Wow - Schitts Creek

CHILLIN wrote: ...but it has a sort of genuine sweetness...

This is one reason I like Canadian movies. Many have this quality. Nothing sickly sweet or goody-goody, just a real human element that you often don't get in the same way in Hollywood movies. Also, Canadian movies seem not to rely on gratuitous violence and sex, or car chases as something that has to exist to draw viewers. And the actors in them tend to look like real people, albeit often good-looking, but not all cosmetically enhanced.

I loved "Lars and the Real Girl" for this reason (one of Ryan Gosling's earlier roles). Also "Highway 61". They had really quirky plots and were sweet and quite funny.

TRANSPLANT is AWESOME! Can hardly wait for season 2!

Did anyone watch, years ago, Ken Finkleman's TV series "The Newsroom" or "More Tears"? Those were hilarious, really outrageously satirical shows. Sometimes when I was watching, I was thinking "I can't believe they're actually letting him get away with this on television".

And also years ago, I was watching a show, which I can't remember the name of, where they interviewed Canadian personalities and that night they interviewed Cathy Jones, the comedienne from This Hour Has 22 Minutes. The interviewer asked her how she met her current husband, a musician (she had been previously married) and she said they had met at a house party and just happened to be standing next to each other in the backyard when a joint was being passed around, and struck up a conversation. The interviewer just took that in stride and didn't question her at all about her smoking weed. I happened to be watching it with a American friend who was visiting and he said "You would NEVER hear that on US TV."