Sky has shared a teaser trailer for Possession, the five-part supernatural thriller series from writer Karla Crome (Something Very Bad is Going to Happen) and director Storm Saulter (Sprinter).
Gugu Mbatha-Raw stars as Claudia, a young lawyer who is hired to fight an inheritance claim in Jamaica when a local man (Sheldon Shepherd) makes a claim against a wealthy white aristocrat (Jonny Lee Miller). But upon her arrival, Claudia realises that the disputed former plantation is the very place that has haunted her nightmares.
The cast of Possession includes Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jonny Lee Miller, Sheldon Shepherd, Bel Powley, Nadean Rawlins, Sean Gilder, Olunike Adeliyi, Richard Dillane, Diveen Henry, Jack Bandeira, Shantol Jackson, Jeff Crossley and Safina Simpson. Watch the trailer below…
Claudia (Gugu Mbatha-Raw), an ambitious young bi‑racial lawyer, travels to Jamaica to challenge an inheritance claim made by a local man, Cudjoe East (Sheldon Shepherd), against Oliver Connaught (Jonny Lee Miller), a wealthy white aristocrat. But the case takes an unsettling turn when Claudia discovers that the disputed estate is the very place that has haunted her nightmares: Hope Hill, the Connaught family’s former plantation.
As Claudia and Oliver dig deeper, they uncover a disturbing link between the plantation’s brutal past and the injustices still shaping the present
Possession is coming soon to Sky in the UK.
