, Mrs. Davis stars Betty Gilpin (The Hunt) as Sister Simone of Reno, a nun who grows more and more disillusioned by a world mediated by a very acquainted synthetic intelligence who, like Richard Brautigan’s 1967 poem, governs all of humanity like a machine of loving grace.
When Simone is repeatedly approached by messengers of Mrs. Davis to just accept a “Quest” to seek out the “Holy Grail” — presumably the A.I.’s servers — she embarks on a journey that crosses paths with Wiley (Jake McDorman). Wiley, her ex-boyfriend, now fights as a resistance chief in opposition to the algorithm.
As Simone explores the world in the hunt for the “Grail,” she’s confronted with the type of massive questions one would anticipate from a present produced by the man behind Misplaced and The Leftovers. Particularly: Which aspect is she actually combating for? What’s Mrs. Davis’ final intention? And would the world as a complete actually be higher off if Mrs. Davis was not pulling the strings?
It’s a captivating arrange for a sci-fi thriller sequence, one which falls someplace equidistant between the high-concept storytelling of Westworld, Made For Love, and Individual of Curiosity and the irreverent ‘20 Minutes into the Future’ context of Lindelof’s Watchmen and Patrick Somerville’s Maniac. Owen Harris, who directed the critically acclaimed Black Mirror episode “San Junipero” and the primary two episodes of Peacock’s TV adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s Courageous New World, will function an government director on the sequence and direct the primary episode.
Given all of the current discuss concerning the proliferation of AI artwork mills and “Deep Faux” know-how — which has solely grown extra pervasive, ethically alarming, and legally fraught over the previous 12 months — Lindelof and Hernandez’s sequence couldn’t have landed at a greater time.
But the largest query stays: Can Mrs. Davis stick the touchdown, just like the man on that motorbike leaping by means of that big donut? We’ll simply have to attend and see. The primary 4 episodes of Mrs. Davis premiere April 20 on Peacock.
