How A Robin Hood Remake Became The Most Hated Show On TV

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Robyn Hood is one of the lowest rated TV shows of all time and is possibly the most unintentionally hilarious show I've ever seen... that's a hell of a recipe!
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[@hershmergersh6733]

I think this genre should be called "Oppression Fantasy". They're literally fantasizing being oppressed by cartoonish villains so they can imagine what they would do in that situation.

[@normie2716]

This is right on the money. Good call.

[@SirAsdf]

There's a lot of Christian Persecution movies that fall into that category.

[@osets2117]

​@@SirAsdfthat is very true and we make fun of them as well, as they should be

[@GlobalBricks1]

​@@SirAsdfwhat is that? And how?

[@chocov1233]

​@@GlobalBricks1I'm guessing God's Not Dead is one of them.

[@Lobsterwithinternet]

It's a sad day when Robinhood: Men in Tights took itself more seriously than a supposedly serious show.

[@foxboy6145]

Helps they had a guy who knew his stuff working with actors who were good. Carey Elwes and Richard Lewis were the best parts, to me.

[@fosphor8920]

Men in tights was a master class in how to subvert a classic, this is a master class in the exact opposite haha

[@shrikeofterven6006]

When Things Were Rotten was more respectful to the original legend than this Robyn farce.

[@MisogynyMan]

The thing is, the people making this probably did take themselves seriously. The messages they think they are sending. They are just that pathetic.

[@brendanboomhour7606]

​@@MisogynyManonly message they've sent is how god awful they are as human beings

[@NoPantsBaby]

The problem with this show is that it glorifies hood culture as something that unites people, as opposed to reality where living in the hood mean you are constantly exposed to crime, poverty and have no opportunity, whilst the counter argument is portrayed as clownish and abjectly evil. We have: Two crime ridden, high unemployment towerblocks that are rundown. The characters warn each other about the danger of living there and the fact they have no future prospects whatsoever of employment, education or business. To the point where the main character is considering moving away to actually make something of her life which her deadbeat mom absolutely refuses to allow. Yet: Each and every time they say how tightknit the community is (you know the community where it isn't safe to go outside at night, super tight) and how much dignity they have and how their entire identity is tied up in living in those towers. We have: A property developer who is offering insane above market rates for rundown apartments in the towerblocks so that he can revitalize the area, attract companies that will want living space for their workers, reduce crime so it's a safe place to live and his most heinous crime of all, get all the deadbeats to move out of the towers and get new bigger homes somewhere else. Yet: Each and every time he makes an offer it is rejected by deadbeat mom (did I mention she had 2 kids from 2 different men) as if she is queen towerblock! Are you telling me not a single person took the money to move out and not only get a better home.... but move away from crime, poverty and towards a better future?! The shows asks us to sympathize with the objective villains of the story, the Hood, whilst making such ludicrous caricatures of the villains, by necessity of requiring contrast between their actions and the actions of the Hood, that there is no way the viewer can believe this is taking place in reality. This is a show made by a person who forgot that as a millionaire he moved out of the hood and is nostalgic for how he perceived growing up in it. Forgetting all the times his bike got stolen.

[@MamaMOB]

One of the things that bothered me most was right after Mom said that if the daughter left she wouldn't be able to afford rent she bitches about dad being a couchsurfer. Without her daughter she'd be a couch surfer too. And maybe if he had a daughter to leech off of he'd have a section 8 taxpayer funded apartment 2! She acts like she's better than him when she's not. She just has a vagina. I also love how he claims that he's been in the prison system. If he had and what we see is what he got I have no idea how they caught him. Because the police officers he wrote are so stupid they couldn't catch a cold.

[@Pylo-ry6ff]

Pretty sure Director Twitter didn't even grow up in a hood.

[@kyosokutai]

@@Pylo-ry6ff People growing up in hoods don't want to live there either. It is a crab-bucket of stupid where everyone tries to pull you back in.

[@specs6637]

⁠@@kyosokutai from my experience; everyone tries to pull you back in because they are jealous that you have an opportunity that they do not. It’s the old saying “misery loves company”. Where they will claim to be there for you; but in reality it’s only when you are at the same level as them. Once your life starts improving, they will turn on you and claim you are the problem

[@alwaysangry2232]

@@Pylo-ry6ff maybe a night on a real hood will make twitter man learn a important lesson

[@leurunner4764]

And remember, he offered her the money, surgery, and the scolarships for her children in exchange for her: No longer breaking into his home and harrassing him, and no longer accuse him of being responsible for her injuiry, which he actually isn't responsible for. So he litterally offered her all that, just so she would stop commiting crimes agains him.

[@olliedee]

Yeah, BUT, he's white!...so.......😂😂😂

[@dirdib69]

It's like the whole thing is forced and clumsy or something ...

[@clasicpotato]

I don't get how she keeps complaining he caused her injury however refuses a surgery that would undo the damage, like isn't that the end goal? Not just that he is also offering 1milion dollars and scholarships for her children, which roughly cover loss of income and quality of life considering it ill not be ongoing since the surgery will fix it.

[@robertbryant4669]

"A house is not a home without a few scars." I'm a military brat. My entire upbringing was moving from one place to another. Home is whatever and wherever you make it. Robyn and her mother's motivation strikes me as shallow and even pigheaded, especially as the "evil rich dude" is offering to relocate them and their neighbors at his own expense.

[@freman007]

Yes. Robyn Hood, where the villain is a rich humanitarian, and the heroes are violent criminal thugs.

[@MamaMOB]

I would say it seems that way because they are.

[@JaimeGeeP]

well the thing is the rich dude is white... and that's the worst crime anyone can commit in the 2020's

[@WarFoxThunder]

FR

[@vardiganxpl1698]

@@freman007 Bruh, that is exactly what I thought.

[@REELWORKS12923]

I've talked to cops, and I can confirm, their greatest weakness is a single egg

[@MrVaczi]

what did they tell you about running in the opposite diection to cath perps?

[@cm3.redeye42]

I thought it was their abject cowardice combined w/ their comedically inflated egos.

[@Film_Sushi]

Mamma eggmía! :)

[@PatsyIsDrunk]

Yeah, fear of eggs is definitely a cop thing, they call it humptyphobia.

[@tylercoon1791]

Cop: You’re under arrest for murder. Suspect: Can I offer you a nice egg in these trying times? Cop: *Disintegrates*

[@bcal8118]

For anybody whose never watched the show but has seen reviews, the one thing these guys never seem to mention is just how TERRIBLE the acting in this show is

[@AnaFolkenstal]

Maybe Jonny can make a separate video only about the acting, who knows.

[@CazRaX]

I've seen enough clips from these reviews to figure hat out, it shines even in 5 second clips.

[@BlooCollaGal]

Lots of shows have bad acting, who'd expect the acting in this show to be good? The writing and directing are what really stand out here.

[@burgersbeansandchips]

If it's anything like this guys presenting and jokes then it's definitely brutal

[@lisapop5219]

I have seen people saying it

[@rmg900]

... $1 million would easily move her AND her neighbors into new homes.. probably better homes too... Isn't that what this was about!? Isn't that a win win!?

[@kaykutcher2103]

Don't think about it like I did. -Director X, maybe

[@iOSAT]

They rejected the possibility of building generational wealth by owning property, and would prefer to remain as renters in government housing all to maintain their sense of community. The show does an absolutely brilliant job of unintentionally perpetuating negative stereotypes.

[@stanbartsch1984]

I am reading "The Adventures of Robin Hood" right now, and enjoying it immensely. Robin was a Saxon nobleman who was stripped of his nobility and declared outlaw for opposing the usurpation of Richard's throne by Prince John while Richard was on Crusade. John's rise to power is accompanied by oppression of commoners, unjust laws, unfair taxation, and turning a blind eye to corruption by officials and clergy who supported him or paid him off. John Prince is a ruthless businessman, true, but apparently he's worked very hard to build his corporate empire. He employs the residents of Sherwood and Forest, and funds children's hospitals. He wants to revitalize the center of the city he calls home, and he's willing to help the residents of the area relocate to more affordable housing. I'm not seeing much of a parallel between John Prince and Prince John. We're TOLD John Prince "uses the police" to remove opposition, but they have yet to actually show the Police doing anything of the sort. Robyn's mother was trespassing and part of an unlawful assembly who were resisting arrest. True the Cop probably should not have pulled his firearm but apparently the crowd made him nervous. John Prince did NOT target anyone at that time - he just wanted the trespassers out of his building. These people have no clue how to write a villain OR a hero....

[@kaykutcher2103]

Also Robin stole from the corrupt rich and powerful not just anyone with money. There's being clueless and then there's being the writers of Robyn Hood.

[@Asageun]

​@@kaykutcher2103 Yeah, theres a story where he lets a virtuous rich man go, but i cant remember yhe specifics

[@HolyApplebutter]

That's what happens when you only know of the source material through reference vs having actually read the book.

[@cowboyquebecanimations3068]

​@@HolyApplebutteror at the very least the cliff notes version of the story,

[@lemonlupinreuben5362]

Prince also offers to help pay for the surgery, if anything he is actively trying his best to avoid any of this conflict and drama

[@rosswatson9144]

I think the problem is you Brits and Americans don’t understand Canadian content rules. These programs are not meant to be viewed, but to use up as much taxpayers money as possible while checking as many social justice boxes as possible. We in Canada simply switch to the American and British channels whilst diligently paying our taxes…it’s the Canadian way.

[@CosmicRay111]

@canadiantaxpayers Change the ways!

[@gabriel7664]

Lmao....that was a good bait and switch. You gave this American a good laugh 👍

[@freman007]

Sounds like you need more freedom. Just message the White House with claims that oil has been struck in Canada. Your liberators will be on their way to effect a regime change immediately.

[@googleisevil8958]

American and let me apologize right now for how little we have to offer. Because many of our shows are also as bad as this.

[@jesussaldana4558]

You deserve to go full UK and pay your version of the bbc tax forcefully with that kind of contempt.....start changing with little steps or move here if possible

[@propernoun1583]

The property damage that John Prince commits in the final episode with the phone isn't even illegal, considering that he just explained how he paid for and funded it, so he's essentially destroying something that legally belongs to him.

[@freman007]

Yes. You can do pretty much whatever you want with your own property. Someone could, in theory, purchase the Mona Lisa and then spray paint all over it. They would be considered a cultural vandal, and denounced from every corner of the globe, but they wouldn't be breaking any law. I don't think there's any point in the show where John Prince behaves in an illegal, or even particularly immoral, way. As Jonny points out, he even funds a children's hospital. He's a pretty good person, and a far better person than the violent thugs that make up Robyn Hood's gang.

[@housewilma4904]

yeah at most hed get a few fines for not getting permits for demolition.

[@brandonlyon730]

To think the Robin Hood movie made in the 70’s with all the characters as animals is a better depiction of Robin Hood then what the hell this was.

[@marjorambee3521]

That film is underrated! I am sticking to this opinion.

[@ForestX77]

@@marjorambee3521Underrated? Sure uh yeah… just don’t search for it with safe search off…

[@fjalarhenriksson]

better but not even close. the real hero in history if you ever read real history was King John

[@NinjaCman1]

Bro, even the Tom & Jerry adaptation is better than Robyn Hood.

[@kingfreedom160]

This director is so bad that he made the heroes the villains and the villains the heroes, but he believes that it's the other way around so badly that he makes himself look like a complete idiot and jackass to everyone that doesn't have woke drunk goggles on.

[@moxiemaxie3543]

Its all about perspective. Everyone is the hero in their own stories

[@kingfreedom160]

@@moxiemaxie3543 True, and the best villains think they are the hero.

[@Metalora]

​@@kingfreedom160We're all witnessing Director X's villain origin story.

[@kingfreedom160]

@@Metalora It's like the cinema world's version of The Joker

[@bulbasaurbrutal5137]

Did you know people actually shot each other at one of his parties? Not a stellar social network, I don't care how successful his celebrity music video career is.

[@TheFatalHalo]

"If I fumbled one million, and came home and told my parents, they'd personally paralyze me". Haven't laughed that hard in ages. Bravo!

[@bulldogsbob]

Maybe the most hated Canadian show ever but not the most hated show. Velma shitted all over a beloved 50 year plus franchise.

[@gingerbaker_toad696]

Nothing hurt like Grape of Power

[@bulbasaurbrutal5137]

AHEM. Rings of Power? Most hated show in history. Biggest flop ever. Worst crime against the original material and the fans in the history of franchises.

[@bulldogsbob]

@@queen-of-wonderland-333 Scooby doo fans hate it the most.

[@bulldogsbob]

@@bulbasaurbrutal5137 Before Velma I would have agreed but as a fan of both franchisees I must say Velma is worst.

[@bulbasaurbrutal5137]

@@bulldogsbob Well, it certainly depends on what criteria you're measuring by. My parents loved Lord of the Rings, my grandfather read The Hobbit and LOTR to my mom in the early 70s, she ended up naming me after Lord of the Rings. Fast forward to having seen the fandoms and franchises of other fans having been systemically destroyed, Doctor Who, Star Wars, Star Trek, and then they were coming for my franchise, Lord of the Rings. I saw the promotional material, the diversifying of it, which was extremely offensive to me. Luckily the show was bizarrely bad that it wielded no power over anything, and the fandom of Lord of the Rings proved much stronger than even that of Star Trek. Lord of the Rings is the franchise that survived, however by the criteria of the bastardization that strays furthest from the quality of the original of which it is based, Rings of Power is the worst TV-show of all time based on how it is the lowest thing, drawing on the very highest excellence. As for Velma, by the criteria of which show is the most explicitly diversely racist, it certainly hammers its perceived enemies in the most overt way. Over the top of down with the patriarchy and down with white people and down with white privilege type bullshit, it's not just implying it like most of the rest of the crap shows, it goes on and tells you outright!

[@robtherub]

Looks like a masterclass in the "always accuse your enemy of what you are actually doing" thing which the whole crybully pretend oppressed hustle works on

[@RightNowMan]

Yeah...reminds me of something going on in the news.

[@moxiemaxie3543]

SSSniperWolf, CreepshowArt, Amber Heard, illuminaughtii Blaire,JohnSwan😂, Jonathan Majors ex gf

[@bad-people6510]

I love the part when Robyeen professes her mother's innocence over the crime that she and the audience all witnessed her be guilty of.

[@robtherub]

@@exilecomplex7344 give me an example

[@alwaysangry2232]

@@exilecomplex7344 lol, this is the best you can do?

[@JPArbour]

Jonny ... I'm a Canadian and on behalf of our whole country, I'd like to thank you for your service. I'd also like to apologize (yes we Canadians do that) for this show. "Why do we fall Jonny? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up." Damn ... we really need to be picked up after this fall!

[@skulltula1352]

Yep.

[@celem12]

As a Canadian myself, I have nothing to do with this and completely disassociate myself from this monstrosity

[@sambonbon755]

En tant que canadien français, je n'aime pas les idiots qui violent une license pour leur égo

[@googleisevil8958]

Honestly, if you guys have to apologize for this, we Americans have to apologize for Little Mermaid and the Brits should apologize for the more recent Doctor Who seasons.

[@aimanmarzuqi4804]

You know, if this Robyn Hood series was set in the Marvel Comics version of Canada then it would make a whole lot more sense. Its really crazy how they depicted Canada in the Marvel Comics, especially in the 70s until the early 2000. Canada in Marvel Comics was basically a combination of every corrupt authoritarion regimes in Eastern Europe during the Cold War

[@Keln02]

Remember people, it's not cultural appropriation if it's whtie culture Also funny to me that he chose the name X. In french, when someone says X, it's that they wish to remain anonymous and out of the picture.

[@BasedLiz]

It's the same in English. Professor X in the XMen is like a play on words, saying he's some mysterious, unidentified professor, but it's also short for his name, Xavier. I think Director X was just trying to sound cool.

[@brandonlyon730]

Could be just an Alan Smithee thing while trying to look “cool” as well.

[@webbmerriam6984]

I presume it's meant to be an allusion to Malcom X, which would be even dumber for a variety of reasons

[@leurunner4764]

Or using "Mister X" as a term for an unknown individual.

[@briannarobinson5159]

Wait how is this cultural appropriation?

[@adamwegner2520]

This show is an unintended masterpiece. It perfectly encapsulates everything wrong with and the cognitive dissonance of a certain group. It’s like a microcosm of how they function and think. This is truly their point of view. Illuminating.

[@PatsyIsDrunk]

I want a Lego model of Jonny Law; I don't care if it's overpriced.

[@kingofhearts3185]

This show feels like it was made as some sort of conservative propaganda, what fox news viewers think blm and the hood are like. But it wasn't.

[@AscendFM]

Would you like me to make you one? I run a Lego business ! @@PatsyIsDrunk

[@Vanessa-xx3yz]

If they wanted to make the cops real villains, they could've shown them doing illegal stuff and protecting each other despite the safety of the civillians because of police tribalism, or the blue wall of silence. Instead, they show the "heros" of the story doing illegal things while the community protects them despite them bringing the community down because of tribalism. Maybe x is a villian and that's why he can't see he's writing weak villains and horrible heroes. 😂

[@googleisevil8958]

That's the biggest issue here. Think of GTA. In the game you see dirty cops doing dirty things making it obvious why you shouldn't trust any cop. Taking bribes, planting drugs, turning off police cams before "talking" to suspects. Like come on! It's so easy and it doesn't have to be that graphic to get the point across they're trying to make. Here? "Police bad. We kill police." That's it. Okay... WHY are police bad? Tell us why! You're showing but not telling.

[@frankwest5388]

Another classic and more subtle way of showing the police isn’t to be trusted, is by having like 4 of them surrounding a wealthy area, while not a single one is seen where the poor live. Making them basically the private bodyguards of the rich

[@TheOvald]

35:07 "an arrow full of quivers"? this show really did a number on your brain, huh? 😂

[@markseeber9826]

*Slaps arrow on the roof* "This bad boy can fit so many quivers in it"

[@johannesseyfried7933]

​@@markseeber9826"Ouch! I stabbed myself! Note to self: remember which end of the arriw is pointy befor you slap it."

[@jaystone193]

Good Thing He Still Knows How To Pull The Bow On His String

[@Artholos]

I need me an arrow full of quivers! While I’m at it, might as well buy a sword to put my scabbard in!

[@CS-mf5un]

You're wrong about Canadians having a lot of freedom. They have been now several times forced to listen to the musical stylings of Sophie Trudeau.

[@MamaMOB]

They also get threatened to have their bank accounts taken away from them if they protest not being allowed to work. So there's that.

[@CS-mf5un]

@@MamaMOB I mean if we're being serious, Canadians have very few freedoms left. It's a more authoritarian country.

[@markvargus6519]

One note, you mentioned the riot police not smacking their shields. In reality most riot police are trained to "swash" their shields as a way to intimidate crowds. It provides a visual and audible cue to the people the riot police are facing up against. Most will stop should the crowd get too close, but during the approach smacking batons against shields is standard practice.

[@FlameofEulien]

agreed, our monkey brain sees and hears banging and gets spooked by the noise its whats chimps do to glass veiwpoints cos it makes a loud intimidating noise people react the same to the banging of a riot sheild

[@johnjacomb2645]

interestingly the term swashbuckler came about in the 14th century from street fights with sword and buckler (tiny shield)

[@markvargus6519]

@@johnjacomb2645 Yup, and it was the fact that the street toughs liked to swash their bucklers before the fights that caused many people to start calling them swashbucklers, because that was what they were doing.

[@alainbcdefghijk]

It just dawned on me that the mother literally turned down an offer thqt can change their whole life around ie; boatload money and scholarships, just so her daughter can keep stealing from the "evil" rich people and be beligerent to cops.

[@TempoLOOKING]

like dr who.

[@hdog9046]

This just shows that it was never really about getting money for themselves or helping the poor, it was about hurting the rich. This extends to the overt messaging as well. It says "Eat the Rich" but it doesn't say "Feed the Poor."

[@MollieLolly]

Rich people eat lobster, caviar, sweetbreads… not Yorkshire puddings 😂

[@Lobsterwithinternet]

Not this Lobster. 🔫🦞

[@gokuxsephiroth4505]

Yeah, that was a dish literally invented as a "Ah, crap, we 'ave too much batter! What are we gonna do with this?!". I don't know if you get much more "poor food" than "use up leftover" dishes lol

[@KeybladeMasterAndy]

I respect the rich man that eats something as simple as yorkshire pudding.

[@IMAMONGUS]

Between you, Az, Disparu and Let's Review Crap Writing, I am PRAYING for a season 2!!

[@JohnDavidSullivan]

Money is better off in their pockets.

[@IMAMONGUS]

@@vladeousj9923 yes!!

[@user-ru3bq5qb3p]

Says a lot about Director X that someone committing a crime and then getting arrested for it is considered injustice is authoritarian

[@EwanCumia]

Dey wuz kangz an' sheeet

[@doomsdaybooty1072]

As a Canadian, i want to apologi.... actually, you know what? Fuck it, we're not sorry. We're done apologizing. We ruined your mythology and we're gonna do King Arthur next

[@Davehaha2001]

You’re holding Disney’s beer 😂

[@doomsdaybooty1072]

@@Davehaha2001 🤣

[@year111]

Fate/Grand Order did that. And people love them for it.

[@tripleaarcade]

** Queen Arthyr

[@NefariousKoel]

@@tripleaarcade Slay Queen, Arthyr

[@bvang0520]

The show pretty much shows Robyn and her gang doing bad things while telling the audience that they are good guys.

[@xanage8413]

gotta say, first time I hear the joke "Robin hood? no, Robin FROM the hood", I never expected this.....

[@Vexarax]

Johnny is remarkably theatrical. I like to save his new videos then spam watch them all when I get drunk - makes me feel like I have a fun friend 😅

[@wht-rabt-obj]

I never laughed so hard as I did when they wouldn't give the mom bail, because she was a flight risk. 😂😂😂 She's paralyzed, chained to a bed IN A HOSPITAL and has zero money to go anywhere anyway. This was absolutely hysterically, ludicrously funny. It's like Director X has no clue about how humans interact. Allso hilarious, is that X keeps pounding in the message that rich people are all bad and evil, yet my dude is worth like$5 million. 😂 And was raised as a rich kid in like Switzerland or some sh*t! What a complete and utter hypocrite.

[@normie2716]

"They're only bad if they're richer than me" is what these people are really saying.

[@justwonder1404]

35:39 - to be fair, in Ukraine during the Revolution of Dignity Berkut (the riot police in that case) did bang on their shields, but it was done as an attempt to intimidate a huge crowd of very dedicated people who didn't budge after being severely beaten. I suppose Director X just saw it somewhere and decided it looked sinister. Well, out of context it just looks awkward.

[@cm3.redeye42]

Aw man, when the mother actuall says, "i cant feel mah leggz!!!1" the bedtime story scene from Major Payne springs instantly to mind. That clip right there would've been brutal. Edit: Just a word, too, destroying someone's car & slashing their tires wouldn't be vandalism, but more along the lines of malicious destruction of (private) property. You're completely right in your critique. These idiots are legitimately morally insane. Here in the states I've been forced to watch culture die & the corpse rot into the illiterate malfeasance it now is, & this show is a perfect representation of it. Good to see it get lambasted instead of mindlessly praised for once.

[@sarbear0214]

Omg I thought the same thing! The Little Engine that could scene! 👌🏼😂

[@AngryPug76]

26:12 The shop class bomb thing is an allusion to The Clock Kid who was arrested for bringing a suspected bomb to a US school. It was a homemade clock. A backwards counting homemade clock. That looked amazingly like a IED out of a TV cop show (images of it aren’t hard to find). His father is a Sudanese politician who has repeatedly ran for president of Sudan and was an outspoken Muslim advocate at the time. As a former teacher, what he made was indistinguishable from the kinds of bombs and fake bombs kids make to terrorize other students and teachers.

[@Hero_of_the_Imperium]

Apparently he didn’t even make the clock, he just stripped an actual clock, and put it into a lunch box. Very little actual skill in the making of it, just switching the case.

[@minari8076]

don’t forget his dad took the family and fled the country. fucking clowns

[@JohnWilliams-wl9px]

Plus the kid apparently pulled similar stunts before hand, so it wasn’t really a one time thing.

[@Davehaha2001]

Australian politicians are more heartless then these “bad guys”

[@hunterknight5261]

I think people have forgotten that the original story or Robin Hood-- well, maybe not 'Original', but the canonized version at least-- wasn't about the poor vs the rich, but about fighting against oppression, corruption, and injustice. If memory serves, there are many versions of Robin Hood were he was actually seen as a loyal ally of the king who was fighting against the corruption that was taking root while said king was away.

[@mr.mcnerdo]

From what I can tell, at one point in Medieval England, the common sentiment amongst peasants was that the system was bad but the king was a wonderful person who cared for his people. The best example of this was the Peasants' Revolt.

[@eunomiac]

Oi! Canadian here: Don't saddle our entire _country_ with the crime of this televised abortion! So we let one slip through the cracks --- go watch a few episodes of Schitt's Creek or Letterkenny for a palette cleanse and a reminder of what Canadian television _can_ be :)

[@shrikeofterven6006]

You did give the world the Dead South, so all is good.

[@steveouk90126]

Corner Gas, FTW!

[@shadowstorm3.098]

I watch Fugget About It :DDD

[@gianperezz2928]

My mom watched all Heartland seasons. Such a good and peaceful show. And I gotta say, Canadian landscapes are amazing

[@mr.mcnerdo]

You forgot Red Green show.

[@NefariousKoel]

Who says government subsidization and ownership of industry causes problems? The Canuckistani Ministry of Canadian Heritage wants to know their location.

[@doomsdaybooty1072]

Lol. We do have some real talent up here, but we chase them south of the border and replace them with government sponsored schlep. It's a time honored Canadian tradition

[@goodolfashion]

​@@doomsdaybooty1072Ryan Long comes to mind, had to go to NYC to crush without limits .

[@doomsdaybooty1072]

@goodolfashion ya him and Danny... the cbc wanted to use Ryan's material and give it to a woman of color, of course. We literally chase our talent south of the border. And meanwhile the government wants tighter control over all of Canadian content and media

[@CurtisDofMontana]

After Robyn's Mom one her 100 million dollar lawsuit for being wrongfully shot by the police her and her daughters would move out of the Hood move to a multi-million dollar mansion and never talk to the neighbors in the Hood again😂😂😂 they wood B like new phone who dis😂😂😂

[@CurtisDofMontana]

Won her 100 million dollars 💵💵 used speech to text lol 😂

[@lemmac7973]

@@CurtisDofMontana Sounded like you'd been watching too much of this show!

[@CurtisDofMontana]

@@lemmac7973 lol no I haven't seen any episodes. Just AZ's HeelvBabyface channel and Disparu channel and let's talk about crap writing channel... 😀🤣 Mitch more fun than watching this crap show 😀

[@Eidolon1andOnly]

​​@@CurtisDofMontanaYou can edit comments y'know. No need to post a reply under the original comment to make a correction. FYI.

[@CurtisDofMontana]

@@Eidolon1andOnly and when you do edit a post KZbin bury's it and people do not see it. Is my experience. Also why do you care? I can post the way I want to. I don't go to McDonald's and tell you how to cook the fries 🍟🤣🤣

[@nathanmalik7056]

Robyn Hood is how a woke work can fail especially if it's extremely unsubtle and preachy about it's message: The race and gender-swapped lead, the negative portrayals of police, the barrage of partisan politics, and harmful stereotypes of straight white people. It also doesn't help that the writing is poor which turns off even people that might actually like the series. Some or all aspects of Robyn Hood also extend to HBO's Santa, Inc and Velma, which are also negatively received. Conversely, some woke works can succeed if the writing is good and they aren't too hyper-preachy. For instance, The Boys (2019) didn't show much in the way of wokeness as it's satire was targeted specifically at celebrity culture, corporate corruption, and cinematic universes using superheroes as a metaphor. Only from the second season onward did these elements start to become more and more prominent. More importantly, it's writing was good enough to be entertaining at least in the first season. That is the difference between Robyn Hood and The Boys.

[@nickklavdianos5136]

A show being 'woke' is never the problem. The problem has to do with preachiness, bad writing etc. Most shows that get blamed for being 'woke' are the ones who just take it too far and reflect more extreme opinions that the majority of progressive people don't subscribe to.

[@moxiemaxie3543]

A woke work? You dumbing it down to woke shows you listen to too many hate watch breakdowns. Race/gender swapping doesn't automatically doom everything.

[@nathanmalik7056]

@@nickklavdianos5136 Still, I think that being woke can be a problem due to preachiness and terrible writing.

[@nickklavdianos5136]

@@nathanmalik7056 I think we're saying the same thing. We both agree that preachiness and terrible writing are the problems and not the core ideas behind them. Because if those ideas were handled better and the writing was good, there wouldn't be a problem.

[@nathanmalik7056]

@@nickklavdianos5136 Though you did mention it in a different manner than me even if we can agree in certain aspects.

[@syrilvictor3288]

As a reluctant resident of Canada, I apologize

[@mrburton8842]

Not accepted

[@syrilvictor3288]

@@mrburton8842 I understand and accept your decision

[@goodolfashion]

​@@syrilvictor3288no offense but you forgot to apologize for any inconvenience on that second reply

[@syrilvictor3288]

@@goodolfashion Mea Culpa, mea maxima cuppa. On behalf of Canada I beg forgiveness for this travesty and for any inconveniences that you may have suffered

[@goodolfashion]

@@syrilvictor3288 much better we have a cabinet position for you just give us a call in Ottawa xxx

[@edg3123]

The sad truth is although many didn’t watch the show, there are millions of people in the world that see the world from the same lens that is depicted. They blame others and don’t hold themselves accountable for their own failures. They justify their horrible actions by painting themselves as victims.

[@petergilbert715]

Actually in basic training you do use pudgel sticks which are similar to using a wooden pole to fight one on one

[@homerhat420]

Ive got all 8 episode archived for when this inevitably becomes lost media.😂😂

[@FrauZehel]

It must be preserved lmao.

[@gokuxsephiroth4505]

For... what exactly? 😂 Library of Alexandria that crap - we don't need it!

[@dillonpierce3537]

​@@gokuxsephiroth4505we need it as an example of what not to do when writing something, if it becomes lost history there's a higher chance that we'll be doomed to see a repeat of this

[@theunknowncommenter725]

​@@dillonpierce3537 and so that it can be laughed at for all eternity

[@dillonpierce3537]

@@theunknowncommenter725 That too

[@Cornerboy73]

You DARE mock Canadian TV ? Degrassi.. the Beachcombers ... Kids in the Hall ... Wapos Bay... The Racoons... The Littlest Hobo...La Femme Nikita ? You go too far sir, I don't care how handsome and dashing you look in that Errol Flynnian shirt ! 😤

[@CurtisDofMontana]

No just this horrible shit show..😂😂 Robyn Hood is pure shit!!

[@motaman8074]

Errol Flynnian. Now, that's a top-notch adjective!

[@CurtisDofMontana]

Le Femme Nikita Great Movies the French one is the best. The TV show was good 👍 as well the actress that played Nikita Peta Wilson Hot 🥵 mmmgoood... Her voice she reminded me of a babysitter I had.

[@snoozebutton9996]

German here. I loved the Racoons. The Soundtrack is still a banger.

[@sweetpapad4674]

This is the one and only thing I’m going to disagree/ correct Law on, yes tout police do bang their shields, it’s an intimidation tactic, and though I can’t say for certain that every country does it ( though I’d be surprised if the didn’t) I know Canadian police do, hell there’s a video where someone has synced it up to the imperial march

[@Trixie1604]

@sweetpapad4674. Thanks for the tip! I went and hunted it up. It's really cleverly done. kzbin.info/www/bejne/b2bXoK2mZdx9iNksi=gdhVgFNOqHJNh2YR

[@AngryPug76]

All cops do. Give them shields and all of a sudden they’re all Spartans.

[@sweetpapad4674]

@@AngryPug76 I mean it’s literally what their trained to do, and it is effective

[@vipeyv2280]

@@AngryPug76 Good, hope they got similar k/d ratio as them too

[@harbl99]

Ah yes, the Canadian cultural phenomenon that is _Robyn Hood_ , or, to give it the full and formal title popularized by Mister Az Silverback, esq. _Robyn Hood (Ur-eh-ur-eh-ur! Ur-eh-ur-eh-uh!)_

[@TheKpa11]

Director X is a manipulative psycho He knows what’s morally wrong, I believe he does (I only have to look at things like YA movies, CW shows, and “Velma”) and by triggering the audience, by constantly doing, saying, portraying, morally wrong things and pretending he isn’t self aware, he gets attention, he gets money from being totally despised. Cause he knows as long as he physically does nothing, he can’t be punished for it. He’s rich so he just spends it triggering for his own ego and he’s looking to see how long he can do it before he’s stopped

[@PaladinHD]

Not sure if I would give him that much credit...

[@robtherub]

Dunno if there is any media that does not do that these days, since tarantino maybe, you only get to work in media if you actively promote evil, its like the devil has got it

[@isiahalcindor6278]

​@PaladinHD yea, he's probably just a rich out of touch idiot but who knows 🤷

[@PixelHeroViish]

It feels to me more like he has the surface level ideas and concepts with how some people feel about modern day politics and such but nobody involved really knew how to execute upon them properly, turning it into a mess about as believable as a Fanfiction by some 11 year old who's never written anything

[@chuckynocheese3271]

Nah, he's just a rich dude with victim mentality.

[@Nuck-Fo0bZz]

Clumsy and belligerent pretty well sums up the entire show.

[@inzanecat420]

when the lawyer said that a "homicide" was committed that finally peaked my interest...up until she later described a "suicide"...now I'm back to being bored.

[@TeracomConsulting]

Me and the rest of Canada got together, and we voted Director X out. Last heard he's moving to Florida.

[@wildraspberrie]

How rude. We don't want him. We now have to catapult Bieber over the border.

[@TeracomConsulting]

@@wildraspberrieACK!!! NOOO!!! We though we got rid of him. How about California? does that work?

[@Dufoth]

Prince gives more to the community than Robyn

[@TheInternetHelpdeskPlays]

I really get this gets a second series. Mostly because I want to see HeelvsBabyface and Disparu lose their god damn minds!😂

[@Wampa842]

I'd love to have a lawyer's opinion on how many cumulative years of prison time the "heroes" earned, and what their defense attorney would say.

[@finmyster58]

Jonny Hood....the hero we need, but one we don't deserve

[@ThePyroRob]

The Director X adaptation of King Arthur would 100% be called King Martha

[@wildraspberrie]

No, no, he'd want to keep it as close as possible. The king's name would be Arthurette. Or Arthurina.

[@izanami3793]

The female version of King Arthur in the Fate series is called Artoria.

[@myself2noone]

"WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME!?!"

[@jacquelineking5783]

When I was in high school a friend and I would do stupid story skectj things. One of them was a parody of King Athur and I kid you not my character was Martha Queen of the Franks.

[@jeebus2121]

Did they have the entire season filmed when episode 1 aired? If you look at how comically evil the "bad guys" are in episodes 7 and 8, it's as though the director/writer realized the "good guys" and "bad guys" were flipped after so many people criticized that part of the show, so the only way out was to make the "bad guys" jarringly and absurdly evil while leaving the "good guys" with the same self-righteous and immoral behavior.

[@tylercoon1791]

Pretty sure most/all of those lines were ADR’d. Aka, they called up the actor and said ‘hey, can you literally phone in some lines?’

[@phabiorules]

That’s a major problem with a lot of media (mostly super heroes) in a trope referred to as “Flag Smashing”, and based on the character Flag Smasher from The Falcon and Winter Soldier. It’s when a writer creates a villain with solid motivations and justifications, so the writers make them bomb a children’s hospital in order to make the audience not sympathize with them too much.

[@MollieLolly]

A single egg could defeat a drone if you had good aim

[@darioreiser7939]

As an African that Zimbabwe joke made me laugh so hard🤣

[@sethkaicer319]

Rachel and Brie showed Thelma and Louise exactly how to drive off of the cliff 😢😮

[@John-Doe-Yo]

Huh?

[@skulltula1352]

What?

[@interstellardeskplant]

This writer smells his own farts and thinks he's created a masterpiece.

[@jedh3721]

So it isn't a terrible idea to make a villain do good things in an attempt to put on a good face to the public. Real life corporations do this all the time. Children's hostpitals are often funded by evil people. BUT you actually have to remember to make them a villain when you do that

[@colekarrh9114]

Cherry on top of this video is Jonny dressed as Robin Hood

[@Constellasian]

The part that's funny to me is Blacks complain about being stereotyped, but they stereotype themselves in their shows and movies. All the ghetto g-thug and hip hop stereotypes were rampant in this show.

[@tdf_worldkey6666]

they are the actors. Sure they can deny the role but they’re getting paid and it would’ve gone to someone else. They such at acting but maybe this is their big break. They didn’t write this shit even and the people who did don’t have an understanding of how the hood actually works. Black people arent aren’t a monolith dude. Ion agree with this bullshit and many others don’t either it’s bad and makes a mockery of so much of what is real in the worst way possible. It’s like a parody of real life where people are killed for less in the hood. Plus it’s Canadian not American and Canadian has a very interesting thing with their own racism. It’s black people btw.

[@gokuxsephiroth4505]

To be honest, dude, the people who wrote this show are probably very white, and the black actors took the roles because white dude only wanted POC characters (gotta have that progressiveness!) and acting is a hard career.

[@prickstick1980]

Thıs cosplay goes so hard ngl

[@MaciejBogdanStepien]

Good morning, Mr. Law. It's a sheer pleasure to have the first coffee of the day and listen to you. Have a good day. Cheers

[@MaciejBogdanStepien]

hehe 35:07 "An Arrow Full of Quivers."

[@mranderson718]

When I went to Army Basic training in 2016 they did teach us to fight with Pugil sticks. Granted it was like a 2 day thing mostly to build confidence, we definitely weren’t Robin Hooding.

[@dontribal739]

I took care of a stray cat a few years ago and I named it, Robin. Once I learned she was a female cat though, all I did was switch the "i" with a "y" - which changed the name into the feminine, "Robyn". Oh, that's it. I thought it was a clever idea. Thanks for reading. 😊

[@mikesnapper9001]

So that chick with fake deep voice invents stuff that barely works? In the next season they should have her invent a compact medical device that can measure 1000 different markers from a single drop of blood

[@plantemor]

I think one of the things about this show that makes me sweat a little bit is that I'm currently writing a comic that touches on similar issues of a rich family buying real-estate in a rebellious area in order to help young families and university students get a home. I even have a masked character who makes music that the rebellious area uses as sort of a mascot for their protest against the rich family and the municipality. Haha. Dear lord. I guess the big difference is that my story is trying to talk about the concept of change and expectations and how violating change feels even if it is for the better. But yeah there was definitely a moment where I was sweating a little bit, because I have put my all into this project seeing how bad this show is made me reconsider for a few seconds if I'm being stupid marking a story about a housing crisis lol.

[@simonwahlen7150]

Nah I think you shouldn't worry about this show. This show glorifies staying in the crabbucket of a bad situation and keeping others there and then demanding of other or taking resourses. Robyn early tries to get a job and move out something her mother goes against because she wants her family to stay in the slum of an apartment project building. In real life apparently people celebrated the project micro appartment buildings in cities being torn down because it meant that there where now enough nicer buildings that people who where poor didn't have to settle for living packed like sardines. The thing you have to worry about and think hard about is the fact that making a generational change and getting people as a group to better themselves without forcing them like a tyrant is really hard. It's why a lot of developing countries struggle with stuff like getting a democracy with rule of law, because nobody can do it for them others can try and tell them how to do it but they need to want have it, understand it and fight for it themselves. So it might be really hard to write a "happy ending" where you solve the conflict since there really isn't a good broadly available formula in the realworld. But if you want to give it a shot or is going for a less outright "happy ending" and instead go for a "hopefull, change is hard but it gets better ending" or maybe not fixing society but helping the main characters grow and leave it with a cliffhanger of them still fighting to help their community get better but trying a new way. I don't know how you want your story to go but as one internet stranger to another go for it. Even if it doesn't go as well as you hoped for it will still be writing experience for future tries and stories. The more you try the better you become.

[@Ave_Christus_Rex37]

An hour long video. Someone's getting into the Christmas spirit

[@SpareSomeChange8080]

23:48 lmao that's the weakest dinner ever 😂 A proper roast dinner is one where you can barely see your plate

[@MichaelCravith]

Man, we used to have some great television up here like twenty years ago.

[@incineroar9933]

I was so sad the commercials made this show look so good.

[@nathyngovia-apolinar7578]

I agree

[@impartial_idea2497]

Only commercial breaks could make this look good

[@incineroar9933]

@@impartial_idea2497 True, the commercials didn't show much of the show, all it really showed was the characters in their dark costumes with the bright neon lights. The music was pretty catchy and I'm a sucker for designs like those.

[@impartial_idea2497]

​@@incineroar9933They gave us the old bait n switch

[@dissect123]

This was a rollercoaster of emotions…First I am proud and grateful of Johnny that he is suffering through this show so that we don’t have to but midway through he reveals he would sell us all out to raid shadow legends for a measly million dollars! What is next? Will he be bought out to advertise shows like Robyn Hood? We need to save this man! He clearly has suffered enough from watching all that garbage.

[@matthewharris7640]

This video made me google kidnapping insurance which now probably is another reason I’m on a number of lists. Why am I surprised that it is actually a real thing?

[@SyberStain]

your getting a like for that intro made me chuckle

[@VIPandalicious]

Hard to believe it's the "most hated" when most people don't even know it exists.

[@shrekmclovin7680]

It’s funny how the story of Robin Hood has been changed from the government over taxing the people to “uhh rich people bad” completely changing the og story

[@hpfan1516]

42:22 you are out here throwing out some of the deepest morals I've ever heard in my life "You've chiseled it with such clarity into the face of reality" like goddamn dude, can you write a show? Please?

[@josepnebotrius872]

Well, the show is the triumph of stupidity. Most shows since 2020 and generally 2022 onwards have forgotten how rational people acts.

[@Lobsterwithinternet]

Mostly because the people involved don't know how rational people act.

[@rayvenkman2087]

Or how to write good dialogue that doesn’t sound like the writer standing on a soapbox, generally know how to do tone except for what they see in MCU or GoT and how to light their sets properly.

[@nathanbrisebois8756]

"Let me pay to relocate you and your entire family and friends to better quality of life, you win, and i dont look so bad" I guess the worst thing out villain has done is imply that he would rather relocate them out of his own pocket, rather than lawfully remove squatters to preserve his own public image. Sounds like a good deal to me

[@troffle]

So that's why the most variably named Director is in Canada: hoping he won't have Elon Musk trying to subsume him.

[@zm73will]

Great review Jonny (Out)Law!

[@TwentythreePER]

Wasn’t the phone the “bad guy” destroys a phone he bought for the lawyer, his goddaughter? So it wasn’t a crime because it was his phone. The “villain” of the show is actually the best character lol.

[@justchillinghere6566]

Jonny Hood the savior of the Tv/Movie consumers destroys the big studios with their time stealing and worthless writing to bring the people happiness in this harsh time

[@Lazerblade95]

Of course Mr. Law is on the side of the Law. SMH!!!!!!!!

[@cmlfarr]

Yeah, it sucks. I could only handle about 15 mins of the first episode. In all fairness though, X-Files and The Expanse were also shot in Canada and they were great.

[@wildraspberrie]

Yeah, but "shot in Canada" does not mean it was a Canadian production. Wasn't at least X-Files a US production?

[@Soupcan13]

Hells bells you have the most devastatingly fantastic accent on this platform. Is there a location associated with your accent? Its fantastic. Also costume changes need to become a constant thing on the channel. Bravo sir, bravo!

[@Shruikin]

"As bad as an Austrian painter" took me a minute of confusion but i got there..well played xD

[@lukethepotatoking]

U.S. Army guy here. We do not train with sticks whatsoever, and I'm offended that this show thinks that we would use such sissy weapons. We obviously train to use guns as the sticks that they shamlessly depict us to use.

[@Narrator1]

21:55 Filming yourself in the middle of a crime is a godsend to investigators. It's what brought in the Philadelphia looters, the January 6th rioters, and so many other groups of criminals.

[@High_Bi_Wanna-Die]

This show is basically “it’s okay when we do it” AND “Rules for thee but not for me”

[@CodexisInkwind]

The rising prices thing is more realistic than you would think. If there is a noted 'increase in rate of crime' in certain areas, stores could end up with increased prices in order to cover the extra cost of either insurance on their products incase it gets stolen, or to cover increased cost of new security measures that need to be implemented due to the increased crime rate.

[@squoblat]

I was hoping you'd cover this 😂

[@Valjean666dk]

Director X and Tommy Wiseau collab must be your dream.

[@jujubees5855]

Breen and Wiseau would be more worthwhile.

[@alexey635able]

All hail Johny the Hood! May the Gods march with you on you righteous crusade against Canadian television.

[@thefourthcolor]

Your incredulity speaks to all of us, I hope. Thanks for absorbing this nonsense so the rest of us don't have to. And good God, that "music"...

[@NocandNC]

As a Canadian, I'm sorry. Watch Psi Cops instead.