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O Canada,.... and other cold places.
Aug. 6th, 2021 09:32 pmWe've been working our way through the first of six seasons of Republic of Doyle, a Canadian comedy-mystery series that ran from 2009 to 2014. I'd watched one or two of them back in the day when the non-titular Alan Doyle of Great Big Sea appeared in some of the episodes still being broadcast on CBC. It's Jake, Malachy and Rose who are the Doyles to watch here, though, although Alan and the boys do provide the "Oh Yeah" theme song for the series. It's set and filmed in St. John's, Newfoundland, a time zone and whole universe away from the Toronto centre of most CBC television production. The actors are mostly known only from local productions, although Russell Crowe apparently pops in at some point, but the writing is incredibly snarky and fun, the romantic subplots a bit too 70s misogynistic for 2020 tastes, and Jake's car is right out of the Jim Rockford School of Driving.... but it's fun, the plots silly but always with a good twist, and the family dynamics are spoot oon. We're almost rhrough the first season on Neflix disks, with the second also available on DVD; for some reason, the final four don't appear streamable, although Youtubes are there at the moment; the whole series can be had on disk for around $40 US, and it's looking like a decent investment, especially if there are commentaries or extras on it.
Also making it to Canadia, in their final Netflix episode, are George and Mae from the Feel Good series. It's weird seeing Toronto playing itself, after so many series where it's either pretending to be Some Other City or, as with the early days of Orphan Black, anonymously denying its Canadianess. As they explored vaguely familiar looking neighbourhoods, we fondly remembered our trips there from the Before Times.
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Then there's the little bit of the Great White North that should be residing in our kitchen.
A day after we had our entire HVAC system priced out for upgrade, and three days after we got quotes on many other things, we came home tonight to find that the freezer section of our kitchen fridge had decided to stop freezing. There was water in the ice trays and even more of it in a puddle below. Rather than panic, we turned down the settings both up and down, and I brought in a thermometer from the garage freezer in hopes of confirming that it was just a matter of not having properly shut the freezer door sometime during the day.
Well, it's showing it's 16F in there right now, so I think we likely have dodged that frozen bullet:)
Also making it to Canadia, in their final Netflix episode, are George and Mae from the Feel Good series. It's weird seeing Toronto playing itself, after so many series where it's either pretending to be Some Other City or, as with the early days of Orphan Black, anonymously denying its Canadianess. As they explored vaguely familiar looking neighbourhoods, we fondly remembered our trips there from the Before Times.
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Then there's the little bit of the Great White North that should be residing in our kitchen.
A day after we had our entire HVAC system priced out for upgrade, and three days after we got quotes on many other things, we came home tonight to find that the freezer section of our kitchen fridge had decided to stop freezing. There was water in the ice trays and even more of it in a puddle below. Rather than panic, we turned down the settings both up and down, and I brought in a thermometer from the garage freezer in hopes of confirming that it was just a matter of not having properly shut the freezer door sometime during the day.
Well, it's showing it's 16F in there right now, so I think we likely have dodged that frozen bullet:)