Beforeigners Trailer: First Look at HBO's New Time-Travel Sci-Fi Drama

With Vikings in its final season, you might be looking for a new drama series to get your Norse fix – luckily, HBO has an offering that should please the gods and genre fans. IGN has an exclusive first look at the trailer for HBO Europe’s new sci-fi crime drama Beforeigners, a six-part series that will be released across HBO Now, HBO Go, and HBO’s partner streaming platforms in the US on Tuesday, February 18. Check out the trailer below:The premise sounds like an intriguing mash-up of genre mysteries like The 4400 and The Returned with historical dramas like Vikings and The Alienist. Here’s how HBO describes Beforeigners: “A new phenomenon starts happening all over the world. Powerful flashes of light occur in the ocean, and people from the past appear from three time periods; the stone age, the Viking age, and the late 1800s. No one understands how this is possible, and the people from the past, called ‘beforeigners,’ have no memory of what’s transpired. A couple of years later, Alfhildr (Krista Kosonen) – who comes from the Viking Age – is teamed up with burned-out police officer Lars Haaland (Nicolai Cleve Broch) as part of the police department’s integration program. While investigating the murder of a woman with Stone Age tattoos, Lars and Alfhildr make unexpected discoveries.”

The show joins a number of international shows from HBO’s global partners – including the chilling Asian horror anthology series Folklore – which are available in their entirety on HBO’s streaming platforms.

Beforeigners consists of six 45-minute episodes, which are written by creators Eilif Skodvin and Anne Bjørnstad, and directed by Jens Lien. Check out the poster for the series below, which features some clever nods to how these disparate time-travelers will settle into modern society.

source: ign.com