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Country of origin
  
Canada

No. of episodes
  
13

Final episode date
  
2 February 2015

6.3/10
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Genre
  
Western, drama

No. of seasons
  
1

First episode date
  
6 October 2014

Network
  
CBC Television

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Created by
  
Laurie Finstad-Knizhnik

Starring
  
Cara Gee Melissa Farman Tattiawna Jones

Cast
  
Aaron Poole, Woody Jeffreys

Nominations
  
Canadian Screen Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program or Series

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Strange Empire is a Canadian television drama series that aired on CBC Television in the 2014–15 television season. Created by Laurie Finstad-Knizhnik, the series is a serialized Western drama set near the Alberta-Montana border in the 1860s, in which three women band together for survival after the men in their town are murdered.

Contents

The cast includes Cara Gee, Melissa Farman and Tattiawna Jones. The first season began airing on 6 October 2014 and consists of 13 episodes.

CBC cancelled the series in March 2015 after one season. Strange Empire was broadcast on LMN in the USA and was renamed Strange Empire: Rise of the Women, it premiered on May 29, 2015.

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Cast and characters

  • Cara Gee as Kat Loving, a Métis woman who loses her child and her husband and struggles to protect her surrogate family.
  • Melissa Farman as Rebecca Blithely, an autistic woman who was previously institutionalized and who now works as a doctor.
  • Tattiawna Jones as Isabelle Slotter, a madam who is grieving after the loss of her child.
  • Aaron Poole as John Slotter, a violent mine owner, who is married to Isabelle.
  • Michelle Creber as Kelly and Matreya Scarrwener as Robin, are sisters who are rescued and adopted by Kat Loving after their gambling father sells them to Slotter for use in his bordello.

    • Reception

    The series premiere was watched by 319,000 Canadian viewers.

    DVD release

    eOne Films released season 1 on DVD on May 12 2015.

    References

    Strange Empire Wikipedia
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