Running with Violet

Plot

Cast and characters

Main characters

• Jolene is fourth generation Pictonville resident. She was born in the small town and can't imagine any different. She started cutting hair right out of high school at her mother's salon. When her mother died she took over the salon and moved her and her daughter to the family farm to take care of her ailing father. Jolene is a single mother to her energetic toddler Violet and works like a dog to make ends meet.
• Miranda is a meek housewife trapped in an abusive marriage to Blair. She married Blair when she was nineteen to getaway from her controlling religious family, only to find herself shackled to a man even more domineering. Blair's manipulation has undermined her courage. Miranda is uptight about her appearance, having convinced herself that her value lies in her good looks. Her only ‘friend’ in town is Jolene and Miranda's weekly hair salon visits are the highlight of her week.
• Xorge is Stella's ruthless younger sister who left Pictonville at a young age to establish her beauty and wellness company Bae Mine, now a major business empire which she remains the queen-pin of. She is currently looking to expand back into her hometown.
• Samantha is Xorge's party-loving girlfriend who does most of the work involved in selling the Bae Mine beauty empire. Samantha has developed a bit of a pill-popping problem to mitigate the more stressful parts of her job.
• Violet is a charming three-year-old. Her and her mom, Jolene, are inseparable and custody weekends with dad Nick are hard on them both. Jolene desperately wants a different life for her daughter where she will not be bound by the limits of a narrow town.
• Frankie is a local teenager who babysits for Jolene. She's super attached to Violet, having been her baby-sitter since day one. Her relationship with her mom is currently fraught not because of the decision she made to put down the family cat without telling her.

  Supporting characters

• Blair is the town good boy and businessman who has a dark side that not even his wife Miranda sees. He is deeply involved Pictonville's meth ring, hiding meth in his basement and car.
• Stella owns a diner just outside of town. She likes the constant flow of customers and regularly takes in stragglers passing through town. She was born into the meth ring and, being the daughter of its kingpin Daddy, remains stuck in it. She's still reeling from her twelve-year-old son's disappearance, holding out hope that he's still alive.
• Gary is Jolene's emotionally needy father. He's not that sick, but regularly pretends to have new ailment. He has become romantically involved with Daddy, though he remains completely unaware of her involvement in the town meth ring.
• Daddy is Stella's mother and ever since anyone can remember, has always gone by the name of Daddy. Daddy is ruthless and emotionally stunted. She wanted her grandson to participate in the meth ring, seeing great leadership potential in him. She tries to keep her grandson's tragic ending a secret from Stella.
• Nick is Jolene's ex and the police officer in town. He's on a mission to bring down the town meth ring. He loves his daughter, though has not fought Jolene on getting full custody, hoping that his congeniality might make Jolene relent and come back to him. While waiting for Jolene to ‘come around’, he's gotten romantically involved with Frankie's mom.
• Stewart is an undercover cop. He works partnered with Rosa, and is the lazy one of the two. Preferring to eat donuts, he tends to sit back and only get his butt moving if it's a direct order.
• Rosa is a hardworking undercover cop. She's attracted to Miranda and though her job always comes first, Miranda tests her ability to flirt and work at the same time.
• Astrid and Grete are two peppy Norwegians charged with investigating and reporting back on Pictonville's Green Soil Project. Astrid has a PhD in biochemistry and Greta is her graduate student. They are the ying to each other's yang having spent so many hours in the lab together.
• Ranger and Deedee are a pair of twin drug dealers who buy meth from Daddy. They are careful to make sure Daddy is kept happy at all times.
• Teddy is a member of another gang in Pictonville which ‘owns’ the highway. They're not as big as Daddy's gang but desperately try to be.
• Sue-Anne
• Sister Diane
• Wanda
• Anna
• Simone
• Bev
• Gigi
• Janet
• Missy
• Carmen
• Janet
• Bernadette
• Bob
• Martha
• Eddy
• Pierre
• '''Carl'''

  Episodes

Season 1 (2017)

Season 2 (2019–2020)

Production

Reception

Awards and nominations