Crawford

The CBC seems to be hooked on the "quirky and weird family" comedy genre. Schitts Creek and Crawford ate probably the best examples of this fixation.

The show is amusing enough, supported primarily by two experienced performers, Jill Hennessy and John Carroll Lynch. But search the credits for Jim Lovisek, the animal wrangler who achieves some amazingly effective work with what would normally be called "wildlife". The raccoons are almost as much a part of the cast as the actors, although I doubt that they have ACTRA memberships.

It's no "Citizen Kane", but I've certainly seen worse.

Speaking as an ordinary objective viewer (not employed or influenced by the CBC) take my word for it, save your time and do not watch this. It is really bad. I actually watched the 2nd episode in the hope that it could only get better. Wrong. It is particularly embarrassing as a Canadian to acknowledge that our tax dollars have gone to the CBC to support crap like this. Seems like they tried to rip off Schitts Creek (Great) but have failed miserably.

Wow a Canadian show where you can appreciate the humour straight off with Great Acting. It is funny and presents an open mind to how families can work great together by functioning in different ways. (The description as on IMDb as a dysfunctional family is over used - when a family loves and relates to each other - how can it be dysfunctional.)

Written by Mike Clattenburg (Trailer Park Boys), Crawford is a surreal and strange comedy that follows Don (Kyle Mac), a heavy metal musician, as he moves back home outside Toronto to live with his parents. Things start going awry as he realizes he can talk to the racoons infesting the neighbourhood. Honestly one of the most confounding shows I've seen as of late, that description doesn't even touch the tip of the iceberg of weirdness. Every character in this is a character, but not at all in a bad way, it all feels very comedic. I laughed a decent number of times and I thought the surrealness was clever at points, but it did suffer from being a bit all over the place, I can understand why audience reception was a bit lacking. Released digitally first then canceled after a single season, it's quite the shame, I enjoyed the series and really wish there was more, it seems like Clattenburg had some fun plans for its future. Would recommend for an unconventional laugh.

This show does not always make sense but if you can enjoy the weirdness of it, and you think raccoons are funny, then i think you will really like it. It is not the same 'modern family' type stuff that you would expect. I really enjoyed the characters they seemed really well thought of and likable, not only designed for comedic purposes. I hope more episodes are coming.