The only preface necessary to an already-there ensemble of “hicks, skids, and hockey players”  is that, because it is based in Canada, it is already exponentially nicer than those that are not. A forewarning of its characters and nuances set the scene for a unique batch of personalities which are demonstrated in less than five minutes within each, making Letterkenny the spectacular homeland experience that only belongs to a few of us. 

Television Doesn’t Need to be Fictional 

Just launching its eleventh season at the dawn of 2023, Get ‘Er Done Productions in partnership with Hulu has amassed a cult-like following from the jump. First a short form web series under the surname “Letterkenny Problems,” the multifaceted series mimics the unintended theater of odd townspeople and has transmuted itself into progressive forms of entertainment honoring the misfits of societies since.

Through maintaining its same quick-witted and provincial based nature in every iteration since its origination in 2013, the modern sitcom is a triple-threat to the standard formatting of television and its methods of audience reach outside of the Internet. Letterkenny feels like it had amassed a prominent sense of self before adaptation, alluding to the meta nostalgia of a reality the Canadian creator, Jared Keeso, lived and bore witness to. Before distribution, during debut and after its making to withstand the rest of all time – one can expect this to be the theme for another (hopeful) eleven seasons to come.

Misfits Finding Footing

This show is a perfectly understood anomaly of people and personalities meeting at the right time. A bit like when a comet catches traction and creates whichever phenomenon that Earth, Wind and Fire is based on: the show culminates a great sense of hometown life that doesn’t belong to all, yet certainly reinstates that this is nothing to get homesick over. Organic and true as its stories, arcs and production triumphs are depicted through writing and execution: Letterkenny and its elements are of a different gravitational force that tracks in multiple magnitudes and universes.

Never just grazing over character archetypes or showing inklings of mixed lives with linear realities, Letterkenny aims to keep creating opportunities for development of these already-established community members. As neighbors of free speech, dissectors of coarse kind judgment and vessels for direct poetic insult, the show also drifts away from what is expected. Occasionally morphing into montages of character tempo switches and evolutions aided by instrumentals as powerful as its subjects, these moments are true to the future of the Letterkenny lifestyle, with each of the mainstays improving and plateauing as even the Basics do.