Reviews

Watched this show last year but thought I would leave my thoughts now. I will start by saying this show is very similar to Degrassi The Next Generation which aired at the same time. Ultimately it's nowhere near as good but one major aspect it did (which Degrassi never did) was focusing on issues faced by Aboriginal youth. I was floored with some of the storylines they featured. Particularily racial profiling. The police removing the shoes of the native teens and than driving them to the middle of nowhere so they couldn't walk back was something I never knew happened.

I do need to give a shoutout to Ishan Davè who IMO gave the best performance on the show as a very shy awkward teen who over time transitions to a very confident yet very rebellious young man.

Another person worthy of note is Lorne Cardinal. Most of us all know him for his comedic role on Corner Gas but it's great to see him as a very serious yet loving father who deals with repressed trauma of his childhood spent in a residential school.

I will say that despite it being the title of the show, I wasn't the biggest fan of the online magazine aspect. I found it almost a little too convienent a way to wrap up issues at the end of each episode. Though some of the issues explored did extend over multiple episodes.

Overall a pretty solid show. Though a bit obscure, it's worth a watch if you love Canadian teen dramas.

To start, I'm a big fan of the two leads on this show having watched and grown up with both Stacey Farber on Degrassi and Michael Seater on Life With Derek. I've known about this show for awhile now and finally got around to binge watch this series on the weekend.

Wasn't sure I was going to like this series due to a few reviews and comments I had read previously, but I was pleasantly surprised by this show. It was a very unique sitcom! With a pretty wacky premise!

Stacey and Michael have great chemistry who could be both funny and heartfelt at the same time. I immediately bought them as a young couple in love who want to start a life together. Something that doesn't really happen in today's world.

The storyline with the parents is also great but Peter Keleghan really stands out. He's hilarious in this show but he always manages to deliver strong comedic performances in all his previous work.

I would recommend this show. Particularly if you grew up in the 2000s and watched a ton of Canadian teen shows. It's fun to see the stars of two popular shows of that era come together in a somewhat more adult show.

Happy to see that Michael Seater and Stacey Farber still continue to work in entertainment today. Stacey still manages to star in lots of Canadian television series and Michael has moved more behind the camera as a director.

Though I found some of this program quite interesting there was just far too much attention on sports memorabilia with way too much emphasis on basketball. For a show about collectibles I was hoping this show would be much more diverse. Nothing much on comics, toys, coins, stamps, or other highly sought after items.

I enjoyed seeing some of the celebrity guests and seeing the overall value that some of these items go for, but I was just let down by the fact that this show just decided to focus on Sports collectibles.

If there is a second season than hopefully there's a better offering of collectible items shown.