Am I the only fan that just wishes the show ended after season 7? Everything about season 8 and onward bothers me. The writing got lazy, especially for dialogue. I feel no connections with Donny, and you can barely even tell that the series takes place in a trailer park anymore. The cameras are great now, which kills the mood completely. Season 8 was okay, but season 9 was a disgrace.
shareI too wish it did. Seasons 8 and even dare I say, the upcoming 10th one this month all feel just like a US sitcom and I'm probably right about Season 10. The whole magic of Trailer Park Boys died with Season 7 and its epic series finale -- Well, that was a season finale somehow.
Don't really get how the heck that's a season finale it had EVERY ingredient to make it the series finale episode that the show deserved to have!
I really liked the trailer park scenes in Season 7 but everything else was lackluster. Season 8 got worse and season 9 was just BAD.Sad to say, but it was.
Seasons 7&8, the guys are being vulgar just to be vulgar. Previously they were being humans who WERE vulgar. Now it just seems cheap.
Plus, the acting in S8/9 are pretty bad. I'm not sure if Clattenburg was the necessary ingredient but something changed, and not for the better, sad to say.
The show was originally about a group of unintelligent guys with good hearts who do illegal things. Now it's a show about unintelligent criminals who do illegal things.
I'm glad they did more seasons. I agree with the consensus that the first 7 seasons are better but I still like seasons 8 9 and 10 too. It went from a great show to a good show but the newer seasons are still funnier than most shows.
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the premise of the show is 3 greasy guys living in a trailer park, getting into scrapes to earn money, they have their relationships, friends, and they have their nemesis. being the authority either in the park or outside, lahey/police.
the problem is there are only so many weed jokes, so many scrapes that these guys can get into before it gets old.
they hate lahey, they help lahey, they hate him, they work with him. lucy loves ricky, she leaves him, she loves him, she leaves him.
7 seasons were enough of this great show, a film or two as well. season 9 and 10 are pretty much very poor versions of earlier seasons, same stories, same dynamics just told again in tired way.
you already can guess how ricky will mix up a sentence, or how the heist will go wrong.
everything has an expire date, and TPB was up years ago. these last 2 or 3 seasons have ruined the reputation of a ground breaking tv show.
I'm rewatching 8-10 now and just finished up 8. It was enjoyable but not as awesome as the previous seasons. There's some great moments in it though, episode 2 I remember was really good and funny like the old days. I think I remember season 10 being better than 9 but I forgot. Seasons 5 and 7 are probably my favorites, although 7 is sorta love it or hate it with most people. I hink they can bring that magic back.
They lost a bunch of characters (lucy and j-roc this time) but in my opinion that's kind of a blessing, they still have the main characters and their estranged family members they can bring in so there's still hope. The main problem to me is the trailer park feels like a crowded circus and it lost that neighborhood feel. I'm still impressed with how they can still keep it going with new ideas though and hope they find a way to get it back to how amazing it once was. Unfortunately it seems like that can only happen if Clattenberg and Barrie Dunn show back up and that's probably not gonna happen.
"how's a fella go about gettin' a holt of the police?" -Karl
Clattenburg was what made the show. Him and the boys all conspired on it as friends. However he pulled it all together. Many of the *beep* hilarious brilliant things from 1-7 were directly inspired by him. The boys are better with orders to follow and other ideas. It's very hard to act and direct a plot you made up.
Also I don't know how he feels now but probably not good....though he'd be a good about it. He specifically says in an interview that it was time for the show to be over at 7 and is very graceful about it. He didn't want to milk it.
The way I look at it is the show just continues off in a way it couldn't. Realistically how many live actor TV shows comes back with the same people after 7 years. So it's easier to look at it as a different show. In fact they could have done even more different and made a modified show "based" off TPB.
I dunno. Another season coming out with key characters missing this time hmm. Especially when they are partner characters like J-Roc and Lucy. It was just salvageable losing Cory and Trevor.
I agree but I'm still impressed with what the guys are still pulling off. "say goodnight to the bad guys" was fantastic, the films are great, and those Live in Austin, Dublin etc. are interesting. The "out of the trailer park" thing was pretty creative as well. The way they can stay in character and still bring laughs is impressive. BUT it's not enough for the series. It needs it's brainchild to add his signature of nuances to the scenes and cut out the fluff.
I'll watch whatever they make, season 10 was pretty funny. I think J-Roc and Lucy didn't have much more to do. Lucy being gone could cause a problem though for Ricky, I wonder how they'll work it out. Maybe Rick will get back with Sarah? Maybe they'll just kill Lucy off out of spite?
"how's a fella go about gettin' a holt of the police?" -Karl
Oh yeah the live performances are still very stellar. I saw the boys here in 2008 and Randy and Lahey were back here again last weekend. but I couldn't go :(
The fact they can do those performances is actually fairly rare. What other show is a mockumentary, goes off air for over half a decade, has multiple movies, but also all the while has put on live in-character performances that are relevant (if you get TPB) without having to be full cast?? Non actually. Greasy.
Mike Clattenburg made a US version of TPB which is Black Jesus. I'm waiting for Season 3 but it's taking forever and not sure they're still working on it.
RIP IMDb.