twolfe13 The acting is so bad it is laughable. I can't understand where the favorable reviews came from unless they are Canadian bots. Don't waste your time on this garbage.

hrhbloggins I watched until episode three hoping it would improve. It did not.It is hilariously awful.The acting is uniformly atrocious.The "plot" is ridiculous.The casting choices equally poor -especially the "marshal".Why is it impossible for the CBC, with a billion dollar a year budget to put together one half decent show.? It is an embarrassment to Canada.The people who produced, directed, casted, wrote, and acted in this show need to find other lines of work.Fast

susiemoloney Strange Empire is more than just a Western, although there's plenty of Western action. It's a female-driven, sexy, well-plotted drama. Beautifully shot, well-written, it's really the characters who drive the story. A small wagon train traveling into the west between Montana and Canada border, runs into a mining community that has little more than a brothel, mine, and railroad running through it. When two young girls are hidden from the brothel and mine owner, he extracts his revenge by sicking his men on the wagons, killing all the husbands, fathers, and male children, in order to force the women to work the brothel. The plan mostly blows up thanks to Kat Loving, a fierce wife-made-widow. From then on, it's pretty much war. Hopefully CBC won't cancel this one prematurely while it finds its audience. Hear that, CBC? Don't you dare!

deborahbliss Incredible show. Just re-watched the first three episodes. All four lead characters are brilliant actors. Such talent. Visually stunning with the British Columbia foothills as a backdrop. So many words to describe this show, mystical, bizarre, quirky, tragic, etc. Historical perspective of women and their lot in life during these times. I recommend this show for anyone who enjoys a good and oddly bizarre drama. Hindsight now gives us historical accuracies, but at the times depicted they were not quite sure where they were. But interesting, the coal mines, think of Coleman area, the railroads, the hard life of the early settlers. Thankyou CBC for producing this excellent show. I am enthralled!