A Surprise from Canada
I accidently found the new Canadian sitcom “Little Mosque on the Prairie” while watching videos on you tube. At first I thought it was going to be one of those cheesy multicultural shows that my Canadian TESOL professor in college made us watch. (I remember one annoying one where there was a Chinese girl standing in the middle of two groups. One group was of white folks, the other were Chinese. She would say what should I eat? Maybe I will have a hamburger, then the whites would pull her and say “You’re Canadian!!” but no maybe I should have dim dum and then the Chinese would pull her, “No, you’re Chinese!!” It got annoying after a while.)
It was actually pretty funny. It reminded me a lot of my father who is over a Mormon congregation in rural Alabama. My husband and I watched all eight episodes. The first five are great!! When they get to the marriage and dating one it slips a little into propaganda. The show has a lot of potential as there is a lot of depth to the characters. Why is the daughter so religious when her parents are not? Why is she around thirty but still hasn’t dated? Why is Babur so fanatical? Why did Sarah convert if she hates the rules for women? How did Fatima’s husband die? You know that the imam and Yassir’s daughter will eventually hook up. My favorite scenes are those of Amir the young imam asking for advice from the Anglican priest.
There are talks of adapting the show to the USA. Do you think it will be popular in the USA?
Check it out!
