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windsweptlassie · 4 years

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Barkskins Characters: A Comprehensive Review

René Sel: a good honest man. a beefcake. a himbo. just a simple down to earth guy. will do pretty much anything because of a sense of duty. this is his only flaw I think

Charles Duquet: small rat man. absolutely zero moral backbone. probably no literal backbone either. can he stand up straight

Claude Trepagny: go weird old man go. absolutely off the hinge but I think he's generally all right. still wild though

Mari: ma'am I love you. you have every right to be bitter. capable and smart and WAY COOLER than her ex-husband.

Mathilde Geffard: the true king of Wobik. way more capable than anyone else here. getting shit done. making a Girl's House. the bravest motherfucker here.

Hamish Goames: I love him. Haunted, hunted, and mysterious. absolutely Intense motherfucker. morally righteous to a fault. devoted to Yvon.

Yvon: I love him x2. immensely patient but also willing to throw hands constantly. (book)smarter than ANYONE else here. devoted to Hamish.

Elisha Cooke: all my homies HATE him. he's occasionally valid when he talks about his fridged wife but he's a bag of dicks and scheming a lot but also bad at it.

Delphine: ma'am I love you!! I wish you were not sad. You are very pretty. Melissande should give you a kiss.

Melissande: scheming and petty but very, VERY smart. Therefore I love her. She's going to make a good life for herself no matter what, goddamnit.

Captain Bouchard: sloppy! he's trying but he's bad at a lot of shit. also he's rude to Yvon.

Gus LaFarge: even sloppier! he's just a dick though

Thom LaFarge: deserved better. made some bad choices but also he's literally 12 and he's just doing what he's told. young man you were an inconvenience in life.

Hawastha': DESERVED BETTER also he's cool as hell. can't believe they separated him from his buddy.

Häa'tatoyehnk: he and Hawastha' are the secondary dream team. I'm sad for him now though. they're jerks but in a fun cool valid way.

Mother Sabrine: very valid. good with the Ladies. I'm a fan

Renardette: i LOVE this little lady. half-feral fox girl. she's got a found family now and it's good. keep this one safe please

Father Clape: deserved better. likes horses.

Father Gabriel: deserved better, I guess?

Pierre Gasquet: ALl MY HOMIES HATE PIERRE GASQUET

Ratahsenthos: mad! and violent! but sometimes in a valid way. sometimes not in a valid way though. sometimes just in a scary way. he looks really cool though.

Francis Geffard: eh

Théo: he's so cute

Terayonhiio': she's very valid. I love her cloak.

Gay Bill: he's a lotta fun. I have one question though which is why the name

Randall Cross: absolutely a broken man so I wonder what he used to be like. WHY is Hamish so devoted to him.

Intendant de Fer: whatever, I guess? idk man

Claudette: also deserved better

Henri Marth: he's scary I don't like him

Father Jerome: mostly I hate him

#this has been written before the last two episodes so Watch Out folks!#barkskins #barkskins hulu #barkskins nat geo #shut up queenie #yes most of these characters are important. can you believe

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murielsnola · 5 years

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As we continue exploring the history of our building, we move to the mid 1700's when Jean Baptiste Destrehan purchased the property from Claude Trepagnier. Destrehan, who was the Colonial Treasurer of France, tore down the cottage that Trepagnier built and in its place erected a New Orleans home that was "so grand it was second only to the governor's mansion." At that time the governor's residence was next door, where the Presbytere is now located. The town of Destrehan as well as the famous Destrehan Plantation are both named after Jean Baptiste Destrehan.

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Noticias de series de la semana: Más 'Manifest', adiós 'The Gifted'

Renovaciones

NBC ha renovado Manifest por una segunda temporada

Hulu ha renovado Shrill por una segunda temporada

FOX ha renovado Last Man Standing por una octava temporada

Netflix ha renovado Suburra por una tercera temporada

Cancelaciones

FOX ha cancelado The Gifted tras su segunda temporada

FOX ha cancelado Rel tras su primera temporada

Dave ha cancelado Zapped tras su tercera temporada

Noticias cortas

Demimonde pasa a llamarse Contraband.

Jon Seda (Antonio Dawson) no volverá como regular a la próxima temporada de Chicago PD.

Colin O'Donnell (Connor Rhodes) y Norma Kuhling (Ava Bekker) no volverán como regulares a la próxima temporada de Chicago Med. debido a razones creativas relacionadas con la evolución de sus personajes.

DC Universe ha recortado la primera temporada de Swamp Thing de trece a diez episodios.

Incorporaciones y fichajes

Pablo Schreiber (Orange Is the New Black, American Gods) protagonizará Halo. Será Master Chief.

John Cusack (Con Air, High Fidelity) también se une a Utopia. Será el doctor Kevin Christie, una mente brillante y carismática que quiere cambiar el mundo a través de la ciencia.

Rita Moreno (One Day at a Time, West Side Story) será la exmujer de Rudy (Ed Begley Jr.) en la season finale de Bless This Mess.

Sterling K. Brown (This Is Us, American Crime Story) estará en la tercera temporada de The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel. Se desconocen detalles.

Alison Pill (The Newsroom, American Horror Story), Harry Treadaway (Mr. Mercedes, Penny Dreadful) e Isa Briones (Hamilton) se unen a la serie de Star Trek protagonizada por Picard (Patrick Stewart). No se conocen detalles.

Alden Ehrenreich (Solo; Hail, Caesar!) será John the Savage en Brave New World.

Thuso Mbedu (Shuga), Aaron Pierre (Krypton, Britannia), Chase W. Dillon (The First Wives Club) y Joel Edgerton (The Great Gatsby, Zero Dark Thirty) protagonizarán The Underground Railroad. Serán Cora, Caesar, Homer y Ridgeway.

Alex Landi (Grey's Anatomy) se une como recurrente a la segunda temporada de Insatiable. Se desconocen detalles.

John Hoogenakker (Jack Ryan, Colony) será recurrente en la segunda temporada de Castle Rock como un hombre conectado con Annie Wilkes (Lizzy Caplan).

Hina Khan (Hit the Floor) se une como recurrente a Stargirl. Se desconocen detalles.

Vera Cherny (The Americans, Counterpart) será recurrente en la cuarta temporada de Queen of the South como Oksana Volkova, una mujer dura relacionada con la mafia rusa.

Adam Ferrara (Nurse Jackie, Rescue Me) será recurrente en Why Women Kill como Leo, el marido de Sheila (Alicia Coppola).

Jason Manford (Ordinary Lies), Catherine Tyldesley (Coronation Street), Stephanie Cole (Still Open All Hours, Coronation Street), Maggie Ollerenshaw (Last of the Summer Wine, Still Open All Hours), Steve Edge (Phoenix Nights, Benidorm), Claire Sweeney (Brookside), Harriet Webb (Edge of Heaven, White Gold) y Gina Fillingham (Kiri) protagonizarán Scarborough.

Pósters

Nuevas series

Netflix encarga seis episodios de una comedia creada, producida y protagonizada por Mike Myers en la que interpretará a varios personajes.

Amazon desarrolla The Last Mrs. Parrish, drama basado en la novela de Liv Constantine (2017). Escrita y producida por Jessica Mecklenburg (The Twilight Zone, Stranger Things). Es un thriller sobre una mujer joven y blanca que lucha por infiltrarse en la alta sociedad usurpando la vida de cuento de hadas de una abeja reina solo para darse cuenta de que se le ha ido de las manos.

Marvel planea desarrollar una serie de Valkyrie protagonizada por Tessa Thompson.

BET encarga ocho episodios de Twenties, comedia sobre la amistad y la búsqueda del amor creada y escrita por Lena Waithe (Boomerang, The Chi) cuando tenía veintitantos. Trata sobre una lesbiana negra llamada Hattie y sus mejores amigas hetero, Marie y Nia.

David Thewlis (Wonder Woman, Harry Potter) protagonizará Barkskins, adaptación de la novela de Annie Proulx (2012) para National Geographic. Será Monsieur Claude Trepagny, un terrateniente adinerado con grandes visiones para el futuro de la Nueva Francia en el siglo XVII. Escrita por Elwood Reid (The Chi, The Bridge).

Fechas

Alta mar llega a Netflix el 24 de mayo

La décima temporada de Archer se estrena en FXX el 29 de mayo

La segunda temporada de Burden of Truth se estrena el 2 de junio

La cuarta temporada de Queen of the South se estrena en USA Network el 6 de junio

La segunda temporada de Big Little Lies se estrena en HBO el 9 de junio

La segunda temporada de Krypton se estrena en Syfy el 12 de junio

La segunda temporada de Strange Angel se estrena en CBS All Access el 13 de junio

Jinn llega a Netflix el 13 de junio

Los Espookys se estrena en HBO el 14 de junio

La segunda temporada de The Outpost se estrena en The CW el 11 de julio

The Boys llega a Amazon el 26 de julio

Tráilers y promos

Big Little Lies - Temporada 2

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When They See Us

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The Rain - Temporada 2

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The Loudest Voice

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The Boys

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Archer - Temporada 10

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Strange Angel - Temporada 2

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Krypton - Temporada 2

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Tuca & Bertie

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Jinn

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Younger - Temporada 6

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worldtoptrend · 4 years

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Barkskins season 2: here are all the details regarding this

After the release of the first season, fans are eagerly waiting for the release of the second season of the bark skins. The first season itself has shown the level of excitement of fans for the series. Fans have shown their love to the series greatly. That's why we are expecting that season two must be there. So will we have the second season or not? Already it has been stated that the second season will be released. So we have official confirmation that there will be the release of the second season. Also there was the official promotion of the series. So it all clearly shows that season 2 will be released for sure. When will the second season release? Well as per the official announcement season 2 will be released in the year 2021 not 2020. It is expected to be released in the month of June. But we should not be very optimistic about this as the current pandemic has impacted everything. So it can also be delayed. But since there is an official announcement regarding the date, we will have to at least wait for the minimum period that is one year. Who will be there as the cast? If we talk about the cast then we can expect many of the stars from the previous season to return back. These include David Thewlis as Claude Trepagny, David Wilmot as Constable Bouchard, Lily Sullivan as Delphine, Tallulah Haddon as Melissande, Aneurin Barnard as Hamish Games, Zahn McClarnon as Yvon, Matthew Lillard as Gus Lafarge, kaniehtiio horn as Mari. #BarkskinsSeason2 #BarkskinsSeason2cast #BarkskinsSeason2plot #BarkskinsSeason2releasedate #BarkskinsSeason2story #BarkskinsSeason2trailer Read the full article

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Why Barkskins is Worth Watching

Memorial Day 2020 brought two great series—HISTORY Channel’s Grant, which we talked about last week, and National Geographic’s Barkskins. As many of us are still trying to stay home due to concerns about COVID-19, both these series are great options for your weekend plans.

Barkskins isn’t your typical dry documentary. It’s a live-action period drama that will have you hanging on the edge of your seat, filled with betrayal, subterfuge, and thrills. Broadly, the series examines what life is like in the wilds of New France in the 1690s.

Because it focuses on the individual stories of so many people, there’s sure to be a character that draws your attention and keeps you engaged. In the midst of learning about history and life back then, the engaging characters and captivating story will keep you enthralled.

Set in Wobik in today’s Canadian province of Quebec, people of all types try to make it in the New World. You have the filles du roi like Melissande and Delphine, the engagés like Rene Sel and Charles Duquet, the French landowner Claude Trepagny, and the innkeeper Mathilde (who actually wasn’t a character in Annie Proulx’s novel).

Because the first part of the novel focused on the 1690s, which was adapted for scene, didn’t include many female characters, Mathilde was added to bring an additional female face. Unlike the other women like the filles du roi featured in the Barkskins series, Mathilde, played by Marcia Gay Harden, becomes a powerful voice for the younger women.

Beyond captivating characters, you also get to see how things play out between Iroquois, the Wyandotte, and other Native American tribes and what their interactions with the French and the English look like.

Everyone is trying to establish dominance in their own way, and that’s why Mathilde is such an important character addition. Just like the different groups of men, she too is trying to vie for power as well.

Claude Trepagny, played by David Thewlis, adds dynamic to the series as one of the most flamboyant (and wealthy) characters. He declares at one point, “I am a man brimming with contradictions, and my mind moves like the blood of Christ.” Trepagny is an eccentric character, wanting to build a home in the woods as well as select the perfect bride. More importantly, he’s interested in establishing a legacy.

That’s why he’s drawn to Melissande in the third episode when she says, “Blood. Land. What we make and grow from it is what will be left when we’re gone.” Even so, Melissande isn’t being entirely truthful about what she wants because all she wants is the wealthiest man. She cares more about money than legacy.

Although Barkskins had a lot of characters to introduce to the viewer originally, the series has stayed successful in the subsequent episodes because it’s starting to develop personalities and stories behind those characters, giving them a more realistic feel as opposed to just being people that you read about in a history book.

We won’t spoil it for you in case you’re not up to date on the episodes, but there are multiple killings, and the characters are trying to figure out who’s behind them. In this way, Barkskins seems more like a mystery or suspense series rather than historical fiction. If you like to constantly be guessing what’s going to happen next in TV series, Barkskins has a lot of unexpected twists and turns to it, adding complexity to the characters and the story as a whole.

The only downside to Barkskins might be that it’s rated TV-MA. It’s not a show to watch with kids because there is a ton of violence. But it’s a great show to watch with your significant other in the evenings when the kids have gone to bed.

Additionally, the Barkskins TV series is only covering the first 100 pages of Annie Proulx’s book, which is over 700 pages and covers 300 years. By the end of the TV series, you’ll probably want to know where all the characters end up and might have to buy the book.

Even so, we love Barkskins because it’s a great depiction of life in Canada in the 1600s, bringing in a lot of different types of people with many personalities. You’ll get to feel like you’re actually living in New France, which is great for history buffs or anyone who loves period dramas. It just isn’t Laura Ingalls Wilder by any stretch of the imagination.

At SJR Research, we specialize in telling the story of your family. If you know that you have Canadian ancestors or if you want to learn if your ancestors may have lived in New France in the 1600s, you can browse SJR Research’s service on our site at SJR Research.

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sounds about right

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calamity-bean · 4 years

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Notes: Barkskins Q&A

Barkskins fans! Today (6/28/20), American Cinematheque hosted a Barkskins Q&A webinar with creator Elwood Reid and cast members Marcia Gay Harden (Mathilde Geffard), Christian Cooke (Rene Sel), and David Thewlis (Claude Trepagny). Elwood, Marcia, and Christian were on the call live, while David was interviewed beforehand and his responses recorded. Topics discussed included:

The show’s general scope and the adaptation process

Historical research

Accent coaching

Colonialism and the portrayal of First Nations characters/cultures

Sets and wardrobe

An audience question for Marcia about Mathilde’s daughter

An audience question for Christian about Rene’s physical/action scenes

Here I’m sharing a summary of the notes I took during the talk. This isn’t a transcript and I didn’t write down everything, but I tried to note interesting things as accurately as I was able. Please pardon any misinterpretations or errors; I did the best I could, but if you remember something differently (or have something to add), feel free to let me know.

This got quite long... Lots of notes below!

The Show in General

First, the big one: the show has not yet been renewed for a second season, but Elwood is hopeful! He feels like season 1 just barely “set the table” for the story, only to yank the tablecloth off right at the end, and he wants more seasons so that viewers can really dig into the meal. It was always planned as multi-season, and right now he’s just hoping that there’s been a good enough viewing and that people talk enough about the show.

The season was originally slated for ten episodes, but had to be cut to nine and then to eight due to the weather changing and due to the time necessary to construct sets.

The book was considered to be a huge challenge to adapt -- almost unadaptable. Initially, Elwood had ideas for doing a generational / time-skip structure like in the novel, where each season would start over and focus on a new time period; however, one of the main reasons he scrapped that idea was because of the cast. He really adores the whole cast and is excited to write more stories for these actors rather than switching focus to new characters.

In general, the show was repeatedly described as being essentially about “haves” versus “have-nots” -- who are the “haves,” who are the “have-nots,” what do they want and what are they willing to do in order to become a “have.” It is also a show in which every character (except Rene, initially) has a secret and everyone has something they want that they can’t have.

Also, things such as which characters live/die will not be beholden to what happens in the book.

Historical and Character Research

Marcia and Christian have both read the entire book. Since Mathilde wasn’t in the novel, Marcia called up Elwood with a lot of ideas for how to develop the character, although in the end Mathilde became someone much gravelly, crass, and more conniving than she had initially expected. Christian was very impressed by the scope and uniqueness of the story and found Rene’s simple worldview appealing, describing Rene as a man of the forest, a man of the land, with desires that are simple but meaningful and noble: a better life, prosperity, a piece of his own land.

David read about the first hundred pages, and his initial idea of Trepagny was as someone much tougher and more physically imposing, as portrayed in the book. He then had to work to shed that preconception of the character into the very different Trepagny of the script. He described Trepagny as a man of contradictions: Is he good or bad? Charming or obnoxious? Vulnerable or a bully? Does he live in a cabin or a mansion? Does he worship a god / dual god or a rotten old log? Is he delusional or is he a visionary?

Primary source materials from the period that Elwood used in his historical research include the accounts of Jesuit missionaries, business ledgers describing trade and commerce, and a few memoirs from filles du roi. However, he found it difficult to find primary sources, especially in English, and was careful to remember that these accounts always had a French/colonial bias.

Marcia did a LOT of research on her own in order to better understand what conditions in France might have driven the Geffards to leave. She asked herself, “Why the hell would anyone leave France to come to these mosquito-filled woods with ostensibly hostile First Nations people and English? What was going on in that moment BEFORE they came over?”

Christian didn’t do much historical research but rooted his character in terms of the physical research he did, such as learning woodcutting. He said Rene came from a rural area of northern France and was a woodsman there as well.

Accent Coaching

Marcia said they did receive accent coaching, but they didn’t want to lean too hard into strong accents because they wanted to give the impression that the French characters were speaking French, which, as their native language, would be very fluid. So it was okay to not have a heavy accent in order to better communicate that effect.

It was also okay for everyone to have different takes on the French accent, because they wanted to give the effect that these characters were coming from all different parts of France and each had their own individual background. They felt that communicating the characters was more important than getting the accents entirely correct.

They likewise had Native actors speak English on screen when their characters were talking among themselves (even when the characters should be understood as not speaking English) so that the audience would get that same impression of fluidity, cleverness, and colloquial conversation.

Colonialism: "Whose perspective are we bringing to bear? Whose story are we telling?”

Elwood acknowledged that Americans tend to be bad about looking outside their own history and that societies with a history of colonizing tend to come up with justifications for why it was okay for them to invade and colonize others. They wanted the show to avoid reinforcing that idea and to not sugarcoat the reality of it.

He mentioned the importance of having Migizi Pensoneau’s voice in the writer’s room. They also made an effort to speak with tribal communities and leaders in the area in order to gain their insight.

Elwood also hit on the effect of the Western film genre (as in cowboy Westerns) in shaping stereotypes about Native Americans and exporting these stereotypes to the rest of the world. Wanted to avoid those stereotypes (bc they’re inaccurate anyway and bc Barkskins takes place in the eastern part of the continent, not the western, and in an earlier time period) and in general to avoid portraying indigenous people as a uniform/interchangeable monoculture.

Marcia highlighted efforts to foreground First Nations characters in front of the camera as well, specifically mentioning Yvon and Mari. She mentioned that Yvon was educated at Harvard and that Mari’s father was French.

Sets and Wardrobe

This was my favorite section because I love this stuff and it was very impressive! Elwood basically gushed about how the production designer (Isabelle Guay), costume designer (Anna Terrazas), and wig maker were invaluable to the show. I tried to record the wig maker’s name, but I was going by ear, and I couldn’t find any search results that seemed right based on the spellings I tried. He was a Montreal area wig maker whose name sounded like (but I am sure is not spelled like) “Ray-jean For-jay.”

Isabelle Guay is local to the area and was in charge of building all the sets. She scouted all the areas personally and paid close attention to period details in construction. Authenticity was very important to Nat Geo; it had to look good and feel real.

Most of the costumes were not existing pieces that the show rented or reused; Anna Terrazas wanted to build as much as possible from scratch herself. She and the other costumers dyed deerskins, found period 17th- and 18th-century fabrics to make garments out of, and even hand built shoes.

Likewise, although it would have been cheaper to get okay-looking wigs premade, the wig maker wanted to make high-quality authentic ones himself. He flew to the actors, measured their heads, bought hair in France, and then constructed all the wigs himself.

Marcia on how the costume informed her character: Anna gave her a leather pouch to hang on a belt around her waist. It was filled with lavender, the idea being that Mathilde kept this lavender close to counter the foul smells of Wobik. Marcia viewed it as a “little secret” to draw on in her acting.

Christian found the costumes surprisingly comfortable/immersive and the landscape very awe-inspiring.

The moodboard for Trepagny’s wardrobe/aesthetic included pictures of Nick Cave and Jimi Hendrix.

Mathilde’s Daughter

Marcia was asked how much of the details about Mathilde’s daughter were of her own invention. She said that everything said on screen about Veronique was straight from the script, but she came up with more herself in order to inform her acting.

Marcia imagines that Veronique probably died from a sickness, perhaps something like whooping cough that to many of us today wouldn’t seem so serious but which would be more fatal in that era.

This is the point at which Elwood blindsided Marcia, me, and everybody else by talking about a scene he had been “obsessed” with a planned scene in which Renardette would go down to a room below the inn and find Veronique’s preserved body hidden down there, covered in her own dresses. Ultimately, Elwood felt that this was “too gothic” and that it wouldn’t work for Mathilde in a season of only 8 episodes, because it would too quickly take the audience’s understanding of her to a very bizarre/dark place.

He defended the idea by saying that it wasn’t uncommon at the time for people to do things like that, i.e. keep a loved one’s remains for a period of time. (I will take your word for it, Elwood. Also, I’m totally ready for you to go full gothic on this show, please follow your weird impulses in the future.) Marcia, though, felt that it wouldn’t make sense for a character as pragmatic as Mathilde. She pointed out that Francis is the one who wants things like refinements, whereas Mathilde is much more practical.

Also, I was today years old when I learned that Lola Reid (Renardette) is showrunner Elwood Reid’s daughter. In my defense, it’s not an uncommon last name.

Christian on Rene

Christian was asked about the physical aspects of playing Rene, such as chopping wood, fighting, swimming, etc., and which were most difficult and which most enjoyable. He said that he loved those aspects; he would get immersed in the physical act so much that he would forget he was acting. He could get very emotional in those intense moments and found it very difficult to come out of those scenes because of how emotionally charged they were (such as when watching character deaths) but also found it very enjoyable in a cathartic way.

Elwood said that he thought Christian had the hardest role because Rene is a stoic person who has to hold the screen with very few words. It was at this point that he talked about all the characters having secrets and something they want but can’t have; he pointed out that Rene is the only character who doesn’t have a secret and whose wants and needs are very simple. This makes his character “like a rock” that other characters try to pick up and bash around but can’t figure out what to do with.

In light of that, Elwood felt that this first season was a slow burn for Rene, but that the future focus of the character’s arc is essentially: What’s the breaking point of a man like that? What will make him crack? What will make him act out of his character?

He said it was also similar for James Bloor (Charles Duquet) because he had to take so much abuse in this first season, with Elwood assuring James that it was building toward a big future payoff.

In conclusion...

Aaand that’s all I’ve got! We are all encouraged to keep talking about the show and to make known our desire for a second season. Thanks for reading, and like I said, let me know if you have anything to add or to correct.

#barkskins #elwood reid #marcia gay harden #christian cooke #david thewlis #mathilde geffard #rene sel #claude trepagny #op #this is RIDDLED with little typos cause i typed very quickly i'll fix them later

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