The Kids Are Finally Bringing Back the TV That We Love

Whoever is doing Canada’s PR deserves a raise.

Everyone wants to go to the cottage.

The first tease was the jaw-dropping piece of lakeside real estate that Shane and Ilya pledged their love for each other in during the season finale of Heated Rivalry, in between other enviable extracurricular activities.

Now, the beauty of the Toronto-adjacent summering destination Muskoka is poised to make summering in the Hamptons seem like a silly jaunt for the poors, thanks to the massively popular Prime Video series Sterling Point.

I have a suspicion why the destination is so popular. It’s partly because the series, which sat atop the most-watched chart for most of the last two weeks, does such a great job of displaying the waterfront retreat’s balance of cozy, local history and drool-worthy mansion fanciness.

But it’s also because Sterling Point itself is transportive, not just to those hilariously misnamed “cottages” (they’re basically estates), but to a time when TV was our angsty teenage respite. A genre that hasn’t existed in a while, but is finally coming back.