[ISL] "Raunchy East Coast web series ‘Just Passing Through’ makes tracks for a movie"

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MacLean's notes the plans of a group of Islanders, some of whom I know, to film a movie, Pogey Beach. Incidentally, they met their funding goals on Kickstarter.

Work boots aren’t normally thought of as beach attire.

But on Pogey Beach — a fictional soap opera based in a beach on Prince Edward Island’s north shore — it’s not unusual to see an Islander who collects employment insurance sinking their steel toe shoes into the red sand.

After all, they’re looking for work — or so they can claim, should a “pogey narc” come around.

Pogey Beach is a show-within-a-show. It’s beloved by the characters on the web series Just Passing Through, a raunchy comedy based around two small-town Islander cousins, Terry and Parnell Gallant, played by Dennis Trainor and Robbie Moses.

After garnering more than a million views on YouTube, the producers of Just Passing Through are now looking to create a spinoff — a feature-length film about the people who hang out at Pogey Beach drinking Alpine beer and bragging about who has “top stamp,” or the biggest employment insurance cheque.