Station X (Canadian TV series)

Style

Station X blended original animation with film clips, most of which were music videos, though movie and TV snippets also appeared. Notable sources included The Kids in the Hall and Sam Roberts, and many episodes featured an Angry Kid short. The plots were minimal: each episode centered on one character facing a moral dilemma or issue, who then discussed it with the other characters, each offering their perspective. A clip, usually referenced in the conversation and sometimes directly introduced, would play to illustrate the point.

The show’s visual style was also distinctive: the screen was never fully filled. Every camera angle had a different shape and size, with edges that looked rough, like torn paper.

Occasionally, two different angles of the same scene appeared simultaneously. Even the film clips did not fill the screen; widescreen movie clips and music videos were letterboxed, while 4:3 video appeared smaller with blank space on all four sides, and source information was displayed underneath at the clip’s start and end. For the Madness episode, the blank space was white instead of black.

Episodes

The first season of Station X consisted of thirteen episodes. A preview titled "Sex" aired on August 12, 2005, before the regular run began on September 3 and concluded on November 20 of that year. The episodes in order were "Violence," "Chance," "Guts," "Madness," "Fashion," "Money," "Hope," "Different," "Excess," "Humiliation," "Power," "Sex," and "Reality." In "Hope," the character Seven tries to persuade a homeless woman to accept help and embrace hope. In "Power," Seven attempts to rally support for a political candidate, but the others worry the candidate will be corrupted by power.