American Gothic architecture gets a lot of play on boob tube and cinema . There ’s last year ’s closed book dramatic play American Gothic , the coming horror motion picture American Gothic , and the 1995 Sam Raimi - produced glitch nut crazy TV show American Gothic . Southern gothic , the much more merriment and fantastical localized kind of the gothic literary genre , incur much less play . Outside of a few Tennessee Williams adaptation and a rogue season of American Horror Story , the Southern gothic genre often feels ignored .
Maybe that will change with a newfangled buffer ordered by ABC for the 2017 - 2018 season . According to TVLine , it is currently untitled , but being make grow by Marc Cherry , who mined suburbia for some light gothic fare in Desperate Housewives . It ’s snuff it to asterisk land legend Reba McEntire — whose act career to date has included long - running sitcom Reba , as well as horror comedy Tremors .
Unfortunately , asunder from the name of the townsfolk it ’s set in ( Oxblood ) , the prescribed logline lean hard on the drama and Light Within on the gothic aspect of the show .
Ruby Adair , the sheriff of colorful small town Oxblood , Kentucky , finds her red land outlook challenge when a untried FBI agent of halfway Eastern descent is station to help her puzzle out a horrific criminal offence . Together they form an uneasy alinement as Ruby submit the federal agent behind the lace curtain of this southern medieval community to meet an miscellany of bizarre characters , each with a secret of their own .
So far the only clues we have to the nature of the show ’s horror bent is the use of the words “ horrorific ” and “ Southern Gothic architecture . ” For all we have it away the horrendous criminal offence could be someone putting sugar in their cornbread .
[ TVLine ]
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