Little Mosque on the Prairie review
eh. it was okay. Some jokes were well-delivered...some weren't. As I told my friend Elaine, it has potential, but I hope they don't run out of jokes after this episode. I guess we'll all find out if the next few episodes get better, or whether they'll end up re-hashing the same territory.
Between 6.5 and 7 out of 10.
11 comments:
Yes I liked it. My wife does not think it is polished enough. I think it has the feel and flavour of a made in Canada show.
the jokes were lame esp. the cappucino. I thought it was too overacted by the lead actors esp. Sheila M and ray I.
I agree with both comments thus far. It's definitely not polished enough and I've read one review where they likened it to the early episodes of Corner Gas. Hopefully, viewership will be high enough to keep the show alive and allow for the show's character to mature.
Here's hoping the overacting will be less pronounced in the future.
I think that the over-acting was partly a result of much of the humour being based on caricature and stereotypical jokes. For example the reactions of the airport security guards and the jokes about Toronto.
There was very little, possibly no, humour that wasn't based on stale assumptions or propositions: the white folk think all the Muslims are terrorists and the Muslims do a bad job of explaining themselves. I can make those jokes, and I'm not a comedy writer.
To live up to the hype the show has to find a way to tell jokes different from the ones that have been told at every office watercooler for the past four years.
The humour should lie in satarizing PC and multiculturalism stereotypes. But principally the humour should derive from the premise. How does a small group of Muslims make a home in small town Saskatchewan?
There needs to be more misplaced cultural assumptions and misdirected communication. There should be more humour based on the assumptions of what one community sees as perfectly normal that the other finds completely bizarre - for example the idea of roasting a whole goat on a spit in front of the church was funny. Also, the fact that the mosque is actually in a church should be the source of much more humour.
Hopefully the show will get the obvious jokes out of the way quickly and move on to some more original material.
Let's add another question into the works: Debuted with 2.1 million viewers. They're moving to Mondays at 9pm. I know they broadcasted after the Mercer Report to drag that portion of the audience to the show. Now that it's moving, any predictions on viewership? Stay afloat, drop, or increase?
My guess: 1.2 million viewers. For comparison- Corner Gas (sorry, yet again) 1.5 million viewers. Some viewers will not realize it's moved, others will have found the 1st eps jokes to be lame and won't continue, the rest will give it at least one more episode before deciding they've had enough.
I thought its regular time slot was going to be Wednesday's at 8:00?
Since you asked, I would guess fewer than 1 million viewers.
def. overacted, but i still enjoyed it. i think viewership will hover around 1 million. but i'm not good at predictions of this sort.
Just as predicted, I completely forgot that Little Mosque was on tonight, so I became one of those viewers that missed it...
I'm not helping with the viewership!
Apparently, it's on Mondays at 9pm AND Wednesdays at 8pm. They've downplayed the monday timeslot because I guess they don't want people confused...but then why show the new episode earlier in the week then?
The Monday episode this week was a replay of the first episode.
Not helping.
When I checked the CBC TV listing for Monday (after the fact, mind you), the episode description was for this week's new episode. You actually saw it Matt, so it was clearly wrong.
The ad on the CBC website shows that it will be aired Wednesdays at 8 more prominently than Mondays at 9, so you're likely right, that its regular timeslot is Wednesday.
However, checking the schedule for next Monday, they have 'Just for Laughs-Gags' (which is an awful show, as an aside) in the Monday 9pm timeslot.
So I don't know what the hell CBC is up to, but I like to think I'm somewhat online-savvy so if I'm confused, then CBC's got some web issues.
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