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Trickster cw8/30/2023 This show does a fantastic job of constructing a predominant cast of Indigenous people. You just don’t get to see Indigenous faces often enough on television. Bleak and murky on the inside, but seemingly unattainable hope and brightness on the outside. Nice contrast that reflects on Jared’s life. The landscape looks gorgeous, but the rural rundown village the story takes place in is anything but that. The series was shot in Ontario, but takes place in the coastal British Columbia. You get to understand the main characters quickly and see their numerous evident flaws. It felt more real and relatable that way. Sure, it has a noticeable supernatural fantasy theme to it, but through the first two episodes (which were the only episodes available to critics) it feels like a dark coming-of-age drama. Wade’s arrival inevitably leads to Jared witnessing numerous odd encounters, including that with talking raven, a doppelganger, and a mangled body. Wade is filled with mystery and secrets, but secrets he’s ever so slightly revealing to Jared. Add a mysterious figure named Wade (Kalani Queypo) that enters his life randomly to stir things up. He struggles in school, but seemingly accels at cooking up drugs in his wooden shed. He struggles to keep his troubled parents afloat, by basically providing for them. The hero of the story is an Indigenous teen named Jared (Joel Oulette). So you may sense the positivity I’m coming in with, but does the show translate to American audiences and does it hit on all the other aspects and elements of inevitable success? Find out below. The CBC mini-series (based on the Eden Robinson books) centers on an Indigenous teenager and a whole lot of supernatural mystery that surrounds him. All Rights Reserved.Hey Canada! Please send over any intriguing and fresh shows you may have. Rounding out the TRICKSTER cast are Kalani Queypo as Wade, Anna Lambe as Sarah, Nathan Alexis as Crashpad, Joel Thomas Hynes as Richie, Gail Maurice as Georgina and as Georgina Lightning as Sophia.Ī CBC Original, TRICKSTER is a Sienna Films/Streel Films production, executive produced by co-creators Michelle Latimer ("RISE") and Tony Elliott ("Orphan Black") and Sienna Films' (Cardinal) Jennifer Kawaja and Julia Sereny. There is more than meets the eye to the place Jared grew up, the people he loves – and to Jared himself. At first, he thinks he's losing his mind, but to his relief, and terror, the supernatural events surrounding him are all too real. But when Jared starts seeing strange things – talking ravens, doppelgängers, skin monsters – his already chaotic life is turned upside down. Jared holds down an after-school job and cooks ecstasy on the side to support his separated parents: partying mom Maggie (Crystle Lightning), who selfmedicates an undiagnosed mental illness, and unemployable dad Phil (Craig Lauzon), who has a painkiller addiction and a new girlfriend. Jared (Joel Oulette) is an Indigenous teen struggling to keep his dysfunctional family above water. The CW's new drama TRICKSTER, based on the bestselling trilogy of novels by Eden Robinson, tells the story of the Indigenous Gothic, spirits, ancient magic, deadly rites of passage in a coming of age story unlike any you've ever seen.
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