Fortunate Son

Fortunate Son starts out strong with intriguing first two episodes. The show doesn't bother with much exposition or set up, letting the audience figure things out as the episode progresses, which makes for an interesting and suspenseful start. The first episode gives you just enough information to hook you in, leaving you excited for the episodes to come. The sets and costumes are excellent and really help set the tone for the series. The characters are realistic and the cast is phenomenal. Kari Matchett,usually known for supporting roles, absolutely shines as main character Ruby. Looking forward to the rest of the series!

Kari Matchett is far too good of an actress to be involved in this propaganda play. It is obvious to anyone who experienced the late 60's that what is being offered up by the writers is pure biased speculation with no research being done at all, and it is a shame.

I was in the Navy as a corpsman, my brother a Marine in the swamps of Vietnam. We both knew people who objected and people who ran. I am sure at least a few are still alive and could have been used as advisors for continuity, correctness, reality... three factors lacking from the script.

I suggest the tag line, based on a true story be removed for honesty's sake.

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.

I was reluctant at first to watch this because of the low overall rating. Then I saw that it was low because of an ignorant and childish 1 given by someone with some weird issue.. believe the people who rated it 9+10. The story is clever, that cast superb. You will be hooked! I was gutted when it ended...

That's one star apiece for each episode.

I was in high school during 1968 and what's portrayed here is pure nonsense. The plot is simply unbelievable on so many levels. It involves a conspiracy theory that even a hard-core conspiracy nut would say is far-fetched. For reasons I don't understand, CBC is heavily into doing "period" pieces and every one that they do is an absolute mess of anachronisms and basic stupidity. This one is true to form.