Review: Super Team Canada “Who Wants To Kill A Windmillionaire?” / “P.E.I.” ; “Wed on Arrival” / “Brine Never Pays”

Overview

“Who Wants To Kill A Windmillionaire? / P.E.I.”

S.T.C. is invited to a convention, but learns it’s a trap sprung by a man intent on killing Bryan Adams. We didn’t say it was a great plan. The Anne of Green Gables is under attack!  (Or is that what Chinook’s AI app wants us to think?)

“Wed On Arrival / Brine Never Pays”

A pushy alien wedding planner takes over Earth for a destination wedding, and STC gets sucked into their demented maze of love, and centerpieces. As the saying goes “nothing good happens when a one-eyed beaver and a disgruntled octopus that used to be a pickle spokesperson interact.

Our Take

The fun trope that’s starting to show up in the quarter-hour episodes of Super Team Canada is the villains and there are a lot of fun ones this week. From homicidal fans of Bryan Adams(who is hilarious by the way) to giant robots, love-sick aliens, and more I’m actually having a good amount of fun with our villainess adventures.

Unfortunately, with so many hero characters to utilize in a short amount of time we don’t get to spend a lot of time with any one character and instead expect almost a speed read of every line uttered so as everyone gets a fair shot in this busy cast that features at the forefront Will Arnett and Cobie Smulders (the latter of whom is used far more than the aforementioned Arnett).

Despite the fact that every episode opens with a “previously on” there’s no real expectations of heavy story arcs here. Instead, the Cohen brothers use their background from The Simpsons to keep things episodic and very Canadian.