Little Mosque On The Prairie Premiere
Halalarious!
To coin a phrase.
Actually, to steal a line from one of their own commercials.
Catch the first episode again tonight, Wednesday, January 10, at 8:00 EST in its regular timeslot on CBC! (No, they’re not paying me. They used to, ten years ago, but they walked me out. Another story. Never mind.)
Anyhoooo.
A) First episode. Establishes the milieu, the characters, the underflow and overflow of attitudes and prejudices in Mercy, Saskatchewan, involving the coming of a new imam, a former Toronto lawyer, to serve the small Muslim congregation. (There’s a scene where the old imam tries to hi-5 another character…you had to be there…)
2> Funny, happy, irritatingly normal, even with the terrorist scares, head-scarves, misinterpretations, and photo-ops.
iii] Happily looking forward to the next episode. Maybe there’ll be Cylons!
Okay, probably no Cylons, since they’re handling the whole small-town Canadian ignorant bigot thing so funnily.
I can laugh because I’m related to them. Small-town Canadian ignorant bigots, that is. Seriously. But I only acknowledge and exploit that relationship for humorous purposes, because I am otherwise bewildered by and ashamed of it.