But it doesn’t really do much to justify the show’s problematic content.
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These themes proved to be resonant enough that Playback, a Canadian entertainment industry magazine, named Trickster its Scripted Series of the Year. The story feels part restructured myth (pulling characters loosely from traditional Haisla beliefs), part fable (using those myths to draw broader narrative themes, touching on the drug use and poverty that so plagues the Haisla and other indigenous communities). But the show, which originally aired on Canada’s CBC Television in 2020, has higher aspirations than that. Trickster, based on Eden Robinson’s 2017 bestselling book Son of a Trickster, might feel at first blush like a typical CW show: Teens behaving badly while dealing with a supernaturally-tinged world. Could this strange fellow be one of the infamous “tricksters” of Haisla myth? And could he possibly be Jared’s real father? The Trick’s on Us A mysterious stranger seems to have some sort of connection to the teen. Oh, and Phil’s girlfriend-who doesn’t look that much older than Jared himself-is pregnant, too.īut Jared is uncovering a new wrinkle in his family tree. A former (and possibly current) opioid addict, Phil leaches as much money as he can off Jared to pay the bills and fund his habits. Jared’s separated dad, Phil, is just as messed up, if not quite so dramatic. “Arson and insurance fraud to settle a drug debt?” Jared asks her later.
When Maggie’s drug dealer threatens to kill her for owing him money, she decides to sleep with the guy, then convinces him to burn down his own trailer for the insurance. Oh, and his mom, Maggie, seems kinda crazy, too-like “talk to the walls” type of crazy. His mother drinks, smokes and parties like an entire 1980s hair band. Jared, part of British Columbia’s indiginous Haisla community, has long understood that his family wasn’t, y’know, in great shape. Too bad Jared’s guidance counselor can’t help him with any of that. Oh, yeah, and the doppelgangers of himself that he sometimes runs into at parties.
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No, it’s the skin monsters that seem to be after him. (He’s the only one capable of paying the bills.) In fact, given his family’s dysfunction, that makes him downright responsible. It’s not the fact that he also makes and sells drugs, either. Almost everyone at Jared’s British Columbia high school does that. It’s not his propensity to drink and use drugs. It’s not his grades, though they’re admittedly pretty bad.
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