Why are there no critically acclaimed Canadian serial drama television series? There are only popular comedies. Do Canucks not take themselves seriously?
>>221585310This is the country that gave us Jim Carrey and Mike Myers, comedy is a big deal over there. As is sci-fi.
>>221585340But why?
We're a vile breed of boring stable people. We are some cursed combination of the Japanese and Europeans when it comes to our disposition. But we don't produce any culture worth a damn. we're a fake people with fake history.
I liked Da Vinci's Inquest.
Degrassi
>>221585373They're a western nation that answers to the crown, bong wit is inherited but since they're right above us, they inherit our over the top style and ambition. They can do straight man (Phil Hartman) and Jim Carrey absurdism seamlessly.
>>221585310Canadians look and talk like Americans and the American film industry is right there. Why would any leaf with talent spend their life building up a Canadian industry for pennies instead of jumping into the biggest, highest paying film industry on earth? It's the same for hockey players, engineers, tech workers, etc. The best of Canadian talent has been draining into the US since before anyone here was born.
My take: in the shadow of the American Empire, Canucks don't try to take themselves seriously. They know they will only ever be the comic relief sidekick.
'Flashpoint' was Canadian made, featuring a SWAT like police team in Toronto. I aired on CBS in the States. The Pink Power Ranger was in it. >>221585441Featuring a young Jewel Staite, though she wasn't in it very much.
>>221585582Then why are there good comedy shows made and produced in Canada?
Canada has no cohesive cultural identity, except the superficial "Hockey! Tim Hortons!" one that exists in the minds of nostalgic boomers. Regional differences and alienation have only gotten worse, and more people outside of Toronto and Ottawa are resentful of being vassals to central Ontario. It doesn't help that entire enclaves of foreigners with no interest in assimilation are imported by the boatload and yet we're supposed to pretend that they're just as Canadian as someone with 300-year-old family history just because they wear red turbans at sporting events. At this point why not just join the states? Our culture is entirely Americanized anyway, and we'd finally get the good Amazon service.
>>221585608They are low budget so the industry is capable of making them. Especially things like TPB and KvS which successfully sell low production value as part of the charm.
>>221585310Every successful Canadian leaves Canada. The government is corrupt as hell and compromised by foreign agents. Despite being one of the largest and most resource rich countries on Earth, it's one of the poorest.
>>221585636Living in Leafland I was once so proud of my country up until Trudeau came along and fucked things up so bad that I now legitimately want the US to annex us so we at least get access to their salaries, job markets and taxes.
'Arctic Air' is a fun drama, though unintentionally silly at times. Probably not "critically acclaimed" but still worth a watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOzuGUoWL7I
>>221585658We have the third largest oil reserves on the planet. We could be as rich as the Saudis and have oil revenues pay for everything without the need for income taxes but we allow ourselves to be hindered by faggot enviromentalists and whining injuns.
>>221585310It had some really good cartoons.
>>221585636The US doesn't want 40M new libshit voters or a massive federal fund sinkhole. If they attack it'll be a regime change and occupation so they an exploit the resources, build any industrial facility they want, etc. under a puppet regime. They wrote the book on that
>>221585736YTV was so fucking kino from the 90s to mid 2000s. Weeknights they would show Fresh Prince, Malcolm in the Middle, Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Dragon Ball Z then Friday nights had an entire block dedicated to anime like Inyuyasha, Naruto, Gundam Seed
>>221585746We already live under a WEF puppet regime. Can't be any worse.
Lots of US productions are made in Canada for cost savings reasons. It's funny that they have better budgets and production values than most Canadian shows. Government regulations on what can be considered a Canadian production tends to strangle things somewhat. Even with that, sometimes they come up with something unique like 'Being Erica', which blends normie talk therapy shit that could only be on Lifetime with scifi time travel.
>>>221585340Probably cause any dramatic actor or director with talent is just going to go work in Hollywood where the money is. Even our talented comedians eventually end up there. It's just that, unlike drama, comedy doesn't really require much acting or directing talent, so it's easier for low budget amateur comedies like Trailer Park Boys to break out. People will laugh at something if it's funny even if it was recorded on an iphone in someone's backyard. Sci-fi fans have always been used to lower budgets and amateur production too, so they will give a pass to crappy sets and acting. But it's a lot harder to take a drama seriously that doesn't have serious acting and production. It's not that Canadians aren't capable of that, there's a ton of Canadians in Hollywood. They're just making their tv/movies in the US instead of Canada because $$$.
>>221585793Ryan Gosling as well, who is very nearly a living legend.
>>221585788Honestly the movie industry in Canada dried up a lot over the past few years. Vancouver used to be such a hot spot 10 years ago there were like 15-20 major tv shows filming there but nowadays its mostly just Hallmark movies.
>>221585769>All the hype every October when YTV was switching to Halloweeen programming
>>221585819>Switching between YTV and Teletoon every Halloween and Christmas to watch the seasonal programming
continuum was alrighthttps://youtu.be/xk8S1gxLbZIorphan black won some awardshttps://youtu.be/Z5hMyPFfdCEalso, the beach combers was funhttps://youtu.be/ej4OcOH19ls
The North Water
>>221585818Doesn't help that many US states got in on the action, offering generous tax credits and other supports. For a while the Canadian dollar became strong against the US dollar, which opened the door for productions to go somewhere like Georgia instead. Once physical studios were built out in those states, Vancouver's advantage decayed.
>>221585736PJ Katie was my first TV crush.
Heated Rivalry is the most iconic television series of the 2020s
Durham County. The best canadian tv drama ive seen.Its not that the talent doesn't stay here, its that these types of shows don't thrive here. canadian content has a certain charm and it doesnt appeal to mature dramas. orphan black is a close second.
>>221585990>Fag hockey show on a third rate streaming serviceSounds about right for Canada.
>>221585310I remember there was one called "Intelligence" that was quite Canadian and good. Also:Bad BloodHeartland (I've never seen it but apparently people like it)Travelers
>>221585340>meet Jim>acts like he's not Jim>clearly Jim>not wearing toupees, has receding gray hair, yellow druggie teeth>extremely pale and sickly skin>stumbles on one leg>clearly is him down to the spots on his forehead, uneven top lip, mark on his chin, giant, thousand yard hazel eyes and his whiny leaf accent>he's fucking huge, taller than he looks onscreen>dear god he is so fucking ghoulish>am alone so there's nobody to back me up>I don't bother to ask him if he's Jim>or even say well you look like Jim as if not to agitate him>I do not like the way he looks at me>like a predator to prey>cranes over me like the fucking grim reaper and I'm not short>has one of the most revolting auras i have felt on a human being, pure evil>rambles narcissistically about himself and shows no respect for anyone else>feel sick after he leaves>go to bathroom and fucking dry heave
>>221586174Have you thought about my cock today?
>>221585636>Canada has no cohesive cultural identityUnfortunately, that's by design. Their constitution or whatever actually mandates "multiculturalism" and their government defers to a tiny group of greedy injuns on all matters as dictated by a collection of old, vague, irrelevant treaties as well as a list of grievances the Trudeau government let them create called the Truth and Reconciliation agreement which cucks the nation even further.
>>221585783>we should end up like Libya or Iraq ok Ivan
>>221586887We're going to end up like New Dehli if nothing changes.
>>221585788The CBC is never producing a show with a cast that looks like that ever again.
>>221586222I'll ask jimmy to show me the diseased peen if he really sees me as a threat
>>221586887>muh ape ball will save ukrannyLMAO peak cope
Loved this show and I rewatch it.
>>221585310Degrassi. Fifteen. Probably some more
The best yearsThis chick always got me going.
>>221586940Carney already fixed>immigration>inflation>first nations blocking pipelines>alberta separatism>recessionSorry but things will continue to be good.
>>221585310canada doesn't exist they all live on the border they're just the beta wallflowers of america
>>221588731It was basically live-action shonen, kinda fucked up how the two actors died suddenly though
>>221588870>Carney already fixedLol
>>221586940It's called Chindia, sometimes Chinadia.
Watched this show 2 years ago, was comfy. Also Tina Keeper was hot.
this is the only leaf show I can think with multiple Emmy wins
longest running Canadian drama
Canada is a high-threat environment for about ten months out of the year. Its social climate is one in which everything is humorous but nothing is ever truly funny and it's not a question of degrees but simply the perspective you're looking at it from. Trudeau might be the biggest and most corrupt political clown in the known world, but no Canadian has ever felt the lightheartedness to truly laugh at him. Here, everything is dead serious, even small-talk. When everything is dead serious, nothing matters in quite the same way, and there's no release valve in education, social, corporate or home life. Our right-wingers and religious zealots aren't funny, nor are the universalist libs, immigration, even the online influencers aren't funny. You take note and calculate without truly recognising others. Visit an isolated part of a national park for months on end to really get a grasp on the dynamics of Canadian life, people who think an American orientation will help the country are truly out of their minds.It's wealth and a sense of potential (if not actual) comfort in the USA that lets its citizens remain so performative; Canada has the boisterousness of the French but the dominant Anglo region of Ontario is far more inward and possessed of a flat affect that doesn't communicate half as easily; to belong you must first learn to disappear. It is personalities which disappear here instead of ethnicities, it's the personal side which has become sclerotic not the mind that thinks in terms of centuries. The best film to understand Canada and its humour is probably LEOLO, the director died young in a helicopter crash with his gf.Phil Hartman's straightman comedy and Carrey's absurdism are also excellent pointers. For Better Or For Worse or Between Friends (the comic strips) are another good example. Our sense of comedy is probably closer to the campiness of late Greek comedy, without the same reliance on broad up-to-the-minute character-based recognition of the states.
>>221588870>Sorry but things will continue to be goodSorry? Why would you apologize for things being good? Oh because it's doublespeak. Things are not good in canada right now...
>>221589235yeah he's obviously insane as fuck and he murdered his girlfriend after giving her stds he got from male hookers probably
>>221591487Are you drinking pepsi?
>>221585310Canada is one big trailer park.
>>221585736Changing the 55% home grown content to 35% really fucked us over.
my mom likes murdoch mysteries
>>221591626>Fashwave YTV edit with PhilMay I save this gif?
Living in rural Canada is virtually no different from STALKER.
>>221591684Go right ahead my brother.
>>221591637They just filmed in my town lol
>>221585310>Why are there no critically acclaimed Canadian serial drama television series? There are only popular comedies. Do Canucks not take themselves seriously?Small population whose film industry is heavily tied to Americas. Critically acclaimed dramas and prestige TV shows cost a bunch so it's easier to just shop it and present it as American to reach a bigger audience and get more backing, which swallows up a lot of the Canadian talent and ideas. There's two genres that stand out. Sci-fi, which tends to have a build in forgiving audience that will accept low budgets for big ideas, and comedy, which basically requires no budget. That's most Canadian hits are comedy or sci-fi. You can grab a tiny crew and just make Nirvanna the Band the Show, Trailer Park Boys or Letterkenny for next to nothing. You don't have to appeal to ameircan studio's to get a budget.
>>221585736literally the best thing about growing up in canada in the 90s
we had this 7/10 kino
>>221585310LEXX and Babbleon 5?
>>221585310The british sent all the criminals to australia but they sent all the head cases to canofgarbage
Train 48
>>221585310Psi factor:chronicles of the paranormal is pretty good, it's canadian x-files.
>>221585310They haven't won the cup in their own sport since 1993
>>221592482Ping Pong?
>>221591685Northern Canada is definitely in The Zone. Found an artifact just today.
>>221592819northern canadaso like 25 miles from the border?
>>221592911well yeah any part that isn't america's hat. like 80 percent of the population is within a 60 miles of the us border. its more like 100 miles
>>221591685>>221592819I was visiting a buddy in northern BC back in Feb and just up the dirt road from his place was a recently abandoned house where he would use the fire pit in the backyard. He's been there for three years now and never seen anyone at the other house. We explored it and found property appraisals, medical records, power tools and a loose hard drive still sealed in its packaging. An old cabinet phonograph with an interesting collection of records. Some pictures still up. The fridge and freezer were full of dark green mold and the sparse canned goods were all over 5 years expired. It was like they fled in the middle of the night. From the documents I could tell the father worked for ski rescue at one point.The whole time I was thinking of the STALKER in real life game. Documents, artifacts. Campfires.
>>221593149yeah man it's full of places like that up here, if you think of australia vs new zealand, or russia vs siberia, northern canada vs canada are two very different places. basically get to live an /x/ greentext every day. the best way I can describe it is that reality isn't solidified, there's something about human civilization that makes a place more permeable. so you might see a car that is not there, or you might talk to a person that was never there, or visit a place that was never there far more often than you would in the states which has such good infrastructure in comparison. this kind of stuff still happens in the states, in weird places but you have to go out of your way. there's a scene in the mike meyers movie the pentaverate, where they cross the US border and suddenly the static is gone, but that's a reference to a uniquely canadian phenomenon that you have to be canadian to "get". I bet if you asked your friend about that experience he would have a completely different recollection to yours and if you tried to revisit it, it would either be populated or not there at all.t. headcase
>>221593291>permeableor less permeable, rather, more fluid
>>221585955Absolutely based taste. Growing up i crushed on her very hard.
>>221588845Ryan Reynolds character was such a piece of shit on this show. Also episodes never seemed to air in the correct order.
>it's been 16 years and Canada hasn't bothered making a serial drama based on Jennifer Pan What a waste. Imagine the kino.
Canada biggest export isn't maple syrup, or quirky lovable comedians, it's Propaganda. Propaganda that this is the land of milk & honey.
>>221585310Cardinal was very good the whole way thru and only 4x6 episode seasons long so I'd recommend giving that a go. As for why it's primarily comedy and sci-fi, the company that owns Comedy Central and Space Channel own CTV, arguably the biggest non-news focused channel in Canada. So as a result you're going to have them primarily focusing on shows that can be syndicated onto the other channels. This has improved marginally, over the years as streaming services got more popular.
>>221585310All the american shows are filmed in canada because of taxesSo there's really no Canadian shows because every american show is canadian
>>221585310There really isn't that much great Canadian media period, as a Canadian 90% of the media I consume is either American, or from somewhere else. Music, movies ,tv, books, there aint much here. I think it's a mix of all the creative people leaving for America, or just having a more conformist culture that just doesn't produce very good art. What are our greatest culture exports? Trailer Park Boys, and 1980s Thrash Metal?
>>221585818Because Hollywood now shoots in UK because of tax scamSpiderman was shot in Scotland even though it's set in NYC Absolutely laughable
>>221592939yeah hehe yeahalso the NHL is American not Canadian kek
>>221589761Did you vote to Khalistan from Hindu aggression a few months ago?
