After 12 Seasons, Seven Specials and Five Live Tours, ‘Letterkenny’ Says Goodbye
variety.comLetterkenny when the show revolving around small-town hicks, hockey players and skids launched on Super Bowl Sunday 2016. As it turns out, there were enough “Letterkenny Problems” not only to change the lives of all those involved, but to transform the Canadian TV landscape.
When “Letterkenny” cracks open its final six-pack of episodes Dec. 25 on the Canadian streaming service Crave (and on Dec. 26 on Hulu), it ends an era that includes 74 episodes, seven specials, five live tours, branded clothing and booze, Canadian Screen Awards victories, and a spinoff, “Shoresy,” which wraps filming on its third season in Sudbury, Ont.
this month. The most impressive feat, however, may be in how a show with such specificity, from the vernacular to the sets, catapulted into mainstream pop culture and amassed loyal fanbases across Canada and the U.S. “The more specific you get, hopefully the more universal your experiences become,” co-creator and director Jacob Tierney, who also plays Glen, tells Variety. “Most small towns have some version of the local sports thing, the local drug thing, the local religion thing.
We dug into what we knew.” Tierney continues: “We were right in that what we thought was funny, other people thought was funny.
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