Season 1 • Episode 8
LatestTerry gets an offer that could take him away from the mall.
Almost Heroes follows Terry who returns home after hearing of his father’s death to help his younger brother Peter tie up loose ends and hopefully, sell the family business: a comic book store called the Silver Salmon. He arrives to find the store in financial ruin and his brother incapable of making any decision other than which super power he wished he had. The brothers put their differences aside to revive the business along with the help of the mall security guard Boyd, childhood friend Bernie and property manager Rayna.
Acting
Lauren Ash and Colin Mochrie carry impossible energy.
Writing
Jokes about superpowers that actually land.
Production
The Silver Salmon feels like a real dying mall store.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Hamilton, Ontario, this captures the specific melancholy of mid-2010s Canadian malls before they fully died.
Creator Ryan Belleville cast himself as Peter after developing the series from his own brother dynamics.
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