A good show. A great fuckin show. (No spoilers?)

Letterkenny coming to an end is one of those things we all knew would happen eventually, but like looking down the inevitable death of a pet or friend it’s something we’d rather not have to think about until it comes. The best thing we can say about Letterkenny is that the consensus among a good portion of the fanbase is that, despite some lesser seasons, the show went out on a high note and more importantly they didn’t screw up the final season. Like Scrubs, or That 70’s Show, House, the X-Files, Roseanne, I could go on and on until I ruined How About Notflix’s final season.

If I had to list one disappointment with the twelfth and final season of Letterkenny, it’s that we didn’t get to see the return (even brief) of Alexander De Jordy as Devon. And not only that, but the revelation when checking the IMDB that De Jordy has quit acting entirely. Which is disappointing, he seemed like a good guy. But I will also admit that Devon leaving the show might have been a good thing in the long run. Devon’s departure allowed the skids to turn themselves around, and really allowed Evan Stern to take the spotlight as Roald.

As with prior seasons, Letterkenny’s twelfth and final is six episodes long and deals with a few recurring plotlines all running simultaneously. Katy (Michelle Mylett) comes back from a trip to Mexico realizing that she’s kinda feeling like she’s in a rut in life. Letterkenny is a great town but maybe she wants something more out of life. Squirrely Dan (K. Trevor Wilson) is getting sweet with his lady Lovina Dyck (Brooke Bruce) and is considering the Mennonite life of simplicity and hard work. Rosie (Clark Backo) wants Wayne to move out to Vancouver and start a new life with her. And Wayne? He’s just tired of hearing people talk about how stuck they feel.

And then tragedy strikes, and I don’t mean someone dies. Tired of feeling unappreciated, Daryl (Nathan Dales) finds new friends in an unlikely place; the degens. We introduce this season’s new characters including Mickey Gibraltar (Morgan Bedard), Dary’s new friend, and his sister Harley (Amalia Williamson), as well as Katy’s new friend Lily (Ella Cannon) who has the hots for Wayne. Don’t we all. It offers the perfect opportunity for what Letterkenny fans want most; bringing back characters like Jivin’ Pete (Ian Ronningen), Sled Ted (Jason Lee Bell), Rat Ass (Derek Barnes), and the rest of the degens to get their asses beaten yet again in a big slow motion brawl.

I suppose it stinks that not everyone made it back. Outside of the aforementioned Devon, we don’t see the Dyck family at all. The hockey players are gone, by which I of course refer to Yorkie, Barts, Boomtown, and Fisky. Gae (Sarah Gadon) doesn’t come back, nor does Dierks, Angie, or a number of other characters. But the main crew is here and continuing their lives. Jimmy Dickskin (Alex McCooeye) wants to move on from the life of an auctioneer and become a country music star. Gail (Lisa Codrington) is just happy banging anything with a pulse.

Reilly and Jonesy (Dylan Playfair and Andrew Herr) kinda wish they had Katy back. Stewart (Tyler Johnston) and Roald (Evan Stern) are concerned that they may have done everything that is fun to do on cocaine, and concoct a plan with Connor (Patrick McNeil) and Darien (Danny VanZandwyck) to go back to their roots. Oh and Ronsy (James Daly) and Daxy (Gregory Waters) just want a whole lot of gay sex, and to intimidate homophobes. And we love them all for it.

There is a whole lot of time spent this season dedicated to the degens, and you might think this is where Letterkenny humanizes them and makes them more friendly for its last season. Nah. Unlike most of the show’s recurring characters who started out as antagonists like the Skids, the hockey players, Tanis and the natives, there’s nothing redeeming about the degens. They are just shitty people and absolute morons to boot. I wonder what Hard Right Jay is doing at this point in the Letterkenny world.

The final season of Letterkenny feels like an obvious final season without feeling like it’s not a regular season. It doesn’t feel like everyone’s life is entering a new chapter, the show never feels like it has to ramp things up, and it doesn’t follow the usual tropes of everyone packing up their shit and leaving for greener pastures, and nobody dies. I guess that’s a good thing to point out. Nobody dies. Because I think the audience would turn on Tierney and Keeso if they killed off a character. Any of them.

On the plus side we have spinoffs to look forward to. I haven’t actually watched season 2 of Shoresy yet but the first season was fantastic and I’m looking forward to it. Which characters would I like to see for a spinoff? I genuinely don’t know at this point. Shoresy works on its own because it’s a completely new cast of characters. Yeah, Shoresy was in Letterkenny, but I’d argue that the Shoresy in Shoresy is so much of a different person that the two are basically different people.

Rating: A+