Fortunate Son

Watching mainly for 60s atmosphere and soundtrack, at least the soundtrack is partly there. On the surface of it, the subject/premise seemed fairly original at least, the subject of US draft-dodgers running and hiding in Canada. Canada avoided involvement in Vietnam-Australia and New Zealand did not. So Vietnam caused all of the same social ructions here as in America itself. Peace-marches, khaki elections, Agent Orange. College students throwing buckets of red paint or pig's blood on returning veterans. 501 Australian KIA. Thousands more physical and psychological cripples. I was 8 years too young to be drafted, don't know to this day whether I'd have gone along with it or run as well if I had bene old enough and had been called up. Oh well, it was a good war soundtrack music wise. The shows song selection bears useful comparison with another recent 60s time-capsule series like AQUARIUS for example. Yes, the US ,military or spy-spooks blackmailing some guy that had a patrol/firefight go pear-shaped in a friendly-fire FUBAR , to then go to Canada to infiltrate spy on and help sabotage the draft-dodgers and their support network IS a far-fetched one. One other thing that could have been done without in both a continuity sense and annoying sense, is a teenager that goes "WHATEVER". I don't think 'WHATEVER ' was invented in 1968. Which was a good thing. The hippy-parents with a conservative business-oriented child maybe of course is a little (Alex Keaton/Family Ties) derivative. It's enough to keep me washing past the episode #2 or 3 I'm up to so far..I'm at least going to look up some of the sound-track songs I did not recognize, about half I did recognize. .here in Australia they out it on about 2310 after he late ch9 news so, another advantage is that the ad-breaks are very short.