“The internet was filled with the dulcet tones of ABBA on Friday morning after Universal Pictures released the first trailer for Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.

“The highly anticipated look at the sequel to 2008’s Mamma Mia! opens with Sophie (Amanda Seyfried) surrounded by friends of her mother (Christine Baranski and Julie Walters) who have arrived to help her with impending motherhood.

“But where, precisely, is Sophie’s titular mother Donna, played by Meryl Streep?

“She’s dead.

“Ok, Donna isn’t explicitly dead in the trailer. Streep is, after all, still listed in the film’s credits, but it remains heavily implied that death becomes her.”

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