![]() ![]() His drug business has gone bust, there’s this teenage girl Sarah (Anna Lambe), who’s just moved into the 'hood (in the Kitimat, B.C., neck of the woods) and he’s, you know, seriously intrigued by her. In any case, Jared has his own problems to deal with. Those origins are connected to Wade (Kalani Queypo), a guy who, we speculate from the opening credits, might be supernatural, dead or just dead-cool. The six-episode series is a vivid blend of familiar TV storytelling conventions with a startling dose of spooky Indigenous Gothic. Hugely entertaining, clever and fizzing with energy, the six-episode series is a vivid blend of familiar TV storytelling conventions with a startling dose of spooky Indigenous Gothic. Trickster (starts Wednesday, CBC, 9 p.m.) actually deserves all the advance, gushing praise it garnered since episodes were screened at TIFF. ![]() TIFF 2020: With one-two punch of Inconvenient Indian and Trickster, Michelle Latimer is the festival’s breakout talent The impulse to overstate the quality of undistinguished content is understandable but wrongheaded. Yet when a middling-good Canadian drama arrives it is inevitably overpraised. There is financial support available from taxpayers and your cable fees, and we don’t lack stories to tell. The CBC is mandated to present scripted content and commercial channels are obliged to create Canadian content. ![]() The industry here is vast and filled with talented people. It always seems surprising when really good, entertaining and smart Canadian TV comes along. ![]()
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