"You don't tell Tony what to put on pizza. He left Russia to be free."

[harcourt]

I really love the weird asides and out-of-frame voices and background conversations in Due South. If you're not paying attention to them, you'd never notice, but they're great.

Also, I do not understand how a show can have both the rampant ridiculousness of Mountie on the Bounty but also the episode The Ladies Man. WTF that episode is pretty dark in a no-ghost dads way.

I think my favorite character is Dief. He's good at everything and likes opera and is embrassed by Fraser sniffing sidewalks.

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[ardyforshort]

Well, you've been on a roll!

Oh my GOD The Ladies' Man. I still haven't been able to rewatch that one.

due South likes to be surprising. I think it's because they had people working on it who had quite different ideas about the characters/the way stories should be told. There's a bit on the commentary where Paul Gross talks about the directors they worked with, and says one of them had a very dark/edgy kind of approach and the other was more "a humanist". Also, I think the episodes Paul Gross had a hand in writing tend to be crackier than the others ;) It is fascinating though. Out of interest, do you find it makes it inconsistent?