3d ago

Could we start a thread of Canadian entertainment content you love? TV, movies, music, authors, podcasts, etc? Or international content that you love minus American stuff.

I don't want to hold the actions of the orange rapist against American artists who mostly all hate him anyway and deserve better, but let's promote our own first.

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Schitt's Creek and Kim's Convenience.
- Never heard of Kim's convenience, thanks!
  Schitt's creek is just great, just started rewatching it.

As someone who grew up in South Canada (US PNW), The Red Green Show will always be special to me.

Very much Letterkenny and Shoresy.

My favourite Canadian shows
Kids In The Hall
Red Green Show
Loading Ready Run
- Fuck yeah Loading Ready Run! I've started to be able to catch some Watch + Plays live which had been a delight.

Corner Gas! (Not the cartoon)
North of North is great too.
- I found sooo few people who appreciate Brent Butt like they should.
- If you like Corner Gas you'll like Letterkenny.
  
  If I like letterkenny will I like corner gas? I think I was too young when I first saw that show but it looked so dull

A lot of the more popular ones have been listed already but here's a couple that I loved that are a bit more off the beaten path:
Tv:
Little Bird - drama, if you want to cry your eyes out and watch a fantastic story about the consequences of the 60s scoop
Late Bloomer - comedy by YouTuber Jasmeet Dutta
Music (indigenous):
snotty nose Rez kids - rap/hiphop
anachnid - electronic, I guess?
Nonindigenous:
kimmortal - alt hiphop
shad - alt hiphop
mother mother - indie rock
said the whale - indie rock
the Jerry cans - folk (Inuktitut language and style)
Podcast:
Stolen - true crime
Adding video games too:
Don't starve (and any Klei game actually)
crypt of the necrodancer
starbound (s/o even though I think they're UK based not Canadian)
- For music, I'd add The Halluci Nation (formerly A Tribe Called Red).
  For games, I'd add The Long Dark
- Would you classify the jerry cans as indigenous? I know they sing in Inuktitut, but I'm pretty sure most of the members are not Inuk.
  Also, you have to mention Tanya Tagaq.
  
  Oh you're very right about that, I hadn't looked into it properly.
  I've only heard collabs with Tanya Tagaq, but I'll check out more of her work, thanks!

Trailer Park Boys!
- This is George Green fuck off!

Orphan Black - spectacular SciFi
Travelers - SciFi, Can/US mixed
- Omg orphan black was so friggin good. I can't believe Tatiana is not more popular than she is, just a fantastic actor.

Trailer park boys, letterkenny, shoresy
The house hippo
- Maybe if the Americans had had house hippos we wouldn't be in this mess
- Sometimes there's shit. On the outside. Of the torlet.
  
  If you think that’s bad, you should see the urinus

Podcasts:
Canadaland
Commons
Canadian True Crime
Someone Knows Something
Uncover
Tv Shows:
Schitt's Creek
Orphan Black
Son of a Critch
- I came here to say schitts creek! Took me 3-4 tries to really get into it but I'm glad I did.

Dated and off the wall - Kids In The Hall (1988-1995) ... (with probably the most awesome intro song ever)
Even more dated and off the wall - SCTV (1976-1984)
- Kids! Loved them then. Loving re watching!

ReBoot and Beast Wars
Captain Star and Undergrads
Clone High and Hilarious House of Frightenstein
Mudoch Mysteries and Wayne and Schuster
Paw Patrol and Mecha Builders
Kids in the Hall and Rare Earth
Johnny Strides and Jim Carrey
Austin Powers and Michael Ironside
Sharon, Lois and Bram
Great Big Sea and Scott Pilgrim
Sue Johannson and Under the Umbrella Tree
Telephone and Basketball
No particular order

If you want continuous music streaming (that is, it's not on-demand, and you'll listen to whatever's playing), Stingray Music (formerly Galaxie) gets the job done.
I also use CBC Listen, primarily to stream their radio stations, but they've got loads of podcasts and music playlists as well.
- Flashback Alternatives
  It's like CFNY of the 80's...adult alternative, they take requests...
- Also big shout-out to local community radio
  Seriously, if you have a station in town, tune in. Listen, learn the hosts names, follow them on social media if you use it, subscribe to their RSS feeds, share their stuff, throw some money their way if you can. If this moment is inspiring you to break away from American media and hegemony, let it inspire you to uplift those creators around you.
  Special thanks to 91.3 CJTR in Regina, I've learned about some weird cool music from y'all
  
  Obligatory link dump. There's also https://www.campus-fm.com/ - made by an American, but he's a nice guy, and he added a lot of Canadian college stations to this frontend.
  https://www.ckcufm.com/
  https://chuo.fm/
  https://www.citr.ca/
  https://cfrc.ca/
  https://cfuv.uvic.ca/
  Tons of others of course, but find myself coming back to these ones the most.
- I very much do! Also NTS is a great app that some fine person here on Lemmy introduced me to. Very eclectic stuff. https://www.nts.live/
- I'm torn on dumping apple music for Spotify.
  On the one hand, they're not US based. On the other they keep giving Joe Rogan dump trucks filled with cash.
  
  Sailing the seas is free

Kdramas. They have exceptional series ranging from fantasy to thrillers, scifi and almost anything you can imagine.
They are not canadian I know, but since you said international minus magastan...
- Squid Game, The Silent Sea, All of us are Dead, and there's some others I watched that were quite good.
- I'm all for anything not from that shit hole.

I'm old(er), and living near the border allowed for access to some great children's programming back in the day.
Mr Dressup and Friendly Giant in particular. (side note, if you have access, check out the excellent documentary about Mr Dressup on Prime).
As for music, again, being near the border, with one of the best alternative radio stations in the 90s (89-X), I was turned on to many excellent artists. To name a few....
24 Gone
The Tragically Hip
The Pursuit of Happiness
Bootsauce
Odds
Amanda Marshall
Moist
The Grapes of Wrath
and so many more. Most of these bands could still easily edge out anything new on the radio today.
- Moist... There's a band I haven't played in a while.

19-2 was criminally underrated

Gary and his Demons

Wiretap with Jonathon Goldstein.

What was that hideous but hilarious stuff where they had upside down mouths talking, a canadian series/tv thing from around 2010, it looked like this sort of, it will forever live rent free in my mind:

https://archive.org/details/can-film-archive/

If you're into horror I liked The Void a lot.

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