[1] Created by Laurie Finstad-Knizhnik,[2] the series is a serialized drama set in Janestown, near the Alberta-Montana border in the 1860s, in which three women band together for survival after their husbands are murdered.

[3] The cast includes Cara Gee, Melissa Farman and Tattiawna Jones.

John Doyle of The Globe and Mail called it "a remarkable, rugged western drama" and praised the cast.

Doyle concluded "Strange Empire wobbles a bit in episodes two and three, but never falls down.

Watch and you are carried through on the freshness and zest of it, this dose of hard, rugged TV storytelling.