Underplayed Gems

The Guard (2008)

The Guard poster
Genre
drama
Country
Canada
Length
3 seasons, 22 episodes
Rating
7.7 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This Canadian TV series follows the crew of a Coast Guard station on the British Columbia coast. It shows their work saving lives at sea and struggles with addiction, PTSD, and family issues.

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What happens

The Guard is a Canadian drama television series portraying the life of the Canadian Coast Guard along the British Columbia Coast. Filming takes place in Squamish, British Columbia with Howe Sound standing in for the fictional Port Hallet and a real 14.6 m Coast Guard lifeboat Cape St. James has been renamed Cape Pacific for the series. The show primarily revolves around the four main characters: Miro Da Silva (Steve Bacic), Laura Nelson (Claudette Mink - Season 1; Sonya Salomaa - Seasons 2 and 3), Andrew Vanderlee (Jeremy Guilbaut), and Carly Greig (Zoie Palmer). There is also a strong supporting cast, including Gordon Michael Woolvett (as Barry Winter), who worked with Bacic previously on Andromeda, Julie Patzwald, and Eve Harlow, the latter two of whom won a 2008 and 2009 Leo Award, respectively, for their roles on the show. The show focuses on both the professional and personal lives of the lead characters, confronting issues such as addiction, post traumatic stress disorder, and family problems. It was picked up by Ion premiering March 13, 2010. By late April, it was put on hiatus on the basis that it "did not find a broad enough audience on the network", explained a spokesperson. It subsequently aired for a period on the ION Life digital channel. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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