COMMONS

This season on corruption features the excellent investigative reporting I’ve come to expect from Canadaland and its affiliated shows, however, elements of the production make Commons an aggravating listening experience. Audio packages and soundbites fluctuate from inaudibly quiet (see: Barack Obama in the first minutes of episode 3; many of the bed music interludes), to in-the-red loud at other moments. In one single segment, around 20:00mins in ep. 3, host Arshy Mann’s voice goes from too-quiet to too-loud with no interlude. It’s a fantastic show, but the listening experience both in headphones and external speakers, is poor.

Trying way to hard to be “woke” and only catering to the racial narrative

Decent narration but you do an episode on fighting in hockey and you choose to rehash the Derek Boogard story?? I believe this case has been well covered, no? A writer for the NY Times wrote a mediocre book about it that was a bestseller. This is a polarizing and exhaustive topic, and one that deserves to be treated with care. Instead we get the one story everybody has heard already. I think the topic, and your audience deserves better. Way to phone it in. Why don’t go out on a limb and cover the Theranos story next episode?

It’s interesting to learn about things in Canada. There is definitely a slant to their reporting. The host is definitely racist as well. If you can wade through his often whiny and very beta male personality and racist views, it’s a fun listen.