EXCLUSIVE: “To be or not to be an actor. That is the question,” states an overly-dramatic Mark in the first trailer for the final run of Son of a Critch.
Unfortunately, life isn’t going to make it easy, and he’s soon working as a giant hot dog mascot and, in his own words, “having a midlife crisis at 17.”
Son of a Critch comes to an end after its fifth season, as show creator Mark Critch revealed on social media earlier this year. The CBC series, which has played on The CW, follows Benjamin Evan Ainsworth (The Legend of Zelda) as a young Mark making his way through school on the Atlantic Canadian coastnin Newfoundland, Canada, in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Critch plays his own father, Mike Sr., and Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange) plays grandfather Pop. Claire Rankin (Stargate Atlantis) plays his mother Mary; Colton Gobbo (Ginny & Georgia) is older brother Mike Jr.; Mark Ezekiel Rivera is Mark’s best friend Ritche; and Sophia Powers (Murder in a Small Town) is Fox, Mark’s girlfriend.
The trailer sees Mark trying to make sense of his future, only for life to keep getting in the way. In a classroom, he muses that, “Maybe it’s not about settling for the way things are, but making your own way.” His teacher considers the sentiment for the briefest moment before snapping back, “No, it’s about jobs.”
The season will also introduce the devastating real-life cod moratorium crisis, which cost around 30,000 jobs and threw many Canadian families into poverty in 1992. As his dad and friends fear the worst, Mike turns to his supportive grandfather, who tells him, “Don’t give up on your dreams.”
In reality, Critch went on to become a successful writer, comedian and actor. He performed in comedy This Hour Has 22 Minutes before creating the semi-autobiographical Son of a Critch for CBC in 2022.
Critch co-created the show alongside co-showrunner Tim McAuliffe, with Project 10 Productions and Hawco Productions the makers in association with CBC and Lionsgate Television.
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