Marcia Gay Harden and David Thewlis star in a Nat Geo historical drama set in French-colonial Canada
Two sets of newcomers alight upon the New France settlement of Wobik at the start of Nat Geo's colonial-era drama. "Here, you can be whoever you want," promises Rene Sel , a young-ish man who has signed up for three years of indentured servitude and what he hopes will be a wide-open future thereafter. Sel's optimism falls on deaf ears. His slightly younger, much more sullen compatriot, Charles Duquet , shrinks at the very thought of arduous work.
Disembarking around the same time are two young women with a similar mismatch in expectations. Striving Melissande and anxious Delphine temporarily move into a convent before they are to find husbands in the colony. Since the men greatly outnumber the women, wives are a much-desired resource, though their scarcity doesn't guarantee them respect or kindness from their husbands. Melissande and Delphine, too, desire the kinds of prospects unthinkable to them in their hometowns.
Watching these four settlers find their unexpected destinies in the New World is one of the few pleasures of. Adapted from Annie Proulx's ecologically minded novel, which follows the descendants of Sel and Duquet for 300 years, the 10-part limited series, set only in the late 1690s, is crowded with scheming characters but thin on reasons to care about them.
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