At least audiences knew that their evening was about to be ruined right from the start, with host Samantha Bee participating in a cringe-inducing opening sketch that cobbled together tired gags about Toronto-playing-New York, toques, Anne of Green Gables, and one especially weird reference to. The entire structure of Bee’s contributions – the show kept coming back to the comedian stuck in this quasi-clubhouse of clichéd Canadiana – reeked of a self-congratulatory nothingness.
There is a distinct difference between using Humanitarian Award winner Ryan Reynolds and Radius Award winner Simu Liu as Trojan Horses to get audiences aware and interested in actual Canadian film and television, and simply giving those actors gobs of screen time instead of, say, Clement Virgo’s filmGiven that there are almost 150 awards categories spread out across the CSAs, you would think that the producers of Sunday’s show would deign to include acceptance speeches from a few dozen of them.
And why did I walk away from the broadcast feeling not good about myself for supporting diverse homegrown storytelling, but rather awful because of the many thinly veiled lectures I received during the telecast about not supporting diverse homegrown storytellingAll hope is not lost, though: the Canadian Academy now has one year to repair the mess that they have got themselves into.
Oh, and hire a host who will actually dare to step across the border. Take a Porter flight! It’s right there! I will give the Canadian Academy this: It didn’t produce the worst televised train-wreck of this Sunday evening. That honour belongs to Netflix’s failed live-stream of itsspecial. The crucial difference: At least people were talking about Netflix, even if they were hating it. Just about the only people talking about the CSAs were, well, the CSAs themselves.
Yup, check out the montage
Embarrassing… the Globe and Mail
Also unwatched
Was it written anywhere that the Globe was part of the cause?
I think 5 people watched it.
Who the fuck wants to watch an awards show that lectures people and talks down to everyone watching it.
Yikes! If the G&M says it's too woke, it must've been a real dumpster fire 💩😂 Not that anyone wasn't expecting just that.
Article not paywalled for once. But note author was 'depressed' that people thought it was 'Woke Crap'. He just doesn't get it, as he dismisses the most painfully obvious point of all. Woke BS at crux of absolute disgust thinking humans have in CBC crazy leftist experiment.
I started working in the Canadian film/tv industry in 1975 now retired. This article is just a rinse and repeat the media has done on the state of the business
you expect people to subscribe to read this shit?
Great critical commentary on the Canadian film and television scene... Canadian film and television sucks 'because of the many thinly veiled lectures'.
I'm interested to know how the awards show was any more cringey than the normal twitter agitprop we get daily from the whole alphabet soup of guilds, lobby groups & creative cliques that lecture us about how brave & wonderful they are. Sounds like the show captured this perfectly
The line about the CBC president was priceless and well received here!
Nothing says the state of Canadian tv and movies more than getting people who left here and aren’t coming back to pretend they care. Cringe worthy, indeed.
Don’t worry, Bill c11 will help!
The big winner was 'The Porter' which wasn't even good enough to be renewed but too many people think Canadians should be forced to fund and watch garbage that doesn't interest them..
No, the whole system fails Canadians by producing garbage that everyone is forced to pay for.
Nobody gives a sh*t. Next to nobody watched.
'...why did I walk away from the broadcast feeling not good about myself... but rather awful because of the many thinly veiled lectures I received during the telecast about not supporting diverse homegrown storytelling enough? ... I’m on your side!' LOL bro
When I saw the title, I almost wanted to read this article. Then I saw who the author was ... a person deeply invested in government funding of third rate tv/film productions whose own salary depends on it. Modern Canada is insular echo chambers all the way down.
That is the most scathing review of a rewards show I have ever read.
It's ok, because no one watched them anyways.
Let’s be honest, Canada does not produce any quality movie or tv shows, there is really nothing to fail.
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