The Trailer for New BBC America Drama 'Mood' Looks Colorful and Troubled

Though cable network BBC America is still a key resource for Anglophiles given that it's the American broadcast home of Doctor Who, its influence has been waning in recent years as more and more streamers enter the crowded marketplace and almost all seem to be offering some kind of new British content in one form or the other.

In response, BBC America (both before and after its acquisition by AMC Networks) has attempted to set itself apart by commissioning its own brand of quirky original programming or teaming up with co-production partners. Several of those efforts, like Orphan Black and Killing Eve, went on to become smash hits in their rights. (Others did not, such as Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency or the Terry Pratchett-based sci-fi series The Watch.)

The network's latest effort in this vein, the offbeat drama Mood, is produced in partnership with BBC Three and, on the surface is hard to quantify. Props for taking risks I guess!) The drama is contemporary, timely, and clearly has something to say, with plenty of feminist bonafide and a unique framing device. But will its darker and unconventional subject matter hurt it?