Jared flees to his cookhouse where Wade tells him that he is a trickster and Maggie is a witch. Georgina follows Jared to school – which has been emptied for Sarah's die-in protest of pipeline construction – and Georgina is fought by Wade who initially appears in the form of a crow. He sees Georgina's skin crawl, making her realize that he is Wade's son. Richie kicks Jared out of Maggie's house and threatens to burn his stuff, so Jared has Richie arrested for arson. She goes to Sophia for help, explaining that voices have been telling her that Wade must die. Maggie locates Wade's motorcycle but finds he has escaped death a second time. Also, Georgina and Edna confront Wade over unstated obligations, Jared grows closer to Sarah, and Phil gives Jared a mobility scooter for a food-delivery job. Maggie threatens Wade, and later casts a spell which has a tree fall in front of his motorcycle. In a flashback, Wade helps birth Jared in the back of Maggie's truck, then takes him to a mamathlteeasa, but Maggie screams, injuring Wade, and she leaves him for dead. Wade claims to be Jared's father though Maggie denies this. Richie bullies Jared as man of the house but reconsiders after experiencing Maggie's volatility. His friend Crashpad sells a gaming account to pay Richie, but they find Richie's trailer burned down – Maggie did it in an insurance fraud scam, and has invited violent Richie to live with them as her boyfriend. Jared sees his double again at the party and becomes sick, and later a crow talks to him. Maggie attacks newly-arrived Wade at the Tasty Bucket, costing Jared his job. Jared begins cooking more drugs to sell at a party but he is attacked by a look-alike and robbed. Both are jobless, and Maggie owes money to drug dealer Richie while Phil's girlfriend Destiny is pregnant. Underachieving high school student Jared sells the drug "ecstasy" from the Tasty Bucket restaurant drive-thru to pay the bills for his parents, who separated a year ago. Joel Thomas Hynes as Richie, Maggie's boyfriend.Craig Lauzon as Phil Nelson, Jared's father.Georgina Lightning as Sophia, Jared's grandmother.Nathan Alexis as Crashpad, Jared's best friend.Crystle Lightning as Maggie, Jared's mother.The series centres on Jared, an Indigenous Haisla teenager and small-time drug dealer in Kitimat, British Columbia, who becomes increasingly aware of the magical events that seem to follow him. The series was renewed for a second season prior to the first season's premiere however, these plans were eventually cancelled on January 29, 2021, due to controversy around Michelle Latimer's Indigenous heritage. The series is created by Tony Elliott and Michelle Latimer with Latimer also directing, and is adapted from Eden Robinson's 2017 novel Son of a Trickster. 2020).Trickster is a Canadian coming-of-age supernatural thriller drama television series, which premiered on CBC Television on October 7, 2020. “ Why It Took Eden Robinson Eight Years to Write Canada Reads Finalist Son of a Trickster.” CBCnews, 18 Mar. The novel’s author, who is Haisla and Heiltsuk, explained in an interview with CBC Books that the Raven (also called “Wee’git”) teaches humans lessons by being the “the bad example, the example of what not to do” (Warren, Jennifer. “ Haida-The People and the Land-Mythology and Crests.” Canadian Museum of History). According to the Haida, “The Raven is the most greedy, mischievous and lecherous creature imaginable” (MacDonald, George F. For Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast, a key Trickster is the Raven, which can shapeshift and travel between the human and spirit realms. “ Trickster.” The Canadian Encyclopedia, 5 Apr. Generally, “Tricksters” are supernatural figures that break rules, “frequently cross and challenge boundaries,” and meddle with humans’ “social harmony and order” to teach some sort of lesson (Robinson, Amanda. As a child, Jared endures the fear, anger, and distrust of his Granny Nita because she thinks Jared is a Trickster. Wee’git functions as both an important character and a significant symbol in the novel.
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