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Rachael Troyer

The gasp I gusped. I am SO excited that you decided to react to this show.

K

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K

Remember that hockey is very white and very straight, even today. This starts in 2008. Same sex marriage was not very legal at the time in the US. Shane has the pressure of being the Japanese hockey role model. He’s also undiagnosed autistic and played that way. And Ilya is Russian, which is a whole other breed of dangerous. Add in that the MLH (NHL) is using their rivalry for profit and people gamble off their games. Boston and Montreal is a very real hockey rivalry, but the logos were changed. The NHL is the US and Canada.

M.

Ahhhh - so excited!

ondraya

I was just hoping recently that I'd see you react to this and I checked today and voila! Can't wait for the next episodes, this show is really fantastic. Thought I'd share that Shane's character is autistic! This is never explicitly stated in the book or show, but it is important to understanding his character. The author Rachel Reid, the director and creator of the show Jacob Tierney, and Shane's actor Hudson Williams have all confirmed that that was an intentional character choice for the character. The only reason it's unacknowledged within the story itself is because Shane is undiagnosed. Hudson took a lot of inspiration for his performance from his own autistic father. Going forward you might notice some of these traits in Shane like the flat affect on his voice, the way he struggles to make eye contact sometimes, the way he struggles with processing his emotions, sometimes not reading the room or responding too literally, his attachment to routine and rules (like how he folds his clothes), etc. The show is Crave original which is a Canadian streaming service, but for US distribution it was on HBO! As much as this show is about hockey players, it doesn't show much of the hockey and doesn't teach you much, which is funny because this show is how I and many other fans got into hockey these past few months lol Might do the same for you! This is based off the NHL, but I'm pretty sure the NHL wouldn't allow the show to use real names so the league in the show is the NHL and instead of the Montreal Canadiens and the Boston Bruins, the teams are the Montreal Metros and the Boston Raiders. The logos are also different, but if you pull up a side-by-side you can see the similarities. The creator of the show, Jacob Tierney, also says they deliberately designed the show logos to be slightly sexually suggestive. Would be interesting to see if you notice what they're supposed to be lol

EricReacts

ooo! Thanks for the additional context! I hadn't even heard of Crave till I watched this. Awesome that it made it big!

kathryn evenson

In the books both of them finished the season with 67 goals. Very rare numbers for rookies

EricReacts

From the stats I looked up, those are WILD numbers haha