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I hope someone gets behind making more episodes of this show. It lightens your heart.

I can't abide Gem, so I recorded it all on CBC and when it started repeating on APTN I just started watching it all over again. It's almost more fun the second time because you have an idea where things are heading, so some of the jokes land differently.

So many great CBC shows get shut down too fast (e.g. Pretty Hard Cases and etc). I hope this one goes as long as the creators are happy to keep going.

Apparently my reviews is too short, so I will keep writing this sentence until that is no longer true and.

I have a lot of trouble with the narrator's constant repetition of points already made and his cheerful mindless voice.

BUT ALSO get this right for pete''s sake: "There are some variants in foreign languages. The Italian-American inventor of the Caesar salad was known as Caesar Cardini in America, but his birth name was Cesare. In Spanish it's Cesar, like Cesar Chavez. But never Ceasar."

Mostly watchable, but really lowbrow. I would prefer something a little deeper. Particularly with regard to people who want to throw up when they see many brand names and their products. The doc makes it sound like everyone reacts the same way.

The film is loud visually and auditorily and it pretty much ignores its Canadian origins.

I had heard nothing about this show and just set my PVR to record all the new CBC shows of the summer. This was defo my favourite because it doesn't have a loud neurotic supposedly-funny girl-who-should-be-a-woman-but-can't-get-past-her-neuroses-and-ticks at the centre of it (which I mostly forgave Moonshine for (but not completely) and I certainly do not ever forgive Strays for transplanting from Kim's Convenience). Such a relief.

The central character, Sabi, is so compelling and charismatic that I watched in a glow of compassion/love. It's very odd when that happens.

I don't think this show is particularly intended to be funny, so unlike some reviewers, that wasn't a negative for me. I think it is intended to be thoughtful and poignant and gentle about tough situations and tough circumstances. I felt that and I liked it. I liked the thoughtful pace of the action.

I also love Sabi's fashion sense - they have style in everything.

I really hope they do NOT get a better comedic writer on the show. It was lovely as was.