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* RoomFullOfCrazy: Billy finds out his brother Shane keeps one of these in Season 2, with walls that are plastered with diagrams and papers detailing a vast alleged conspiracy by the Mafia.
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* DefrostingIceQueen: Joanna is largely cool, reserved, and shows little emotion at first. Over time, she gets better at showing how much she cares for other people (such as her sister), emoting more.
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* CrusadingLawyer: Joanna becomes this after quitting her job with a huge corporate law firm that represented corporations being sued, taking up the claims of the weak and vulnerable instead.
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* BigSisterInstinct: After learning [[spoiler:Luna]]'s her little sister, Joanna is very protective of her, especially when she's in trouble.
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* TokenMinorityCouple: Owen Beckbie and Diane Evans, who are Indigenous Canadian and Guyanese-Canadian respectively.
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* TokenMinorityCouple: Owen Beckbie and Diane Evans, who are Indigenous Canadian and Guyanese-Canadian respectively.respectively, have a relationship.
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** [[spoiler:Joanna's father]] is murdered in Season 2.
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* MissingMom: Joanna's mother was mostly gone during her childhood, supposedly due to being sick. However, later it turns out that was her dad's doing.
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* MissingMom: Joanna's mother was mostly gone during her childhood, supposedly due to being sick. However, later it turns out that was her dad's doing. They grow closer when Joanna learns of this, and she gets estranged from her dad.
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* DisappearedDad: Luna says her father abandoned her mother immediately when she got pregnant. [[spoiler:Later it turns out that he's also Joanna's father.]]
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* DisappearedDad: DisappearedDad:
** Luna says her father abandoned her mother immediately when she got pregnant. [[spoiler:Later it turns out that he's also Joanna's father.]]]]
** Owen's birth father was also never involved.
** Luna says her father abandoned her mother immediately when she got pregnant. [[spoiler:Later it turns out that he's also Joanna's father.
** Owen's birth father was also never involved.
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* MissingMom: Joanna's mother was mostly gone during her childhood, supposedly due to being sick. However, later it turns out that was her dad's doing.
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* ArchnemesisDad: Following unsettling revelations of his past and them representing opposite sides of a case, Joanna's father David turns into her main adversary before his death.
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It ended in 2021 with its fourth season.
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* ParentalSubstitute: Luna's birth father wasn't involved, but Owen has been a surrogate father to her for many years.
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* MumLooksLikeASister: Due to having her as a teenager, Luna's mom Gerrilyn looks more like her older sister.
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* AmoralAttorney: Joanna's father David Hanley. Even ignoring the dirty tricks he pulls as a lawyer, there is also the fact that he made Joanna's mother stay away from her by threatening her with deportation and [[spoiler: had an affair with a Gerrilyn Spence when she was underage.]]
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* AmoralAttorney: Joanna's father David Hanley. Even ignoring the dirty tricks he pulls as a lawyer, there is also the fact that he made Joanna's mother stay away from her by threatening her with deportation and [[spoiler: had an affair with a Gerrilyn Spence when she was underage.]]
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* BrokenPedestal: Joanna looked up to her father and followed him into law, with him as her role model. She's devastated to learn he cheated on her mother, fathering another daughter with a woman who's Joanna's age whom he abandoned. It all distresses her so much she breaks down in tears, and adopts her mother's last name later on.
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* BrokenPedestal: Joanna looked up to her father and followed him into law, with him as her role model. She's devastated to learn he cheated on her mother, fathering another daughter with a woman who's Joanna's age whom (a minor at the time) who he abandoned. It all distresses her so much she breaks down in tears, and adopts her mother's last name later on.on.
* ChildByRape: Luna is one due to statutory rape, as her mother was underage when she had an affair with her (much older) father.
* ChildByRape: Luna is one due to statutory rape, as her mother was underage when she had an affair with her (much older) father.
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* SiblingTeam: Joanna and [[spoiler: Luna Spence]] after it is discovered that David Hanley is their shared father.
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* SiblingTeam: Joanna and [[spoiler: Luna Spence]] after it is discovered that David Hanley is their shared father.father, as they work on the same legal team.
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* SiblingTeam: Joanna and [[spoiler: Luna Spence]] after it is discovered that David Hanley is their biological father.
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* SiblingTeam: Joanna and [[spoiler: Luna Spence]] after it is discovered that David Hanley is their biological shared father.
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** Joanna, Diane and Kodie all became friends in school due to bonding over being the only girls of color there. More specifically, Joanna is half Chinese/half Caucasian. Diana is a Guyanese-Canadian. Kodie is Indigenous Canadian.
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** Joanna, Diane and Kodie all became friends in school due to bonding over being the only girls of color there. More specifically, Joanna is half Chinese/half Caucasian. Diana Diane is a Guyanese-Canadian. Kodie is Indigenous Canadian.
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* BrokenPedestal: Joanna looked up to her father and followed him into law, with him as her role model. She's devastated to learn he cheated on her mother, fathering another daughter with a woman who's Joanna's age whom he abandoned. It all distresses her so much she breaks down in tears, and adopts her mother's last name later on.
* HeteronormativeCrusader: The pastor of the church Molly's mom goes to is strongly anti-gay, and preaches against homosexuality in his sermons. Molly didn't come out to her as a result, afraid that her mom held the same view (but she doesn't, accepting this immediately when she learn's Molly's a lesbian).
* LipstickLesbian: Molly and Luna are both feminine teenage girls in a relationship.
* LipstickLesbian: Molly and Luna are both feminine teenage girls in a relationship.
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* MixedAncestry: Joanna is half Caucasian and half Chinese-Canadian.
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* MixedAncestry: MixedAncestry:
** Joanna is half Caucasian and halfChinese-Canadian.Chinese-Canadian.
** Luna is half Indigenous Canadian and half Caucasian.
** Joanna is half Caucasian and half
** Luna is half Indigenous Canadian and half Caucasian.
* SchoolgirlLesbians: Molly and Luna, two girls in high school, are a couple.
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* TokenTrio: Joanna (Chinese on her mom's side), Diane (Guyanese) and Kodie (Indigenous Canadian) were this in high school. Diane stated they bonded over being the only girls of color in school. Due to being female, all of them qualify as a TwoferTokenMinority too.
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* TokenTrio: Joanna (Chinese on her mom's side), TwoferTokenMinority:
** Joanna, Diane(Guyanese) and Kodie (Indigenous Canadian) were this all became friends in high school. Diane stated they bonded school due to bonding over being the only girls of color in school. Due to being female, all of them qualify as there. More specifically, Joanna is half Chinese/half Caucasian. Diana is a TwoferTokenMinority too.Guyanese-Canadian. Kodie is Indigenous Canadian.
** Luna is half Indigenous/half Caucasian and a lesbian.
** Joanna, Diane
** Luna is half Indigenous/half Caucasian and a lesbian.
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* DisappearedDad: Luna says her father abandoned her mother immediately when she got pregnant. [[spoiler:Later it turns out that he's also Joanna's father.]]
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* LongLostRelative: Luna turns out to be [[spoiler:Joanna's half-sister on her father's side]].
* MixedAncestry: Joanna is half Caucasian and half Chinese-Canadian.
* MixedAncestry: Joanna is half Caucasian and half Chinese-Canadian.
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* TokenMinorityCouple: Owen Beckbie and Diane Evans who are Indigenous Canadian and Guyanese-Canadian respectively.
* TokenTrio: Joanna (Chinese), Diane (Guyanese) and Kodie (Indigenous Canadian) were this in high school. Diane stated they bonded over being the only non-white girls in school.
* TokenTrio: Joanna (Chinese), Diane (Guyanese) and Kodie (Indigenous Canadian) were this in high school. Diane stated they bonded over being the only non-white girls in school.
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* TokenMinorityCouple: Owen Beckbie and Diane Evans Evans, who are Indigenous Canadian and Guyanese-Canadian respectively.
* TokenTrio: Joanna(Chinese), (Chinese on her mom's side), Diane (Guyanese) and Kodie (Indigenous Canadian) were this in high school. Diane stated they bonded over being the only non-white girls of color in school.school. Due to being female, all of them qualify as a TwoferTokenMinority too.
* TokenTrio: Joanna
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* NomDeMom: Starting from the end of season 1, Joanna starts using her mother's maiden name, Chang, in light of her father becoming a BrokenPedestal for her.
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* NomDeMom: Starting from the end of season 1, Joanna starts using her mother's maiden name, Chang, name Chang in light of her father becoming a BrokenPedestal for her.
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* SinsOfTheFather: In the first episode Joanna gets punched in the face by a woman at a bar. She later learns that the woman is the sister of a woman her father had an affair with.
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* SinsOfTheFather: In the first episode episode, Joanna gets punched in the face by a woman at a bar. She later learns that the woman is the sister of a woman her father had an affair with.
* SympatheticAdulterer: Diane had an affair with a co-worker because she felt neglected in her first marriage. She regretted it and the show does acknowledge what she did was wrong but still portrays her in a sympathetic light.
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* TokenTrio: Joanna (Chinese), Diane (Guyanese) and Kodie (Indigenous Canadian) were this in high school.
* TraumaButton: Luna's brief time in prison was a harrowing experience for her. A simple security greatly unnerves her.
* TraumaButton: Luna's brief time in prison was a harrowing experience for her. A simple security greatly unnerves her.
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* TokenTrio: Joanna (Chinese), Diane (Guyanese) and Kodie (Indigenous Canadian) were this in high school. Diane stated they bonded over being the only non-white girls in school.
* TraumaButton: Luna's brief time in prison was a harrowing experience for her. A simple securitygreatly unnerves her.search causes her to suffer a panic attack.
* TraumaButton: Luna's brief time in prison was a harrowing experience for her. A simple security
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* SmallTownBigHell: The first season has the main protagonist, Joanna, returning to her hometown of Millwood to defend a pharmaceutical company being accused of causing numerous girls in the town to fall sick. It is ultimately revealed the source of the girls' sickness is the town's steel mill. Joanna also learns that she has a half-sister via an affair her father had with a woman who was underage at the time.
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* YourCheatingHeart: David Hanley cheated on Joanna's mother with at least two women, [[spoiler: one of whom was underage at the time]].
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The series begins when Joanna Hanley returns to her hometown of Milwood to settle a case in which several girls have fallen ill for mysterious reasons. With the help of former classmate Billy Crawford she uncovers the truth about the source of the girls' illness and the truth behind her father making her leave Milwood.
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The series begins when Joanna Hanley returns to her hometown of Milwood Millwood to settle a case in which several girls have fallen ill for mysterious reasons. With the help of former classmate Billy Crawford she uncovers the truth about the source of the girls' illness and the truth behind her father making her leave Milwood.
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* AssholeVictim: The second season revolves around the murder of David Hanley who had gained a lot of enemies in Milwood.
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* AssholeVictim: The second season revolves around the murder of David Hanley who had gained a lot of enemies in Milwood.Millwood.
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* DirtyCop: Sam Mercer, the chief of police in Milwood. He takes bribes and is shown to be racist towards Indigenous Canadians. Owen exposes his corruption leads to him losing his job and going to jail for two years for the murder of an Indigenous man.
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* DirtyCop: Sam Mercer, the chief of police in Milwood.Millwood. He takes bribes and is shown to be racist towards Indigenous Canadians. Owen exposes his corruption leads to him losing his job and going to jail for two years for the murder of an Indigenous man.
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* FalselyReformedVillain: Sam Mercer in season 3. In the first episode, he claims he wants to earn forgiveness for his crimes but he is shown to still harbor racist attitudes towards indigenous people. He is also revealed to be running a blackmailing scheme [[spoiler: which has Diane as one of the targets]].
* NomDeMom: Starting from the end of season 1, Joanna starts using her mother's maiden name,Chang.Chang, in light of her father becoming a BrokenPedestal for her.
* NomDeMom: Starting from the end of season 1, Joanna starts using her mother's maiden name,
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* FakeHeelTurn: Sam Mercer is out on bail in season 3 and claims to be trying to atone for his crimes. However, he is revealed to be running blackmailing scheme, [[spoiler:which has Diane as a target]].
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* DirtyCop: Sam Mercer, the chief of police in Milwood. He takes bribes and is shown to be racist towards Indigenous Canadians. Owen exposes his corruption leads to him losing his job and going to jail for two years for the murder of an Indigenous man.
* FakeHeelTurn: Sam Mercer is out on bail in season 3 and claims to be trying to atone for his crimes. However, he is revealed to be running blackmailing scheme, [[spoiler:which has Diane as a target]].
* FakeHeelTurn: Sam Mercer is out on bail in season 3 and claims to be trying to atone for his crimes. However, he is revealed to be running blackmailing scheme, [[spoiler:which has Diane as a target]].
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* BetaCouple: Owen Beckbie and Diane Evans are the beta couple to Joanna and Billy's alpha couple.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Joanna Chang (left) and Billy Crawford (right)]]
''Burden of Truth'' is a Canadian legal drama series. It airs on the Creator/{{CBC}} and stars Creator/KristinKreuk and Peter Mooney. Kreuk serves as executive producer alongside Ilana Frank and Jocelyn Hamilton. The series' first episode aired on January 10, 2018.
The series begins when Joanna Hanley returns to her hometown of Milwood to settle a case in which several girls have fallen ill for mysterious reasons. With the help of former classmate Billy Crawford she uncovers the truth about the source of the girls' illness and the truth behind her father making her leave Milwood.
!!Tropes that appear in ''Burden of Truth'' include:
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* AbusiveParents: Billy's father was physically abusive to him and his brother. He abandoned them when Billy was only eight-years-old.
* AmoralAttorney: Joanna's father David Hanley. Even ignoring the dirty tricks he pulls as a lawyer, there is also the fact that he made Joanna's mother stay away from her by threatening her with deportation and [[spoiler: had an affair with a Gerrilyn Spence when she was underage.]]
* AssholeVictim: The second season revolves around the murder of David Hanley who had gained a lot of enemies in Milwood.
* SiblingTeam: Joanna and [[spoiler: Luna Spence]] after it is discovered that David Hanley is their biological father.
* SinsOfTheFather: In the first episode Joanna gets punched in the face by a woman at a bar. She later learns that the woman is the sister of a woman her father had an affair with.
* TokenTrio: Joanna (Chinese), Diane (Guyanese) and Kodie (Indigenous Canadian) were this in high school.
* YourCheatingHeart: David Hanley cheated on Joanna's mother with at least two women, [[spoiler: one of whom was underage at the time]].
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[[caption-width-right:350:Joanna Chang (left) and Billy Crawford (right)]]
''Burden of Truth'' is a Canadian legal drama series. It airs on the Creator/{{CBC}} and stars Creator/KristinKreuk and Peter Mooney. Kreuk serves as executive producer alongside Ilana Frank and Jocelyn Hamilton. The series' first episode aired on January 10, 2018.
The series begins when Joanna Hanley returns to her hometown of Milwood to settle a case in which several girls have fallen ill for mysterious reasons. With the help of former classmate Billy Crawford she uncovers the truth about the source of the girls' illness and the truth behind her father making her leave Milwood.
!!Tropes that appear in ''Burden of Truth'' include:
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* AbusiveParents: Billy's father was physically abusive to him and his brother. He abandoned them when Billy was only eight-years-old.
* AmoralAttorney: Joanna's father David Hanley. Even ignoring the dirty tricks he pulls as a lawyer, there is also the fact that he made Joanna's mother stay away from her by threatening her with deportation and [[spoiler: had an affair with a Gerrilyn Spence when she was underage.]]
* AssholeVictim: The second season revolves around the murder of David Hanley who had gained a lot of enemies in Milwood.
* SiblingTeam: Joanna and [[spoiler: Luna Spence]] after it is discovered that David Hanley is their biological father.
* SinsOfTheFather: In the first episode Joanna gets punched in the face by a woman at a bar. She later learns that the woman is the sister of a woman her father had an affair with.
* TokenTrio: Joanna (Chinese), Diane (Guyanese) and Kodie (Indigenous Canadian) were this in high school.
* YourCheatingHeart: David Hanley cheated on Joanna's mother with at least two women, [[spoiler: one of whom was underage at the time]].
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