{"id":49188,"date":"2023-01-13T00:40:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T05:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49188"},"modified":"2023-01-15T00:40:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T05:40:18","slug":"letterkenny-s11-what-was-the-point-of-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49188","title":{"rendered":"Letterkenny S11: what was the point of this?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-49189 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/letterkennyS11wtf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/letterkennyS11wtf.jpg 560w, http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/letterkennyS11wtf-300x153.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I recently wrapped up watching <em>Letterkenny<\/em> season 11, and I was left with this feeling of, what was the point of this season?\u00a0 As quirky and Canadian redneck Seinfeld-y the show can be, most of the later seasons at least had some kind of storyline that the plot gravitated back towards at the end of every few episodes; Wayne and Tanis, Wayne and Marie Fred, Katy and Dierks, the hockey season; to me, the charm of the show was that when it actually narrowed its focus to some centralized storylines, the quality became untouchably good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Sure, most everyone loves the show for its cold opens, the long-game jokes that the show commits to using even after multiple seasons, and the endless array of one-liners.\u00a0 But after season nine (the hockey season), the show has seemingly plateaued, and it\u2019s like Jared Keeso and the rest of the showrunners have no clue on what to do next, and until they do, they\u2019re just kind of putting out a bunch of stop-gap one-off episodes with no centralized plot, but also no sense of heart and soul that some of the preceding seasons managed to capture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Everyone knows that S10\u2019s objective was to set up the <em>Shoresy<\/em> spin-off show, to which I think was <em>a little bit<\/em> (read: a lot) of a flex by Keeso to make up a fluffy season of Letterkenny to launch a show that basically lets him play hockey on a network\u2019s dime, and the quality of the season was really mediocre.\u00a0 I likened it to <em>Ocean\u2019s Twelve<\/em>, which was an excuse for George Clooney and gang to have a working Italian vacation, while making a turd of a film, but at least there was still an objective for S10 to accomplish.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">And in all fairness, I rather liked Shoresy a lot, because they established a central storyline, and no matter what hijinks or parade of one-liners the characters got into the rest of the season, it always gravitated back towards it.\u00a0 It seemed apparent that a little bit more heart and soul went into Shoresy than it did Letterkenny, and if there\u2019s one thing I\u2019ve always said about any business, which television shows are, it\u2019s don\u2019t stray too far from what brought you to the dance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">But getting back to S11 of Letterkenny, not only was it short at just six episodes, I have no idea what the whole point of this season was.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t really tell if there were even any seeds for a potential plot to have in the future, and the whole season felt more like it was making episodes for all of the usual suspects to get a paycheck, as well as basically being a sounding box for Keeso\u2019s pet peeves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">They kind of had one small plot revolving around a degen trying to turn over a new leaf, but it\u2019s resolved in the sixth episode, and if that really was the only real story of the season, much like <em>Dune<\/em>, you only needed to read\/watch the last 30 pages\/minutes, and that was the whole story right there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Otherwise, it was just a checklist for everyone to make an appearance; Glenn got a good bit of time to shine with his dialogue, Jonesy who looked like he got jacked in S10, looks like he lost his gains and Riley found them, and Bonnie McMurray\u2019s actress looks like she\u2019s had a little too much work done to herself and doesn\u2019t look particularly healthy.\u00a0 Wished there was more Tanis and less of the Dycks, but when you only produce six episodes and call it a season, what can you do about having enough screen time to breathe?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I\u2019m not mad, just disappointed.\u00a0 I really loved the journey of watching the show from seasons 1-9, but the last two have just been really below standard, and I hope they get their shit together for a future season, otherwise this is just a classic case of a show getting big, but then running out of ammo to keep up the good fight.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently wrapped up watching Letterkenny season 11, and I was left with this feeling of, what was the point of this season?\u00a0 As quirky and Canadian redneck Seinfeld-y the show can be, most of the later seasons at least had some kind of storyline that the plot gravitated back towards at the end of &hellip; 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