Now Canada Has Gone Too Far
I’m afraid this is a much more serious declaration of war on the entire world than any test North Korea might attempt.
I have rarely, if ever, seen so many terrible things combined into a single production. I’m generally against the death penalty, but in this case I feel an exception should be opened for everyone involved, from writers to cast to set designers. And it should be a painful end. And once that’s done, Canada should be burnt down to ensure nothing like this ever happens again. Ever!
My Mazamet 
The dialogue is so natural I thought it might be a documentary! Truly appalling, but I might have to have a spliff and watch the whole thing!
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Or try two tramadol with wine 🤔
I’m kidding I never encourage the use of semi-synthetic opioids!!!
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Lol…
As I clicked Play and the opening dialogue about spring began I thought it was an advert!
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It’s like that ALL THE WAY THROUGH.
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I have this feeling I ought to stab myself with a fork after sitting through a single Hyundai advert on YouTube.
Yes … I agree, in that case. Canada should be burned to the ground.
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Hello.
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😀 Careful or Kenya’s next. I’ve seen television programs from your continent!!!!
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Africa issa country If you have seen tv programs from Nigeria, you have seen it all 🙂
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Okay, you convinced me not to watch it! From the photo I was expecting a Dudley Do-right spoof. Apparently not, eh?
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The title itself should be a clue. It’s the essence of an idiot trying to sound well spoken.
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Well, the writing may be awful, but the acting….Oh, the acting! It’s top notch! This reminds me of the movie “The Room”. If you’ve not seen it, you must. It’s frame for frame the worst movie ever made. The dialog and acting in it are on par with this trash. It’s SO awful, it’s “good”. James Franco is putting out a movie soon about the production of it. Any way, Canada needs to be punished for this. Perhaps the US can build a wall across our northern border to keep such trash from ever leaving the country?
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Americans drug lords will use pirated DVDs by lining the DVD boxes with cocaine to smuggle back into Canada. No immigration official would ever bother looking.
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Oh hell — I initially thought this was a serious post. Well, apparently it was serious for you. Lol
Why the eff were you watching a show like this? Have you lost your bloody mind? 😂😂
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It’s the netflix auto-play thing. One minute you’re watching something you choose, the next they’re brandishing Canadian niceness at you!
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Canada should stick to serious stuff like hockey. I was hoping that it would have a RMCP in uni…oh lala! I met them at the State Fair and “dreamy” is an understatement!! 😊
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I don’t know your teenage lingo – what’s RMCP?
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She meant RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police who wear the Red Serge… the main male lead).
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Oops fat fingers RCMP Royal Canadian Mounted Police (“Mounties”, Dudley DoRight).
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Oh, fuck that to hell. Twice.
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Now to borrow some Western twang, just hang on fer a gulldarn minute there, pardner. Yer talkin’ about a family show, produced by Michael Landon (Little House on the Prairie) for Hallmark Cards (The Royal Family of Pulling Heartstrings), filmed in Beautiful British Columbia. The show, approved for a 5th season, simply borrows a lot of Canadiana. That doesn’t make us the Bad Guys here. We simply like to share feel-good entertainment, right?.
Umm… no.
The show does contain a lot of Canadian values – especially about politeness, tolerance facing discrimination by class and gender and power – and explores these themes with a targeted audience that is very brittle when it comes to questioning anything that threatens a Conservative view of ‘Family Values’. In spite of these social strictures, the show continues to not only keep but expand its audience especially south of the border… an undertaking that is not easy to navigate. Hence, the show must work within the stilted frame of ‘proper’ dialogue and ‘proper’ appearances.
But don;t let that fool you into believing what the draw appears to be: all sweetness and light. It’s not.
This export is actually very subversive and has succeeded introducing radical ideas of gender equality into the most patriarchal segments of the US and Canadian populations. So don’t let appearances and surface presentations fool you into thinking this kind of entertainment is just shallow and sweet pablum. There’s a lot more going on here than meets the eyes and ears.
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Recipes, too? 😉
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Good idea! Then people would learn what it means to proof the yeast.
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…and peace came to rule the face of the planet
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If you leave me out of the equation, why do you think we’re so nice? It’s because Canadians spend a lot of time digesting… a requirement after eating stuff many might consider inedible. I mean, seriously, who looks at a tree and figures out a way to make it taste really good? Canadians. But that kind of plot line really does make make for lousy TV.
Parasols. That’s the way to go. I’m just surprised in that short clip they were in a row boat. Every Canadian knows the show must be fiction when they see a row boat rather than a canoe. A dead giveaway.
And no one is a true Canadian until they can successfully mate in a canoe without tipping. Shows about that are supposed to be listed under ‘Drama’ but take a hint and look under the special and singularly Canadian category of ‘Comedy, Horror, Sports, and Fantasy’.
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Tildeb, seriously, you’re asking an Australian to comment on Canadian quirkisms?
Hold my beer.
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Oh, I’ve lived in Australia; I wouldn’t even try to compete in bizarre and quirky with you lot. Hell, just look at how you name things… and that’s before you add the ridiculous accent.
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And before you even think about upping the ante
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I always thought they should give Israel/Palestine to Canada. Surely that would fix the middle east.
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True, dat.
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They offered the Kimberlies to the Jews after WW2.
They said no.
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That show already exists:
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Well, although she calls herself the pioneer chef, there are all kinds of old yet simple recipes that produce amazing food of astounding taste that really do rely on understanding the now defunct terms, and this is a fascinating (and really quite vital) part of frontier culture, seeing how it evolves over time, how it intermingles with local native culinary practices, how the two each go too far in extremes but then by necessity come together to create fantastic and often unique foods that then helps unify and identify populations that share geography. This another part that frontier shows usually get badly wrong but is, in fact, one of the most challenging yet unifying aspects to frontier life.
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There was actually a good Canadian frontier show earlier this year. Violent, but of course it really was violent. And there are no Eskimos but there are Indians:
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Oh yes, a very bloody history indeed. That’s why we’ve always been such good fighters and why our ‘Peace, Order, and Good Government’ Constitutional core directive is far more than just words or some namby pamby sentiment. It’s hard to get competing populations to work together for the common good and, once obtained, not something to ever take for granted. And woe to those who threaten it for partisan gain. Using Canadian leadership to settle differences seems to be working for Ireland and Iraq, and why Canadians are such strong and staunch allies of the Kurds. It’s all about process and not product, a means rather than an end, which is why the Palestinian/Israeli debacle remains ever in armed conflict. Someday the majorities will figure this out.
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That’s an interesting take 😛
I was actually furious at how historically incorrect it was. They do indeed talk about women’s rights and such, and in ways that are profoundly uncharacteristic of the period. The teacher woman actually encourages one of the girls to study science. Just a feeling, but somehow I don’t think that happened on the Canadian frontier.
Also, there are no Eskimos. Don’t you have Eskimos everywhere?
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Ah, faux pas, mon ami. You mean the Inu, member of the Inuit who paddle their kayaks on water, harpoon seals, dog sled on land, and fight off marauding polar bears? The setting is too far south. Way too far south. But don’t be surprised in a future episode…
Of course it’s historically wrong. You can’t sell reality to anti-realists, silly.
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It’s a Hallmark Channel show. The whole network is like this, especially their Christmas movies. Even worse, I’ve seen other parts of the show, and it’s uniformly as bad everywhere.
Because it’s bad, you could make a drinking game out of watching it. Every time there’s an awkward forced laugh, take a drink. Cheesy music gets played while a voice-over says something campy: 1 drink. Out of place confession of love: 1 drink.
Personally, I try to think that the show is actually the hallucination of the protagonist’s fractured mind as she copes with the fact that she’s actually living in an early 20th Century apocalypse that made its way to Canada. None of the people she loved made it, so she’s invented this happy place for her to visit them.
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I know! I’ve watched the whole thing! Just to make sure it was real.
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I didn’t watch it but could tell from the still on the video that this was a Hallmark Channel show. If this one is pushing liberal values in with all the cheese it’s better than most of them.
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As a Canadian, I am blushing maple leaf red. I was in (maple syrup?) sugar shock within the first 30 seconds. Where on earth did you find this piece of pure ‘merde’? On the other hand, it has certainly sparked an entertaining stream of comments, so perhaps there is something to be said for it? 😉
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MELewis, I’m sorry if I’m out of line and apologize to have to raise the issue, but I know it’s hard being Canadian and not apologizing when it so obviously looks like one should! Well done!
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😂
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Netflix found it, decided I wanted to see it, and played it – all without my input!
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I’m currently watching a French ‘dramedy’ on Netflix called ‘Call my agent’ (dix pourcent’) which is surprisingly good!
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We saw the 1st series on regular tv, and loved it 🙂
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I’m a consumer of pablum, it didn’t seem that bad to me. I like period dramas, mostly for the clothes. I liked her parasol, even if the story is kind of drab if the period clothes are pretty I’ll watch it.
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Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!! That does NOT count as a period drama. You can practically see the iphones in their pockets! 😀
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We call this a Hallmark movie. Omg. You are apparently used to good foreign productions, as are we. This is pretty bad, agreed! And the Sigourney Weaver look-alike is formulaic Hollywood, not Canadian! Oh, dear 😫
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Netflix does terrible things…..I was watching ‘Marseilles’ when it morphed into ‘Reinas del Sur’…a lot of tarts calling each other tarts while striking poses in the their smalls.
Still, for sheer horror, what about the BBC’s Mapp and Lucia,,,whoever produced that should have their balls used as cufflinks.
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We have lots of Canadians around here but they are all foul-mouthed beer swilling Acadians named LeBlanc. Good people.
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Cajun?
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Same race different locale. Cajuns are the southernmost tip of the Arcadian diaspora, but lots come down to New England from New Brunswick looking for work.
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Yup, specifically as you note from the historical region here in Canada known as Acadia, which for anyone who might not know is the root for identifier ‘Cajun’. Hence, the patois, and the reason for the French Quarter in New Orleans, and so on. I asked because there’s always an argument about whether the minority French population – specifically Quebecois – busy trying to form a separate country but insisting the right to continue importing financial support from public money are truly ‘Canadian’ in identity. Of course, the French are one of the three pillars of Canada so I would think your complaint is legitimate. Keep in mind that this is what we turn into without hockey or not having our children exposed early enough to the entertainment of moose rutting after ‘skinny dipping’ in suburban pools (the bulls pee on themselves to attract females: a Canadian notion of foreplay some people take too literally but still manage to have enormous families. Go figure).
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New Orleans French is creole/Caribbean, Cajun French is spoken in rural LA (mostly Acadia Parish).
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Not to be picky, but *all* French comes from France…
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You’re allowed to be picky.
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What about Belgian French?
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Most of my furniture is older than Belgium…!
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You fools, that was never meant for general consumption. The US has water boarding, we have this. :p
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-giggles- Clearly you’ve never watched The Bold and the Beautiful, Pinky. My Mum used to watch it religiously so when I’d visit, I had to sit through it too. This is Shakespeare by comparison. :p
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On my god, my mom used to be a closet Bold and the Beautiful watcher! When I was a kid she’d tell me that she had the news on and was just too busy ironing to change the channel. Then she came clean when some woman had an affair with her son-in-law and it got juicy enough that she didn’t want to miss it. Then apparently she stopped when they had like a full year of dragging out the daughter’s falling out with her mother.
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LMAO! I’ll admit to watching the odd -cough- episode -cough- myself. But only in the interests of science, and only at Mum’s house. 😀
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You have no idea how much Canadians love their Anne of Green Gable-esque shows. Give a girl a parasol and handsome man in a rowboat and we all swoon.
My real question is, how was he going to drop the oars considering he wasn’t holding them when they were talking so they clearly were fastened on. She was in more danger of losing her fancy parasol in the water if they embraced in a kiss.
Also it’s a well known fact that love cures pneumonia, so that part was real.
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The real danger is I was under the boat as they were filming, quietly strapping a bomb to it. No more season 5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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It had to be done. I understand. lol
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I think my mom read the novels the series is based on. She had a thing for Christian historical romance, so I would never consider watching the series. I’m sorry you put yourself through that.
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