[1] The first Canadian drama series to feature a Black Canadian woman as its lead character,[2] the series stars Vinessa Antoine as Marcie Diggs, a lawyer who leaves her high-powered corporate job to work for a legal aid clinic in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, after her aunt commits suicide.
[11] The CBC announced in October 2022 that the show's fourth season would be its last, with the finale scheduled to air on November 16.
[12] Diggstown follows Marcie Diggs (Vinessa Antoine), a star corporate lawyer who reconsiders her priorities and moves back home (to the greater Halifax-Dartmouth area) to work in a legal-aid office after her beloved aunt takes her own life following the pressures of a malicious prosecution.
[11] Taisir, one of Marcie's clients, is grabbed by secret police and being held with an accusation of terrorism (which will make him unavailable for upcoming appointment that he has to be at for getting his mother a visitor's visa).
Marcie tries to find Taisir, but the authorities keep shuffling him around so his lawyer can't be present to represent him.