Forbidden romances. Female rivalries. War. Witches. And that's just in the first episode of Motherland: Fort Salem, Freeform's befuddling new supernatural drama, which premieres Wednesday, March 18. Creator and showrunner Eliot Laurence tries to replicate the meaningful messiness of his previous series, Claws, with this darker, confounding attempt to subvert the traditional female witch narrative with one that gives them unflinching agency. It doesn't always land.