![]() Her only solace comes in the form of the town vicar Will Ransome ( Tom Hiddleston), who balances his curiosity about Cora’s search with caring for his deathly ill wife Stella (Clémence Poésy). Armed with her wits, her interest in “naturalism,” her curious son Francis, and adventurous maid/companion Martha (Hayley Squires), Cora leaves her comfortable London life to solve the mystery once and for all.īut she quickly finds herself at odds with the paranoid, God-fearing people of the town, who quickly start to suspect her when the body count begins to rise. In the middle is Cora Seaborne ( Claire Danes), a woman recently widowed from a wealthy, abusive spouse, who sees the opportunity to find out who she is and what she really wants out of life.Ī fortuitous report out of Essex gives her the chance: A winged, fanged “serpent” is reportedly snatching people up outside the sleepy port town of Aldwinter. ![]() ![]() The Pitch: 1890s England: a time where the rapid rise of scientific knowledge - medicine, technology, archaeology - clashed with Christian superstitions and fairy tales. ![]()
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