WTF, AV Club? HUGE! Only the greatest portrayal of overweight teens EVER, which portrayed them as real people and not stereotypes.

Warren Zevon - Keep Me In Your Heart For Awhile
Norman Greenbaum - Spirit In The Sky

Best line in the series. Definitely most quotable.

Anna's last line to Richard is possibly my favourite dramatica line anyone says at any time in the show.

"If Ellen’s sister and her husband live in New Burbage, how is it possible that the two see each other as little as the show implies they do?"
Well, if New Burbage is the size of the city its based on - Stratford ON, there's 30,000 people there - a small city in Canada, but a city. And, having lived in a small town in…

Its because she voted against her own party - Anna says so earlier in the ep. It's a punishment move - from something as prestigious as Minister of Health (a big deal here in Canada) - to something viewed as somewhat frivilous, even by supporters of the arts. Voting against one's own party is  a BFD here; according to…

Have you watched the whole season? Because I think they do an admirable job of making Sloane into a pretty good guy. Personally, while I think they did rush the Ellen/Sloane breakup, I think thats mostly a metaphor: Ellen and Sloane had an immature relationship, and ended it immaturely. By letting go of that immature…

Yeah, I noticed that, too. Like I said, this show is so meticulous in so many ways its seems like an odd thing to happen as a mistake. I think it might be on purpose.

I thought it might, but the New Burbage theatre troupe is so small, it seems unlikely that there would be two Brians, or if so, that Geoffrey and Ellen wouldn't refer to them as "Brian Davis" and "Brian Smith".

Every season opener is like that, eh? The first show episode is always a wrap up of the previous theatre season. Even Season one's first episode is a wrap up of the last theatre season.

Heh, one of my favourite continuity errors happens in this episode. Brian, who we see in the replay of Geoffrey's Hamlet freakout is about the same age as Geoffrey, is now suddenly clearly 15 years older than Geoffrey AT LEAST. Considering that the show is created and written by theatre vets, I wonder if little errors…

I read a synopsis of the show about how it was conceived as three seasons from the start, with season 1 being youth, season 2 middles age, and season 3 old age. From that perspective, Ellen's comment makes more sense; She has so much regret about her youth and she considers most of it to stem from choosing her 'art' -…

I LOVE the pre coital discussion between Jack and Kate, as two young people trying to make light of the surprisingly strong feelings they have for eachother. Also, its a fun line to toss at a significant other.  "I can't believe we didn't screw last night." Of course, this show packs a lot of time into each episode,…

Isn't life just. fucking. nuts?

Hey Todd, just wanted to say I created an account here just because you were reviewing this show. I'm so grateful that this awesome Canadian show is getting the review treatment. It made me love Paul Gross, which was hard after Due South.
"Isn't life just fucking nuts?"

That's a big part of what I love about this series - the lack of filler. The show crams the staging of an entire Shakespeare play into a six episode season. There is no filler. Clearly the writers subscribe to Kate's Drama teacher's obsession with pace. The story never feels shortchanged, and I'm never bored.