OTTAWA—A plot to ship Saskatchewan uranium to Tehran? To smuggle blueprints for a Canadian “super-sub” to Russia? Foiled by hapless Canadian spooks?
If it sounds worse than corny, it’s because it is.Who'd they get to write this crap--Julian Assange?
A new CBC television show takes big and small kicks at Canada’s Security and Intelligence Service in a spoof entitled InSecurity that began airing this week.
Besides the aerial shots that make Ottawa look glamorous (yeah, Toronto, take that), the show is definitely not meant to be taken seriously.
The comedy is slapstick, predictable and embarrassing in a cringe-inducing, Canadian kind of way.
And, a minor point, but it definitely needs a reality check.
It’s not very sexy, but CSIS agents are not peace officers. They don’t carry guns. They do not barge in and yell “Federal agents!”
The writers either watched too many U.S. shows, or didn’t listen to Michel Juneau-Katsuya, a former CSIS employee and “security consultant” to the program developers...
I have a great idea for a sit-com. It's all about a rather dim RCMP officer who's into "diversity" and potluck dinners (though not, of course, during Ramadan). Think it'd fly?
We tried to watch that show last week and it was absolutely horrible. Even worse than I expect from CBC. Bad acting, bad dialogue, bad story, bad sets. Yech.
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