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The first Adult Swim Canada animated show. Incredibly dumb cops investigate paranormal phenomena, supported by varyingly competent colleagues. Everyone talks fast -- kind of Archer cadence, but more blunt force idiocy than rapier wit. The animation style is a very odd semi-rotoscoped thing. Trailer here. [more inside]
posted by Shepherd on Sep 29, 2023 - 1 comment

Shoresy attempts to turn around the losing ways of a minor league hockey team.
posted by drezdn on Jun 1, 2022 - 12 comments

A super-powered construction worker falls in with a group of criminals in order to raise the funds to help his ill mother. Starting Stephen Amell from Arrow, Robbie Amell from The Flash / Upload / X-Files, Sung Kang from several Fast and Furiouses, and a murderer's row of Canadian speculative fiction actors.
posted by rednikki on May 15, 2020 - 7 comments

Stanislas, 19, is left on his own when his mother is hospitalized. Terrorized by her illness, he wraps his face in bandages and infiltrates a therapy workshop for disfigured patients. Website [more inside]
posted by jkaczor on May 27, 2019 - 2 comments

Irene must endure 2 weeks of community service at a retirement home. Following her passion for cheerleading, she secretly signs up the senior residents to audition for a dance-themed reality show.
posted by larrybob on Jul 21, 2018 - 2 comments

Four blue collar astronauts are stuck together on a Space Sanitation Station after they bring a mysterious device aboard their ship and Earth is mysteriously devoid of life. Also, weird inter-dimensional and time continuum stuff. And a mutant rubber ducky terrorizes the crew. Starring George Takei as the rubber duck. [more inside]
posted by fimbulvetr on Sep 19, 2016 - 6 comments

A show opens; a show doesn't open; the past is revisited; the future is changed. [more inside]
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering on Aug 3, 2014 - 25 comments