AMC+ released a trailer on September 25 for “Yaga,” a mystery thriller led by Carrie-Anne Moss, and set a two-episode premiere for October 23. The series will land the same day on AMC+ in the United States and on Crave in Canada. It adapts a stage play by Kat Sandler, who wrote the show and serves as its showrunner and an executive producer. Sandler’s original work used the Baba Yaga legend to probe hunger and reinvention, and the television version keeps that frame while stretching it into a small-town case.
Moss plays Katherine, a university professor pulled into an investigation after a young heir named Henry Park vanishes in the fictional coastal town of Whittock. Noah Reid, familiar to viewers from “Schitt’s Creek,” plays the investigator Rapp, who works the case and crosses paths with a detective named Carson, played by Clark Backo. Hudson Williams appears as the missing Henry Park. The trailer sketches a town whose residents guard secrets that stretch back generations.
The show reworks the figure of Baba Yaga, the witch of Slavic folklore, into a contemporary whodunit about a community protecting its own history. Its trailer is scored to Alanis Morissette’s version of Donovan’s “Season of the Witch,” a nod to the myth at the center of the plot. The supporting cast includes Sheila McCarthy, Megan Follows, Katharine Isabelle and Hiro Kanagawa, a lineup drawn heavily from Canadian film and television.
For Moss, Katherine continues a career that has moved between film and television since her breakthrough as Trinity in the “Matrix” pictures. The Canadian actress has often played characters defined by restraint, and “Yaga” hands her a figure whose knowledge of the town makes her difficult to read. Her casting anchors a project that leans on atmosphere and misdirection rather than the action set pieces that first made her name.
The two-episode opening on October 23 will introduce the ensemble before the season settles into its central question of what became of Henry Park. AMC has positioned the series as a supernatural-tinged mystery rather than a straight procedural, leaning on the folklore that gives the show its title and its unsettled mood. The Whittock setting, with its coastline and its wary residents, gives the season a closed world for the investigation to unravel.
