“Darby and the Lifeless” just isn’t about your common excessive schooler. “Are you sitting down for this? I see lifeless folks. I assist them go on to the subsequent realm,” Darby (Riele Downs, “Henry Hazard”) expains in a brand new trailer for the Hulu comedy.
Written by Becca Greene (“Good Vibes”) and Wenonah Wilms (“Horsehead Women”), “Darby and the Lifeless” follows a teen who gained the paranormal potential to see and talk with the lifeless following a near-death childhood expertise. However to the introverted Darby, counseling lonely spirits remains to be much less grotesque than navigating highschool, the place she is subjected to fixed mistreatment from head cheerleader Capri (Auli’i Cravalho, “Moana”)
Issues change when Capri abruptly dies by electrocution in a freak hair straightening accident at college. The cheerleader’s spirit refuses to relaxation as a result of she has unfinished enterprise: her seventeenth birthday celebration. Capri enlists Darby’s assist to persuade her mates to hold on the celebration. “All I need is that this social gathering,” the cheerleader’s spirit implores within the trailer. “Then I’ll transfer on.”
Naturally, Darby is loath to meet the dying want of her tormentor. “In what world do you suppose I can throw your dream social gathering?” she asks the ghost. “In a world the place I make you in style sufficient to do it,” Capri replies.
“In an effort to appease the wrath of the undead diva, Darby should emerge from her self-imposed exile and reinvent herself — which alongside the best way permits her to seek out new pleasure again within the land of the residing,” the sequence’ synopsis particulars.
“Darby and the Lifeless” launches on Hulu December 2.
Supply: Women And Hollywood