God’s Extras

Six million people live in Toronto. And yet, I see the same people all the time. Not in the same place, you understand. I see the woman with the giant beehive hairdo striding down Yonge Street one day, and then a week later lying in the sand on the shore of Lake Ontario, and three months go by, and then she’s on the subway heading north to the suburbs (here there be dragons).

God’s Extras. The non-player characters who drift in and out of your life. And you never talk to them, and they never talk to you, but when you’re wandering around the city and you see one of them reading a book or singing to themselves, the world feels a little less lonely.

Theme Music
“Jolly Roger” by Alexander Hamilton

Episode Guide

Mrs. Stroller-Yoga
There’s a neighbourhood in Toronto that’s filled with tiny yapping dogs, and SUV-sized strollers for fertility treatment twins, and health food stores. And Mrs. Stroller-Yoga. Scowling and be-sunglassed, talking into her cellphone. On her way, of course, to yoga class.