History Series / StrangeEmpire

* BadassLongcoat: Kat wears one constantly.

** Kat and Isabelle are connected from the first with losing their newborn children in the first episode, and both become mothers again through adopting. What's telling is their different methods. Kat takes in four children who have nothing and no one because they need protecting. Isabelle takes a baby from his birth mother, then uses and punishes the girl, because she believes a grandchild will get her father-in-law's favor.

* GoodPeopleHaveGoodSex: While Isabelle has to put up with some nonsense in the bedroom, Kat and Rebecca both have a great time every time we see them have sex.

* LieBackAndThinkOfEngland: There are clearly some sexual encounters between Isabelle and John where John is doing absolutely nothing for her.

* FailedASpotCheck: Very few recognized Kat as having First Nations ancestry (aside from Caleb, who's of mixed heritage like her), although it's fairly obvious. They then act like she "lied" about it to boot.

* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: As concepts of gender and sexual identity were not the same in that time and the subject is never explicitly discussed, it's not really possible to use modern labels to pinhole [[spoiler:Morgan]] as either a trans man or a butch woman 'passing' for convenience, a common occurrence in the Old West.

''Strange Empire'' (stylized as ''STR∀NGE EMPIRE'') was a {{Western}} drama on Creator/{{CBC}} in 2014 created by Laurie Finstad-Knizhnik. The show, located on the Alberta-Montana border in 1869, centers in particular around three women: Kat Loving, a Metis woman with four adopted children, Rebecca Blithley, an autistic[[note]]this is not explicitly stated in the show, being as it's the 1800s, but the writers have confirmed that she is on the spectrum.[[/note]] woman who is learning to become a doctor from her husband, and Isabelle Slotter, the woman who runs Janestown and its prostitutes with her husband, Captain John Slotter ([[MeaningfulName pronounced "Slaughter"]]).

--> '''The Chinaman:''' ''Wo ai ni'', Mama.

* WellDoneSonGuy: Slotter is primarily motivated by wanting his father to see him as a successful man, making it all the more painful that Cornelius only shows up when things are going particularly wrong. John puts a gun to his father's head and asks if Cornelius can say he loves him, just once.

* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: As concepts of gender and sexual identity were not the same in that time, it's not really possible to use modern labels to pinhole [[spoiler:Morgan]] as either a trans man or a butch woman 'passing' for convenience, a common occurrence in the Old West.

* CoolUncle: In a time when being transgender is barely a concept, [[spoiler:Morgan's uncle helps him pass as a man.]]

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The series runs on this trope, considering the show's primary purpose is to show exactly how awful the WildWest was for anyone who wasn't white, straight and male. (Specific attention is given to the female (especially prostituted women), Native American, Black (ex-slave), Chinese, lesbian, transgender, and mentally atypical perspectives.)