In between the deaf wolf, Fraser’s dead dad, Leslie Nielsen, and the Canadian wilderness in Fraser’s closet, it’s easy to miss the social commentary in Due South. At least I never noticed when I first watched it, years ago. Now, it’s a lot easier to spot. In “Asylum”, Fraser’s talking to a trigger-happy Chicago cop who tried to shoot RayK. The cop says that they’re in a war and it’s crazy out there, mentions a “kid” that she shot previously (she was exonerated, of course), and is furiously working out in a gym where the Confederate flag is boldly displayed on the wall behind her.
And then there’s “All the Queen’s Horses”, which features a plot that would have fit seamlessly into Hawaii Five-O (white supremacist hijacks a train to send it colliding with another train carrying nuclear material, giving a speech that sounds really familiar nowadays about how the American government has strayed from the vision of the founding fathers) but also features Leslie Nielsen (Buck Frobisher) getting his arm stuck in a toilet, Buck and Fraser’s dead dad bickering like an old married couple, a train car full of singing Mounties, fart jokes, the Great Yukon Double Douglas Fir Telescoping Bank Shot, and just vast amounts of sheer, unadulterated foolishness. It’s just so much *fun*. Which is where H50, as much as I love it, often falls down.
I do want to give RayV props, though. When Steve jumped onto a moving truck in H50, it was made out like a huge dramatic deal. RayV jumps off an overpass onto a moving train, with no protective gear and carrying an enormous half-wolf, and it’s barely mentioned at all. The Mounties just kind of take it for granted that this is the kind of thing that law enforcement personnel do all the time.
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