Motherland: Fort Salem ends this summer, and finally, we have the trailer for the third and final season. We’ve been given a taste of what’s to come, bits and pieces of the upcoming battle between our favorite witches and their enemies, but already it’s clear the final season will be phenomenal.
With the trailer’s release, fans have again voiced their outrage at the show’s cancellation. We’re all accustomed to suffering through the pain of great shows meeting a premature demise, but with spinoffs being a possibility, it offers some comfort. If the masses yell loud enough, in a few years, the world of Fort Salem might be brought back to life.
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The end of season 2 left the lead characters Abigail, Tally, and Raelle on the run. Now without a military nor a home, they’ve found protection alongside the Dodger community in Cession – but laying low and staying out of trouble has never been their strong suit.
Motherland: Fort Salem season 3 is scheduled to air Tuesday, June 21st at 10/9c on Freeform, so mark those calendars. We’re unclear how many episodes our girls, Tally (Jessica Sutton), Abigail (Ashley Nicole Williams), and Raelle (Taylor Hickson), will be on our screens for, but following the pattern of the previous seasons, we’re expecting ten episodes. However, since this will be the show’s final run, we’re hoping the producers will throw us a bone and add additional episodes for a proper farewell.
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This is what we’ve all been waiting for, the final battle, and there are so many things we hope to see that’ll soothe our sadness about the show’s end. Will the army stop forcing witches to enlist? Will our trio of heroes find peace, or will the Camarilla (witch hunters) achieve their goal of eradicating all witches?
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Set in an alternate America where witches ended their persecution 300 years ago by becoming the country’s protectors, Motherland: Fort Salem follows Tally, Raelle, and Abigail from basic training in combat magic to early deployment. Backed by law, all witches have to enlist in the army, but many, referred to as Dodgers, don’t answer the call and are labeled traitors.
Can they be blamed for not wanting to give their lives to a country that hates them? Even with the burden of protecting the country, a taxing but honorable job, witches are still discriminated against by humans. Even worse, one of the army’s most significant threats is the Spree, a terrorist group of witches who target humans as their way of rebelling against the continuous, although subtle, persecution of witches, even if they are no longer being burnt at the stake. Forced to join the army and stand against your kin to protect people who hate you doesn’t seem to make sense. The military wants peace but so do the Spree, who wants freedom, even if their methods of human mass murders are extreme.
We hope the final season will allow witches to choose to join the army or not and enable humans to do the same. We hope witches will continue their campaign for freedom without mass killings and move from being disposal second-class citizens and feared to equals deserving of amity. Taking away free will from any species is a crime in itself.
As for our leading witches, we hope the burden Abigail carries due to her family’s history of being powerful witches will be lifted. Season 2, aired in June 2021, showed Abigail risking her life to keep up with her family’s expectations. Unsurprisingly, reaching for the stars prematurely caused her to fall even lower. We all want to be great in our own way, but the weight of trying to be what others want us to be can be detrimental, and we hope Abigail will get to lead a life chosen by her. While Abigail struggles to be the leader she’s told to be, Tally, compassionate and driven to do the right thing but from a witch family not as known as Abigail’s, has the potential to be a leader. She stands for what’s right, and we hope the final season will give her the recognition she deserves as a capable and powerful witch.
The most tortured of the three, Raelle, has so much baggage dragging her down it’s impressive she can even walk straight. After losing her mother at a young age, Raelle fell into despair that only worsened after joining the army. Thrown into the middle of a war, she learned that her mother, Willa Collar, was, in fact, alive and a leading member of the Spree. In addition, through curiosity and touching what she shouldn’t, Raelle accidentally bonded with supreme power, the Mycelium or Mother.
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From there, her troubles only kept growing because falling in love offered a few moments of peace, then it was snuffed out because her love interest, Scylla (Amalia Holm), was, in truth, a member of the Spree, sent by Willa Collar to collect Raelle. With the introduction of the Camarilla, to save Raelle, who was abducted, Willa sacrificed herself for her daughter. Now imagine losing a loved one twice?
If anyone deserves peace, it’s Raelle, and she won’t be given that peace until the war has ended, and to end the war, things will get worse before they get better. The trailer shed some light on her and Scylla’s relationship and that the war may be the next wedge trying to pull them apart.
Who Will Win The Final Battle?
For the first time in decades, the Spree and the army are forced to band together and stand against a foe that considers all witches the enemy, but how will they topple the Camarilla, who has the government’s backing? Defending themselves and their base from an attack on the Camarilla forced our trio of witches to kill a fellow witch, Penelope, daughter of Vice President Silver (Victor Webster). Escaping the government’s custody for murder made them fugitives, but they’ll never know peace by running and hiding forever.
With the Camarilla having power in high places, the witch hunt won’t stop with just our three girls caught, and to end the war, something must be done. The trailer revealed the return of General Alder (Lyne Renee), thought to be dead by everyone except viewers who know she’s somehow become one with the Mycelium, and she will be even more powerful than before. The General’s methods in the past were questionable at times, but she was a woman capable of making tough decisions for the betterment of witches, or so she believed.
Questionable or not, her methods were effective, some viewers believe, and we hope she’ll be bringing the heat alongside Raelle and the others because, in truth, the final battle won’t be against witches and powerless humans. It will be against witches and humans using the stolen power from witches. By removing a witch’s vocal box, the Camarilla has learned to utilize witch spells, and the final battle will be a blow-for-blow between powerful forces.
Witches have spells and have now put their infighting on pause, but the Camarilla has their spells, spies, and the Vice President on their side. This battle won’t easily be won, and neither side will be left unscathed, but it’s time for us viewers to answer the final call and stay tuned. The end of the witch wars is about to begin.
