Brenda? Are You Watching FBI: Most Wanted?
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It is a TV Show on one of our networks. It is a spin-off of FBI, which is about a female Agent and a Muslim Agent.
For Most Wanted, there seems a lot of background and interaction with characters and storylines about Native Americans, or First Peoples.
The main character's wife, and daughter, and in-laws, and co-workers. And some episodes are centered on such environs.
If you haven't yet, I keep thinking you might enjoy them.
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
It is a TV Show on one of our networks. It is a spin-off of FBI, which is about a female Agent and a Muslim Agent.
For Most Wanted, there seems a lot of background and interaction with characters and storylines about Native Americans, or First Peoples.
The main character's wife, and daughter, and in-laws, and co-workers. And some episodes are centered on such environs.
If you haven't yet, I keep thinking you might enjoy them.
No, I haven't maybe I should. It seemed from the ads I've seen as just the usual police show. Thanks for the info JSF.
I've marked it in my local tv magazine. It's on tomorrow night.(Tuesday)
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Quote:The gist of the show is that they are the manhunter team, the fugitive trackers, they are not localized but chase around all over. They are the hard chargers, getting the hard cases.
Originally posted by Brenda:Quote:No, I haven't maybe I should. It seemed from the ads I've seen as just the usual police show. Thanks for the info JSF.
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
It is a TV Show on one of our networks. It is a spin-off of FBI, which is about a female Agent and a Muslim Agent.
For Most Wanted, there seems a lot of background and interaction with characters and storylines about Native Americans, or First Peoples.
The main character's wife, and daughter, and in-laws, and co-workers. And some episodes are centered on such environs.
If you haven't yet, I keep thinking you might enjoy them.
I've marked it in my local tv magazine. It's on tomorrow night.(Tuesday)
But the Native American (including Canada cases and background) aspects are why I keep thinking you would enjoy as I watch them.
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Like I said JSF. Thanks for the info and I will check it out tonight.
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JSF:
Gave it a watch tonight. Good show. Noticed one of the producers Dick Wolf, used to produce the Law & Order series. All of them. I liked them.
It did me good to see Native American characters so prominent in the show. 
Interesting to note the actors that play two of the male leads are both from Alberta and members of the Cree nation.
The girl who plays the daughter is like her character mixed-blood.
I shall have to keep watching.
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Saw the episode tonight. Was really very sad and showed the destruction and pain that was brought on by the residential school system.
Very hard for me to watch as I began thinking about my grandmother and her siblings.
The motto for the residential schools was given, : "Kill the Indian to save the man."
That rung some bells in my mind. I've heard it somewhere but it must have been when I was a child.
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Quote:That was a repeat episode.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Saw the episode tonight. Was really very sad and showed the destruction and pain that was brought on by the residential school system.
Very hard for me to watch as I began thinking about my grandmother and her siblings.
The motto for the residential schools was given, : "Kill the Indian to save the man."
That rung some bells in my mind. I've heard it somewhere but it must have been when I was a child.
Other episodes had given me an inkling that you might enjoy them. But when I saw this episode in it's first airing, I really was hoping you had watched it.
The background, perspective that it provided was unique from what I've seen elsewhere on Prime Time TV. I thought it was powerful and thought provoking. Also delving into the heritage with the daughter. Plus some of the underlying tensions and animosity between different Natives - from different tribes/Nations, different areas, different reservations, Tribal Police, different countries, etc.
If you haven't caught on by now, the mother (Jess' wife) was a full blood who died in combat.
If you found it hard to watch, think of how hard it was to get that episode on air. The writers formulating that story, the actors bringing life to those roles.
I didn't quite catch on whether Residential Schools was only a Canada thing, or if it was in USA as well.
I did feel that most of the people who died IN that episode really kinda deserved it, but not those who died before the episode started. Was glad it ended without another needless death.
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:That was a repeat episode.
Originally posted by Brenda:
Saw the episode tonight. Was really very sad and showed the destruction and pain that was brought on by the residential school system.
Very hard for me to watch as I began thinking about my grandmother and her siblings.
The motto for the residential schools was given, : "Kill the Indian to save the man."
That rung some bells in my mind. I've heard it somewhere but it must have been when I was a child.
Other episodes had given me an inkling that you might enjoy them. But when I saw this episode in it's first airing, I really was hoping you had watched it.
The background, perspective that it provided was unique from what I've seen elsewhere on Prime Time TV. I thought it was powerful and thought provoking. Also delving into the heritage with the daughter. Plus some of the underlying tensions and animosity between different Natives - from different tribes/Nations, different areas, different reservations, Tribal Police, different countries, etc.
If you haven't caught on by now, the mother (Jess' wife) was a full blood who died in combat.
If you found it hard to watch, think of how hard it was to get that episode on air. The writers formulating that story, the actors bringing life to those roles.
I didn't quite catch on whether Residential Schools was only a Canada thing, or if it was in USA as well.
I did feel that most of the people who died IN that episode really kinda deserved it, but not those who died before the episode started. Was glad it ended without another needless death.
I'm seeing this show in repeats right now JSF as I didn't start from the beginning.
There are a lot of differences even between I think even closely related tribes. Mohawk, have reservations on both sides of the border because the Iroquois confederacy was big and consisted of 5 tribes. This is the second time I've heard the residential school system mentioned in a show. The first time was from "Lou Grant" back in the late 70s. There were a lot of things at play in that episode because you were dealing with 2 countries instead of one. Feds aren't liked by the tribes in the east in Canada. Then you had the anger from the residential schools. So, so much the writers packed into that 1 episode. So much praise for them and the actors. That is one major aspect of the show I really like is how Jess is learning from his in laws about his wife's culture and then passing it down to his daughter.
I caught on from the first episode I watched the Jess' wife was full blood and died in combat. Saw the episode where they went to the mother's grave.
I have to give really high praise to the writers of this episode and the actors. They all truly captured the pain that has crossed multiple generations from the residential schools.
As I said in another thread JSF, the residential school system operated both in the US and Canada. My grandmother was an American, so when her parents died, she and her brother and sisters were raised in a school in Montana.
Yes, I did too and I could feel the father's anger when he found that the police did nothing to try and find his daughter. I was very glad that Jess' brother-in-law was able to talk Reg down so he didn't die. So he would be around to help his little brother and maybe they can get some help for Reg's father.
All in all a very powerful episode.
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I'm glad to hear you are enjoying the show.
This particular episode seemed to have numerous scenes of escalating tension, conflict, with some easing of tension, and sometimes resolution in the scene. Some scenes result in deserving death, but some are just quite gritty.
This made me feel like watching an episode of Firefly, with similar sensations.
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