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She is a Canadian actress and television host, early known for her role as Hugh Glass' wife in the 2015 film The Revenant; as well as Ricki, a talented mechanic in the 2018 film How It Ends.
Currently (2022) she stars alongside two-time Academy Awards winner Hilary Swank in the ABC network drama Alaska Daily, as journalists shining light on missing and murdered indigenous women and girls (MMIWG).
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1x06 of Alaska Daily was heartbreaking and scathing. The ep addressed systemic inequalities in searches for missing white women are treated vs how searches for missing Indigenous women, after a white woman falls overboard from an Alaska cruise ship and an Indigenous woman goes missing in the woods.
Stanley and Roz’s deadpan exchange where Stanley (the paper’s editor in chief) is required to do an obligatory reprimand of Roz after she raises questions about the inequalities at a press conference and says he is “talking” to Roz about her “behavior” was gold.
“Are you done ‘talking’ to me?”
“Yeah. Good chat.”
And then Stanley heads out to the woods to join Roz in the search for Jade. I appreciate Stanley.
The gala having Indigenous performers while a million dollars is being spent on the search for one white woman and almost nothing spent on the missing Indigenous woman — Jade’s search gets done by the community, not official forces. A gala attended by the wealthy who are profiting off the governor’s puff PR “task force” where most of the money is spent on PR not resources.
The rapid-fire dialogue and the wry or deadpan humor of the team of reporters and the friendships among the reporters at TDA is enjoyable and the show finds humor while being raw about a range of issues from corruption to inequalities. I also liked that this ep developed Stanley and Roz’s friendship, the mutual respect, Stanley being a mentor and ally.
It’s interesting how the show depicts Roz, Eileen, and Stanley’s different kinds of angers. Roz’s anger is deep and quiet and stirred higher by being not listened to, not heeded, being overlooked. Trying to get people to listen. Eileen’s is sometimes a bulldozer and at times, well-intended white liberal crusader but she doesn’t always stop to think about the real personal impacts, she latches onto causes, but genuinely cares. Stanely’s anger is a tired anger. He knows how broken the system is. He’s given almost no budget to run the paper. He believes in the power the press has to bring about change, uncover truths, so Stanley tries to push and encourage his team to do work past the external limits set on them. Stanley and Roz in different ways both live in frustration, boxed in, but they know where the hidden cracks in the walls are and how to apply pressure to get them to crumble. While Eileen rams her her way head-on at every wall.
The whole cast is stong, and Hillary Swank, Grace Dove, and Jeff Perry (who plays Stanely) deserve a ton of critical attention of their roles in this. The show itself deserves a lot more attention. I hope it gets a S2.
second episode is done and yall......i didnt think it would end so soon we got so much and i cannot wait where this story goes!!! trying not to be spoilery with this post but bro....abc needs to make more of this i absolutely love them i love the developing dynamics between eileen and roz, yuna and austin's coffee rounds and how the team looks to him to comfort yuna, claire!!!!!! bob eating the damn burgers anyway as well as stanley having a piece, and more gabriel please omg
i tagged all the characters because i might just for sure get back to giffing for this show yall pls stream
Very much enjoyed episode 2 of Alaska Daily. Eileen and Roz are forming up a tentative reluctant partnership and all the characters in the ensemble are appealing. The journalist characters as the paper each have their own stories going on, with some things carried beyond just the first ep, while the show is also clearly doing standalone stories, with the big overarching mystery plot of solving the cold case murder of an Indigenous woman. The series is also very much about the role of journalists and authentic journalism
ABC released some promo photos for ep 3 [x]. The series is filmed making great use of natural setting. It is in part filmed in Alaska (Anchorage) and in the Northwest Territories and Vancouver, BC.
Enjoy. The series is on Hulu and the ABC app day after airing.
Episode 3 of Alaska Daily I think hits its stride. Eileen and Roz and Sylvie head off to Meade to investigate Gloria's death. Eileen and Roz clashing because Eileen keeps railroading Roz and has tunnel vision and, yes, white privilege. Well-intentioned white privilege is still white privilege and Eileen kept stepping right over Roz's perspective and knowledge and acts controlling. Roz refuses to accept it.
This show has some layers and the acting is top-notch so check it out. The good news is that when ABC added up the overnights, the live+3, the live+7, and the hulu streaming numbers for the pilot, the audience was 8.7 million viewers.
I have some fuller thoughts on the themes the ep touched on.
Also this moment was important to talk about, and I'm speaking from the perspective of a white ally. Eileen's anger as a white ally personalizes it and makes it more than just an abstract quest for justice, which is good, but the thing is the anger of white allies, I realize can make PoC feel very tired because hey good for you that you're angry, Eileen, but Roz lives it. As Roz says, this is her life, her community, her people in danger. And she's been in this fight, she didn't just get there, and she can't just dip in and out the why Eileen can.
"I'm angry"
"Good. I've been angry for a long time"
But we can see Eileen going deeper in, emotionally, and her and Roz becoming closer too, and Eileen isn't intractable, she doesn't triple down, and she does care in her heart.
Then by the end of the ep we have the two women as equals confronting the blatantly racist white police chief who is exploiting his job and the community for an easy paycheck, doesn't care, and neglects victims of SA and refuses to investigate cases to keep his record as low crime. All while stereotyping Natives in order to try to justify his attitudes. “Nonsense. Native girls who can’t handle their alcohol” and "That's just how they are" is how racism shows without it being slurs and violence, the racist police chief is still virulently racist. I can feel angry watching this, and appreciate Eileen and Roz screwing this guy to the wall, but it's not the same for me as it for women like Roz who have to live under it.
The case of the week was also interesting, concerning the ways politicians can "say whatever they want" but won't actually live up to it once they're in office and how some will cater to their big donors. Stanley, who runs the paper, is a badass, the type of old school journalist who could take down entire corrupt regimes. So he's going to go check into the family of the paper's publishers. Austin and Yuna's relationship is enjoyable to watch and mutually supportive, and we get a deeper look into Austin's life, insecurities, and why he is a journalist. Eileen and Roz's struggling partnership vs Austin and Yuna's playing basketball together and talking to each other with warmth and support were interesting counterpoints.
The settings on this series continue to be used beautifully.
