Trickster has an incredible collection of characters who play and bounce off of each other well.
Joel Oulette (Jared) and Anna Lambe (Sarah) (Photo: CBC) The array of unique characters makes Trickster both heart-wrenching and heartwarming It touches on these complex issues while staying focused on the main storyline. town is currently torn apart by a pipeline debate, with one side for jobs, and the other for protecting the land. Sarah (Anna Lambe), Jared’s love interest, is in the foster care system and talks about trying to find her birth parents while jumping from foster home to foster home. Sophia (Georgina Lightning), Jared’s grandmother, attended residential school and talks about the impact it had on her and the intergenerational trauma that followed, affecting her entire family. You come out having learned something-without feeling like it’s been a history lesson. While focusing on Jared and his attempts to keep his family from falling apart, Trickster includes both historical and present-day depictions of what some Indigenous people in Canada are facing. It subtly addresses issues that affect Indigenous people in Canada So in the show, he makes and sells ecstasy. If you’ve read the book-which you should!-it’s fun trying to pick out what’s changed: In Son of a Trickster, Jared makes and sells marijuana cookies and is nicknamed Cookie Dude, but in an interview Robinson explains that that detail had to change after legalization because selling marijuana cookies is not that big of a deal anymore. It ups the drama and speed-once you start watching, you won’t want to stop.
Trickster does a great job of synthesizing the nuance and tiny details Robinson uses in the first half of the book to set the scene for what Jared’s life was like and how it got to where it currently is, all into one episode. You’re getting twice the story for half the price? Kinda. Keenan Grom (Wade at 17) and Fail Maurice (Georgina) (Photo: CBC) The show offers its own twist on a beloved book For years Indigenous creators have been fighting for larger representation on and behind the screen, and Trickster delivers that-it’s part of a larger Indigenous renaissance where artists are finally getting the recognition and spotlight they deserve. It’s co-created by Latimer, a Métis-Algonquin woman, and it’s filled with Indigenous actors such as Oulette, Crystle Lightning, and Kalani Quepo, to name a few. The book was written by Robinson, a Haisla-Heiltsuk woman, and is based on contemporary pop culture as well as Haisla and Pacific northwestern Indigenous cosmology. How awesome is that? It’s not often that we get to see so many Indigenous people involved in so many stages and aspects of a show. Indigenous people play major roles throughout Trickster’s production Indigenous shows in the past like Mohawk Girls have aired on platforms such as APTN, which are great, but having a show like this air on CBC opens up the potential for the show to reach a wider audience. There’s familial drama, teenage love, magic and something everyone can relate to in some way shape or form. Trickster is a show that functions in this middle ground where it’s an Indigenous story, written by an Indigenous woman, co-created by an Indigenous woman, starring Indigenous people-but the show itself doesn’t feel like being Indigenous is the only tune to the story. Trickster has the opportunity to help bridge the gap between Indigenous art consumed by Indigenous folks and Indigenous art consumed by everyone. It brings Indigenous storytelling into the mainstream
Here’s 6 reasons why you should watch Trickster. (Plus, true story: While watching the show, I heard a caw from outside of my window, and was immediately spooked…)
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who is trying to keep his dysfunctional, irresponsible family afloat through somewhat questionable means (like making and selling ecstasy) while learning more about himself and his lineage through talking ravens, skin monsters (human-like creatures that look like they’ve had all their flesh removed), mysterious voices and magic. It features Joel Oulette as Jared, a 16-year-old from Kitimat, B.C. Co-created by award-winning filmmaker Michelle Latimer and Tony Elliott, there’s nothing else like it on television. Joel Oulette (Jared) and Anna Lambe (Sarah) in Trickster (Photo: CBC)ĬBC’s Trickster (premiering on CBC and CBC Gem on October 7) is a 6-episode TV drama meets coming-of-age meets supernatural thriller based on Eden Robinson’s 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist and 2020 Canada Reads nominee, Son of a Trickster.
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