document_title: Maryse Ouellet

question_text: when does the miz and maryse show start

question_tokens: when does the miz and maryse show start

text: Maryse Ouellet

text: Early life and career[edit]

text: Ouellet was born in Montreal, Quebec, but grew up in Edmundston, New Brunswick.[1] In high school, Ouellet was the only girl in her class, and ran the school's fashion show.[7] She also began developing a range of makeup products.[7] Ouellet began her modelling career as a beauty pageant contestant, winning Miss Hawaiian Tropic Canada 2003 and finishing second at the International Finals of Miss Hawaiian Tropic 2004.[1] She was also on the cover of Playboy's 2007 Girls of Canada calendar.[7]

text: Professional wrestling career[edit]

text: World Wrestling Entertainment/WWE[edit]

text: Diva Search and developmental territories (2006–2007)[edit]

text: In mid-2006, Ouellet tried out for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)'s Diva Search.[1] She made the final cut and was one of the top eight contestants, but was the second person eliminated on July 24. Despite her elimination, she was invited to observe workouts and the training facility at WWE's developmental territory, Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), along with Brooke Adams.[1] Ouellet later said that she was "very, very excited", as it was her "dream to become a WWE Diva".[8]

text: Ouellet was officially signed to a WWE developmental contract on August 24, 2006 and was assigned to OVW for training.[1] She made her in-ring debut at an OVW live event in December 2006.[1] In March 2007, she began wrestling in dark matches prior to the OVW television tapings.[1] In mid-2007, Ouellet began managing Sylvain Grenier.[9] When Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) opened in mid-2007, Ouellet was transferred to the new developmental facility, and on September 25, she made her FCW debut as the valet of Ryan O'Reilly along with Lacey Von Erich.[1][9] Ouellet then started competing in singles and tag team competition, before managing Ted DiBiase, Jr. in December 2007, and was at ringside when he captured the FCW Southern Heavyweight Championship.[9] She continued making sporadic appearances in FCW until January 2008.[9]

text: Early feuds (2006–2008)[edit]

text: On the September 22, 2006 episode of SmackDown!, Ouellet, known as simply Maryse, was shown on the TitanTron welcoming the Montreal viewers in French to the season premiere of SmackDown! on the CW Network.[1] Maryse made her first official televised appearance on the May 21, 2007 episode of Raw to present American rapper Timbaland's new music video for the single "Throw It on Me", in which she had appeared.[10]

text: By the time she began appearing regularly on SmackDown at the beginning of 2008, she had adopted a snobby attitude and become a villainous character.[9][11] On the March 7, 2008 episode of SmackDown, Maryse competed in a swimsuit contest against Victoria, Michelle McCool, Cherry, and Eve Torres, which ended in a brawl between Maryse and Torres.[12] The following week, she was the first eliminated from another swimsuit competition.[13] On March 28, Maryse competed in a "Wet and Wild" match, teaming with Victoria against Cherry and McCool in a losing effort.[14] On a "SmackDown after the bell" video on WWE's website, the tag team Deuce 'n Domino dumped Cherry, who had been their manager, and replaced her with Maryse.[1] Maryse then insulted Cherry, only for Cherry to slap her.[15] On the May 16 episode of SmackDown, Maryse made her in-ring debut in a loss to Cherry, though she defeated Cherry in a rematch the following week.[16][17] On the June 6 episode of SmackDown!, SmackDown General Manager Vickie Guerrero announced the creation of the WWE Divas Championship, and that same night the Divas competed in a Golden Dreams match to qualify for the championship match at The Great American Bash, which was won by Natalya.[18] On the July 4, 2008 episode of SmackDown!, she competed again in another Golden Dreams match to face Natalya for the championship, however she failed to win.[19] For several weeks, Maryse competed in six-person tag team matches with Victoria and Natalya against Cherry, Michelle McCool and Maria. She suffered a minor broken nose after receiving a bulldog from Maria in August 2008.[20]

text: Divas Champion (2008–2010)[edit]

text: Maryse began a rivalry with Michelle McCool in September 2008, challenging her for the WWE Divas Championship at Unforgiven,[21] and in a rematch the following week on SmackDown, but failed to win on both occasions.[22] On the September 23 episode of ECW, Maryse defeated McCool in a non-title match.[23] After a month-long absence, Maryse returned at Survivor Series pay-per-view event in November, participating in a five-on-five Divas elimination tag team match, eliminating Kelly Kelly, Mickie James and Candice Michelle; Maryse was the sole survivor of her team, but was ultimately eliminated by Beth Phoenix.[24] At the Armageddon pay-per-view on December 14, Maryse teamed up with Jillian Hall, Victoria and Natalya in a losing effort to McCool, Maria, Kelly Kelly and Mickie James in an Eight-Diva Santa's Little Helper tag team match.[25] On December 19, Maryse pinned Maria to become the number one contender for Michelle McCool's Divas Championship.[26] The following week on SmackDown, Maryse defeated McCool, with Maria as the special guest referee, to win her first Divas Championship.[27][28] On December 28, at a house show in Raleigh, North Carolina, Maryse dislocated her knee in a tag team match against The Bella Twins (Nikki and Brie). It was later announced that the injury was not major, and therefore only missed a few weeks action.[29] On the January 23, 2009 episode of SmackDown, Maryse returned and sat at ringside commentating during a Divas' tag team match.[29] She returned to in-ring action on February 20, teaming with Michelle McCool in a win against Maria and Eve Torres, where she pinned Torres.[30]

text: Maryse made her first appearance on Raw on March 2, as a commentator for a match involving the WWE Women's Champion Melina, with Maryse attacking her after the match.[31] The following week, Maryse made her in-ring debut on Raw in a champion vs champion lumberjill match, which she defeated Melina.[32] The rivalry extended to a tag team match on SmackDown on March 13, where Melina and Maria defeated McCool and Maryse.[33] On March 27 episode of SmackDown, Maryse made her first championship defense, losing by disqualification after the returning Gail Kim attacked Maryse and McCool, and thus retained the championship.[34] On April 5, Maryse competed in a 25-Diva Miss WrestleMania battle royal at WrestleMania XXV, but she was eliminated by Beth Phoenix and the match was won by Santina Marella (Santino Marella dressed in drag).[35] Maryse made her last appearance on SmackDown on April 24, retaining her championship against Gail Kim.[36]

text: As part of the 2009 WWE Draft on April 13, Maryse was drafted to the Raw brand, and in the process, the Divas Championship became exclusive to Raw.[37] She made her first appearance as part of the brand on April 27, teaming with Beth Phoenix, Rosa Mendes, and Jillian Hall in a loss to Santina Marella, Mickie James, Brie Bella and Kelly Kelly.[38] Maryse then began feuding with Mickie James after she cost James a number one contender's battle royal, which was eventually won by Kelly Kelly, by spraying hairspray in her eyes. The following week, Maryse lost a championship match against Kelly by disqualification, meaning the championship did not change hands, and won a subsequent rematch by pinfall two weeks later on June 8.[39][40] At Night of Champions on July 26, Maryse lost the Divas Championship to James.[41] Despite being only the second Divas champion, her reign of 216 days remained the longest in the title's history for nearly five years,[11] until AJ Lee surpassed her reign in January 2014.[42]

text: After losing the championship, Maryse underwent to a legitimate knee surgery.[43] She returned on the November 23 episode of Raw, disguised as The Gobbledy Gooker, as the guest timekeeper for a Thanksgiving-themed 6-Divas tag team match. After the match, she revealed herself by attacking the Divas Champion Melina.[44] The following week, Maryse made her in-ring return teamed with Jillian Hall in a tag team match against Melina and Gail Kim, where Maryse pinned Melina.[45] On the December 7 episode of Raw, Maryse defeated Gail Kim by dirty tactics, and following the match, Maryse proceed to attack Kelly Kelly, who was working as ring announcer, ordering her to announce she was the next Divas Champion, but was stopped by Melina.[1]

text: In early 2010, a tournament was held for the newly vacated WWE Divas Championship due to Melina's injury.[46] Maryse entered the tournament, and defeated Brie Bella and Eve Torres in the first round and semi-finals, respectively, to advance to the finals.[47][48] The tournament's finals were originally scheduled for Elimination Chamber on February 21; instead, the match was changed by the SmackDown General Manager Vickie Guerrero to a interbrand tag team match, where Maryse teamed with her scheduled opponent Gail Kim against LayCool (Michelle McCool and Layla), which was won by LayCool as a result of Maryse abandoning Kim during the match.[49][50] The following night on Raw, Maryse defeated Kim in the finals to win the championship, becoming the first Diva to have held it twice.[11][51]

text: On March 15 episode of Raw, Maryse defeated Kelly Kelly in a non-title match, attacking her after the match before being attacked by Eve Torres and Gail Kim, and saved by LayCool, then joining with them and Vickie Guerrero.[52] On March 26 episode of SmackDown, Maryse teamed up with LayCool, Guerrero and Alicia Fox defeating Beth Phoenix in a 5-on-1 handicap match before being attacked by Kim, Eve, Kelly and Mickie James.[53] At WrestleMania XXVI, on March 28, she was part of the winning team of a 10-Diva tag team match with LayCool, Fox and Guerrero against Phoenix, James, Kim, Torres and Kelly Kelly,[54] but the following night on Raw, she was pinned by Torres in a rematch.[55] Maryse lost the Divas Championship two weeks later to Eve Torres on the April 12 episode of Raw,[56] and was unsuccessful to regain it at Over the Limit pay-per-view in May.[57] At Fatal 4-Way on June 20, Maryse failed to regain the title in a Fatal Four-Way match that also involved then-champion Eve, Gail Kim, and Alicia Fox, which Fox would win pinning her to become the champion.[58]

text: Managing Ted DiBiase and departure (2010–2011)[edit]

text: On the June 21 episode of Raw, after Ted DiBiase fired Virgil, Maryse became DiBiase's new personal assistant.[59] At Money in the Bank, on July 18, Maryse accompanied DiBiase in his Money in the Bank ladder match for the WWE Championship contract, which she tried to pick the briefcase, but was stopped by John Morrison.[60] Along with DiBiase, Maryse was announced as a mentor for Brodus Clay for the fourth season of NXT on November 30.[61] On Raw, on December 13, Maryse was involved in a battle royal to determine the winner of the Diva of the Year Slammy Award, but was eliminated by Natalya.[62] Clay traded his mentors, Maryse and DiBiase, for Alberto Del Rio on the January 25, 2011 episode of NXT.[63] In late September 2010, Maryse was involved in an storyline with Goldust, in which he stole the Million Dollar Championship from DiBiase,[64][65] and lost a subsequent mixed tag team match against Goldust and Aksana on October 26.[66]

text: On March 8, Maryse became the co-host of NXT, alongside Matt Striker.[67] As part of NXT Redemption, Maryse was involved in several romantic storylines, most notably with Yoshi Tatsu, Lucky Cannon, and Hornswoggle.[68][69] In April, DiBiase made an ultimatum to Maryse for her to choose to continue on the NXT or continue with him. The following week, Maryse chose to continue appearing on NXT, disbanding their alliance in the process.[70] In August, Maryse underwent surgery for an abdominal hernia and took time off WWE programming.[71][72] After two months of inactivity, Maryse was released from her WWE contract on October 28.[73]

text: Independent circuit (2012)[edit]

text: On October 5, 2012, Maryse appeared at the Family Wrestling Entertainment (FWE) event Back 2 Brooklyn, performing live commentary.[74] She began appearing regularly for FWE, where she commentated during women's matches.[75][76][77]

text: Return to WWE[edit]

text: Managing The Miz (2016–present)[edit]

text: On April 4, 2016 episode of Raw, the episode after WrestleMania 32, Maryse returned during a WWE Intercontinental Championship match between the champion Zack Ryder and her husband, The Miz. During the match, Maryse slapped Ryder's father, who was in the front row, in order to distract Ryder and allowed Miz to capture the championship for the fifth time, thus becoming his manager in the process, where the two then became an on-screen power couple.[78] She formally re-introduced herself three days later on the April 7 episode of SmackDown before once more helping Miz to retain his championship over Ryder.[79] She then began to cut various promos with Miz as his host during the "Miz TV" segments, while calling themselves the "It" Couple.[80]

text: Following a hiatus due to the shoot of a WWE film, Maryse returned to WWE television on the June 27 episode of Raw, where she helped Miz to retain his championship against Kane after she faked an ankle injury.[81] After being drafted to Smackdown as part of the 2016 WWE draft which took place on July 19,[82][83] Ouellet made her first appearance for the brand on July 26, where she co-hosted a Miz TV segment along her husband before being interrupted by Randy Orton, who challenged Miz to a non-title match, in which he was subsequently defeated.[84] At Backlash, Maryse successfully helped Miz to retain the Intercontinental Championship by spraying something at Dolph Ziggler whilst Miz distracted the referee.[85] The following week, SmackDown General Manager Daniel Bryan announced a rematch for the championship due Maryse's interference at Backlash. On September 20, Miz retained the championship over Ziggler.[86] On October 9, at No Mercy Miz lost the Intercontinental Championship to Ziggler in a title vs career match when Maryse was banned from the ringside along with The Spirit Squad (Kenny and Mikey), who was contracted by her to help Miz, ending Miz's reign at 188 days.[87] On November 8 episode of SmackDown, Maryse went on to speak in Miz's name due Miz refuse to speak with Daniel Bryan. At that night, Maryse accepted Bryan's offer to Miz face Ziggler the following week for the Intercontinental Championship in the 900th episode of SmackDown. Later that night, Bryan would state on Talking Smack that if Ziggler successfully retains his championship, The Miz and Maryse would be traded to Raw for someone else.[88] On November 15 at the 900th episode of SmackDown, Maryse helped Miz to win the championship for the sixth time and also retain it at Survivor Series against Sami Zayn.[89]

text: On December 20, episode of SmackDown, Maryse was banned from the ringside after an attempt to apply a eye poke on Apollo Crews during a championship match for Miz's Intercontinental Championship; After the match, Miz was interviewed by Renee Young who slapped him after a joke involving her and Dean Ambrose.[90] On December 27, episode of SmackDown, Maryse confronted Renee Young in a backstage segment before Ambrose attacked Miz.[91] On January 3, 2017, episode of SmackDown, Maryse slapped both Ambrose and Young in different occasions, before interfering in the championship match between Miz and Ambrose, slapping Ambrose again and being banned from ringside before Ambrose defeated Miz for the championship. [92] Later on Talking Smack, Maryse was fined $5,000 for slapping Young.[93]

text: On February 12 at the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view, Maryse was accidentally hit by Nikki Bella when Natalya pushed Nikki into her during a backstage brawl.[94] On February 21 episode of SmackDown, Maryse was again hit by Nikki and Natalya backstage during their Falls Count Anywhere match, leading to Maryse attacking Bella with a lead pipe and causing her to lose the match.[95] On February 28 episode of SmackDown, during the Miz TV segment, Maryse slapped Nikki's then real-life boyfriend John Cena, causing Nikki to confront her.[96] On March 7 episode of SmackDown, Maryse and Miz attacked Nikki and Cena after they won a match against James Ellsworth and Carmella.[97] On March 14 episode of SmackDown, after another showdown between the couples, SmackDown General Manager Daniel Bryan announced a mixed tag team match at WrestleMania 33.[98] Maryse and Miz would ultimately lose in what was Maryse's first match in over six years.[99]

text: On April 10, Maryse was drafted to the Raw brand along with Miz as part of the "Superstar Shake Up", where they made their debut on the same night dressed as Bella and Cena, before being confronted by the Intercontinental Champion Dean Ambrose.[100] On June 4, at Extreme Rules, Maryse was in Miz's corner when he won the WWE Intercontinental Championship for the seventh time by defeating Ambrose.[101] In September, following her pregnancy announcement, Maryse stopped appearing on television.[102]

text: On January 22, 2018, in the Raw 25 Years special episode, Maryse was honored as part of a segment involving women considered legends that contributed to the company's success, including the Bella Twins, Kelly Kelly, Lilian Garcia, Torrie Wilson, Michelle McCool, Terri Runnels, Maria Kanellis and the Hall of Famers Jacqueline and Trish Stratus.[103]

text: Other media[edit]

text: In April 2007, she appeared alongside fellow WWE Divas Ashley, Torrie Wilson, Brooke Adams, Layla, and Kelly Kelly in Timbaland's music video "Throw It On Me" featuring The Hives.[104]

text: Ouellet also appeared in the January 2009 issue of Muscle & Fitness, along with Eve Torres and Michelle McCool.[105] She and John Morrison were interviewed on Eurosport in the same year.[106] She also made a special appearance on Redemption Song, which was hosted by WWE wrestler Chris Jericho, along with Candice Michelle, Mickie James, and Eve Torres.[107] She has also appeared in several newspaper interviews, including Tokyo Headline, and was on the cover of Sessions Magazine in October 2010.[108][109]

text: In 2012, Maryse was featured on the cover of Le Journal de Montréal,[110] and on MDA Show of Strength with The Miz and other celebrities.[111] In 2015, Ouellet had roles in Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! and in Santa's Little Helper, the latter starring Ouellet's husband, The Miz.[111] In the same year, she appeared on the E! reality television series WAGS.[111] In 2016, it was announced that Maryse would appear as a main cast member on the sixth season of Total Divas, which prompted her return to WWE.[112] In June 2017, Maryse along with Miz were cover of the DUB Magazine with a Jeep car.[113][114][115][116][117] In 2018, Maryse along with The Miz will star in a reality television series titled Miz & Mrs.[118]

text: Maryse has appeared in four WWE video games. She made her in-game debut at WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2010, later appearing in WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2011, WWE '12, and returned in WWE 2K18.[119]

text: Filmography[edit]

text: Film[edit]

text:
Year
Title
Role
Notes

1994
Octobre
Pouilleuse
Film debut

2015
Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!
Officer Davis
TV Movie

2015
Karla
Sidney

2015
Santa's Little Helper
Melody
Straight-to-DVD

2016
Enter the Fist and the Golden Fleecing
Macy Does
Post-production

2016
Delilah
Amy Lannigan

2016
Isle of the Dead
Mikaela Usylvich
Post-production

2017
The Marine 5: Battleground
Ana

text: Television[edit]

text:
Year
Title
Role
Notes

2008
Redemption Song
Herself
Guest appearance

2010
Musée Eden
Religieuse auditorium
1 episode

2011
Trauma
Femme de Lemire
1 episode

2012
Unité 9
Infirmière d'Yvon
2 episodes

2015
WAGS
Herself
Episode: "Never Have I Ever"

2016–present
Total Divas
Main cast (season 6–present)

text: Other endeavors[edit]

text: Following her release from WWE in 2011, Ouellet announced her plans for a clothing and jewelry line named House of Maryse.[11]

text: Beginning in late 2013, Ouellet began working as a realtor in Los Angeles after spending a year earning her real estate license.[120]

text: Personal life[edit]

text: Ouellet is a native speaker of French, fluent in English, and she is able to read Spanish, although she cannot speak it.[5][7] Ouellet has a tattoo of her late father's name, Guy, on her left wrist.[5] She has a degree in business administration, and holds a black belt in martial arts.[1] Her favorite actress is Scarlett Johansson, her favorite bands are Simple Plan and Nickelback, and she loves techno music.[121] Ouellet is a vegan[122] and an avid supporter of animal rights and gay rights, and posed for the NOH8 campaign in 2011. Ouellet is Catholic.[123]

text: Ouellet was inspired to become a professional wrestler by Lita.[124] She cites Lita and Victoria as her dream opponents.[125]

text: In 2013, Ouellet got engaged to longtime boyfriend and fellow wrestler Mike Mizanin, best known by his ring name The Miz. The two were married in The Bahamas on February 20, 2014.[126][127][128] The couple reside in Austin, Texas.[2] The couple announced on September 11th episode of RAW that they are expecting their first child.

text: On March 27, 2018, Maryse gave birth to their first child, a daughter named Monroe Sky Mizanin. [129]

text: In wrestling[edit]

text:
Finishing moves

French Kiss (Snap DDT, with theatrics)[130][131][132]
French TKO[9] (Heel kick, to the back of the opponent's head)[133]

Signature moves

Forward Russian legsweep[134][135]
French Pain[9] (Camel clutch)[136][137][138]
Spinning side slam backbreaker
Hair-pull facebuster[139][140]
Leg choke[141]
Modified sleeper hold[141]
Running knee strike, to the head of a kneeling opponent[142]

Wrestlers managed

Sylvain Grenier[9]
Ryan O'Reilly[9]
Deuce 'n Domino[9]
Ted DiBiase[9]
The Miz[79]
The Spirit Squad (Kenny and Mikey)[79]
The Miztourage (Curtis Axel and Bo Dallas)[143]

Entrance themes

"All Summer Long" by Adam Salkeld[144]
"Lounge Lizard" by Emanuel Kallins and Stephen Teller[145]
"Pourquoi?" by Jim Johnston[146]

text: Championships and accomplishments[edit]

text:
Pro Wrestling Illustrated

Ranked No. 9 of the top 50 female wrestlers in the PWI Female 50 in 2009[147]

World Wrestling Entertainment

WWE Divas Championship (2 times)
Divas Championship Tournament (2010)


document_title: Slasher (TV series)

question_text: where was the first season of slasher filmed

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text: Slasher (TV series)

text: Background[edit]

text: Slasher employs a season-long anthology format, with an overarching mystery storyline that will be resolved upon the season's conclusion.[7] Aaron Martin, the series' creator/producer, acknowledged gaining inspiration for the format from American Horror Story, stating that, should Slasher have subsequent seasons, the AHS style of self-contained storylines would be used along with, ideally, the reliance on as many actors from previous seasons as possible to portray brand new roles.[8]

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text: Martin aims to tell "a modern-day monster story" in Slasher, combining three of his favorite genres: The contemporary murder mystery (a la Broadchurch),[9] the works of Agatha Christie (one of Martin's favorite crime writers), and the classic slasher films he grew up with.[10] In terms of the latter, Martin has specifically cited the influences of Halloween and It Follows in Slasher's use of a mysterious singular embodiment that is responsible for a series of killings. Not wanting to have the show's killer be "a mythological creature" (as he feels the killers in most slasher films do not have much mystery surrounding them), Martin also uses elements of the traditional whodunit in Slasher: The show's characters, many of whom have mysterious backgrounds — and their own reasons for possibly being the killer — are featured, explored, and eliminated from consideration, one by one (either through death or the natural deductive process), until the "all too human" killer and their motivations for their actions are revealed.[8]

text: Plot[edit]

text: Season 1: The Executioner (2016)[edit]

text: Slasher's 8-episode first season centers around Sarah Bennett who, with husband Dylan, moves back to the town of her birth, Waterbury (a fictional town in Canada),[11] and into her parents' former home. It was in that house on Halloween Night 1988 where both of her parents, Bryan and Rachel, were murdered. Rachel was pregnant with Sarah at the time of her murder, with police discovering the killer holding Rachel's newborn baby after the slayings.[7] Sarah's return to Waterbury is greeted with the start of a series of copycat murders, all appearing to be at the hands of "The Executioner".[12]

text: Seeking insight on her sightings of "The Executioner" and the slayings he or she has committed, Sarah has paid visits to her parents' imprisoned murderer, Tom Winston. Tom suggests to Sarah that though most of Waterbury's residents project a veneer of friendship, innocence, and self-righteousness, many of them harbor dark secrets, including her late parents. During these conversations, Tom expresses thoughts on what is a common theme of Slasher's first season — the seven deadly sins. Gaining information from Sarah on the victims' backgrounds and the nature of their deaths, Tom provides suggestions as to what sin the victims may have violated; Sarah would begin to employ this approach herself without Tom's assistance in later episodes.

text: Just as Tom declared himself "the Lord's messenger" in a 1988 police interrogation video after murdering Sarah's parents (seen in Episode 1), he believes in the present day that the new Executioner has become a self-appointed deliverer of "Biblical" punishment towards those he or she believes have committed one of the seven deadly sins in their past, employing methods that are apropos to the individual natures of the deadly sins. Future victim Alison Sutherland would get The Executioner to admit this in their Episode 5 interview: Alison asks why The Executioner would be as much a sinner as everyone else and violate one of God's commandments to not kill; The Executioner counters that God only commanded not to murder the innocent, and that his/her victims are not innocent. Tom has suggested to Sarah, in Episode 3, that The Executioner him/herself has committed a deadly sin of their own, being blinded by pride ("the greatest of sins").[13]

text: The police chief is found harboring Ariel, a missing teenager that he kidnapped, and a child they had together, in a enclosed locked room in his basement. Sarah's grandmother accidentally put her best friend in a coma by dropping a cinder block on her head (in fact, she was aiming for the girl sitting next to her best friend; the boy who had gotten Sarah's grandmother pregnant as a teenager was taking this girl to their high school prom). Bryan and Rachel (Sarah's parents) were cuckolding multiple men and video taping them into service to support them, including Tom Winston. Tom decided to kill Bryan and Rachel after falling in love with Rachel and being blackmailed, but saved Sarah after Rachel told him Sarah was actually his and not her husband's.

text: Eventually, it's revealed that the deputy Cam is the Executioner, suffering under an abusive mother whom he pushed down the stairs, killing her. Cam's father, the town priest, discovered that Cam was the Executioner, and Cam killed him as well. After finding her father's body parts in his home, Sarah kills Cam with a machete.

text: Season 2: Guilty Party (2017)[edit]

text: Slasher's 8-episode second season centers around a horrific secret that a group of former summer camp counselors have buried long ago. Due to a changing circumstance, they must return to their resort in the dead of winter to retrieve the body of Talvinder, whom they murdered while they were camp counsellors, five years earlier. They get surprised when they can't find the body at the campsite. Later, the group start dying one by one at the hands of a mysterious person wearing a parka, which also alerts the second group of counselors at the resort.

text: Eventually, it's revealed that Judith is the killer, and another character, Wren, is actually Owen "Wren" Turnbull, her son who committed suicide after being framed for Talvinder's murder, and is a figment of Judith's imagination. Owen wrote a letter to his mother, asking her to get justice for him before hanging himself. Judith killed several members of the commune for their complicity after the fact, as Antoine discovered Talvinder's body and hid it to avoid jeopardizing a real estate deal. Dawn and Keira are the only ones to escape her wrath and the former finally turns herself in for her crime during the epilogue. Judith can be seen watching them along with the hallucination of Owen, who says they'll be waiting for Dawn after she is released from prison.

text: Cast and characters[edit]

text: Recurring cast members[edit]

text:
Actor
Character per season

The Executioner
Guilty Party

Katie McGrath
Sarah Bennett
Does not appear

Brandon Jay McLaren
Dylan Bennett
Does not appear

Steve Byers
Cam Henry
Does not appear

Patrick Garrow
Tom Winston
Does not appear

Dean McDermott
Iain Vaughn
Alan Haight

Christopher Jacot
Robin Turner
Antoine

Wendy Crewson
Brenda Merrit
Does not appear

Leslie Hope
Does not appear
Judith Berry

Lovell Adams-Gray
Does not appear
Peter Broome

Paula Brancati
Jana Singer
Dawn Duguin

Jim Watson
Young Alan Henry
Noah Jenkins

Paulino Nunes
Does not appear
Mark Rankin

Ty Olsson
Does not appear
Benny Ironside

Joanne Vannicola
Debbie
Renée

Sebastian Pigott
Does not appear
Owen "Wren" Turnbull

Madison Cheeatow
Does not appear
Keira

Melinda Shankar
Does not appear
Talvinder Gill

Kaitlyn Leeb
Does not appear
Susan Lam

Rebecca Liddiard
Does not appear
Andi Criss

Jefferson Brown
Trent McBride
Gene

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text: Season 1: The Executioner[edit]

text: Main[edit]

text:
Katie McGrath as Sarah Bennett. An artist, Sarah returns with her husband to Waterbury, where she becomes proprietor of her own art gallery. She sets out to find how and why the slayings are occurring.[10][14] Creator Aaron Martin has described Sarah as more of a Nancy Drew type than that of a classic "final girl" commonly found in horror films.[8]
Brandon Jay McLaren as Dylan Bennett, Sarah's husband and editor-in-chief of the local newspaper, the Waterbury Bulletin.[10][14]
Steve Byers as Cam Henry, a member of Waterbury's police force.[10][12][14]
Patrick Garrow as Tom Winston, the original Executioner who murdered Sarah's parents in 1988 and who advises Sarah on the new Executioner's murders in the present day.[15]
Dean McDermott as Iain Vaughn, Waterbury's police chief.[10][14]
Christopher Jacot as Robin Turner, who, after the death of his husband, Justin, must deal with the business mess he left behind.[12]
Wendy Crewson as Brenda Merrit, Sarah's maternal grandmother, who returns to Waterbury to look after Sarah and Dylan.[10][12][14]

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text: Recurring[edit]

text:
Jessica Sipos as June Henry, Cam's wife, who works as an EMT and shows jealousy over Cam's relationship to Sarah.
Mary Walsh as Verna McBride, Sarah and Dylan's neighbor, who passed judgement almost immediately on the two.[16]
Enuka Okuma as Lisa Ann Follows, a former criminal justice lawyer, now a New York-based journalist and talk show host.
Erin Karpluk as Heather Peterson. She is deeply haunted by and obsessed with her daughter Ariel's disappearance, which occurred 5 years before the show begins. Karpluk has equated Heather to the Log Lady, in that much like the Twin Peaks character, Heather appears to have a sixth sense about Waterbury's residents and their dark secrets.[17]
Mayko Nguyen as Alison Sutherland, the publisher of the Waterbury Bulletin and Dylan's boss.[12]
Rob Stewart as Alan Henry, Cam's father, a church pastor, and the survivor/witness of Sarah's parents' murder. He has made occasional visits to Tom Winston in prison to provide religious counsel.[18]
Jefferson Brown as Trent McBride, Verna's nephew, June Henry's former EMT partner, and an enthusiastic hunter and taxidermist.
Mark Ghanimé as Justin Faysal, who with husband Robin purchased several properties in Waterbury, including the storefront location that serves as Sarah's art gallery.
Dylan Taylor as Bryan Ingram, Sarah's father
Alysa King as Rachel Ingram, Sarah's mother
Victoria Snow as Sonja Edwards, Brenda's former childhood friend and her intended victim in a prom night 1968 incident.[13]
Hannah Endicott-Douglas as Ariel Peterson, Heather's missing daughter
Shawn Ahmed as Sharma, an officer in Waterbury's police force
Booth Savage as Ronald Edwards, the Mayor of Waterbury
Susannah Hoffman as Marjorie Travers, a prostitute and drug addict

text: Season 2: Guilty Party[edit]

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Leslie Hope as Judith Berry
Lovell Adams-Gray as Peter Broome
Jim Watson as Noah Jenkins
Christopher Jacot as Antoine
Paulino Nunes as Mark Rankin
Ty Olsson as Glenn Morgan / Benny Ironside: A former prisoner, and the sixth to die in the present. A year ago, Benny was serving time in prison when he met a new inmate with whom he entered into a romantic relationship. The inmate is released 6 months later, and 2 months prior to the present, Benny reunites with him as he is camping in Tamarind Bluffs. When the inmate announces he plans on joining a commune, Benny volunteers to come along, but the inmate eventually snaps on the journey and demands he leaves, believing he can't start a new life if he's constantly being reminded of his time in jail. When Benny tries to kiss him and re-affirm their relationship, the inmate angers him by saying he doesn't want to be with him anymore and Benny kills him in a fit of rage. He joins the commune under the inmate's, Glen Morgan, identity. After he kidnaps and rapes Noah, Noah managed to fight back by setting the school bus on fire and driving him out. Benny then returns to the commune and attempts to kill Renee and Judith, but he is shot and incapacitated by Renee. He is tortured for answers regarding the killer, but admits only to Glen's death until falsely admitting he killed Antoine to end the torture, so Renee slits his throat.
Joanne Vannicola as Renée
Sebastian Pigott as Owen "Wren" Turnbull
Madison Cheeatow as Keira
Melinda Shankar as Talvinder Gill: A new camp counselor whose murder drives the events of Guilty Party. A manipulative girl, she played on the other counselors kindness, setting up Susan as a destructive hater and having sex with Peter. A summer outing for her and five other counselors turns out to be a trap, as the other five have arranged for her to stand 'trial' for her actions. The trial goes wrong, however, leading the other campers to believe she is dead only to regain consciousness as her body is about to be hidden. Faced with the possibility of being arrested for her assault, the group argues about what to do with her until Andi snaps and kills her with a rock. 5 years later, the counselors have to return to retrieve and destroy her body as a resort is going to be built and the construction might unearth it. However, despite her death and the hiding of her body resulting in multiple murders, the killer is not doing it because they are avenging Talvinder's death.
Kaitlyn Leeb as Susan Lam: A mother and wife, once Andi and Dawn's friend, the third to die in the present. 5 years ago, when Talvinder was the newest camp counselor, she was distrustful of her, believing her to be a bad person. After rejecting her attempt at seduction and telling her that she saw right through her, Talvinder trashed the camp carnival booth they had been working on and accused Susan of doing it, setting Dawn against her. Angry, Susan showed Andi that Talvinder was a faker by taking her to where she and Peter were having sex in the woods, promising the distraught Andi that she would figure out a way to make Talvinder pay. She was the one to come up with the trial idea that went bad when Talvinder was hurt and thought to be dead, panicking when Talvinder was found to be dead and she ran away, claiming no wrong doing occurred. After the counselor group is discovered to have access to a gun and separated from the commune group, she leaves the cabin and is caught by the killer, her eyes gouged out with a broken pipe and her neck snapped.
Rebecca Liddiard as Andi Criss: Peter's ex-girlfriend, and the second to die in the present. 5 years ago, when Talvinder was the newest camp counselor, Peter cheated on Andi with Talvinder. When the attempt to scare Talvinder went wrong and she was severely injured, while the other counselors were arguing what to do with her, Talvinder called out to Peter that she loved him, angering Andi and causing her to pick up a rock and kill Talvinder. In the present, she argues with Peter about going to the police and after talking with Mark, decides to return to the rocks where Talivinder's body disappeared, only to see her skeletal corpse hanging from the trees and get knocked out. She is tied to the ground by stakes and her throat is sliced open, bleeding out onto the snow.
Paula Brancati as Dawn Duguin
Dean McDermott as Alan Haight
Jefferson Brown as Gene: The outfitter and supply deliverer for the commune. He drives the former counselors up to the commune, and becomes suspicious of their desire to visit the former camp in the dead of winter, deciding to stay over the weekend to keep an eye on the newcomers. He is the first to die in the present, as when he decides to visit the communes sauna, he is surprised by a person in a concealing parka and sliced from his stomach downward with a chainsaw.
Kyle Buchanan as Simon
Simu Liu as Luke: Susan's kind and somewhat oblivious husband. He truly loves his wife, but fails to notice her stress about interacting with her old counselor friends, once two years prior when Andi approached on the street and in the present when she is hesitating to go up to the commune.
Sophia Walker as Megan: An unlucky hiker, the fifth to die in the present. Going on a trek she typically took with a friend who passed away in memoriam of her, she came to the commune to seek shelter when a blizzard is expected. Renee, hardened by the loss of Antoine, is immediately suspicious of her and refuses to listen to reason, striking her with a statue and giving her a concussion. After she learns of the situation at hand, she agrees to attempt a hike down the mountain to the road for help, but only if the blizzard is over by morning. However, that night she suffers a psychotic break, wildly hallucinating and vomiting before falling down the stairs and dying from a broken neck, the cause of which is revealed to be toxic berries in her soup bowl.
Kimberly-Sue Murray as Janice

text: Episodes[edit]

text: Season 1: The Executioner (2016)[edit]

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"An Eye for an Eye"
Craig David Wallace
Aaron Martin
March 4, 2016 (2016-03-04)
0.120[19]

Sarah and Dylan move to Waterbury and into the former home and murder site of her parents. The new "Executioner" surfaces for the first time, chasing Sarah down her street before beating a teen boy who had been destroying mailboxes with his baseball bat. Following a suggestion from Tom Winston after their first meeting, Sarah discovers a camcorder and illicit sex tapes her parents buried in their house, tapes that Verna discovers and takes to her house after snooping around. The Executioner ties down and dismembers Verna in her bedroom as punishment for the sin of wrath. Sarah discovers Verna's body, only to fall down the stairs and lose consciousness while trying to escape The Executioner, who leaves one sex tape beside her.

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"Digging Your Grave With Your Teeth"
Craig David Wallace
Aaron Martin
March 4, 2016 (2016-03-04)
0.110[19]

Sarah's grandmother, Brenda arrives at the Bennett's home, suitcase in hand. Robin is confronted by Trent, while Sarah is confronted by Heather. Sarah receives a package containing a severed human finger and a note; following Tom's suggestion that the note contains geographic coordinates, Sarah discovers the remains of Verna McBride's husband, Peter, in a nearby wooded area. Lured out into an alley way by a severed power cable, Robin's arms are slashed by The Executioner, with a bystander rescuing Robin. While Robin recovers in hospital, another outage occurs, after which Robin receives flowers and a card of condolence. Believing Justin is in danger, Robin and Cam frantically try to call Justin but Justin dies after collapsing and frothing at the mouth after snorting cocaine and ingesting the rat poison that was in it, serving as the punishment for his gluttony. After she had previously threatened Justin and Robin, a fitful Heather is arrested by the police.

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"Like as Fire Eateth Up and Burneth Wood"
Craig David Wallace
Aaron Martin
March 11, 2016 (2016-03-11)
0.067[20]

Robin, deep in grief over Justin and deep in the business mess he left behind, deals with Trent's anger over Justin giving him a bad check. After The Executioner breaks into her home, Sarah heads out of town. After swerving off the road to avoid a truck, Sarah and Brenda become separated in the woods. Brenda, who had just admitted to Sarah her role in Ada's accident, is kidnapped by The Executioner, who ties her to a cinder block and tosses it into the lake at a nearby boathouse. Brenda's drowning death, the punishment for her envy, prompts the police to release Heather from custody.

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"As Water is Corrupted Unless It Moves"
Craig David Wallace
Aaron Martin
March 18, 2016 (2016-03-18)
0.067[21]

The police verify that the truck that ran off Sarah and Brenda belonged to Trent. Trent is chased into a pit in the woods and eaten by snakes as punishment for his sloth by The Executioner. Dylan interviews Tom in prison for the Bulletin. Tom produces evidence to Dylan that suggests he has had a greater interest in Tom than he let on to Sarah. Apologetic for drunkenly claiming Sarah is in love with Cam, June confides to Sarah that she and Trent had an affair while they were EMT partners; she also tells Sarah about Trent's encounter with Ariel Peterson. Security camera footage reveals a detail June left out: She was with Trent in his ambulance that night. After comforting a hysterical Heather, June heads to church to pray but The Executioner abducts her. June awakens in a cornfield naked, attached to an IV, and covered in honey, which attracts animals that eat her alive while she doesn't know what happens.

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"Ill-Gotten Gains"
Craig David Wallace
Aaron Martin
March 25, 2016 (2016-03-25)
0.053[22]

June's rotted remains are discovered. Cam and Sarah argue over suspicions each other have about the killer; Alan learns about the argument and advises Sarah to be careful. Sarah and Robin discover a "murder kit" in Alan's church office, later discovering Alan needs the contents for a BDSM session. Sarah discovers her parents' sex videos feature a young Tom Winston. Alison asks The Executioner on-air for an interview who obliges and, in full costume, speaks with Alison at an abandoned foundry. Alison confides to Lisa Ann that she fabricated evidence in the Bulletin that tied Benny Peterson to his daughter's disappearance. Heading to New York, Alison gets into a courtesy limo driven by the Executioner, who takes her back to the foundry and slashes her throat; her head is later found in a restaurant's deep fryer as punishment for her greed. Vaughn heads home to his basement, where he opens a room-sized safe; inside, a young boy is being sung to by Ariel Peterson.

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"The One Who Sows His Own Flesh"
Craig David Wallace
Aaron Martin
April 1, 2016 (2016-04-01)
0.076[23]

The cold open depicts Iain Vaughn's abduction and rape of Ariel 5 years ago; in the present day, he prevents an attempt by Ariel and son Jake to escape his basement. Sarah becomes suspicious about Dylan's whereabouts when Alison was killed. Tom insists to Sarah that he is her father with a DNA test to confirm. After Sarah and Cam tell Vaughn their suspicions about Marjorie Travers' claim of seeing Ariel the night she disappeared, Vaughn and Marjorie meet and he gives Marjorie a needle filled with heroin that she fatally overdoses on. Realizing Sarah is suspicious about Marjorie's death, Vaughn takes Sarah to a junkyard and attempts to make it appear as if The Executioner punished Sarah for the sin of pride. Knowing his sin is lust, Vaughn makes an attempt to punish himself along with Ariel and Jake with gasoline and attempts to burn himself and the two. With the police demanding Vaughn's whereabouts, Sarah encourages his wife, Nancy, to let them into their basement, from which only Ariel and Jake exit. Vaughn escapes to a secluded lakeside shack, where The Executioner knocks him out; he later awakens to being burned alive in a crematorium, a punishment for his lust.

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7
"In the Pride of His Face"
Craig David Wallace
Aaron Martin
April 8, 2016 (2016-04-08)
0.077[24]

A flashback to Bryan and Rachel Ingram's murder reveals a new detail: Before killing her, Tom reveals himself to Rachel; she responds by professing her love for him and pleads for their baby's life. Sharma and Cam discover The Executioner's list of sinners, which include Tom's and Sarah's names for pride. Sarah becomes angry at Dylan after discovering his website dedicated to her parents' murders. Lisa Ann upsets Dylan with her knowledge that Tom and Sarah are targets, but mollifies him with news that she got his request for a book deal approved — and an intimate moment. While heading back to prison from hospital, Tom escapes to Sarah's house; Sarah willingly goes with him to the woods where The Executioner captures them both. With Sarah tied to a buzzsaw, Tom reveals how his own ego and pride led him to murder Bryan and Rachel. Tom demands that The Executioner punish him instead of Sarah, and he dives onto the running buzzsaw, being "broken on a wheel", killing himself for his sin of pride. At Cam's house, Cam adds a bloody piece of Tom's prison jumpsuit to a hidden box of murder mementos, implying that he is the Executioner.

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"Soon Your Own Eyes Will See"
Craig David Wallace
Aaron Martin
April 15, 2016 (2016-04-15)
0.086[25]

After a flashback depicts the death of Cam's mother, the story picks up on Halloween eve: Alan finds Cam's box of murder mementos, but is strangled by Cam while praying for his son. Cam plants the mementos in the Bennetts' house and, after Sarah discovers them, arrests Dylan. Cam comforts Sarah, and the two have a sexual interlude. Browsing through a summer camp scrapbook, Sarah discovers a sketch Cam drew that resembles The Executioner's drawings; her new suspicions are confirmed when she sneaks into Cam's house and discovers Alan's remains and a bloody knife. Sarah takes the knife and, after luring him out of Robin's Halloween party, stabs Cam, who takes that same knife and stabs both Sarah and Robin. Sarah escapes to her house, but Cam pursues her and stabs Sarah again. Sarah, along with Dylan, turn the tables, however, stabbing Cam several times and slitting his throat. Four weeks later, a reconciled Sarah and Dylan leave Waterbury, with Robin showing their former house to two prospective buyers and their young daughter, who snaps the neck of a stray cat in the yard.

text: Season 2: Guilty Party (2017)[edit]

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"Six Feet Under"
Felipe Rodriguez
Aaron Martin
October 17, 2017 (2017-10-17)

Five years ago, a group of six summer camp counselors, Peter, Dawn, Noah, Susan, Andi and Talvinder drive beyond camp limits to party. That night, Susan tells the group that she's found a good swimming hole, so the group follows her, but only Talivinder is excited about the find until she reaches the clearing, finding it lined with torches as Andi informs her that she is going to stand trial for being 'a nasty bitch'. The other five members then drag what they think to be Talivinder's dead body into the woods, until at the place where they plan to hide her body she regains consciousness. While Peter wants to take her to the hospital, Dawn refuses to let him take her and Noah tackles him, holding him down while Dawn drags Talivinder away. In the present, the five counselors are burdened by the guilt of what happened, and must return to the former camp, now a commune, to remove and destroy Talivinder's body when they learn that a resort is going to built on the land, running the risk of having the body be discovered. The group gets a ride up to the commune thanks to the outfitter Gene and his snowmobiles. The people there, Antoine and Renee, the founders of the commune, and Mark, Glen, Judith, Wren, and Kiera, the communes members, are surprised that they have decided to visit in winter. Gene is killed when he goes to the isolated sauna and is surprised by a parka-clad person wielding a chainsaw. When the former counselors go to the site where Talivinder's body was supposed to be hidden, they find it has disappeared. 5 years ago (sometime prior to her death) Talivinder is the newest counselor at the summer camp and Andi is showing her the camp, and Talvinder begins making advances on her boyfriend Peter. Back in the present, Andi is angered by Peter's optimistic view about rekindling their relationship after going to the police. Searching for the body, Andi finds Talivinder's skeletal corpse suspended from nearby trees and gets knocked out. Peter later leaves to search for Andi, finding her with her throat slit. Peter returns to the commune with news of Andi's death, while Antoine tries and fails to contact the outside world via land line. When the former counselors return to their cabin, they find someone has written the words 'I know you killed her' in blood over their mantle. 5 years ago, after the discovery that Talivinder was still alive and dragged back to the hiding place, she calls out to Peter, repeatedly, that she still loves him. This angers Andi, and she finishes off Talivinder by smashing her head with a rock.

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"Between Good and Evil"
Felipe Rodriguez
Jana Sinyor
October 17, 2017 (2017-10-17) Susa

Two years prior to the present, Susan and her husband Luke are walking down the street when they are approached by Andi. After Luke misunderstands the situation and leaves to let the two of them talk, Susan confronts Andi, telling her to stay away as she will defend her new family to death if necessary. In the present, the group clean up the bloody message while Antoine and Renee go looking for Gene, only to find a gruesome snowman decorated with his dismembered body parts. 5 years ago, sometime after Talvinder became a counselor, she and Susan are setting up a fortune telling booth for a camp carnival event. Susan isn't happy about working with her because she thinks she's too clingy and desperate, and Dawn admonishes her for disliking Talivinder. In the present, the group create a story, in case the commune members are suspicious about Andi's murder, and Judith and Wren have a quiet chat, where Wren expresses his concern about her after almost walking in on her cutting herself in the bathroom, until Antoine comes in to announce a meeting between both groups. After announcing the discovery of Gene's body, Antoine, Renee and Pete go out to the snowmobiles to see if they can go for help, only to find all the gas has been siphoned from them. 5 years ago, before the camp carnival is to begin, Talivinder attempts to seduce Susan, but Susan retorts that she sees right through her, angering Talvinder. In the present, the counselor group are unpleasantly surprised when Dawn reveals she has a gun, having packed it just in case. Noah finds a box on the commune's doorstep, with a note saying 'Stay Warm!' attached, that is stuffed with Gene's bloody clothes. After this discovery, Susan gets angry so she and Noah attempt to walk back to Gene's store to go for help in her SUV. 5 years ago at the camp carnival, the fortune teller's booth is trashed and Talvinder accuses Susan of doing it, though Susan tries to protest her innocence. In the present, Susan and Noah discover that the phone line was cut, preventing anyone from calling for help. Renee discusses the disappearance of Talvinder with the commune group, as it caused Renee's mother to shut down the camp 3 years prior because parents wouldn't send their kids anymore. Antoine gets suspicious of the former counselors, as the story they gave fits the disappearance's timeline. After getting too cold and lost in the dark, Susan and Noah are forced to return to the commune, Noah suffering from severe frostbite on his toes. Dawn is surprised during the night by someone trying to get into the cabin, so she fires through the door, alerting the people behind it, Mark and Kiera, to the fact that the counselor group has a gun, angering Renee and demanding the truth from Noah and Susan. Five years ago, while discussing Talvinder's accusation, Susan leads Andi through the woods to show her Peter and Talvinder having sex. In the present, Peter convinces Dawn to give up the gun, surrendering it to the commune group, but Antoine and Renee take the gun when he can't provide a good reason for having it and kick out Susan and Noah to the counselor cabin, telling them not to come back for any reason. When Susan tries to argue with Dawn, claiming innocence in Talvinder's death, Dawn reminds her she came up with the idea for the trial that went wrong. 5 years ago, Susan tries to comfort Andi after seeing her boyfriend cheat on her, telling her the only way to beat Talvinder is to think like her, to come up with a plan to ensure she never does anything like that again. In the present, Susan left the cabin to go for a walk and is shot by a knock-out dart. 5 years ago, when Talvinder is discovered to be still alive, she apologizes to Susan and begs for her help while Dawn demands to know what to do next, so Susan panics and runs away. In the present, Susan is dragged by her hair by the parka-clad person to a spot where her eyes are gouged out with a broken pipe and her neck is snapped. Juliet is shocked awake when she discovers Wren in her room, though he had come to stand watch over her through the night. Mark and Kiera discover Susan's body. Two years ago, when Andi tried to talk to Susan, Susan says that the reason she seems so together is that she pretends that Talvinder's death never happened, dismissing Andi's concerns about living with the consequences as ' some of us have more to regret than others'.

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3
"Saint Sebastian"
Felipe Rodriguez
James Hurst
October 17, 2017 (2017-10-17)

Three years ago, Antoine, Renee and her girlfriend are going home after a night out. When Antoine walks home alone through an alley, a man in a pickup truck pulls up and insults him about his homosexuality. When the man starts beating him up, Antoine fights back and beats him down before putting his head in his car door and kicking it into him. In the present, after discovering Susan's body, the two groups begin accusing the others of the murders. Glen lets Noah bunk with him while Dawn and Peter bunk in other rooms. Dawn takes the opportunity, when Judith, her roommate, leaves to get extra blankets to retrieve her gun. Antoine says to Renee that he needs to show her something, and outside he shows her Talvinder's body in a locked trunk. He had found it last summer while looking for mushrooms in the woods. after he stumbled across it in the woods months prior and he had to hide it to ensure the land deal went through. But after that, he was concerned he'd left evidence on it and would be accused of her murder so he had to keep it. Renee is angry that Antoine has hidden this from her but agrees to keep the body a secret. Glen gives Noah some drugs for the pain from his frostbite, but makes sure he promises that he won't tell anyone he has them, as illicit drugs are banned from the house and spies on Noah from the bathroom keyhole as he is changing. 3 years ago, Antoine is trying to dispose of the evidence of the homophobic man's murder when Renee invites him over to smoke weed. He expresses his frustration with city life, and Renee tells him about some land her family has that they could use to build their own open community. In the present, Antoine and Renee go out with an auger to hide Talinder's body, but the ground is frozen and Antoine tries to tear her corpse apart to bury her in different locations. When he fails, Renee convinces him to turn over the body to the police and hide it in the trunk again until they can. Renee, Dawn, Peter, Mark and Glen hike to Glen's shop to get to the SUV that brought the counselor group there, and Dawn misplaces her gun after Noah is seen holding a similar gun. Juliet finds a note from Wren on her bed that is seemingly romantic in tone. While looking for pain relief, Noah accidentally discovers more of Glen's pills, one with the name Benny Ironside on the prescription label. The group arrives at Gene's store, but find his phone line isn't functional because he didn't pay the bill, and the SUV's battery is dead because Dawn left the lighted mirror over her seat on. Keira discovers Talvinder's severed hand when going for firewood, which enrages Antoine into confronting and attacking Noah because he was the only member of the counselor group left behind, demanding he tell everything about what happened 5 years ago and why they came back. Noah blames Owen, and before Antoine can hurt him anymore, the group comes back, shocking Renee with his display of violence. Antoine apologizes to her, but refuses her help as he leaves to hide the body. He runs into Judith in the hall, who wanted to discuss his observation of her and Wren earlier, but says it's natural to want to escape in this situation and he believes it's harmless. When her gets to the trunk, he finds it empty, and is surprised by the parka-clad person, who knocks him down by pushing over the auger, impaling him in the stomach before turning it on and tearing his insides apart. Glen goes back to his room and Noah confronts him about the different name on the pill bottle. Glen identifies the pills as warfarin, an extremely expensive medication he received for free from a compassion clinic, and they had to print random names on the labels because the practice is considered illegal. Noah doesn't believe the story, so Glen warns him not to go through his things again. As Glen prepares some meat for his meal, a piece he puts into the pan has one of Antoine's tattoos, leading Renee to the shocking revelation that Antoine is dead.

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4
"Night of Hunters"
Felipe Rodriguez
Story by : Aaron Martin
Teleplay by : Naledi Jackson
October 17, 2017 (2017-10-17)

One year ago, Glen is in prison, talking to a confident new inmate while working out, advising him to seek allies. In the present, Glen is throwing up in a sink after the discovery that the meat he was cooking and eating was Antoine. Mark and Renee go out to the shed where Antoine was killed, finding the bloody auger and the rest of his remains in the trunk that was used to hide Talvinder's body. Judith comforts the grieving Renee, convincing her to take some pills to let her sleep. Mark visits with Dawn, returning the gun Antoine took so she could have it for protection. When Glen angers Noah, he reveals to Kiera and Peter that Glen has a prescription with a different name, but can't find in his drawer when tries to show them. This makes Kiera suspicious, so she orders him to stay in Glen's room until further notice. Kiera and Peter are surprised by a stranger in a parka outside, who they chase down, only to find it to be a woman named Megan McCalister, who claims to be on a memorial trek for her best friend Gail who died of leukemia. Renee is suspicious and strikes her with a statue, giving her a concussion, refusing to listen Kiera trying to tell her Megan was telling the truth because she found a park permit dated the day before at 8 am, from a station 50 kilometers away. When Renee keeps trying to hurt or tie Megan up, Kiera orders her out of the room to tend to Megan. 6 months ago at Glen's prison, the cocky new inmate is about to be released, saying his first stop on the outside will be a few months in Tamarind Bluffs, and gives Glen a picture postcard from the place. In the present, Peter informs Megan about what's been happening and she, reluctantly, agrees to help with a trek back down to the main road, but only if the blizzard is gone by morning. In the night, Noah decides to try and get into Glen's RV in order to find evidence to prove his suspicions about Glen being the killer. 2 months ago, Glen surprises the cocky inmate by visiting him in his RV. That night, as the two are talking, the inmate tells Glen he intends to join an intended community for a fresh start and Glen says he wants to come along too. In the present, Noah sees the freezer in the back has blood on it and opens it for a surprising sight. He takes a picture of it and flees. He tries to get back to the commune, but struggles because he went out in only a hoodie, and is grabbed by a person in black. Noah and Glen's absence is noticed at dinner, so Peter and Kiera go to look for him. 2 months ago, the cocky inmate is annoyed by Glen's antics and doesn't want him around anymore to remind him of his time in jail. Glen tells him he's tired and that he'll drive, pulling him in for a deep kiss, but the inmate breaks it, saying the best day of his life was his release, as it meant he wouldn't have to look at or touch Glen anymore. This angers Glen, and in his rage he kills him. In the present, Noah is tied up with duct tape as Glen is revealed to be the one who abducted him and is holding him in an abandoned school bus. At the commune, Megan suffers a psychotic break, seeing hallucinations and vomiting before throwing herself down the stairs and breaking her neck. Mark finds toxic berries in Megan's soup, putting suspicion on Dawn as she was the one who ladled out the soup. Kiera and Peter get to the RV and find the inmate's body in the freezer. 2 months ago, Glen made it to the commune and is accepted under the dead inmate's name, revealing 'Glen' is his false identity and Bruce Ironsides as his real name. In the present, Glen rapes Noah.

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"Out of the Frying Pan"
Felipe Rodriguez
Lucie Pagé
October 17, 2017 (2017-10-17)

Five years ago, Talvinder (Melinda Shankar) is building tents, having trouble, so Noah (Jim Watson) helps her out selflessly. She comes on to him a bit, conning him into doing stuff for her. The picture of the hideous acts which later occurred is being painted, one stroke at a time. Not long later, Noah sees Tal heading into the woods with a beer and friends. Peter (Lovell Adams-Gray) and him both have a thing for her, obviously the former has a better idea of what was going on. Now, Noah’s lying in a bus after being raped by Glenn (Actually Benny Ironside) (Ty Olsson). While his captor sleeps, he picks up a kettle and tries beating him with it. That doesn’t go over well, at all. Out at the camper, Peter and the others have found the corpse in the freezer. They look around to find any clues about who it was, who owns the camper. They find the actual Glenn Morgan’s ID. Judith (Leslie Hope) tends to Megan’s dead body when Wren (Sebastian Pigott) shows up. He believes that anything could happen now. Out in the living room, Dawn (Paula Brancati) is still standing accused of poisoning the woman, denying it to Renée (Joanne Vannicola) and Mark (Paulino Nunes). This is when Peter and Keira (Madison Cheeatow) come to tell them about Glenn’s true identity, which isn’t totally received so hot right away. But some of them will go looking for Benny. Speaking of, he’s strangling Noah to death. His victim manages to toss a bit of fire around and lights the place up, trapping his captor inside the bus. Benny gets out, not before Noah escapes for the time being. Cut back to five years ago, when the group of friends has taken Tal out to the forest, calling her out. Andi (Rebecca Liddiard), Dawn, and Susan (Kaitlyn Leeb) lead them. She’s sentenced to spend a night out there alone with nothing, just what she’s wearing. She pleads to Noah, getting no help. Present day again. Everyone’s looking for Noah now, the bus burning in the distance. They hear him screaming for them. Benny takes off further in the darkness. He goes back to the cabins, breaking through the window and strangling Renée until she’s unconscious. Judith runs and hides from him as he stalks her through the halls. Thankfully, Renée puts a bullet in the big guy, incapacitating him for the time being. Benny’s in trouble, tied to a chair, helpless. When Mark comes out with food and water, he has questions for him. He asks about the snowmobile, the poison in the food. He claims he’s not a killer. He fesses up to one murder, naturally, that he’s Mr. Ironside, saying that killing Glenn wasn’t a planned thing. Meanwhile, Keira and Dawn help Noah get his clothes off and clean up. This is when the women discover he’s been raped, as well. Back to five years ago again, as Tal chases after the group pleading for them not to leave. They taunt her while they go. Peter protests, whereas Noah calls her a skank and starts a fight with him. Before they leave, Tal brings up something about Susan, a girl named Marcy Rae; they made out, and when Susan outed her she killed herself. Plus, Tal trots out everyone’s secrets, blackmailing them to take her back out of the woods. Noah yells at her, prompting her to call him pathetic, going hard at him. So he runs after her, angry enough to kill. Present day. Renée, Peter, and Mark discuss what to do next. They realize that Benny may not be the serial killer. So, what’s their best option? Could lure the real killer using him. Renée’s fixing to get answers of him, believing he killed Antoine, and she starts slicing the guy up with a box cutter. And she’s barred the door so nobody can get inside. Soon, he admits to it just to try ending the torture. This is when she peels a strip off his arm, followed by cutting his throat open. Outside, Noah finds a fire going. But it’s not any of his friends there. He’s stumbled onto the parka killer, who tosses gas on him and lights him ablaze. Immediately we cut back to Noah charging after Tal that night five years ago. He tears her shirt open, then he’s about to rape her right on the truck. Peter rushes in and hauls him off. This sends Tal running into the woods, the others shocked at their friend’s actions. Peter punches him in the face before going after Tal. This has everyone actually worried about the girl instead of murderous. Present day once more. Everyone wakes up, wondering if they’re safe since Benny is dead. Nobody can find Noah, though. Peter and Keira head out to look, coming to the remains of the fire: Noah on top of Tal’s skeletal remains.

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6
"Drone"
Felipe Rodriguez
Floyd Kane
October 17, 2017 (2017-10-17)

Back in the past, Mark (Paulino Nunes) is having sex in the kitchen with Stephanie, taking pictures. It’s in a restaurant, not far from the staff just outside. In through the door comes a scruffy looking dude (Dean McDermott). He’s pissed at Mark, whose client killed his son in a drunk driving incident; he obviously got the guy off for the death. The lawyer claims he was just doing a job, but this is not the end. Moments later, the man blows Stephanie’s brains out in front of everybody. He points the gun at Mark, shooting him twice, before turning the gun on himself. Back to the retreat, where Peter (Lovell Adams-Grey) and Keira (Madison Cheeatow) have found the corpse of Talvinder (Melinda Shankar) with a burned up Noah (Jim Watson) underneath. Turns out he's still alive. They get him inside, trying to help with his burn wounds. A brutal situation. Mark’s having troubles due to his flashbacks to that day he was shot. Worse, Noah needs a hospital, he can barely breath without a tube getting shoved down his throat. Outside a plane flies over; they don’t get its attention, though they start making an SOS signal out of branches and logs in hopes it’ll circle back, and that they’ll be ready. Mark also wants to build a couple fires to make smoke signals, so Peter and Dawn (Paula Brancati) head further into the woods. Inside, Wren (Sebastian Pigott) reveals a bit of an inner dark side, he doesn’t care that there’s a man burned up, dying in front of them, whereas Judith (Leslie Hope) hates to see Noah in pain; she doesn’t care what the young man did before. Out in the woods, Dawn steps right into a bear trap. They can’t open it. Peter offers to head back. Although now this leaves her all alone. She has a gun, but that’ll only do so good. She nearly shoots Mark when he turns up, then Peter gets back, too. They manage to get her out. But her leg’s completely broken. She and Mark get closer now, bonding during a terrifying experience, isolated out there. Keira straight out asks Peter if they killed that girl five years ago. From his burned up state, Noah tells Peter that it's his fault. He admits to his part in what happened, telling Keira it was largely his fault. Downstairs Mark comes to confront everybody. He believes that one of them is the killer, someone in that cabin. He talks about being an attorney before, paid to be a nasty shark. He wants to root out the killer by questioning everybody. However, they’re not happy with that. Nobody’s gonna do that, certainly not Renée (Joane Vannicola). Yet he’s pretty keen on it. He offers for him to represent We Live As One and Dawn to represent the group of friends during this little mock trial. Mark stats with Keira. He figures out eventually she had a patient die on her watch once when she was an ER nurse. She’d been working a long shift, she messed up, and that was that. Next is Wren. He’s pretty combative and has nothing to say. Judith isn’t totally forthcoming, Mark asks her about her strong prescription drugs and she passes it off. He pushes her a bit hard, getting personal, to the point Dawn isn’t on board. Judith yells at him. Then comes Renée. She would’ve had no reason to kill Antoine, however, Mark won’t let her forget that she killed Benny, torturing him to death. Mark questions Dawn about why they came up there. She’s honest, explaining they were coming up to find the remains, to move them before the resort was built. She doesn’t show any remorse. Claims it was an accident and goes on about how Talvinder wasn’t innocent. Whatever relationship they’d started building together has fallen apart, as Mark rages at her. When he goes to interrogate Peter, they’ve all had enough of him stirring the place into madness. Everybody’s slowly starting to crumble, turning against one another. This leads to the lawyer pulling out that gun; an interesting parallel to the opening scene. Simultaneously, Noah chokes to death, succumbing to his brutal wounds. Renée puts aside the anger, asking Mark to go with her someplace. She tells him, vaguely, somebody said something they shouldn't have known about the past. They head out to a spot where there’s a small cabin. She heads in while he stays out, guarding with the gun. This is when we flash back two years ago, Mark first coming to We Live As One. He meets Antoine (Christopher Jacot), Renée, Judith, as they welcome him with open arms. They’re all bright eyed, bushy tailed, ready to live an alternative lifestyle in the midst of nature. Quite different from how it is now. Especially with a chainsaw revving in the distance. Renée finds a box of things from 2012 marked Camp Motega. She looks through it and comes across the files of the group of friends, from Andi (Rebecca Liddiard) to Talvinder to Dawn and the rest. And then we see Wren. Outside the killer, covered in blood, arrives on snowmobile. He runs Mark down hard. Then he puts a couple bullets into Renée as she runs away. She doesn’t make it very far. The killer takes the file from her, then we hear the sounds of him running her over, the wet sounds of the blood, her last scream.

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7
"Dawn of the Dead"
Felipe Rodriguez
Amanda Fahey
October 17, 2017 (2017-10-17)

Five years ago, Talvinder (Melinda Shankar) and Dawn (Paula Brancati) are close. Talking together about the future, what it’ll be like fully entering adulthood, how they should move in together. A macabre match cut takes us from Dawn twirling her fingers through Tal’s living hair to the dead hair on the corpse’s head. Then she winds up toppling the remains over onto her. Meanwhile, Peter (Lovell Adams-Gray) and Keira (Madison Cheeatow) have found the snowmobile, covered in blood and gore. Plus, no gas, no Renée (Joanne Vannicola) – well, at least not much. Suspicions are high, Keira wonders if it was Dawn who could be the killer, even if Peter isn’t convinced. Jump back to five years prior. Dawn and the other counselors teach kids to do all kinds of stuff, like archery. She was particularly close to one dude, Ryan. This is also when we see Owen (Wren) talking to Tal, pressing her to go out with him, being creepy. Nothing gets any better at the retreat. Peter thinks Mark is the killer. Mark finds one of the pictures from the files on Renée, and it’s Peter. Five years ago again. Tal and Dawn talk about the latter sleeping with a married man; her stepfather, in fact. She wrecked her own home, doing it to get back at her mother. At Camp Motega, she didn’t want to add to her body count, and so she intended on taking it slow with Ryan. This is where we see her bonding, deeply, with Tal. At the cabin, Mark puts a pill in Peter’s beer, as they all sit around trying to forget their grim reality, at least for a moment. They try a game of Never Have I Ever. He has a flashback to five years before, he and Tal lying together out in the woods. She tells him about moving in with Dawn when they go back home, what they ought to do about their relationship. He made some promises, ones he appears to want to go back on. Breaking her heart a bit. Later, she listens to Dawn talking lovingly of Ryan, and she laments the love she just lost. And the drugs are kicking in on Peter. He stumbles outside, so Mark locks the door. Dawn was a part of it, of course. Keira’s the only one who seems to not believe in what the others are sure of already. Things are getting really ugly. Go back five years. Dawn wants Tal to talk her up to Ryan. The trusted friend goes to him, trying to work her magic. He asks if Dawn ever mentions him. She gives him a generic answer, not talking Dawn up whatsoever. Tal’s doing what she does, acting deviously behind the backs of the people who seem to like her; she lies about Dawn’s stepfather, making it out to look like she was molested. In the woods, Peter is stumbling, drugged on ketamine, out in the cold. At the cabins, Wren and Judith (Leslie Hope) hook up in one room. In the living room, Dawn tries getting closer to Mark, in a genuine way, talking to him about her past. She also admits that all that’s happened is because of her, her friends. She wants to own up to the guilt. Five years ago, once more. Tal lies to Dawn that she’s not Ryan’s type because he likes really skinny, small girls. This clearly devastates her friend. That night, Dawn gets drunk and starts getting a bit wild in front of everyone, talking to Ryan. But he mentions the stepfather stuff, and then she realizes her friend is not actually her friend. Out in the woods, Peter comes across a shrine, bloody, candles lit. Above it is a mannequin, hanging by the neck. Back at the retreat, Judith finds the gun in Wren’s jacket; the one the killer supposedly took from Renée. She nearly uses it on him, deciding not to at the last moment. Peter goes back to the cabin, more information now, but when Dawn lets him inside Mark runs at him, knocking him out. After that Keira is pissed. She believes maybe Mark is the killer now. Yet there’s a piece of Andi’s hair in Peter’s pocket. So strange, so creepy. Go back again, five years ago. Dawn and the other girls plot against Tal. They go from silly little pranks, to more serious things. They want to scare the life out of her. They decide to put her on trial, leaving her in the woods to walk home alone. Present day, Judith’s having trouble, worried Wren is the killer. She considers blowing her own brains out, until he finds her out there. He confesses his love for her. She says she loves him, too. However, when Mark comes running towards them, Wren shoots him in the head.

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"The Past is Never Dead"
Felipe Rodriguez
Aaron Martin
October 17, 2017 (2017-10-17)

Five years ago, Dawn (Paula Brancati), Peter (Lovell Adams-Gray) and the rest of the friends are carefully enacting their calculated plan to get revenge on Talvinder (Melinda Shankar). They take her out to that spot in the woods with the lit torches. They’ve got her on trial. She’s made to stand in the middle of a circle. They all call her out, starting with Andi (Rebecca Liddiard). Conveniently, Andi doesn’t blame Peter, which Tal uses against her. Susan (Kaitlyn Leeb) calls her nothing. Eventually Dawn has her say, feeling utterly betrayed; she’s the one who really has the most genuine reason. Peter doesn’t bash her, instead apologizing to his girlfriend for what he’s done. Cut to a little later, when Noah (Jim Watson) almost rapes her on the truck. Then she’s rushing off into the woods, the others worried for her. But Tal won’t turn back. She winds up tripping and smashing her head. They find her in a ditch. She seems dead, so they all react with horror. They drag her off, she’s still alive. Andi smashes her head, she still won’t die. And Dawn takes the rock, smashing her once more. Noah takes his turn, as well. Laying the killing blow, it seems. Wren (Sebastian Pigott) is heading back to the cabin, after killing Mark, Judith (Leslie Hope) is pleading with him not to do anything else terrible. He’s bent on revenge. They let him take the fall for Talvinder’s disappearance. All she asks is that Keira is left alive. Back at the cabins, Judith reels off a lie about Mark, that he was going to kill her. And she says she shot him. Taking the blame. Lulling Dawn in. Except the young woman doesn’t believe it, she knows it’s lies. Five years ago. The friends are reeling in the aftermath of what they’ve done, people are asking where Tal has gone. They’re trying to figure out the next course of action. Their lives changed for the worse, and they had to either deal or go to prison for the rest of their lives. Present day, the gang at the retreat hear a snowmobile. A woman named Janice arrives looking for her boyfriend, Gene. She thinks We Live As One are a cult, but Peter tries explaining, asking for help. Janice has room for one on her machine; Judith tries desperately to send Keira, only Keira won’t have it, wanting it to be Dawn, so she might get medical attention. But Wren, he’s intent on killing more. He wants Judith to help and she won’t, he starts getting worse. He’s a sad, lonely, murderous man. He says she’ll die alone and she grabs him, throwing him at the mirror. Except nobody’s there. Just her. Soon, Peter and Keira find her, bloodied, unconscious. They put her to bed, then decide they’ve got to find Mark’s corpse, confirm he’s dead. Peter heads out while she stays to look after Judith. Judith has worse problems. She continually hears Wren in her head, commanding her. We jump back five years. Wren a.k.a Owen leaves his cabin at Camp Motega, and in slips Dawn to drop a piece of Tal’s jewelry into his things. Present day, Peter comes across Mark’s dead body. Nearby he sees the footprints, he tries re-imagining the crime. He knows something’s not right. Elsewhere, Dawn and Janice try getting out of the forest, but they stop a moment across the way from the parka killer, who fires on both women, bleeding Janice out. Dawn makes it away, though she’s soon shot in the river. Who’s behind the mask? Judith. At the cabin, Peter finds Keira unconscious, propane filling the house. Then he sees a bunch of letters in Judith’s room. They’re from Wren, in jail. To his mother, Judith. Peter does the only thing he can, carrying Keira through the woods. Only to run into Judith. She says one lives, the other dies. A tough choice. We’re finally seeing the full extent of things now after a flashback, why the noose was in that shrine Peter found – Judith has hallucinated Owen, the entire time. He hanged himself in jail. Peter puts the noose around his neck and steps from the ledge over the shrine, hanging himself as Judith watches, flashing to images of her son slowly dying. But another surprise, as well – up the river, Dawn is still alive, on shore, and two hunters find her there bleeding profusely. When Keira wakes up she sees Peter hanging. She also finds a letter Peter wrote to Talvinder’s parents, confessing to the crime, trying to give them closure. Admitting that Owen was innocent, they laid the crime on him. Skip ahead a bit: Keira is safe, back home. She meets with Dawn, who’s preparing to turn herself in to the police, to atone for her terrible sins. From a distance, Judith watches them, still followed by the haunting ghost of her son. Neither of them have forgotten Dawn, they’ll wait until she’s free.

text: Development and production[edit]

text: Aaron Martin was inspired to write Slasher after his work on the first season of the medical series Saving Hope, including his writing of two Hope episodes where, in his words, "people got chopped up." Martin would write the first episode of Slasher as a spec script, with two intentions for doing so: To offer it to prospective studios, and to show a writing style that was different from his previous work (e.g. Saving Hope, Degrassi: The Next Generation, Being Erica). Though the script did not receive immediate interest, Shaftesbury Films would discover and option it to prospective broadcasters. The script would land at Canadian premium network Super Channel, who, their interest piqued in part by Slasher's fixed-end format, would order it as a series.[9] The American network Chiller, which specializes in the horror/thriller genre, would join in production sometime after Super Channel; Slasher would be Chiller's first foray into original scripted series content.

text: Production on Slasher's 8-episode first season was announced on July 28, 2015, with filming taking place between then and October 2015. Three Northern Ontario municipalities — the cities of Sudbury and Sault Ste. Marie and the town of Parry Sound — would stand in for the show's fictitious location, the town of Waterbury.[2] A first trailer for the series would be released on November 26, 2015.[26]

text: Unlike most TV series that film their episodes in order, Slasher, under the direction of Craig David Wallace, was shot as if it were a "super-sized" movie: Scenes from multiple episodes were shot at the same time, with the availability of locations and cast being factored in. The out-of-order schedule allowed the actors to know of their characters' fates, especially those who had to film their death scenes one day but return later to film earlier scenes as necessary. As an example of this, Martin cited Mark Ghanimé's first day on set, when his character, Justin Faysal, was laid out in a casket for a scene early in Slasher's third episode (Justin's death, which took place in Episode 2, would be filmed later on).[27]

text: On May 1, 2017, Slasher began filming a second season in Orangeville, Ontario, Canada.[3] Shaftesbury Films confirmed that the series will not be returning to Super Channel or Chiller for a second season. However, Netflix acquired the rights to the second season. The second season was released via Netflix on October 17, 2017.[4]

text: Reception[edit]

text: Slasher has received positive reviews. Zap2it called the series "a whole lot of fun" and "something for everyone," praising the series' anthology nature, its cast of characters, storyline, plot twists, bloody violence, and even the series-within-the-series Falcon Husbandry (shown as a favorite of Robin and Justin's in Episode 2).[28] Bloody Disgusting awarded the show four skulls out of five, praising Katie McGrath as a great "protagonist and possible final girl" and the series' decision to feature an adult cast, rather than teenagers, with well-developed characters and a "decidedly classic" presentation.[29] On the occasion of Slasher's Super Channel premiere, The Globe and Mail's John Doyle, while remarking that it "is no masterpiece of horror, nor was it meant to be," called the show "very well-crafted," praising its "exceptional cast" and tight pacing, and noting fans of gory horror will appreciate its bloody scenes.[16]

text: Awards and accolades[edit]

text:
Year
Award
Category
Nominee(s)
Result

2017
5th Annual Canadian Screen Awards
Best TV Movie or Limited Series
Slasher
Nominated

Best Direction in a Dramatic Program or Limited Series
Nominated

Best Writing in a Dramatic Program or Limited Series
Nominated

Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Limited Series
Steve Byers
Nominated

Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program or Series
Wendy Crewson
Won

text: International broadcast[edit]

text: On May 25, 2016, the entire first season of Slasher became available to stream instantly on Netflix US.[30] On October 17, 2017, the full second season of Slasher became available to stream on Netflix in various countries.[31]


document_title: If a tree falls in a forest

question_text: who said if a tree falls in the woods and nobody hears it

text: If a tree falls in a forest

text: History[edit]

text: Philosopher George Berkeley, in his work, A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710), proposes, "But, say you, surely there is nothing easier than for me to imagine trees, for instance, in a park [...] and nobody by to perceive them.[1] [...] The objects of sense exist only when they are perceived; the trees therefore are in the garden [...] no longer than while there is somebody by to perceive them."[2] (It is worth noting that the quote from section 45 is arguably a statement of an objection to Berkeley's view, and not a proclamation of it.) Nevertheless, Berkeley never actually wrote about the question.[3]

text: Some years later, a similar question is posed. It is unknown whether the source of this question is Berkeley or not. In June 1883 in the magazine The Chautauquan, the question was put, "If a tree were to fall on an island where there were no human beings would there be any sound?" They then went on to answer the query with, "No. Sound is the sensation excited in the ear when the air or other medium is set in motion."[4] This seems to imply that the question is posed not from a philosophical viewpoint, but from a purely scientific one. The magazine Scientific American corroborated the technical aspect of this question, while leaving out the philosophic side, a year later when they asked the question slightly reworded, "If a tree were to fall on an uninhabited island, would there be any sound?" And gave a more technical answer, "Sound is vibration, transmitted to our senses through the mechanism of the ear, and recognized as sound only at our nerve centers. The falling of the tree or any other disturbance will produce vibration of the air. If there be no ears to hear, there will be no sound."[5]

text: Albert Einstein is reported to have asked his fellow physicist and friend Niels Bohr, one of the founding fathers of quantum mechanics, whether he realistically believed that 'the moon does not exist if nobody is looking at it.' To this Bohr replied that however hard he (Einstein) may try, he would not be able to prove that it does, thus giving the entire riddle the status of a kind of an infallible conjecture—one that cannot be either proved or disproved.

text: The current phrasing appears to have originated in the 1910 book Physics by Charles Riborg Mann and George Ransom Twiss. The question "When a tree falls in a lonely forest, and no animal is near by to hear it, does it make a sound? Why?" is posed along with many other questions to quiz readers on the contents of the chapter, and as such, is posed from a purely physical point of view.[6]

text: Metaphysics[edit]

text: The possibility of unperceived existence[edit]

text: Can something exist without being perceived? – e.g. "is sound only sound if a person hears it?" The most immediate philosophical topic that the riddle introduces involves the existence of the tree (and the sound it produces) outside of human perception. If no one is around to see, hear, touch or smell the tree, how could it be said to exist? What is it to say that it exists when such an existence is unknown? Of course, from a scientific viewpoint, it exists.[7] It is human beings that are able to perceive it.[7] George Berkeley in the 18th century developed subjective idealism, a metaphysical theory to respond to these questions, coined famously as "to be is to be perceived". Today meta-physicists are split. According to substance theory, a substance is distinct from its properties, while according to bundle theory, an object is merely its sense data. The definition of sound, simplified, is a hearable noise. The tree will make a sound, even if nobody heard it. The definition states that sound is a hearable noise. So the tree could have been heard, though nobody was around to do so.

text: Knowledge of the unobserved world[edit]

text:
Can we assume the unobserved world functions the same as the observed world? – e.g., "does observation affect outcome?"
A similar question does not involve whether or not an unobserved event occurs predictably, like it occurs when it is observed. The anthropic principle suggests that the observer, just in its existence, may impose on the reality observed. However, most people, as well as scientists, assume that the observer doesn't change whether the tree-fall causes a sound or not, but this is an impossible claim to prove. However, many scientists would argue as follows, "A truly unobserved event is one which realises no effect (imparts no information) on any other (where 'other' might be e.g., human, sound-recorder or rock), it therefore can have no legacy in the present (or ongoing) wider physical universe. It may then be recognized that the unobserved event was absolutely identical to an event which did not occur at all." (this apparent quote has no attribution or reference and none can be found online with reasonable effort). Of course, the fact that the tree is known to have changed state from 'upright' to 'fallen' implies that the event must be observed to ask the question at all – even if only by the supposed deaf onlooker. The British philosopher of science Roy Bhaskar, credited with developing critical realism has argued, in apparent reference to this riddle, that:

text: If men ceased to exist sound would continue to travel and heavy bodies to fall to the earth in exactly the same way, though ex hypothesi there would be no-one to know it[8]

text: This existence of an unobserved real is integral to Bhaskar's ontology, which contends (in opposition to the various strains of positivism which have dominated both natural and social science in the twentieth century) that 'real structures exist independently of and are often out of phase with the actual patterns of events'.[9] In social science, this has made his approach popular amongst contemporary Marxists — notably Alex Callinicos – who postulate the existence of real social forces and structures which might not always be observable.[10][11][12]

text: The dissimilarity between sensation and reality[edit]

text:
What is the difference between what something is, and how it appears? – e.g., "sound is the variation of pressure that propagates through matter as a wave"
Perhaps the most important topic the riddle offers is the division between perception of an object and how an object really is. If a tree exists outside of perception then there is no way for us to know that the tree exists. So then, what do we mean by 'existence', what is the difference between perception and reality? Also, people may also say, if the tree exists outside of perception (as common sense would dictate), then it will produce sound waves. However, these sound waves will not actually sound like anything. Sound as it is mechanically understood will occur, but sound as it is understood by sensation will not occur. So then, how is it known that 'sound as it is mechanically understood' will occur if that sound is not perceived?

text: Buddhist perspectives[edit]

text: Tibetan[edit]

text: from The Thirty-Seven Bodhisattva Practices by Ngulchu Thogme Zangpo,

text: "22 Appearances are one's own mind. From the beginning, mind's nature is free from the extremes of elaboration. Knowing this, not to engage the mind in subject-object duality is the bodhisattva's practice."

text: Zen[edit]

text: Hui-neng's Flag[edit]

text: There is a well-known story of Hui-neng, a well-respected Buddhist monk who later became known as the founder of the Zen school, who one day happened to be passing by two monks.

text: Hui-neng Receives The Dharma[edit]

text: One day the monks at Huang-mei monastery were instructed to write a stanza in order that their master Hung-jen might decide who would inherit the dharma throne. All of the monks assumed that a certain senior disciple Shen-hsui would win and thus didn't even bother writing stanzas. Shen-hsui assumed he would win too, and wrote the following stanza on the monastery wall:

text: Due to the danger surrounding him if he were to openly challenge the senior monk Shen-hsui, Hui-neng went out one night while it was completely dark and wrote the following stanza in secret:

text: Later, master Hung-jen saw this stanza and reaffirmed that he who had written it had indeed opened his mind's eye. Finding it was Hui-neng, master Hung-jen then gave Hui-neng the secret dharma teachings of their lineage, which Hui-neng says completely opened his mind,[14] and gave the young Hui-neng the dharma robe and stick, symbolizing his status as Patriarch of the lineage. Hung-jen told Hui-neng that he must then flee the monastery for fear of Shen-hsui and his followers killing Hui-neng. Hui-neng did as he was told and then later returned from living with some hunters to become The Sixth Patriarch and pass on The Dharma in such forms as The Sutra Spoken by The Sixth Patriarch. Hui-neng also started the Sudden School which taught that Mind is realized instantaneously while Shen-hsui started the Gradual School which taught, similar to his stanza above, a sort of dust-wiping meditation. Zen today embodies Hui-neng's Sudden School style, particularly with Satori.

text: Hinduism[edit]

text: The ancient Hindu texts, the Vedas and the Puranas, have defined several theories of creation—one of them being the 'Drishti-srishti-vada' (Drishti=Sight, Srishti=Universe, Vada=Theory), which puts forth the argument that the universe, or that which is seen, arises only after the seer, and has no independent existence apart from the seer. The very name of the theory is derived from the order of precedence of sight and the seen—first there is sight ('Drishti') and then there is the seen ('Srishti').

text: The famous 20th century Tamil saint Sri Ramana Maharshi, also made numerous references to the world being only a concept in the mind.

text: "The mind is like akasa (space). Just as there are the objects in the akasa, so there are thoughts in the mind. The akasa is the counterpart of the mind and objects are of thought. One cannot hope to measure the universe and study the phenomena. It is impossible. For the objects are mental creations...The universe is only an object created by the mind and has its being in the mind." (Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi, pp. 478–479).

text: "The shrutis (a subdivision of the Vedas) and the sages say that the objects are only mental creations. They have no substantive being. Investigate the matter and ascertain the truth of the statement. The result will be the conclusion that the objective world is in the subjective consciousness." (TWSRM, p. 479).

text: In popular culture[edit]

text: Canadian songwriter, social activist and environmentalist Bruce Cockburn poses the question in the chorus of his 1989 song "If a Tree Falls" and frames it with his lyrics as a pressing question regarding the cause and effect of deforestation.

text: Washington-state-based wilderness conservatory Northwest Trek used a shortened form of the quote in its mid-1970s television advertisement, as such: "There is no sound unless someone is there to see it or hear it. Experience it at Northwest Trek."