The series is now on Netflix where Americans can see it for the first time. MY review is from an American Indian POV. I deeply appreciate how the series brought up issues Aboriginals and American Indians have in common. I see many themes with an indigenous worldview:
The common experience of being colonized and made to feel outcast in your own homeland. Being segregated, forced onto reserves, reservations, or "zones" in the series. The importance of traditional knowledge for self preservation. That such knowledge is not just "stories" but lived experience, as real and important to the indigenous as the Bible is to Christians. Colonizers wanting that traditional knowledge for their own exploitation. The conflicts between traditionalists and those indigenous who collaborate or have a colonized mindset.
For all those reasons I rate this series highly. One review did claim this series is similar to another that I've never heard of. I don't know of any Native series similar, but then American Indian series are themselves rare. Among films, the closest themed I can think of are Legends from the Sky and Older Than America.
My sole criticisms are that the first season is better written than the second, tighter and clearer narrative. The ending is somewhat anti climatic.
The common experience of being colonized and made to feel outcast in your own homeland. Being segregated, forced onto reserves, reservations, or "zones" in the series. The importance of traditional knowledge for self preservation. That such knowledge is not just "stories" but lived experience, as real and important to the indigenous as the Bible is to Christians. Colonizers wanting that traditional knowledge for their own exploitation. The conflicts between traditionalists and those indigenous who collaborate or have a colonized mindset.
For all those reasons I rate this series highly. One review did claim this series is similar to another that I've never heard of. I don't know of any Native series similar, but then American Indian series are themselves rare. Among films, the closest themed I can think of are Legends from the Sky and Older Than America.
My sole criticisms are that the first season is better written than the second, tighter and clearer narrative. The ending is somewhat anti climatic.