WGN America announced the 13 episode second season of the supernatural horror series Salem will premiere on April 5, 2015 at 10pm ET/PT. The network also revealed the first official photo from the series, which is currently shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Leading the cast once again are Janet Montgomery as Mary Sibley, Shane West as Captain John Alden, Seth Gabel as Cotton Mather, and Tamzin Merchant as Anne Hale. Season two guest stars include Stuart Townsend and Lucy Lawless.
Salem was created by Brannon Braga and Adam Simon who also executive produce the series with Kelly Souders, Brian Peterson, Josh Barry, and Jeff Kwatinez.
The Salem Season Two Plot:
Salem season two opens at the dawn of the witch war set into motion at the end of season one, with its catalyst and Salem’s deadliest witch, Mary Sibley at the center of the mayhem as she faces off against new and old adversaries vying for her throne. In the wake of the destruction caused by the Grand Rite, completed by Mary and inadvertently triggered by Isaac Walton (Iddo Goldberg) in the season one finale, the fates of Captain John Alden, Cotton Mather, Tituba, Anne Hale, Mercy Lewis (Elise Eberle) and Isaac hang in the balance.
New to the embattled 17(th)-century village for the second season of Salem are Lucy Lawless as Countess Marburg, one of the last descendants of a legendary line of ancient German witches; Stuart Townsend as Samuel Wainwright, a mysterious doctor looking to uncover the secrets of Salem as he keeps a few of his own; Joe Doyle as Baron Sebastian Marburg, the charming and cultured son of the Countess; and Oliver Bell as Mary’s long-lost son, who was revealed in the season one finale to have been secretly kept alive all along by her coven.
