Sunnyside

Sunnyside has captured the spirit of Second City TV, but continued the progression to bring a fresh new comedy from Canada. Using the sketch comedy / improve formula, the troop has developed a quirky town where gentrification has put soccer mom's in the same coffee shop as crack whores, feral ponies are the main town nuisance and the internet has not yet breached the town-line (however there is a manhole where you can call down one question per day and get a reply from the familiar voice of Norm MacDonald).

Each of the six actors create a variety of characters (a la Second City) any of which would stand alone against the thin creations of today's Saturday Night Live. The characters continue through out the series and it's easy to grow fond of their peculiarities. Police woman Rookie Kerri (who says "this just got serious" when her mom gets shot in the first episode) and Meth Georgette who has never said a word so far in the series, are two of my favorites.

It's a Toronto sketchy neighbourhood by way of Winnipeg where its filmed, but the real state of Sunnyside is the kind of slightly absurdist, deft and odd comedy that we used to get from Kids in the Hall. Every episode has a loose structure on which to hang recurring characters and bits, most of which are never too long and some of which are screamingly funny. A long time ago I remember being told about Monty Python, if you don't like what's going on, wait ten seconds. Sunnyside's a bit like that. Fantastic character work, engaging premises and never less than satisfying. It warms my jaded blackened, manhole-sized heart.

This show is really terrible. Trying to be funny by showing you situations that would normally went completely different.... but it just awkward an not funny...

There are lots of characters, but I couldn't care less for any of them. The situations are completely ridiculous.

The only positive thing I can say about this is that its only 20min long.... thankfully.

Watched first episode out of curiosity, bu no - this show is not anything I would like to watch again.

The only "good" character.... and good is very low in this case is the blonde police woman.

All and all - terrible show, terrible writing and the actors were not at their best either...

I know un-good is not a real word but it somehow seems to fit this show perfectly.

The writing is really awful, the acting is mostly awful too, and the show as a whole is bad as well. The entire concept behind this show is just flawed.

This is yet another pretty terrible sketch comedy series on Canadian television.

There are a lot of people I recognize in this show and I think it may be the same people from Hotbox which is another confusing, annoying, unfunny mess of a sketch comedy series. How do these shows keep getting made and how do these people keep getting work? I am almost ready to give up on Canadian TV.

I give it a three because other shows are actually easily worse (such as the Hotbox that I already mentioned) but it's definitely not worth watching either.

This show was not very good but wasn't bad either. It was an average if sometimes a bit odd TV sketch comedy show. It seems like they maybe were not exactly sure what they were wanting to do with this show or how to execute their plan if they did have one. The sketches and characters were often not funny and just weird for the sake of being weird. Still this show was a lot better than say Hotbox (same people earlier show), Baroness Von Sketch, etc etc. I don't miss the show but don't get the hate for it either.