1.050 minSeason 1 • Episode 8
LatestPreparations begin for Trepagny and Melissande's wedding as Delphine and Cooke explore a future together. Goames' loyalty to the company is tested.
A disparate group of outcasts and dreamers battle to escape their pasts while navigating the brutal frontier hardships, competing interests, and tangled loyalties at the crossroads of civilization: the New World. Based on the novel by Pulitzer-winner Annie Proulx.
Acting
Thewlis and Harden devour the frontier like it's their last meal.
Production
You can smell the wet wool and woodsmoke through the screen.
Writing
Proulx's prose translated into vicious, poetic survival.
Creator
Elwood Reid
David Thewlis
Claude Trepagny
Marcia Gay Harden
Mathilde Geffard
Aneurin Barnard
Hamish Goames
James Bloor
Charles Duquet
Zahn McClarnon
Yvon
David Wilmot
Constable Bouchard
Tallulah Haddon
Melissande
Christian Cooke
Rene Sel
Lily Sullivan
Delphine
Thomas M. Wright
Elisha Cooke
Kaniehtiio Horn
Mari
Lola Skye Reid
Renardette
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
National Geographic cancelled it after one season despite critical praise, reportedly due to Disney+ restructuring. The ending is accidental finality.
The Wendat dialogue was developed with actual Huron-Wendat Nation consultants — rare for 2020 television, though some critics noted the show still centers European perspectives.
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