But once you learn the lingo, Letterkenny is a hilarious experience from start to finish. The dialogue and slang might come off as hard to understand on first viewing, as a lot of American viewers likely won’t understand half of what the characters say.
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It's a perfect addendum for Letterkenny fans but also the ideal one-off that will serve as an entryway for future Letterkenny fans.Letterkenny is a wonderfully hilarious CraveTV original show about a Canadian town full of 5,000 “hicks, skids, hockey players and Christians.” It's that emotion, coupled with Shoresy's "We'll never lose again" determination, that pushes Shoresy past being just another spin-off. Seriously, the end of Episode 2 gets me fired up to hip check someone into next week. What really stand out in Shoresy are its musical montages, set to a mix of dubstep, rap, and grimy breakbeats - a lengthy hockey sequence humming to the Chemical Brothers is visual poetry - which provide a nice breather from the rapid-fire dialogue and are meticulously created for maximum emotion.
Other characters - particularly Tasya Teles' Nat, the Bulldogs' owner who is on the verge of folding the team - also get their due, even if they're mostly bouncing off of whatever is on Shoresy's mind.
And with Keeso - one of the hardest working men in Canada - providing the charisma, Shoresy quickly becomes more than what you know of him from Letterkenny. Shoresy himself is given an appropriate amount of sensitivity to keep him from being totally one-note, as his crush on and persistent adoration of a local reporter is downright sweet, and we get a truly surprising look into his family backstory that's both shocking and endearing. Team victories are celebrated by the hulking blue-collar jocks happily eating Drumsticks ice cream together, players who have their differences in the locker room have each other's backs in brawls both on and off the ice, and when the inevitable happens in the final episode, it's a beautiful ode to how a team can rally a community and create an indelible moment that will last forever. Yet for all their wildly divergent paths to success - Lasso thinks a squad that believes in itself will manifest victory while Shoresy will let anyone know when they've blown it - they're each all about team spirit and the love of sport, even if Shoresy's is slathered with a layer of violence, insults, and near-indecipherable Canadian lingo (I had to Google what a Giant Tiger is). It's a traditional underdog sports story, but with the irascible Shoresy up front as the de facto player-coach, it's the anti- Ted Lasso, a nice slap of reality and a wake-up call from Apple's feel-good sugary fairy tale. The premise is simple: He's putting together a team of washed-up vets to save his squad, the Sudsbury Bulldogs, from folding from a semi-pro hockey league (the NoSho) somewhere in the Great North.
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Ted Lasso, the titular plucky, howdy-do, energy ball coach of Apple's Emmy-winning TV series, has a placard above the locker room door that reads "Believe." It's an impossible-to-miss reminder of Lasso's ethos, a folksy, relentlessly positive vibe that he massages into his players, forever altering the team and their lives and sending viewers to bed with the warm fuzzies. Terry Ryan, Jared Keeso, Andrew Antsanen, and Jonathan Diaby, Shoresy Hulu
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