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.
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.
Schitt's Creek and Kim's Convenience.
Never heard of Kim's convenience, thanks!
Schitt's creek is just great, just started rewatching it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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.
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.
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/
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.
Gary and his Demons
19-2 was criminally underrated
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:
If you're into horror I liked The Void a lot.