Four in the Morning (CBC)

[kathleen_dailey]

It appears that Daniel Maslany (Tatiana's sib) is now back to being a (semi-?) regular in his role as Llewellyn Watts on Murdoch Mysteries. I think he's terrific in that part, but I can't look at him without remembering his performance as Bondurant in Four in the Morning, a series I loved. (Clearly, I was not part of the creator's target demographic, but who cares.) Like many other offbeat, surreal, challenging shows that I've been obsessed with, it didn't make it to a second season.

I was hoping that someone else might have been intrigued by it and produced some fic, but AO3 shows nothing. And I guess that shouldn't be surprising--the show asked an awful lot of its audience, and it got plenty of hate from people who didn't know what to make of it. But as one of the commenters on the YouTube promo site said to a complainer,

"The show features a talking pig, people who age a lifetime in a day, raven people, a [character who] gives birth to a pig, rat people, etc. And you're hung up on an eccentric trumpet player from Manitoba. Buddy."

The first and only season is supposed to be available on Gem, but clicking on the link brings nothing but a "page not found" result. I'll have to look around a bit more. In the meantime, the splendidly weird memories live on.

(ETA: Changed the subject line because it seems inaccurate to call one season a "series.")