‘Shoresy’ Review: Heated (Brotherly) Rivalry

The fifth season of the oddball Canadian comedy "Shoresy" has its U.S. premiere on Saturday on Hulu. The show has an intimate relationship with "Heated Rivalry": both series originated on the Canadian service Crave, and Jacob Tierney, who created "Heated Rivalry," is a longtime creative partner of Jared Keeso, who created "Shoresy" and its eccentric forerunner, "Letterkenny." Tierney worked as a writer, director, producer and actor on both of Keeso's series.

"Shoresy" satirizes fragile egos and performative masculinity among a team of semipro players, and like "Heated Rivalry" it is, at heart, a show about male love. Season 5 begins with Shoresy, now coach of the Triple-A Sudbury Bulldogs, coming home to find his three roommate-teammates masturbating.

The discovery sparks a debate about proper methods, positions and inspirations; Shoresy is amazed to learn that one of the men does not use pornography. "You just think of something?" he asks.

Canada, Sudbury

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