Trickster
Tuesdays 8P The CW’s new drama TRICKSTER, based on the bestselling trilogy of novels by Eden Robinson, tells the story of the Indigenous Gothic, spirits, ancient magic, deadly rites of passage in a coming of age story unlike any you’ve ever seen. Jared (Joel Oulette) is an Indigenous teen struggling to keep his dysfunctional family above water.Jared holds down an after-school job and cooks ecstasy on the side
to support his separated parents: partying mom Maggie (Crystle Lightning), who selfmedicates an undiagnosed mental illness, and unemployable dad Phil (Craig Lauzon),
who has a painkiller addiction and a new girlfriend. But when Jared starts seeing strange
things – talking ravens, doppelgängers, skin monsters – his already chaotic life is turned
upside down. At first, he thinks he’s losing his mind, but to his relief, and terror, the
supernatural events surrounding him are all too real. There is more than meets the eye
to the place Jared grew up, the people he loves – and to Jared himself.
