Douglas Coupland's JPod on CBC

So, we were total boneheads: the TV debut we've been awaiting for months rolls around, and what are we doing at 9 pm Monday night? Having an evening constitutional. My God, what have we become?

Yes, it's true: there's something a little cliche about our ongoing love of the works of Douglas Coupland. Generation X appealed to us in late high school, around the same time we thought Kurt Vonnegut was the greatest writer ever. Microserfs was good, but it was written in like 1995; it wasn't till we found ourselves working at a dot-com in post-bubble twenty-ought-six that we really learned to appreciate it.

But Coupland's 2006 novel JPod was supposed to be a return to form after a series of literary flops. Set at EA's B.C. campus, it's like an update on Microserfs, with all the nightmarishness of 21st century global capitalism run amok. And then CBC decided to make it into a TV minseries (that's channel 2 for Broadstripe cable customers out there; 99 for Comcasters; DirecTV and Dish folks are out of luck). We don't know if it's any good, but it's got Alan Thicke in it, so that's something.

Update: We're completely out of it, apparently: JPod airs on Tuesdays. We apologize for the confusion.

JPod airs Tuesdays at 9pm on CBC; next week's episode: "A Fine Bro-mance," featuring human trafficking and cougar-chasers. Check out the trailer above.