Strange empire season 2 episode 1 series#
As the series starts, he is believed to be behind the massacre of the men and hatches a plan to force the women into prostitution to replace those lost to a cholera epidemic. She is married to John Slotter (Aaron Poole), the ruthless son of a New York businessman who was sent to Alberta to set up a rail line to hook up with the Northern Pacific in the U.S. Quebec actress Melissa Farman plays Rebecca Blithely, a brilliant but mildly autistic doctor, while Ontario’s Tattiawna Jones plays the ambitious brothel owner Isabelle Slotter.
Calgary-born Cara Gee plays Kat Loving, a Metis woman who was initially intent on setting up a ranch in Alberta before her husband Jerimiah is butchered during a mysterious massacre that takes out most of the men in the community. But it’s somewhere on the Alberta side of the Alberta-Montana border, where a trio of women find themselves fighting for survival. The exact location of the multi-racial railroad and mining camp at the heart of the action is left vague. Most of the thrust of this story is what it is to make a town out of absolutely nothing.” That’s what I wanted the camp to look like. Miller, Robert Altman’s film that was shot in B.C. The real model for me, truthfully, was McCabe and Mrs. “I wanted to have our own look, our own sort of art direction and production design.
“I didn’t want to rub up against Hell on Wheels because it takes place in much the same time period,” Finstad-Knizhnik said. I think the infrastructure would have been tough for us given the budgets we had.”įinstad-Knizhnik said she also wanted Strange Empire to have its own unique look and esthetic, separate from the Alberta-shot AMC western, Hell on Wheels. Alberta would be great to shoot in, but I just don’t think we could make it work. We took over the Artic Air studio and there was a backlot there that we built our camp on. I’ve been here since April at our studio. so in terms of infrastructure it made it easier to come here,” said Finstad-Knizhnik, in a phone interview from the B.C. But ultimately it made more sense to stay in B.C., where the production took over the studio space vacated by the recently cancelled CBC series, Arctic Air, she said. The series, which takes place near the Alberta-Montana border circa 1869, was actually shot in Langley, B.C., which surely makes it one of very few productions set in Wild Rose country but filmed elsewhere.Ĭreator Laurie Finstad-Knizhnik, an Edmonton native, says Alberta was considered as a location during development. Alberta has played the “Brokeback” mountains of Wyoming, the First World War battlefields of Belgium, Superman’s Metropolis, the snowy wastelands of Fargo, North Dakota and even the bizarre dream worlds of blockbuster director Christopher Nolan.īut it is not playing itself in the dark western Strange Empire, which debuts tonight on CBC.
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