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North of North: Bad Influence Season 1, Ep 8
Time for the presentation, high five! Neevee's traumatic personal and family history is talked about, in unusual settings. A party is thrown on the beach.
North of North: Lost and Found Season 1, Ep 7
Ugh, don't make me worry about Ting. Alastair is great at grandfathering. Some questionable decisions are made.
North of North: Carnivores Season 1, Ep 6
Bun makes pancakes for everyone. A magnifique artist comes to town. Jeff shows his big fish energy on the Hooked app. Millie shows them how it's done. Neevee and Alistair start to have a nice moment, which Neevee can't handle. Kuuk has a surprise visitor from out of town (nooooo!).
Top Chef: Line Cook for a Day Season 22, Ep 5
There is no Quickfire Challenge as the chefs are taken by surprise when a “Last Chance Kitchen” chef joins the competition. After breaking into pairs and spending time at a local restaurant, the chefs are informed that for this Elimination Challenge, they must create a dish inspired by their time on the line. The chefs’ collaboration skills are put to the ultimate test as this week is a double elimination. “Top Chef” alum Sara Bradley joins Kristen, Tom and Gail at the judges’ table. [more inside]
North of North: Walrus Dick Baseball Season 1, Ep 5
Ting has so many casseroles. We meet Helen's nemesis. Everyone agrees to the rules to Alaskan Baseball.
North of North: No Freeloading Season 1, Ep 2
Siaja sets out to retrieve the guinea pigs and gets a job. Alistair walks around in just a towel for important plot reasons.
Top Chef: Top Chef Trivia Season 22, Ep 4
Actor Michael Cera joins Kristen in the kitchen for this week's Quickfire Challenge, where the chefs’ trivia skills are put to the test. For the Elimination Challenge, the chefs must put their own spin on some of Canada’s most iconic confections. [more inside]
Top Chef: Best Served Cold Season 22, Ep 3
In this week’s Quickfire Challenge, the chefs must make their own version of a Jamaican patty. Canadian hockey star Natalie Spooner assists Kristen in presenting the Elimination Challenge, where the chefs are put on thin ice and must create dishes best served cold. The chefs need to keep their cool to impress the judges and guest judges Food & Wine’s Editor in Chief Hunter Lewis and renowned Canadian chef Lynn Crawford.
Top Chef: Brunch à la Boulud Season 22, Ep 2
Actor Sarah Levy joins Kristen and Gail for the Quickfire Challenge, tasking the chefs to put their spin on Canada’s famous poutine. For the Elimination Challenge, Daniel Boulud joins the judges’ table as the chefs team up to create a maple-soaked brunch that pays homage to Sugar Shack traditions.
Top Chef: Across Canada, We Go! Season 22, Ep 1
“Top Chef” heads to Canada with 15 new chefs. Upon arrival, the chefs draw knives, splitting them into groups of three and head to the “Top Chef” kitchen where they are greeted by Kristen, Tom and Gail, and their first Quickfire Challenge. The chefs pick an ingredient from the pantry and are tasked with preparing a dish while also incorporating the judges’ surprise ingredients. For the Elimination Challenge, the chefs go head-to-head preparing dishes that highlight Canada’s five diverse regions. The judges are joined by “Top Chef” alums Dale MacKay and Nicole Gomes.
Book: Tangles: A Story of Alzheimer’s, My Mother, and Me
Graphic memoir by Sarah Leavitt about her mother, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's dementia aged 52. There's an article by Leavitt where she writes about her sparse drawing style. An academic essay by Jane Tolmie talks about the "cross-connections between caregiving, the politics of queer resistance, and mother-daughter closeness" in the book. There is a review at Graphic Medicine, another by Casey the Canadian Lesbrarian, and a less positive one by Fran Slater at bookmunch. In 2024 an animated film of the book was announced.
Movie: Sugarcane
[TRAILER] An investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school in Canada ignites a reckoning on the nearby Sugarcane Reserve. A 2025 Academy Award nominated film in the Best Documentary Feature Film category. [more inside]
North of North: Top of the World Season 1, Ep 1
Siaja is an Inuk woman living in a teeny Arctic village. She isn't happy and she's trying to figure out how to sort out her life. She wants a job, and a better relationship with her family. She makes a big, public change and has to figure out how to live with it.
The Sticky: Chapters 1-6 First Watch Season 1, Ep 10000
A (very) fictionalized retelling of the Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist, starring Margo Martindale, Chris Diamantopoulos and Guillaume Cyr. Ruth Landry is a tough middle-aged maple syrup farmer, who turns to crime when the bureaucratic authorities threaten to take away everything she loves. She teams up with a hot-tempered Bostonian mobster, and a mild-mannered French-Canadian security guard to carry out a multi-million dollar heist on Quebec's maple syrup surplus. [more inside]
Movie: Black Ice
"Black Ice" is an icebreaking expose on the influence and oppression of Black athletes in Canada’s most treasured sport, hockey. "Black Ice" is a historical document within the sphere of sports and outside of it, with anthropological context added. The migration of Black people to Canada from the southern United States constructed a flimsy pillar of national identity that believes Canada to be an escape from America’s racism, and this is partially to blame for how anti-Black racism within the nation was swept under the rug.
(Description from Peyton Robinson's review, here.)
Special Event: Copa América 2024: Group Stage
Defending Champion Argentina (and winners of the 2022 World Cup) take on 15 teams from North and South America in an expanded Copa America. [more inside]
Sort Of: Sort Of - Season 3 (Final Season) Season 3, Ep 0
Bilal Baig and Fab Filippo's funny, charming and very queer story of Sabi, a gender non-conforming Pakistani-Canadian figuring out their life in Toronto, finishes up with eight 20-minute episodes in the final season. Note: the decision to end the series came from the creators. Changes come for Sabi, Aqsa, Wolf, 7ven and the rest of the crew. On HBO in the US. [more inside]
Letterkenny: The Final Season Season 12, Ep 0
Letterkenny is back one more time with six new episodes. [more inside]
Movie: Viking
A sly, deadpan Canadian comedy about a team of non-astronauts sent into isolation in a desert on Earth because their personalities match the members of an actual ongoing Mars mission that's having interpersonal conflicts. The earthbound team is tasked with mirroring the real astronauts' behavior and coming up with solutions to the Martian team's psychological problems. 100% on RT with 9 reviews, free on Tubi and other options, mostly in French with English subtitles.
Psi Cops: Psi Cops Season 1, Ep 0
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]
Alone: (2023) Season 10, Ep 0
"Ten survival 'experts' attempt to survive alone. The winner receives $500,000." (IMDB) This season's competition is again in northern Canada, on Reindeer Lake in Saskatchewan.
New episodes air Tuesdays and are free online Thursdays at the History Channel site.
Sort Of: Season 2 Season 2, Ep 0
Bilal Baig and and Fab Filippo's comedy about Sabi, a nonbinary millennial in Toronto, their friends and their Pakistani immigrant family, deepens the characters as it brings Sabi's father back home from Dubai. Hilarious, heartfelt, sex-positive and very queer, with excellent writing and acting and great music. 8 short 20-minute episodes. (Season 1 post, Season 2 trailer.) On HBO.
Letterkenny: Entire Season Season 11, Ep 1
Season 11. 6 Episodes. Released December 25, 2022. Pitter patter. [more inside]
Movie: Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
[TRAILER] Based on a local legend and set in an unknown era, it deals with universal themes of love, possessiveness, family, jealousy and power. Beautifully shot, and acted by Inuit people, it portrays a time when people fought duels by taking turns to punch each other until one was unconscious, made love on the way to the caribou hunt, ate walrus meat and lit their igloos with seal-oil lamps. [more inside]
Movie: Slash/Back
(TRAILER) The sleepy village of Pangnirtung, Nunavut, nestled in the majestic mountains of Baffin Island in the Arctic Ocean wakes up to a typical summer day. No school, no cool boys (well... except one), and 24-hour sunlight. But for Maika and her ragtag friends, the usual summer is not in the cards when they discover an alien invasion threatening their hometown. These teenagers have been underestimated their whole lives but, using makeshift weapons and what they've learned from the movies, they show the aliens you don't fuck with the girls from Pang. [more inside]
Mystery Science Theater 3000: THE FINAL SACRIFICE Rewatch Season 9, Ep 10
Re-rewatch! Another fan favorite, unlikely hero Zap Rowsdower and dorky teen Troy on on a road trip to upset the diabolical machinations of... uh, a diabolic machinator. He has a name but honestly it's hard to remember much beyond Rowsdower. He had his own song on YouTube which I had linked to in past posts, but apparently the rights owner to the movie is No Fun and had it taken down. Boo, Tjardus Greidanus! Previously and again.
The Kids in the Hall: The Kids in the Hall (full Amazon Prime season) Season 1, Ep 1
The Kids in the Hall are back on Amazon Prime in an eight-episode season. A ton of new material with just a few callbacks to classic skits like "I'm crushing your head" and the staff at A.T. and Love. Oh, and a lovely return of Buddy, lamenting the disappearing gay bars of the past. [more inside]
Movie: Turning Red
A 13-year-old girl named Mei Lee turns into a giant red panda whenever she gets too excited. (IMDB)
The Porter: Rotten Tomatoes Season 1, Ep 1
Train porters Junior Massey and Zeke Garret take action after a tragedy on the job. [more inside]
Movie: Sugar Daddy
Darren, a young talented musician, dreams of making music like nobody has before. But she's broke. Desperate for cash, she signs up to a paid-dating website, throwing herself down a dark path that shapes her music with it. [more inside]
Book: Empire of Wild
Inspired by the traditional Métis story of the Rogarou--a werewolf-like creature that haunts the roads and woods of Métis communities. Broken-hearted Joan has been searching for her husband, Victor, for almost a year--ever since he went missing on the night they had their first serious argument. One hung-over morning in a Walmart parking lot in a little town near Georgian Bay, she is drawn to a revival tent where the local Métis have been flocking to hear a charismatic preacher.
Alone: Season 6 — all episodes Season 6, Ep 0
Ten survivalists have a chance to win $500,000 by enduring the coldest location in the history of Alone: The Arctic. Participants grapple with a harsh storm out of the gate. [more inside]
Movie: Goon
Labeled an outcast by his brainy family, a bouncer overcomes long odds to lead a team of under performing misfits to semi-pro hockey glory, beating the crap out of everything that stands in his way. [more inside]
Letterkenny: Season 8 Season 8, Ep 0
So you were watching the latest season of Letterkenny with yr pals the other daaaaayyy.... [more inside]
The Great Canadian Baking Show: Season 3 Season 3, Ep 0
It's another baking show spin-off, this time in Canada! Do you long for the days of Mel and Sue? The old GBBO niceness? Praise instead of tears? Do you wish the judges had more adventurous palates? Do you miss the focus on technique? Then GCBS is for you! [more inside]
Movie: Stories We Tell
A film that excavates layers of myth and memory to find the elusive truth at the core of a family of storytellers. [more inside]
Movie: Catwalk: Tales from the Cat Show Circuit
Meet the fascinating felines and the people who pamper then in this whimsical look at the ins and outs of Canada's competitive cat show circuit, where the claws come out when a Turkish Angora and an adorable fluffy red Persian face off to take home the national award for Best in Show.
Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo: all episodes
Where is Cleo? Taken by child welfare workers in the 1970’s and adopted in the U.S., the young Cree girl’s family believes she was raped and murdered while hitchhiking back home to Saskatchewan. CBC news investigative reporter Connie Walker joins the search to find out what really happened to Cleo. [more inside]
Schitt's Creek: Season 2 Season 2, Ep 0
After a failed attempt to sell the town, the once rich and powerful Rose Family come to the depressing realization that their stay may be longer than they originally hoped. But the Roses will bloom again – even if it’s in Schitt’s Creek. [more inside]
Travelers: Protocol Omega Season 3, Ep 10
The Travelers face a bleak future with only one long-shot chance to succeed in their mission. (Season Finale) [more inside]
Travelers: David Season 3, Ep 9
The Faction sets off nuclear blasts that destroy all of the Travelers' archives, except the one in which a wounded David just happens to be trapped. [more inside]
Travelers: Archive Season 3, Ep 8
MacLaren urges Yates to help him when a Traveler with a mission vital to humanity's survival arrives in the body of a just-captured serial killer. [more inside]
Travelers: Trevor Season 3, Ep 7
Suffering from a fatal brain disorder, Trevor makes the choice to allow himself to be overwritten as the team races to invent an experimental cure. [more inside]
Travelers: Philip Season 3, Ep 6
The Faction kidnaps a group of historians, forcing MacLaren and the team to extract their location from a critically injured Hall. [more inside]
Travelers: Naomi Season 3, Ep 5
The team attempts to extract a rogue A.I. from a child messenger, but the program expands too rapidly. A new Traveler adjusts to his host. [more inside]
Travelers: Perrow Season 3, Ep 4
The team learns that Traveler 001 is still alive when the Faction tries to capture him. Doubts about their loved ones worsen for Kat, Jeff, and David. [more inside]
Travelers: Protocol 3 Season 3, Ep 3
Certain that his team erased his memory of the previous day, MacLaren retraces his steps in the case of a disturbed youth with a horrific future. [more inside]
Travelers: Yates Season 3, Ep 2
MacLaren and Yates adjust to their new partnership while protecting a TV show host whose inflammatory rhetoric about Travelers has led to tragedy. [more inside]
Travelers: Ilsa Season 3, Ep 1
MacLaren, his team, and their loved ones regroup at a safe house protected by the FBI, but doubts and betrayals may sabotage the rest of their mission. [more inside]
Podcast: Thunder Bay: all episodes
The highest homicide and hates crime rate in the country. A mayor charged with extortion. A police chief who faced trial for obstruction of justice. Nine tragic deaths of Indigenous high schoolers.
Why does it all happen here? [more inside]