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-   -   Netflix series about Canada? (https://britishexpats.com/forum/canada-56/netflix-series-about-canada-914631/)

BristolUK Jul 7th 2018 11:14 am
Re: Netflix series about Canada?
 
Originally Posted by Vulcanoid (Post 12528437)
Well, for that matter almost anything on CW or SyFy is probably filmed in BC or Toronto ;)
It's the opposite here. 2004's Taking Lives with Angelina Jolie has a scene in Moncton train station, except it's not.

Having said that, there's a movie filmed here with that Hodges bloke of CSI and another with some teenage girls wanting to lose their virginity to Bones' husband :lol:

MillieF Jul 7th 2018 11:29 am
Re: Netflix series about Canada?
 
Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 12528088)
Wait, the film that most captures the Canadian experience isn't even set in Canada, it's Fargo; the snow, the funny looking guy, the faux wood panelling everywhere, the pervasive sense of dampness. The interiors are like those in property listings for most of Ontario and all of Atlantic Canada (probably also the prairie Provinces but I never look at those).
I wanted to say Fargo...but thought...well it isn't Canada. Fargo is just like my bit of New Brunswick. All of the homes are replicas of the ones around me. We have more trees...many trees, and more snow on a much more regular basis that isn't cleared half so well.

Anyone considering moving to Eastern Canada should watch Fargo.

Partially discharged Jul 7th 2018 11:54 am
Re: Netflix series about Canada?
 
Originally Posted by MillieF (Post 12528786)
Anyone considering moving to Eastern Canada should watch Fargo.
Say goodbye to any population growth for eastern Canada then :scarper:

By Fargo are you referring to the movie or the TV show?

dbd33 Jul 7th 2018 1:09 pm
Re: Netflix series about Canada?
 
Originally Posted by Partially discharged (Post 12528791)
Say goodbye to any population growth for eastern Canada then :scarper:

By Fargo are you referring to the movie or the TV show?
I meant the film. There are lots of woodchippers around here.

caretaker Jul 7th 2018 2:23 pm
Re: Netflix series about Canada?
 
Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 12528088)
Wait, the film that most captures the Canadian experience isn't even set in Canada, it's Fargo; the snow, the funny looking guy, the faux wood panelling everywhere, the pervasive sense of dampness. The interiors are like those in property listings for most of Ontario and all of Atlantic Canada (probably also the prairie Provinces but I never look at those).
On the day they were going to shoot the highway blizzard scenes North Dakota wasn't sufficiently godforsaken, so they came into Saskatchewan and filmed them here. Heartland sucks, you'd have to pay me to watch it.

dbd33 Jul 7th 2018 3:03 pm
Re: Netflix series about Canada?
 
Originally Posted by caretaker (Post 12528839)
Heartland sucks, you'd have to pay me to watch it.

Well, yes, it's government mandated local content, but it does depict a life in Canada to which children aspire; an alternative to "grow up, be doctor, move to US"

Linotype Jul 9th 2018 1:11 am
Re: Netflix series about Canada?
 
National Film Board of Canada:
https://www.nfb.ca/

MillieF Jul 9th 2018 8:57 am
Re: Netflix series about Canada?
 
Originally Posted by Partially discharged (Post 12528791)

By Fargo are you referring to the movie or the TV show?
The film is quite old and I remember being shocked when I saw it that anyone could live anywhere quite so cold....and I then moved here some years later!

No I meant, and should have said, Netflix Series one...I kept having to check it wasn't here. Also following the series you get to realise that winer here is not a brief snowy sojourn it's a daily, long drawn out affair that alters aspects of daily life for half the year. A good fun watch too!

BristolUK Jul 9th 2018 11:26 am
Re: Netflix series about Canada?
 
Originally Posted by MillieF (Post 12529589)
...winter here is not a brief snowy sojourn it's a daily, long drawn out affair that alters aspects of daily life for half the year. A good fun watch too!
But I thought you didn't like winter. :p

(sorry...couldn't resist :o)

The wanderer. Jul 9th 2018 11:55 am
Re: Netflix series about Canada?
 
Frontier is a series about the fur trapping trade filmed in Newfoundland and Labrador, nova Scotia and Ontario.

Also could consider the movie Braven.

dbd33 Jul 9th 2018 12:03 pm
Re: Netflix series about Canada?
 
Originally Posted by The wanderer. (Post 12529675)
Frontier is a series about the fur trapping trade filmed in Newfoundland and Labrador, nova Scotia and Ontario.

Also could consider the movie Braven.
It seems that Frontier, like the Shipping News, deals with a very specific aspect of life in Canada. It will, of course, have some overlap with ordinary Canadian life; frostbite, ladders in bedrooms, romantic screens conducted in two layers of fleecy pyjamas. Fargo though captures the relentlessness of the winter and the way it grinds away the hopes of those coping with it year and year out.

BristolUK Jul 9th 2018 12:19 pm
Re: Netflix series about Canada?
 
Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 12529681)
It seems that Frontier, like the Shipping News, deals with a very specific aspect of life in Canada. It will, of course, have some overlap with ordinary Canadian life; frostbite, ladders in bedrooms, romantic screens conducted in two layers of fleecy pyjamas. ...
Ladders in bedrooms. Is this something I should know about without watching Frontier? :confused:

dbd33 Jul 9th 2018 12:33 pm
Re: Netflix series about Canada?
 
Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 12529687)
Ladders in bedrooms. Is this something I should know about without watching Frontier? :confused:
Shipping News. I watched it in a cinema full of Newfies and they all nodded and chuckled at the ladder.

BristolUK Jul 9th 2018 12:53 pm
Re: Netflix series about Canada?
 
Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 12529691)
Shipping News. I watched it in a cinema full of Newfies and they all nodded and chuckled at the ladder.
Ah...not sure I've seen it.

BristolUK Jul 9th 2018 3:01 pm
Re: Netflix series about Canada?
 
Originally Posted by BristolUK (Post 12529699)
Ah...not sure I've seen it.
Just watched. The Shipping News

Saw a step ladder in the bedroom but not sure why.


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