(National Geographic/Peter H. Stranks)
Network: National Geographic
Episodes: Ongoing (hour)
Seasons: Ongoing
TV show dates: May 25, 2020 — present
Series status: Has not been cancelled
Performers include: David Thewlis, Marcia Gay Harden, Aneurin Barnard, James Bloor, Christian Cooke, David Wilmot, Thomas M. Wright, Tallulah Haddon, Kaniehtiio (Tiio) Horn, Lily Sullivan, and Zahn McClarnon.
TV show description:
A historical fiction drama series, Barkskins is based on the novel of the same name by Annie Proulx.
The TV show examines the mysterious massacre of settlers in the vast and unforgiving wilds of 1690s New France. This event threatens to throw the region into an all-out war. Likely suspects abound – the English, the Hudson’s Bay Company, and a band of Kanien’kehá:ka (Iroquois) possibly in league with the English looking to drive the French from the territory. But, who or what brought these settlers to such a tragic end?
The series tells a story of exploration, adventure, and ambition among dreamers and fighters. Some have a utopian vision of the world while others are crass and conniving. All, however, are navigating the perils of a treacherous new frontier. As tensions escalate, unlikely alliances are forged, old antagonisms deepen and new families are formed against the seemingly endless natural riches and hidden dangers of the new American continent.
Characters include wealthy landowner Claude Trepagny (Thewlis); powerful innkeeper Mathilde Geffard (Harden); Hamish Goames (Barnard), a clean-cut Hudson Bay Company man; Charles Duquet (Bloor), a scrappy and industrious scoundrel; Trepagny’s indentured servant, Rene Sel (Cooke); Constable Bouchard (Wilmot), the king’s local lawman; Elisha Cooke (Wright), a cutthroat English barrel maker; sharp-tongued and ambitious Melissande (Haddon); Mari (Horn), Trepagny’s Wendat nation wife; Delphine (Sullivan), a hopeful and devoted Fille Du Roy; and Yvon (McClarnon), a Harvard educated Hudson Bay Company man.
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What do you think? Do you like the Barkskins TV show? Do you think it should be cancelled or renewed for another season?
I love this show. Will it return???
Love this show!!! Watched it from the beginning to the end!!! Most definitely it should continue.
Love this show! Very smart and respects the intelligence of the audience. Hurry with the next season. Need to see what happens after episode 8.
This was an excellent historical fiction. It was well written and with great acting
Definitely deserves another season. Great story
Barkskins absolutely should have a new season in order to complete some of the story line. Actors were believable played their parts with excellence. I hope to see more…..
Barkskins is of particular interest to me as a descendant of a fille du roi and the cartwright who married her, had 11 children with her, and helped develop the Quebec territory. It is not an easy show to watch as there is a great deal of violence; but it is not gratuitous violence. It is characteristic of the struggles for power over a very rich land area between two very powerful countries–the British and the Hudson Bay Company, and the French who first claimed it for their own. Neither of these countries, however, recognized the long history of the… Read more »
I thought it WAS a good show. However, I now regret having watched it as it was not a storyline that had any completion of anything. It was quite disappointing in this aspect. Especially having been billed as a limited series, one expects a storyline that will have a completion, but short of the episode were “Roi des filles” (King’s daughters) get sent off with husbands to begin settling Canada for the French, there is no ending to any storyline. Even this storyline took off with two of the women, to follow, and there storylines were also left unresolved. Barkskins… Read more »
This show definately deserves another season! There are too many loose ends. Even if there was only 1 more episode to tie up all the loose ends. I walked away from the tv with too many questions. I dont like when a tv show ends without wrapping things up. Still wondering is that it? They all get killed.
Superb, a quality show. Enjoyed each episode and will watch again. Another season? Absolutely!
Barkskins deserves a new season
Fantastic series, yes renew it. What the hell are people watching ??? I love shows like this
I loved the show! Definitely it should continue. Soon!!
I would like the show to continue if just to answer all the questions left in the finale.
Please Please Please Let there be MORE! PLEASE!