8.0120 minSeason 1 • Episode 3
LatestBill finds the murderer and seeks revenge; The Count goes after Bill's gold; the Tlingit participates in a nighttime raid; Bill and Meeker confront death in the wilds.
The lives of two childhood best friends, Bill and Epstein, in the late 1890s as they flock to the gold rush capital in the untamed Yukon Territory. This man-versus-nature tale places our heroes in a land full of undiscovered wealth, but ravaged by harsh conditions, unpredictable weather and desperate, dangerous characters including greedy businessmen, seductive courtesans and native tribes witnessing the destruction of their people and land by opportunistic entrepreneurs.
Cinematography
Alberta standing in for Yukon looks genuinely punishing.
Production
They built Dawson City from scratch in -30°C. Method suffering.
Acting
Abbie Cornish steals every scene she's frostbitten in.
Creators
Simon Cellan Jones, Paul T. Scheuring, Rachel Abramowitz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Richard Madden filmed this immediately after the Red Wedding aired, making his 'traumatized man in snow' energy weirdly authentic.
Discovery Channel's first scripted drama, it was dead on arrival—part of the 2014 'prestige miniseries boom' that mostly just birthed forgotten shows.
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