Trailer Watch: Riele Downs Throws a Ghost’s Birthday Occasion in “Darby and the Lifeless”

“Darby and the Lifeless” isn’t about your common excessive schooler. “Are you sitting down for this? I see lifeless individuals. I assist them go on to the subsequent realm,” Darby (Riele Downs, “Henry Hazard”) expains in a brand new trailer for the Hulu comedy.

Written by Becca Greene (“Good Vibes”) and Wenonah Wilms (“Horsehead Ladies”), “Darby and the Lifeless” follows a teen who gained the paranormal potential to see and talk with the lifeless following a near-death childhood expertise. However to the introverted Darby, counseling lonely spirits continues to be much less ugly than navigating highschool, the place she is subjected to fixed mistreatment from head cheerleader Capri (Auli’i Cravalho, “Moana”)

Issues change when Capri all of a sudden dies by electrocution in a freak hair straightening accident in school. The cheerleader’s spirit refuses to relaxation as a result of she has unfinished enterprise: her seventeenth birthday celebration. Capri enlists Darby’s assist to persuade her associates to hold on the celebration. “All I need is that this social gathering,” the cheerleader’s spirit implores within the trailer. “Then I’ll transfer on.”

Naturally, Darby is loath to satisfy the dying want of her tormentor. “In what world do you suppose I can throw your dream social gathering?” she asks the ghost. “In a world the place I make you common sufficient to do it,” Capri replies. 

“With the intention to appease the wrath of the undead diva, Darby should emerge from her self-imposed exile and reinvent herself — which alongside the best way permits her to search out new pleasure again within the land of the dwelling,” the collection’ synopsis particulars.

“Darby and the Lifeless” launches on Hulu December 2.