| Three years ago, two of my best friends’ husbands separately asked if I’d been watching Letterkenny, the Canadian cult comedy series centred around farmer Wayne, his sister and friends, and their small town problems. It also includes Indigenous characters. Up until that point, all I knew about the show was what I could glean from scrolling past it on Crave, with a title image that featured a plaid-wearing white man scowling in front of a barn. It didn’t particularly draw me in. But when the aforementioned husbands both mentioned that the show was actually about a small Ontario town with a reserve nearby, I knew I had to watch it. I quickly binged five seasons of the hit show in approximately two months during my maternity leave. And, as the Letterkenny characters would say, “pitter, patter, let’s get at ’er,” because their Indigenous characters were so spot on. They not only felt like people I knew, but were an unexpectedly accurate representation of Indigenous peoples and experiences, all wound up in a very funny, if random, Crave series. |
