Looks really terrible
Bad accents, homophobic humour, lazy writing. The CBC will put anything on TV. No wonder Harper wanted to slash their funding.
Cardboard Box is the Future.
Nice anti-Christian jokes in their promos as well.
shareMan, how thin-skinned must you be to find that "anti-Christian"? And frankly, that joke you're referring to resonates with a LOT of young Koreans who are FED UP with being all but forced by their immigrant parents to marry fellow Korean Christians only, or who got suckered into that trap and are just making the best of it. Hell, most Christian Korean parents won't even let their kids date or marry CATHOLICS, so if you wanna talk "anti-" crap, there's a nice pile right there! Koreans of a certain generation are anti-EVERYTHING that isn't Korean or Christian (which is not even the culture's original belief system, by the way) and they pass that diseased thinking -- much like so many immigrants new to Canada -- onto their second-gen children purely to preserve and protect their culture (which will survive anyway) in a multi-cultural society that their kids are more fully integrated into than they are! What HORRIBLE expectations so many Korean-Canadian (and Korean-American) kids have thrust upon them, not to mention just about every OTHER newer-immigrant culture. "Marry your own kind, and your own religion, or else!" Honestly, ALL religions deserve to be made fun of, and if they're so good and strong and awesome (even though they're not) I'm sure most belief systems withstand this kind of ribbing. And trust me, the ONLY Koreans who are cool, Christian and Korean ARE girls, just like the show says.
sharehmmm. everything you said is true and you understand the Korean culture in immigrant North America, but the problem with this show is that it is too stereotypical of us. that said, for this to become mainstream like Fresh off the boat. it does have to widen its approach a bit.
Still then it abandons the Korean immigrant crowd like me, so it is a hard water to tread.
FotB is a US show and this is a CA show so while they're both Korean series, they're from different countries. Take it for what it is or don't.
Kim's Convenience is basically a new take on Corner Gas and I love it. Speaking of CG, it'd be cool to have cameos from CG in KM.
I kind of dislike Corner Gas, since it has some unlikable main characters that I found annoying.
But regarding Canadian shows, not all Canadian shows are bad, just look at Continuum, which was awesome.
I think the main problem with this show is the lack of budget, it needs more characters and better sets.
The Chinese wing-man episode was really forced and I thought it had nothing to do with anything, but a filler episode.