“Wynonna’s not a flowers-and-chocolate kind of a girl,” Sheriff Nedley (Greg Lawson) says of the titular character in the second season trailer for “Wynonna Earp.” That’s for damn sure. Judging from the spot, Wynonna seems to be more of a Furiosa-in-“Mad Max” kind of a girl.
“We’re on the Fury Road Express, baby girl, and there aren’t enough flaming guitars and gassy generals to bring us down,” Wynonna (Melanie Scrofano) snarls to her kid sister, Waverly (Dominique Provost-Chalkley).
“Oh, I like when you’re scary,” Waverly drily quips back.
Created by Emily Andras (“Lost Girl”), the Canadian SyFy series is based on the IDW comic of the same name by Beau Smith. The show follows Wynonna, Wyatt Earp’s great-granddaughter, “as she battles demons and other creatures,” the logline reads. “With her unique abilities, demon-killing gun, Peacemaker, and a posse of dysfunctional allies, she’s the only thing that can bring the paranormal to justice.” Wyatt Earp was a gun-slinging gambler, deputy sheriff, and deputy town marshal and is something of a Wild West legend. His story has been told in the 1994 Kevin Costner-starrer “Wyatt Earp” and the HBO series “Deadwood.”
The show co-stars Katherine Barrell, Tim Rozon, Shamier Anderson, and Michael Eklund.
“Wynonna Earp” premiered on SyFy in April 2016 and quickly drew praise for its depiction of queer female characters and its refusal to play into the Bury Your Gays trope. (Bury Your Gays refers to television’s habit of killing off its gay characters, essentially portraying them as tragic figures instead of actual people.) The slow-burn romance between Waverly and sheriff’s deputy Nicole Haught (Barrell) even sparked the #WayHaught fan movement.
Season 2 of “Wynonna Earp” premieres June 9 on SyFy.
