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** [[spoiler:Joanna's father]] is murdered in Season 2.
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* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: Taylor follow a john who beats up sex workers. She learns that he is one of several people being blackmailed by the supposedly reformed Sam Mercer.

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* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: Taylor follow follows a john who beats up sex workers. She learns that he is one of several people being blackmailed by the supposedly reformed Sam Mercer.
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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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* BigSisterInstinct: After learning [[spoiler:Luna]]'s [[spoiler:Luna]] is her little sister, Joanna is very protective of her, especially when she's in trouble.



* InsidiousRumorMill: When she was a child, Joanna's father had her mentally ill mother committed and threatened to have her deported if she ever tried to contact Joanna. Joanna grew up thinking her mother had abandoned her not knowing they were being deliberately kept apart by her father and learning the truth [[BrokenPedestal shatters]] whatever respect she had for him.

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* InsidiousRumorMill: When she was a child, Joanna's father had her mentally ill mother committed and threatened to have her deported if she ever tried to contact Joanna. Joanna grew up thinking her mother had abandoned her her, not knowing they were being deliberately kept apart by her father and learning the truth [[BrokenPedestal shatters]] shatters whatever respect she had for him.]]



* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: Taylor following a john who beat up sex workers reveals he's being blackmailed by Sam Mercer, along with many other people (many of them far more prominent than him).

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* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: Taylor following follow a john who beat beats up sex workers reveals he's workers. She learns that he is one of several people being blackmailed by the supposedly reformed Sam Mercer, along with many other people (many of them far more prominent than him).Mercer.



* ParentalAbandonment: 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. Then [[spoiler:he's murdered]] too.

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* ParentalAbandonment: Joanna's mother was mostly gone during her childhood, supposedly due to being sick. However, later However, it turns out is revealed that this was her dad's doing. They grow closer when Joanna learns of this, and she gets estranged from her dad. Then [[spoiler:he's murdered]] too.



* RapeAsBackstory: Gerrilyn Spence, as a teenager, suffered statutory rape due to being seduced by an older man (he [[ChildByRape got her pregnant]] too).

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* RapeAsBackstory: Gerrilyn Spence, as As a teenager, suffered Gerrilyn Spence was a victim of statutory rape due to being seduced by an older man (he [[ChildByRape got her pregnant]] too).



* 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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* 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 that 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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* GenderBlenderName: Luna's second girlfriend is named Stevie.



* TomboyishName: Luna's second girlfriend turns out to be named Stevie. She doesn't display tomboy traits however (presumably, it's a nickname, but the show never says).
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** Stevie is an Indigenous lesbian whom Luna dates.
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''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.

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''Burden of Truth'' is a Canadian legal drama series. It airs on the Creator/{{CBC}} and stars Creator/KristinKreuk and Peter Mooney.Creator/PeterMooney. Kreuk serves as executive producer alongside Ilana Frank and Jocelyn Hamilton. The series' first episode aired on January 10, 2018.
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* AdultFear: In Season 3, Kodie suffers her kids being taken away by Family Services, with Joanna fighting like hell to get them back. It's revealed many other parents also suffered the same thing wrongfully.

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