'Passenger's' Wunmi Mosaku & Andrew Buchan on Bringing Chadder Vale to Life
It seems safe to say that BritBox’s Passenger is unlike almost any other television show that’s aired this year. The six-part series hails from Andrew Buchan, probably best known to Anglophiles as grieving father Mark Latimer in the crime drama Broadchurch. But his debut screenplay couldn’t be a more different sort of story. The genre-bending series is part mystery, part horror story, and part off-beat comedy, all revolving around a small Northern English village with dark secrets of both the literal and the figurative variety.
A tale of community, outsiders, and our collective fear of the unknown, Passenger features everything from mysterious disappearances and bizarre wildlife deaths to a local conspiracy that seems to be covering up for something much more disturbing than humans. With nods to everything from Twin Peaks to Happy Valley, it’s a slow-burn unraveling meant to keep viewers guessing until its final installment.
We had the chance to sit down with Buchan and star Wunmi Mosaku (best known for her role in Loki), who plays former London police detective Riya Ajunwa, during New York Comic Con to chat about the origins of Passenger, the series’ complicated horror elements, and whether we’ve seen the last of Chadder Vale.
