Strange Empire (2014)

Genre

drama television series

Country

Canada

Length

1 season, 13 episodes

Rated

TV-14

Rating

4.9 of 10 from 19 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In the 1860s on the Alberta-Montana border, three women whose husbands were murdered join forces to survive in a harsh frontier town. They face prejudice and danger while trying to build a life for themselves.

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What happens

Strange Empire is a Canadian Western television series that aired on CBC Television in the 2014–15 television season. Created by Laurie Finstad-Knizhnik, the series is a serialized drama set in Janestown, near the Alberta-Montana border in the 1860s, in which three women band together for survival after their husbands are murdered. The cast includes Cara Gee, Melissa Farman and Tattiawna Jones. The first season began airing on 6 October 2014 and consists of 13 episodes. CBC cancelled the series in March 2015 after one season. Strange Empire was broadcast on LMN in the US and was renamed Strange Empire: Rise of the Women, it premiered on May 29, 2015. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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