From Ruth Myles of the Calgary Herald:

• Being bad feels so good
  “Wild Roses is all about the fast-paced world of oil, money, power, booze and drugs, as seen through the relationships between two families. There’s a late-night hookup in the premiere, as well as a curse or two.” Read more.

From John Doyle of the Globe and Mail:

• Oil riches, greed and lust
  “Bless the CBC, but never mind Shakespeare – I’ve seen the highlight reel for Wild Roses and what it promises, more succinctly, is a passel of strong female characters, including one skinny, blond vixen, and a whole lot of drinkin’, fightin’ and canoodlin’, Western-style. The best line in the highlight reel comes from a female character summing up ‘the new West’ as ‘the pollution, the greed, the sports-car-driving oil assholes.'” Read more.

From a media release:

A SHAKESPEAREAN RIVALRY UNFOLDS IN BOOMING ALBERTA AS WILD ROSES PREMIERES JAN. 6, ON CBC TELEVISION

• “What’s in a name? That which we call [oil] by any other name would smell as sweet.” – Romeo & Juliet, William Shakespeare

Enter the dramatic world of WILD ROSES, where the land is vast, the living is good and the search for black gold means everything. Debuting Tuesday, Jan. 6, at 9 p.m. on CBC Television, this one-hour, provocative 13-part series sees the battle for a coveted piece of land in Alberta unfold between the wealthy McGregors and the debt-ridden Henrys.

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