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[camwyn]

Have seen four episodes of Due South so far.

I am no longer screaming about being doomed. I do, however, have a terrible urge to scratch Paul Gross behind the ears and make the same 'oooh what a lovely boy' noises I use for making friends with pit bulls.

oy.

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[camwyn]

Oh, boy. Um, let's see.

Start with your basic cop show set in a Big American City. In this case it's Chicago. Cop show.

Okay, now focus the camera on two particular cops, so it's about them rather than the city or the precinct. Buddy cop show.

Now throw in the fact that they are Very Different and this is Funny. Wacky buddy cop show.

The wacky is because one of the cops is an extremely scruffy Chicago PD detective and the other one is a straight-arrow Canadian Mountie who, through one thing and another, is now on permanent assignment to the Canadian consulate in Chicago. And when I say 'straight-arrow' I am talking about someone who is, like, Sergeant Preston turned up to eleven. Also, he has a dog. Well, he says wolf. But you get the idea.

That's the basics. It's quite a lot of fun so far. And a number of episodes feature Leslie Nielsen as Sergeant Buck Frobisher, an old friend of the Mountie's dad, and anything that gets Leslie Nielsen into the dress reds is worth watching in my book.