Remounting the Mountie

I've been enjoying Due South on DVD far more than I thought I would. And for some of the wrong reasons.

My fixation this time around is not the star (Paul Gross), nor his rumpled sidekick (Callum Keith Rennie - apparently, his real name). I'm enjoying the oddball stories, the razor-sharp dialogue, the giddy musical score as much as ever... but no... this time the star is Constable Renfrew Turball, as played by Dean McDermott.

There's something about a decent man with lots of muscles and no brain that's irresistibly attractive. And then there's the uniform.

*sigh*

Of course, even better is the joyous realisation in Mountie on the Bounty that... Officer Turnbull is a red shirt-lifter! While the rest of the cast settle down for a lovemaking montage, Turnbull indulges in a Gaultier-tribute spot of arm-wrestling with a fellow mountie. "You are a very aggressive young man," sighs Turnbull, staring into his eyes. Here's the picture: