Three Pines (TV Series) The Cruellest Month - Part 1 (2022) User Reviews

Very powerful imagery

[calgarywino · 8/10 · 9 December 2022]

'The Cruellest Month' begins with a night scene in the house first featured in the episode one and two. It is a former Residential Home, in a state of disrepair and exudes a feeling of oppression.

What follows is a story that delves into a modern day murder with stark references to the horrors which befell the First Nation children. These children were taken from their families, beaten, tortured, isolated, confined and robbed of their families, language and religion.

The imagery in this episode is extremely gripping and powerful and I found it brought me to tears. I also loved the music, which featured Jeremy Dutcher and others; it was all well chosen, poignant and also tugged at my heart strings.

The subject matter is very current with the talks of reconciliation, and the recent discovery of hidden graves on old sites, and I found this disturbing and heartbreaking.

As before, the acting was wonderful and showed the cast in a full range of emotions, all which seemed natural and genuine.

This series deserves to be watched for all of the reasons above, and I hope it evokes thought and compassion for the families whose lives were ripped away. Sombre though it may be this is very important and a reminder of our darker past.

Thank you for this program.

This Show Is Pretty Darned Good

[Hitchcoc · 9/10 · 12 December 2022]

The first part of The Cruellest Month is about an old residential building that was used to house indigenous kids grabbed up by the government. Some kids are using the house for silly Satanic rituals, and they are discovered by a group of townspeople who have gone to burn the place down. What transpires is the discovery of the body of a young man, whose father worked at the school and terrorized the kids. Gamache, LaCoste, and Beauvoir investigate and find a town that wants to be rid of this building and all that it represents. There seems to be some hidden information and the police must wade through this. Now that we are in the second episode, we begin to get a feel for the individual characters, which is a strength of the books.