Rounding out that team is local officer Yvette Nichol (Sarah Booth), whose eager rookie disposition and blunt delivery adds comedic relief, particularly in any scenes with Sutherland. In the series, Lacoste has a deep connection with the Blue case, but she also represents an entire community of adopted Indigenous people who go unclaimed and unsure of their heritage. Gamache’s team, for example, consists of two seasoned and skilled detectives: Jean-Guy Beauvoir (Rosif Sutherland) and Isabelle Lacoste, who is played by Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers - a member of the Kainai First Nation (Blood Tribe, Blackfoot Confederacy) as well as Sámi from Norway. As the rest of the season unravels, it’s just one touchstone into the Indigenous communities, as the adaptation makes other changes to further those conversations. It’s a storyline that’s not present in the novels, and serves as the entry point into a broader conversation in Canada right now, where there is a long history of police ignoring or closing the book on missing Indigenous women. As Gamache attempts to solve that first murder in Three Pines, he also begins investigating the disappearance of an Indigenous girl named Blue Two-Rivers (Anna Lambe), whom the Sûreté du Québec have dismissed as a runaway, despite insistence from her family that she’d never leave them or her young daughter behind. Luckily, an overarching, season-long mystery saves the day.Īnd that’s where the real genius of this adaptation lies. It’s a slow start featuring an unlikeable victim whose disdain for everyone makes for an uncompelling case.
There, each of the first season’s four standalone murder mysteries span two episodes, beginning with an adaptation of Penny’s second book, “A Fatal Grace.” Those first two episodes are the weakest of the bunch as the show works to establish its characters and tone. To capture the unique cinematography, the Prime Video Canada adaption filmed in Montreal and in the Quebec Eastern Townships in a village called Saint-Armand, which is about 45 minutes from Knowlton. The fictional town is inspired by Penny’s hometown of Knowlton, Que., a tourist hotspot where locals now offer tours for hundreds of dollars a day.
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