Ah, fair. Yeah, I guess it's still "the evening of/after", for you guys.
Here, that's been on the news since the early hours, but it's mid-afternoon, so we've all sort of gone "well that happened", and gone on with our lives...
Obviously the media has not, but they're not offering any new perspectives or anything, so I've sort of just... Tuned it out, I guess.
Personally I'm just so very over thinking about politics, so I would rather distractions (such as what should be light, fluffy, largely apolitical tv) than following the breaking news cycle, i guess, ha.
The last Canadian show I actually enjoyed was Republic of Doyle, and yet the women in that were so tiresome. At least that was the worst of it, and crossed wires and open wounds were of the electrical and criminal variety.
For those who aren't familiar with Kommisar/Commisario Rex, it's about a German Shepherd who helps solve major crimes (generally, but not always, murder). The Austrian series is excellent, and was also very entertaining. The Italian series, about a decade later, verges more into comedy, but is also very good.
And then we have... The Canuck/Newfie version. Which sucks most of the humour and "fun" out of the concept, and brings in huge amounts of wokeness.
I could tolerate the BLM/racial profiling/"cops bad" schtick, and the "muh women are all victims" crap, but the tranny shit is just too much. But this interview makes it pretty clear that all of that was always the intention with this series - they just waited until they had a loyal audience, after the first season or so, before starting to beat said audience over the head with "the message"...
Here's one such "gem" of a quote from the interview:
Q) What is new this season on “Hudson & Rex?”
A) All I can say is it is more. More of what people love, but we push the limits even further. Diesel, our star, is learning all kinds of new behaviors and things that are wowing audiences. I think our familiarity with him and especially his relationship with Johnny is fantastic. It just gets deeper and allows us to take the stories even further. We tackle bigger and broader issues; some that are a little more topical and timelier with things that are happening in the headlines. I think we have an episode coming up on human trafficking. We just had an episode dealing with transgender issues. Now that we have our feet sort of firmly planted, we know what type of show we have and are able to push the envelope even more and reach into peoples’ hearts and tug on their heartstrings a little more. At least that’s the hope.
Not to take away from this post, but I think today is basically officially President Trump Just Got Fucking Shot In the Fucking Ear Day.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I'm not really ready to process anything else right now.
I mean yeah, I know about that, but there's more going on than just that, lol.
I guess I just wanted to discuss something else, rather than just feeding into that cycle, tbh.
Everyone will talk at length about that anyway - I didn't really feel the need to weigh in myself.
And yeah, it's obviously huge, but, he seems to be fine, so there's that.
For the record, I was mostly making a joke, not taking shots at you.
Although I'm not really processing anything outside of the Trump stuff for this evening, that part was true.
Ah, fair. Yeah, I guess it's still "the evening of/after", for you guys.
Here, that's been on the news since the early hours, but it's mid-afternoon, so we've all sort of gone "well that happened", and gone on with our lives...
Obviously the media has not, but they're not offering any new perspectives or anything, so I've sort of just... Tuned it out, I guess.
Personally I'm just so very over thinking about politics, so I would rather distractions (such as what should be light, fluffy, largely apolitical tv) than following the breaking news cycle, i guess, ha.
Don't you try your Australian time magic on me, witch!
The last Canadian show I actually enjoyed was Republic of Doyle, and yet the women in that were so tiresome. At least that was the worst of it, and crossed wires and open wounds were of the electrical and criminal variety.
I watched Season 1.
I liked seeing the St. John's shots.
I also couldn't get my head around that Allan Hawco's father on the show was named Malachi Doyle.
"Son of a Critch" is really charming, especially if you're Canadian. There's only a tiny bit of wokeness in the first 1.5 seasons.
Thanks for the rec. Will check it out.
For those who aren't familiar with Kommisar/Commisario Rex, it's about a German Shepherd who helps solve major crimes (generally, but not always, murder). The Austrian series is excellent, and was also very entertaining. The Italian series, about a decade later, verges more into comedy, but is also very good.
And then we have... The Canuck/Newfie version. Which sucks most of the humour and "fun" out of the concept, and brings in huge amounts of wokeness.
I could tolerate the BLM/racial profiling/"cops bad" schtick, and the "muh women are all victims" crap, but the tranny shit is just too much. But this interview makes it pretty clear that all of that was always the intention with this series - they just waited until they had a loyal audience, after the first season or so, before starting to beat said audience over the head with "the message"...
Here's one such "gem" of a quote from the interview: