The new comedy is casually exhilarating in its charm and smarts, and that’s the way forward
is sort-of bonkers and certainly outright brilliant at times. From creators Bilal Baig and Fab Filippo , it’s funny, soapy, satiric and tender. It’s about Sabi who works as a nanny to a very bourgeois, downtown-Toronto family and as a bartender. The youngest in a large Pakistani family, Sabi is mortified that their mom doesn’t yet realize they are now they, and mystified that their sometimes-gay boyfriend sometimes dates beautiful women.
So far, while the series has been on CBC Gem, there’s been glowing attention to the fact that CBC has a series with a queer, brown, gender-fluid star at its core. But that’s not the sum and total of it. What makes it truly special is the energy, vitality and the fact that the tone is beautifully judged.
The performances here are uniformly strong, with Baig and Gray Powell making a particularly good pairing as they bond, spar and become closer than either could ever expect. Supinder Wraich is excellent as Sabi’s sister Aqsa, the one navigating middle-class life and trying to be a benign connection and referee between Sabi and their mom.
Bilal Baig and Fab Filippo have pulled off something truly remarkable here. The series isn’t activism of any kind. There’s a relaxed vibe that is palpable in both the script and the performances; the plot is deeply funny and unhurried, and the conversations between characters are sublimely natural., a cop show that isn’t predictable or traditional, and amounted to way more than the wacky cop show CBC TV seemed to be promoting.
There hasn’t been anything like it and, anomalous as it is, the series makes a lot of cop-show content seem irritatingly out of touch. Now CBC TV closes out the year with another oddity, one that is casually exhilarating in its charm and smarts. That’s the way forward, with beautifully unselfconscious inventiveness.
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