Barkskins
May 21, 2020
1 minute
SERIES PREMIERE
Monday, May 25, 9/8c, National Geographic
MADNESS AND MISERY await settlers braving the woods of late-17th-century Wobik, becomes a grueling but routine melodrama of corruption, savagery and betrayal. Only David Thewlis () brings much life to the saga, as an eccentric landowner with visions of building a “sky table” atop the trees for his calculating young bride, imported from France. (If only he had factored in the wrath of the mixed-race companion who bore him a son.)
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