These episodes are really accessible even if you know nothing about the back story. Also addicting, touching as they do on all aspects of Native Canadian modern life in large part through the eyes of a female police officer trying to balance her culture and her job. She's a good mix of vulnerable and competent, as are the other main characters. No black-and-white, cardboard characters here.
I've caught about four episodes at random on APTN in recent weeks and am so caught up in the lives of these characters that I'll have to find a schedule and get serious about figuring out all the relationships and histories.
