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[oneiriad]

Coming home from the pleasant experience of watching a brand new duckumentary (well, the first half - apparently Don Rosa is a talkative guy) to find that apparently the first season of Due South is now freely available on Youtube? As well as a number of other Canadian tv shows*. That's a nice day.

(What is Slings & Arrows and why does that title sound oddly familiar to me?)

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[isis]

Slings & Arrows is a wonderful dark comedy-drama, complete in three seasons of six hour-long episodes each, about a Canadian Shakespeare repertory theater festival, based on the actual Stratford Festival. Each season is structured around one main tragedy: Hamlet (youth), MacBeth (middle age), and King Lear (senescence). The main character is played by Paul Gross (Fraser on due South); he is a formerly-brilliant actor who had a mental breakdown while playing Hamlet, and is now director of a struggling and penniless theater company. He is called by the New Burbage festival theater to take over directing Hamlet, as the former director - who was directing him when he had the breakdown - has been run over by a truck and killed. The former director's ghost haunts him, which is eerily reminiscent of due South! But it's a fabulous show, with intertwining storylines and a truly excellent cast. The core cast stays with the show through all three seasons, with guest stars for each season. I can't recommend it highly enough, though I really think one must watch the first two episodes before making a decision, because the first episode is before the director gets ghostified, and so is not characteristic of the show.

[luzula]

Oh good, now I don't need to comment. : )

[calvinahobbes]

I don't understand how you could somehow forget what Slings & Arrows is, whether you've seen it or not (I haven't). I don't mean to be a bezzerwizzer, I literally am just baffled. Perhaps you haven't had any points of contact with C6D fandom?

[oneiriad]

I suspect I haven't. I had to google what the abbreviation meant (and then went doh, because sure, I've heard of that).

I mean, I've seen several of those shows, I just - never really engaged in any of the fandoms? Most of them I watched on Danish flow tv channels (and some I never got to finish, because of Danish flow tv channel, which I am delighted to see dying a slow, painful death or at least radical change of their business model these days), and most of them came before my getting properly involved in internet fandom. I mean, I've read fic in some of them, but - they were never the fandoms I fully engaged in, not to mention that I didn't move from lurking to participating in any fandom until - 2003? I mean, I only got to see the second season of dS last year. (And still need to watch the last two.)

[calvinahobbes]

Hmm yes, that makes sense :) I am of the other ilk - never had access to any of the shows, but because the fandom had some overlap with SGA, I've nonetheless read some fic :P

[blnchflr]

I’m still sad I lent out my S&A dvd - and can’t remember to whom :(

[silverusagi]

Due South! I remember watching that as it aired, and again later on Youtube when someone unofficial put it up.