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kathleen_dailey) wrote2023-03-09 02:29 pm
kathleen_dailey) wrote2023-03-09 02:29 pm
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When universes collide
Son of a Critch is a quirky, intelligent, life-affirming comedy set in 1980s Newfoundland. It's based on Mark Critch's Son of a Critch: A Childish Newfoundland Memoir; it's now in its second season, and well worth watching.
Pop (Malcolm McDowell, Soran in ST: Generations), through a not very credible subterfuge at a retirement home, reunites with old friend Millicent (Alice Krige, the Borg queen). Both actors give serious and touching (especially so to a viewer of a certain age) performances. An obvious but cute Easter egg appears for a few seconds when Pop's temporary roommate at the retirement home is shown reading a murder mystery by Garrison Steele, the self-regarding crime novelist played by Victor Garber (Sydney, Alias) on Republic of Doyle. At the same time, Mark (Benjamin Evan Ainsworth) makes a new downtown friend, Cara (Maya McNair), and attempts to impress her by pretending to be a vegetarian, whale-defending, socially conscious Protestant.
In an added viewing bonus this week, Hudson and Rex showed us in "Rexit, Stage Left" that at least one character (a temporary one, of course) in St. John's actually has a Newfoundland accent. We takes what we can get, b'y.
Pop (Malcolm McDowell, Soran in ST: Generations), through a not very credible subterfuge at a retirement home, reunites with old friend Millicent (Alice Krige, the Borg queen). Both actors give serious and touching (especially so to a viewer of a certain age) performances. An obvious but cute Easter egg appears for a few seconds when Pop's temporary roommate at the retirement home is shown reading a murder mystery by Garrison Steele, the self-regarding crime novelist played by Victor Garber (Sydney, Alias) on Republic of Doyle. At the same time, Mark (Benjamin Evan Ainsworth) makes a new downtown friend, Cara (Maya McNair), and attempts to impress her by pretending to be a vegetarian, whale-defending, socially conscious Protestant.
In an added viewing bonus this week, Hudson and Rex showed us in "Rexit, Stage Left" that at least one character (a temporary one, of course) in St. John's actually has a Newfoundland accent. We takes what we can get, b'y.