The Border S01E01 HDTV XviD-2HD

fyi, trailer park boys is not produced by the cbc.

as for the border, i loved it and will keep watching it.

hrmmmm ... finally got around to watching this.

gotta say - it's not great.

it looks like the project started out with the bare bones of a reasonable
idea, but along the way it's been sexed up and dumbed down into an overwrought
simple minded mess.
don't take the comparisons to intelligence too seriously - all it shares with
it is nationality and the name of one of the agencies. other than that it's
not even in the same league.

ah ! *snaps fingers* just remembered what it reminds me of - a us show from
a couple of years ago called threat matrix. not so much in terms of direct
situations and themes, but the ham-fisted and clunky way it dealt with plots
and characters.

oh - and the acting ? cardboard would be ashamed.

pity really - i guess i've been spoiled and expected everything that comes out
of canada to be as good as slings & arrows, da vincis inquest, intelligence,
regenesis, durham county etc, but in this case the producers seem to have
copied the major us networks just churned out a formulaic bit of forgettable
rubbish to fill space between ad breaks.