JPod (TV series)
| jPod | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Comedy |
| Created by | Douglas Coupland, Michael MacLennan |
| Starring |
David Kopp Emilie Ullerup Ben Ayres Steph Song Torrance Coombs Colin Cunningham Sherry Miller Alan Thicke Raugi Yu |
| Theme music composer | Bonobo |
| Opening theme | "Flutter" |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| No. of episodes | 13 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | JB Sugar, Larry Sugar |
| Location(s) | Vancouver, British Columbia |
| Camera setup | Single-camera |
| Running time | 45 mins. (approx) |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBC Television |
| Original release | January 8 – April 4, 2008 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
jPod is a comedic television series based on Douglas Coupland’s novel of the same name. It premiered on CBC Television on January 8, 2008. Starting with the fifth episode, the show began airing Fridays at 9:00.
On March 7, 2008, it was announced that the CBC had cancelled the show because of low ratings. All of the remaining episodes - apart from episode 11, which was skyped and made available online - were broadcast. The cancellation of jPod sparked a fan-led protest.
The show's opening title theme is Flutter by Bonobo. Produced by I’m Feeling Lucky Productions for the CBC, jPod was created by Douglas Coupland and Michael MacLennan. Coupland also co-wrote many of the sole season's episodes.
jPod chronicles the often shocking lives of Ethan Jarlewski and four of his co-workers at Neotronic Arts as they confront "Chinese gangs, boneheaded bosses, sexual swinging, British royalty and gore-laced video games.". The pod was created by a Y2K glitch, which caused workers with surnames beginning with the letter J to be grouped together. The group works in a pod in the basement and were nicknamed jPod by the company. jPod is made up of Ethan, Bree, Cancer Cowboy and John Doe. The newest member of jPod is Katilin Joyce, who appears to have been hired a day or two before the series begins.
The series begins as the Pod receives a new boss, Steve, who instantly begins to change jPod's game. The team struggles to cope with the changes and tries to keep their game afloat. But even with massive changes in the office, they don't ever change their priority: doing as little work as possible and goofing around.
Ethan, the protagonist, has bigger problems than changes at work. While both his parents, Jim and Carol, appear to be normal middle class suburbanites, they both have strange lives and activities. Frequently their activities cause disasters and they rely on Ethan to bail them out. Carol runs a large marijuana grow-op in her basement in order to fund her retirement. Unfortunately problems with dealers, dead and alive, often lead to her calling Ethan and demanding his assistance. Jim is attempting to become an actor but due to his lack of talent, fails to get speaking roles. He has occasional affairs, loves to ballroom dance and mostly hangs out with Kam Fong, a Chinese mobster. Ethan is very attracted to Kaitlin, but the arrivals of their old flames, as well as ongoing drama in Ethan's life, and chaos at Neotronic, keeps coming between them.
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