TRICKSTER on CW. The controversy surrounding Michelle Latimer has ended this TV series.... She is the co-creator and director who had claimed to be Native/Indigenous. It turns out that she had lied about her heritage.
"Trickster" was filmed in Canada and there are 6 finished episodes. It had earned rave reviews coming out of the festival circuit. Scripts were being written for the 2nd TV season. That ended when news broke that Michelle was not Native after all. She quit the show and two other producers resigned out of protest. The CBC will not renew it for a 2nd TV season.
Native and Indigenous filmmakers have been "screaming" for years. They want to tell their own stories. They don't want non-Indians telling them.
The CW picked up "Trickster" and it premiered to low TV ratings in the U.S. The network has decided to run out the rest of the 6 episodes. Only 3 episodes had aired on Tuesday nights.
TV Series-Finale says, "The 'Trickster'... is based on the bestselling trilogy of novels by Eden Robinson. Set in Kitimat, British Columbia, the story follows Jared an Indigenous teen who struggles to keep his dysfunctional family above water."
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(The CW poster).
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