(Review updated after Season 3).
Shoresy, notorious as one of the dirtiest players in all of (ice) hockey, plays for the Sudbury Bulldogs. The Bulldogs are last in the four-team Northern Ontario Senior Hockey league and the owner is thinking of folding the team. Shoresy is determined to not have that happen and assembles a formidable team.
For me the best part of Letterkenny was the hockey stuff. The Reilly and Jonesy sub-plots, often consisting of satire on jock culture, were always very funny and were the only consistently funny part of the show.
It's for this reason that I watched Shoresy, a Letterkenny spin-off concentrating on an occasional-yet-incredibly-memorable character in that show. Initially it showed some of Letterkenny's shortcomings: the repetitiveness, the wasted potential for great drama and sentimentality, the clumsy sub-plots. It was never dull though and the humour generally worked.
As it went on the show developed more of a heart and the comedy got sharper, making for a very entertaining and engaging experience. The dramatic plots got better as time went on, moving from merely a structure to hang jokes on to the essence of the show. We see the trials and tribulations of a sports team, the camaraderie, the rivalries, the internal struggles, the milestones, the career choices.
By the end of Season 3 it is absolutely brilliant and has seamlessly transformed itself from a decent comedy into an excellent drama. There's still a fair amount of humour but it's the drama that drives it now.
