The English Trailer: Emily Blunt Takes on the Wild West in Prime Video Limited Series

Emily Blunt is on a journey of revenge in the latest trailer for the Prime Video original series The English.

The Western drama series The English stars Blunt (A Quiet Place franchise, Sicario, Oppenheimer) and Chaske Spencer (Wild Indian, Echo).

All six episodes of the limited series will premiere on November 11 exclusively in the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the Nordics on Prime Video, following its November 10 UK premiere on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer.

Additionally, the series will make its world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival as their series special presentation on Saturday, October 15.

The series is a co-production with Amazon Studios and BBC, in association with All3Media International who handled international sales.

The English Key Art

The streaming service describes the show as “an epic chase Western,” from award-winning writer and director Hugo Blick (The Honourable Woman, Black Earth Rising, The Shadow Line).

The series takes the core themes of identity and revenge to tell a uniquely compelling parable on race, power, and love.

“An aristocratic Englishwoman, Lady Cornelia Locke (Emily Blunt), and a Pawnee ex-cavalry scout, Eli Whipp (Chaske Spencer), come together in 1890 middle America to cross a violent landscape built on dreams and blood,” the logline teases.

“Both of them have a clear sense of their destiny, but neither is aware that it is rooted in a shared past.”

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“They must face increasingly terrifying obstacles that will test them to their limits, physically and psychologically.”

“But as each obstacle is overcome, it draws them closer to their ultimate destination—the new town of Hoxem, Wyoming.”

“It is here, after an investigation by the local sheriff Robert Marshall (Stephen Rea, The Shadow Line) and young widow Martha Myers (Valerie Pachner, A Hidden Life) into a series of bizarre and macabre unsolved murders, that the full extent of their intertwined history will be truly understood, and they will come face-to-face with the future they must live.”

The series’ ensemble cast includes Rafe Spall (The Salisbury Poisonings), Tom Hughes (A Discovery of Witches), Toby Jones (Marvellous), and Ciarán Hinds (The Terror).

In the 1800s

The series is created by Hugo Blick—who also serves as an executive producer, director, and writer.

Emily Blunt also serves as executive producer, alongside Greg Brenman (Peaky Blinders, The Honourable Woman) for Drama Republic. Colin Wratten (Killing Eve) serves as a producer on The English.

Check out the trailer below.

Paul Dailly is the Associate Editor for TV Fanatic. Follow him on Twitter.

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