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On Thursday, the streaming network released the trailer forRoar, the new show that featuresNicole Kidman,Issa Rae, Cynthia Erivo, Merritt Wever,Alison Brie, Betty Gilpin, Meera Syal, Fivel Stewart and Kara Hayward in what the network describes as “a series of darkly comic feminist fables.”
Each self-contained episode tells the story of “ordinary women in some pretty extraordinary circumstances,” according to a release, “spanning genres from magical realism to psychological horror.”
That’s evident off the bat from the trailer, in which Kidman’s character gazes longingly at an old photograph before shoving it into her mouth and eating it.
Things only get stranger from there. Rae’s character appears to be non-existent to men, while Gilpin’s role has her playing a literal trophy wife.
Brie stars as a ghost, solving her own murder; Weaver’s part has her falling in love with a duck; and Erivo plays a mom whose daughter appears to leave literally bite marks after every parenting fail.
Every story is meant to represent struggles everyday women go through.
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Other actors slated to make appearances in the series include Nick Kroll, Alfred Molina, Judy Davis, Alfred Molina, Daniel Dae Kim, Jake Johnson, Jason Mantzoukas, Chris Lowell, Ego Nwodim, Griffin Matthews, Peter Facinelli, Simon Baker, Hugh Dancy, Jillian Bell, Bernard White and Justin Kirk.
source: people.com
