Danjanou - I began watching "...Wonderland" while beginning a semester of criminology. The consensus amongst my profs was that it was excellent and very well represented the failings of our system, bearing in mind it's in Ontario and the system varies a bit from province to province. To sum things up, we had a corrections officer come in and the invariable "...which show/movie best represented prison life?" came up. The spectrum ranged from HBO's "Oz" to "American Me" to even "Midnight Express." The CO didn't really react to much of this, so I said, "this is Canada we're talking about so I'm going to suggest that Showcase's "Trailer Park Boys" has it down; good times, all your friends and the best drugs around." The PC's in the class didn't care for that, as of course prison is "horrible" right. The CO smiled at my reference and said, "the streets will run dry long before our prisons do." Seems TPB's has our system down:
"B'ys, I'm serious, if I break probation again, then I'm looking at 8 years this time, not 9 months like last time." Julian to Bubbles & Ricky.
My main point for this thread, tv's entertainment, but it isn't supposed to be pablum. There's good stuff from all over the world, but it seems in North America we've taken to a majority of escapist crap. It's a shame more of our population doesn't understand the strength's of having CTV/CBC (regardless of the politics/financing issues that accompany it). The recent Stanley Cup Playoffs sum things up. Who in Canada wasn't at least aware of the games itself? Ask that question in the US (population variables taken into account, the interest isn't as strong as say, "American Idol
)? So I thought I'd see what the consensus was for local programming (as local as one can consider BC to NFLD eh), considering that issues in NY are more likely relevant to TO than Van or CA to NB.
I'm just in a patriotically influenced mood, must be all this election guff. I'm going to stop before I really work myself into a rant :evil:
Cheers...
