The bucolic tranquility of Greylock, New Hampshire is upended when a massive vein of coltan – an incredibly valuable mineral used in tech – is discovered under the town. State-backed mining company Lydon Industries swoops in with plans to extract the mineral … plans that include wiping Greylock off the map. With her friends and family in danger of losing their homes, rebellious high school teacher Sarah Cooper vows to stop Lydon's bulldozers. Written by King, in The Republic of Sarah, faced with the destruction of her town at the hands of a greedy mining company, rebellious high school history teacher Sarah Cooper utilizes an obscure cartographical loophole to declare independence. Now Sarah must lead a young group of misfits as they attempt to start their own country from scratch.
Territory markers, Cooper convinces the helpless hamlet of Greylock to declare its independence from the U.S., thus preventing the company from being able to turn the town and its environment upside down in a quest for profit. The CW drama The Republic of Sarah follows high school teacher Sarah Cooper with a vague loophole to declare her small New England town an independent country when it becomes threatened with demolition by a mining company. Sarah, a history teacher, makes some history of her own when she discovers the mineral coltan underneath the land of her hometown. In the series, a small town in New Hampshire discovers that there is a large vein of an incredibly valuable mineral underneath it. A mining company plans to take it all and destroy the town in the process.
Local high school teacher Sarah Cooper comes up with a plan to have the town declare independence and become its own country. Faced with the destruction of her town at the hands of a greedy mining company, rebellious high school teacher Sarah Cooper utilizes an obscure cartographical loophole to declare independence. Welcome to "The Republic of Sarah," which The CW premieres Monday, June 14. Stella Baker — daughter of Simon Baker ("The Mentalist") — stars as a New Hampshire high school teacher determined to prevent a mining company from ravaging her home base of Greylock, site of a newly discovered, highly valuable mineral.
She encourages fellow residents to vote for Greylock's independence, made possible by a long-standing loophole. The move also means opposing Sarah's estranged brother ("Blindspot" alum Luke Mitchell), who's pivotal to the mining firm's plans. Actress-director Megan Follows ("Reign") plays their ex-senator mother.
But building a country from scratch is no easy task, which means Sarah must rely on family, friends and allies wherever she can find them, if she's going to fight for the good of everything and everyone she knows and loves. The Republic of Sarah stars Stella Baker as high school teacher Sarah Cooper, who uses an cartographical loophole to declare independence for her small town before a greedy mining company can take control. "The Republic of Sarah" followed rebellious high-school teacher Sarah Cooper , who, when faced with the destruction of her town at the hands of a greedy mining company, utilizes an obscure cartographical loophole to declare independence. A valuable mineral is discovered under Greylock, New Hampshire, and a mining giant plans to extract it, and effectively wipe Greylock off the face of the earth. School teacher Sarah battles the mining company, and gets Greylock cast off from the United States.
The show follows high school history teacher Sarah Cooper , who uses her local geography knowledge and a really random loophole to declare her New Hampshire town an independent country. This is to stop businesses from mining for mineral coltan after it was discovered underneath the town and ruining the lovely views. The show follows a high school teacher who uses an obscure loophole to declare her small New England town an independent country when it's threatened with destruction by a mining company. It was originally developed for CBS in 2019 with Sarah Drew in the title role before landing at The CW a year later.
When a massive vein of coltan—an incredibly valuable mineral—is discovered under the town Greylock, New Hampshire, a mining company prepares to extract the mineral which would effectively remove the town from existence. Sarah Cooper, "a rebellious high school teacher" in Greylock, organizes and leads opposition. However, an unexpected result occurs when the town becomes its own nation, separate from the US. Thus Sarah and the rest of the town must grapple with developing their own country. New The CW dramaThe Republic of Sarah is one of the weirder midseason offerings that will be arriving on television this summer. The Republic of Sarah is the strangest and most original show on The CW, on a network full of DC superheroes, teen detectives dealing with ghosts, vampires in high school, and teens trapped in dystopian futures.
It's about what happens when a schoolteacher declares her town an independent country and secede from the United States to keep the state governor from wiping out the town to sell its rare minerals to a mining company. What happens when big business threatens to turn your quaint New Hampshire community into a mining field? You find every loophole you can and secede from the country that governs you. That's what happens to the inhabitants of Greylock in the new The CW series The Republic of Sarah. The initiative, led by high school teacher Sarah Cooper , is an interesting premise for anyone with a love of civics and comes from Jeffrey Paul King, who also executive produces the series.
It was his fascination with cultural geography that birthed the series. "I was finishing my run on Elementary and looking to get something on the air," he explained while recently promoting the show. "The idea of building a country always intrigued me, and as far as an interesting engine for episodes, there's an endless number of things you have to deal with. Parents need to know that The Republic of Sarah is a drama about a small town that decides to secede from the United States. They choose to do this after an oil company threatens to destroy some of the town's public spaces while mining a rare element. The titular Sarah is an idealistic person who works hard to save both her town and help family, friends, and students; like the other characters in this drama, she's something of a stereotype.
Family complications include a family member who's an alcoholic; she's attempting to gain sobriety but expect to see her lapsed and drinking. We hear anecdotes about episodes of abuse, like when she threw a glass bottle at her son's head. Sexual content is confined to kissing and flirting, but in one scene, a male teen bully yells at a girl when she won't have sex with him and calls her a "bitch" (other language includes "hell," "ass," and "bastards"). A teen has Native background; a villainous character calls him "Squanto." Family members and friends are loyal, but one familiy in particular has a deep schism complicated by abuse and addiction. Values like community and pulling together for a common cause are championed. One of the shows that everyone is eagerly waiting for is 'The Republic of Sarah'.
The upcoming drama series chronicles the journey of a rebellious high-school teacher named Sarah Cooper who fights a corporation when a massive vein of coltan - an incredibly valuable mineral used in tech - is discovered under the town. A key ingredient in new technology, it is in shorter supply than gold. Soon, a mining company, Lydon Industries, backed by the power of the state, sets about buying up the town to reduce it to rubble.
It's built on a cool premise and puts extra effort into world-building, but even though we're located in an interesting time and place, this drama feels a bit colorless. The cinematography looks like there's a gray filter over all the visuals, and the story has that feeling too. The show's pilot was originally planned and worked on by CBS with actress Sarah Drew in the title role.
However, they dropped it, and it was picked by the CW a year later, which ordered a new pilot and a brand new cast in May 2020. The Republic of Sarah premiered on June 14, and unfortunately, the season finale will serve as the series finale because the show was canceled. Keep reading to find out why the show, after only one season, will not be returning.
The show was originally under development by CBS, with a pilot ordered, but the network passed on the show. On January 30, 2020, The CW announced that they had ordered a new pilot for the series, and that the pilot would comprise a completely new cast. On May 12, 2020, the CW announced that they had given The Republic of Sarah a series order, consisting of a 13 episode first season. On September 2, 2021, The CW canceled the series after one season. In September 2021, the series was canceled after one season. Greylock is a picturesque New England town, rustic in a way that feels like a Pinterest board come to life and full of the sort of non-threateningly weird people that television networks seem to think primarily populate small-town America.
It's got major Stars Hollow vibes, from its pointed lack of chain grocery stores to charming town rituals and the sort of shared communal history that means literally everyone you run into at the local diner already knows everyone else's business. Oh, and there are also sincere teens, law enforcement officers with hidden goals, Sarah's formerly abusive and currently alcoholic dramatic-complication-causing mother. It's a big cast, and their characters are sketched quickly in favor of servicingThe Republic of Sarah's high-concept setup. Perhaps that's why this show comes off as formulaic instead of innovative, general rather than specifically located in a real place with real people. In a time when many Americans wish to be somewhere else, a separatist fantasy could be a rich source of irony and humor. Instead, it's just kinda mild, which is exactly the reaction it's likely to get from most viewers.
"With her friends and family in danger of losing their homes, rebellious high school teacher 'Sarah Cooper' vows to stop Lydon's bulldozers. Following today's finale on The CW, we wish we could say there was a chance atThe Republic of Sarahseason 2 coming to pass. The network recently canceled the show, which makes the season finale now the series finale. Rebellious high school teacher Sarah Cooper vows to stop a mining company from destroying her town.
Executive producer Jeffrey Paul King announced the news Thursday on Instagram along with a cast photo. Stella Baker as Sarah Cooper, a history teacher in Greylock, New Hampshire who saves her town from Lydon Industries' plans to extract minerals there. With the New Hampshire governor so eager to exploit the area's resources how can they rejoin the United States? I don't know, and it doesn't necessarily feel like the show has thought that far ahead either, which is….concerning? The Republic of Sarah largely follows the story of the titular Sarah Cooper, a rebellious history teacher with a punk rock streak who encourages her students to be free thinkers who fight for the things they believe in. New Hampshire High school teacher Sarah Cooper saves her hometown from a mining country by discovering a loophole allowing it to become an independent nation in this drama written by Jeffrey Paul King.
Unfortunately for fans of the freshman drama, it appears "The Republic of Sarah" will not be returning for a second season. In a recent Instagram post, the show's creator Jeffrey Paul King shared the news with followers, confirming that the season "will come to an end on Monday with what will now be our Series Finale." When you've done a few things in the Aussie industry, which unfortunately just isn't big enough to sustain all of the talent that we have, naturally your sights shift to Hollywood because it's just a much bigger industry. " It wasn't like, "I'm gonna do this." It was like, "Yeah, let's go there and check it out." I surprised myself, getting the pilot for The Tomorrow People, two weeks into my first pilot season. That blew me away because it was just that next level of validation that this could legitimately be a career for me. There's such a big transition from being an Aussie actor playing Aussie roles, to being an Aussie actor playing an American character in an American show.
The stakes are higher, there's more money, and there's more pressure. I also recognize how difficult it is, being an actor and having consistent work. I'm so incredibly grateful for each and every job that I've had that. I'm focusing on my current job, and I love it and am really grateful for it, especially during the period of time that it happened.
Aussie actor Luke Mitchell plays Sarah's brother, Danny Cooper, a young man trying to overcome an abusive childhood at the hands of their mother , torn between the emotional scars of his past and the possibilities of the future. When a television show gets canceled, the biggest reason usually is poor ratings. And in this case, The Republic of Sarah was canceled because of its subpar ratings. According to TV Line, the show averaged only 326,000 weekly viewers and a 0.05 demo rating, which put the series at the lower end of the CW's Nielsen ratings for the summer.
But the discovery is marred by Lydon Industries, which wants to roll in with their mining trucks and destroy her tiny hamlet and all the resident's properties. Thankfully, Sarah comes up with the crazy plan for her town to claim independence, courtesy of a mapping loophole. She comes to find out the land where her town Greylock sits was not formally claimed by either the United States or Canada, so it was able to be its own entity. It doesn't give the independence story enough space to breathe and put down roots in reality. It certainly isn't given enough space to feel like a premise that could sustain a show for multiple seasons.
And it's mired in too much CW-style family drama and teen/YA sexual innuendo to make any headway. He tries to spin it as a positive for the town, but most of the people are worried that they'll be displaced or the town will become an ecological wasteland. After punching her brother when she mentions their mother, she goes back to see Ellen; after 11 months sober, Ellen has decided to get drunk with the news of Danny's return.
Sarah understood how abusive Ellen could be towards Danny when she was drunk, but she still can't understand why he cut the both of them off when he left. Series creator Jeffrey Paul King took to Instagram on Thursday to announce the news and to inform fans that Monday's episode will act as the series finale. "Only one episode left & unfortunately it will be our series finale," the actor shared. The Republic of Sarah is really a sort of remake of the 1949 British comedy Passport to Pimlico from Ealing Studios. In that movie, a small district in London not far from the Houses of Parliament, chafing under the restrictions of post-war rationing, discovers a document that shows their neighbourhood is not part of England but the House of Burgundy.
The residents declare independence from England and begin negotiations about their sovereignty. The British government retaliates by cutting off power, food, and resources, cordon off the district with barb wire while black marketeers flood in to sell foods and goods. Similar things happen in The Republic of Sarah, though in a slightly less satirical manner, though the layer of surreal absurdity is still present.
Its lowkey, lighthearted seriousness makes it the strangest show on TV right now. The show underscores the importance of community and the need to care for the people who make their home in any particular community. Values like respect for nature and the power of pulling together for a cause are championed.
A city vs. country strain in the drama can view "city folk" a bit stereotypically. Headed by former Greylock resident Danny Cooper, the company plans to buy out private properties, bring in new workers and pay for town improvements—such as new roads and a new power grid. But, like the four-flushing, mustachioed villains of dinner-theater melodrama, the corporate stormtroopers live down to expectations. Naturally the first thing they do is crush a quaint pagoda in the town square because, as everybody knows, there's a lot of profit in pagoda-crushing. And Cooper, still stirred from by her Revolutionary War lesson plans, decides they must be stopped before they declare war on park benches, flower boxes, and playful kittens.
The show has the patented CW wackiness within the premise, but in practice, the show has a lot of heart. It showcases the power of perseverance in this political moment, no superpowers required. It highlights how, if one person is willing, normal people can save themselves and those they love. In the series, Cooper's estranged brother acts as the lawyer and subsequent evil face of corporate America. Essentially, it's a classic David and Goliath story that — not unlike Netflix's popular fantasy drama "Ragnarok"— modernizes an age-old narrative by adding in an environmental element.
The ratings– This is almost always the reason why a show fails to continue, and more than likely it is the case here. In terms of live numbersThe Republic of Sarahwas one of The CW's lowest-rated original shows of the past year and barely registered a 0.1 rating in the demographic alongside more than 320,000 live viewers. These just aren't the sort of numbers that justify keeping a show around.
It also probably hurt that the premise here didn't translate into international success the same way that many of the network's other franchise-based shows do. So many of them are going to inherently have a far better chance of staying on the air for some long period of time. Having worked at Collider for over a decade , her primary focus is on film and television interviews with talent both in front of and behind the camera.
She is a theme park fanatic, which has lead to covering various land and ride openings, and a huge music fan, for which she judges life by the time before Pearl Jam and the time after. She is also a member of the Critics Choice Association and the Television Critics Association. But it seems that making a New England town into its own country isn't enough for King or The CW; the people in town have their issues to deal with. Grover, for instance, likes the hell out of Sarah but has his own relationship baggage to deal with. There's a reason why Danny has come back to town that has nothing to do with work and everything to do with the now-married Corrinne and her son. A smart new student, Maya Jiminez struggles after moving in with Luis, her biological father that "decided to be gay" after impregnating her now-jailed mother in Los Angeles.
