![]() “Letterkenny” began life on YouTube and made the jump to television in 2015, when it was picked up by the Canadian streaming service Crave. Mostly, they talk-in leaping, twisting, groaning, soaring volleys of puns and insults and wordplay that run so rapid-fire, and deliver such relentlessly satisfying comic payoff, that it’s hardly worth watching without the subtitles on. Everyone is great-looking, has tons of free time, and is somewhere between twenty and thirty-five they drink, fight, smoke, flirt, and occasionally screw. You’ve got the hicks, who tend their farms the skids, who split their time between selling meth and break-dancing in the dollar-store parking lot the jocks, who eat, sleep, and breathe hockey and the natives, a First Nations crew who live just outside town on the reservation. The plot, insofar as there is one, centers on the minor clashes among the locals’ assorted cliques. ![]() The series, whose first six seasons are available to American viewers on Hulu (a Hulu-exclusive seventh season was recently announced), follows the goings on of the titular town, a farming hamlet in rural Ontario. ![]() The TV-show epigram offers a delicious sense of narrative infinity: think of “There are eight million stories in the naked city this has been one of them,” which closed every episode of the mid-century police drama “Naked City,” or “ These are their stories,” the iconic kickoff to “Law & Order.” The exquisitely weird Canadian sitcom “Letterkenny” patches together those two pronouncements to craft its own self-perpetuating statement of purpose: “There are 5000 people in Letterkenny,” the screen reads at the start of each episode.
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