# "This Blows" (CBC horror-comedy)

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 10, 2018, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-blows-cbc-horror-comedy/810313 "2018-03-10T02:19:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2018, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-blows-cbc-horror-comedy/810313/1 "2018-03-10T02:19:56Z")

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Yesterday I watched a new series called [“This Blows” on the CBC streaming web site](https://watch.cbc.ca/this-blows/season-1/661a93a5-716a-43c8-8a2e-2dd143c1b906) (8 episodes of ~11 minutes). It’s a comedy about a struggling actress who gets the power to make people (and animals) blow up when she’s angry, co-written by Bruce McCulloch of “The Kids in the Hall”.

It was a pretty funny black comedy, and it went in directions that I didn’t predict, which was nice. Hopefully the main actress will star in more stuff in the future.

Has anyone else seen this show?

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2018, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-blows-cbc-horror-comedy/810313/2 "2018-03-10T13:11:39Z")

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“Content not available outside of Canada”

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**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2018, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-blows-cbc-horror-comedy/810313/3 "2018-03-10T17:44:09Z")

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Now you know how the rest of the world feels when you yanks post links to Comedy Central or the like. 😛

To the OP, I haven’t watched it, though it sounds interesting…I’ll probably check it out when I have fewer other shows on the go.

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**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2018, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-blows-cbc-horror-comedy/810313/4 "2018-03-10T20:36:15Z")

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> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> “Content not available outside of Canada”

Ha! Now you know how it feels.