Hello Steem people!
This will be my second post and I am very excited about it. I was really glad to see my introduction post being received well and I felt really welcome by all of the users that decided to comment! Thank you all for that. I can already see this is an awesome community.
Today I wanted to talk about a series I have been watching for a while now and just recently finished. It's Trailer Park Boys. My friends have been bugging me to watch it for years already but for some reason I never started before. I feel now that it was a huge mistake because I ended up really loving it.
For those of you that aren't familiar with it, Trailer Park Boys is a Canadian "Mockumentary" which focuses around a group of friends living in the Sunnyvale Trailer Park. After I watched the series I was reading a bit about how it all started and it's all kind of interesting.
The show stars Robb Wells, John-Paul Tremblay and Mike Smith as the main characters Ricky, Julian and Bubbles. I also have to mention John Dunsworth and Patrick Roach who play John Lahey(The trailer park supervisor) and his assistant supervisor Randy.
Robb, JP and Mike wanted to make it into a series but were actually rejected by several studios before "Showcase" finally decided to order one season. Which is lucky for us viewers because now many years later we have 12 seasons together with several movies and specials.
Robb and JP didn't have almost any acting experience at all when they were making season 1 and the only one that had worked as an actor their whole life was John Dunsworth who in the series plays the infamous John Lahey. John Dunsworth unfortunately passed away on October 16, 2017 a few months after season 12 finished.
The plot revolves around Ricky, Julian and Bubbles who are trying to make money from petty crimes while avoiding the cops and jail time. There are a lot of other characters involved and I will not list them all now because I feel that it would spoil the series a bit to know them all. I really feel like they have an awesome team and everyone plays a good role in the series.
As I mentioned earlier the series is a mockumentary which is similar to "The Office" if you've watched that. This means the characters are followed by a camera crew the whole time and they also interact with the crew a lot and include them in some scenes. This happens quite often though so it's different from The Office where they try to not interact with the crew at all.
After they had worked for Showcase for a while Robb, JP and Mike decided to buy the rights for the show and created their own streaming service called Swearnet which they also made a movie about later on by the same name(also worth to watch). Swearnet then moved on to partner up with Netflix to make the seasons after the 7th. They continued on to make a special called Trailer Park Boys: Out of the park: Europe and USA which are two different series where they travel and go to different countries and states. Apparently a 13th season is in the works right now and will be released later this year. However this time around it will be animated. I am not sure how I feel about that but if they make it good I believe it could really have potential.
I really liked the show because I feel like it's really original and you really just love the characters they play. I recommend anyone to watch it who likes that kind of comedy and doesn't have anything against the show revolving a lot around cannabis and some minor crimes. I will probably continue by watching the movies and specials after this.
So this is it for my second post. I hope you guys like it and hopefully there are others out here who have enjoyed watching the Trailer Park Boys. Here is a video with one of my favorite scenes.
!!!Spoiler alert if you haven't watched it before!!!
I also want to mention that it's been a long time since I last wrote this much and I realize that there might be some grammatical errors but I am very excited to continue writing and improving my skills as time moves on. There is a lot to talk about with Trailer Park Boys and I understand that some of it might have become a bit confusing from me trying to explain it briefly here. However I hope you like it and let me know what you thought in the comments.
Thanks everyone and have a great rest of the day!
LEPO!