Netflix series about Canada?
Jul 7th 2018, 11:14 am
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Re: Netflix series about Canada?
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
Jul 7th 2018, 11:29 am
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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).
Anyone considering moving to Eastern Canada should watch Fargo.
Jul 7th 2018, 2:23 pm
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Re: Netflix series about Canada?
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).
Jul 9th 2018, 8:57 am
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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!
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!
Jul 9th 2018, 11:26 am
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Jul 9th 2018, 11:55 am
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Frontier is a series about the fur trapping trade filmed in Newfoundland and Labrador, nova Scotia and Ontario.
Also could consider the movie Braven.
Also could consider the movie Braven.
Jul 9th 2018, 12:03 pm
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Re: Netflix series about Canada?
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.
Jul 9th 2018, 12:19 pm
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Jul 9th 2018, 12:53 pm
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Jul 9th 2018, 3:01 pm
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