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siegeofangels) wrote2018-12-08 10:29 am
siegeofangels) wrote2018-12-08 10:29 am
Please Like My Thing: Letterkenny
You may have seen this floating around; it's the opening of the first episode. They're always titled "Cold Open" on Youtube and I love them for that; they just dump you into the scene and let you figure out what's going on yourself.
A beautiful show made of rural Canada is going on, that's what. It's fighting and drinking and smoking like you can't do on US TV; it's hicks and skids and hockey players.
I grew up in sorta-rural Michigan and this show gets me nostalgic, I feel like I went to high school with all of these people.
The humor tends toward wordplay and dick jokes and the kind of "drag out the joke reaaaaaaaaaal long" like sometimes they do on Brooklyn 99. It's just . . . it's silly, it's small-town, it's super Canadian. Please like it.
Things I like:
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- Stewart, who is criminally underappreciated and. Like. Imagine if you combined the Way brothers in their greasy basement-dwelling phase, but less successful and more meth.
- Reilly and Jonesy and how stupidorable they are and how they're both dating Katy
- Squirrely Dan, and his progressive outlook on things
- the Canadian music they use for the soundtrack (we got the Canadian alt-rock radio station growing up, ahhhh the nostalgia); the first episode of Letterkenny features a song by The Pack A.D. and I immediately bought the album, please stay tuned for a future Please Like My Thing about this band
The first two (6-episode) seasons are streaming on Hulu, and there are a lot of scenes and short pieces on youtube.
The fic fandom is super-small (89 works on AO3 right now), but there are some nice gems in the "rural dude figures out how to be gay" vein. Also I wrote sex pollen and it's the 8th highest kudos'd work, THAT IS HOW SMALL THE FANDOM IS.
Please like my thing! If you already like my thing please tell me so I have someone to yell about it with!