Written by John Edward Betancourt Jane Seymour and Rohan Nedd as Harry Wild and Fergus Reid in Season 3 of ‘Harry Wild’. (Photo Courtesy of Steffan Hill/Acorn TV.)
Caution: This article contains spoilers for Episode 305 of ‘Harry Wild’. To revisit the previous episode, click here.
If there is one particular word that we can perfectly associate with the third season of the hit Acorn TV series, Harry Wild, it would have to be… reinvention. Not in the respect that the show has somehow undergone incredible changes, but such a word more so relates to what the show is doing with its stories. Because it really is taking old tropes and clichés found in crime stories and flipping them on their head. Since we’ve been privy to unique stories about revenge and crimes of passion that do not resemble anything, we’ve ever seen in the genre, courtesy of the twists and turns present and well, season three will not be letting up with this anytime soon. As evidenced by the next episode in this saga. For ‘Cleanliness Is Next to Deadliness’ injected some fascinating new twists into the age-old, murder for greed trope by having quite the unfortunate surprise fall into the lap of one of Harry’s friends. In that, Evelyn’s husband was dead, murdered on his own family property no less and well, a quick look into his life revealed that he was something of a degenerate gambler. Which likely meant, that old debts caught up to him and someone had to whack him to feel whole again, monetarily. Which of course, led Harry and Fergus, who were asked to solve the case, to every loan shark and dealer in town, in the hopes of finding something to lead to the truth, but alas, while these loan sharks were scuzzy, they weren’t murderers. Which left this duo besides themselves, because a case like this should have clues, but there were none to be found. In fact, even when they followed the money, there was nothing to indicate a real motive to bring this poor man down. But eventually this duo came to learn that the one’s we least suspect are the ones who sometimes are responsible for a crime and well, they never thought to look at Evelyn’s best friend. Because who would suspect the best friend? The one who… also had a gambling problem, knew the deceased and knew that Evelyn had money locked away and desperately wanted it to be rich at last. Which finally brought the truth to light, and finally brought justice to bear. All courtesy of a beautiful flipping of the script. Because stories such as these usually involve the exact suspect list the heroes went through here. People that have a bone to pick with the gambler and will do what they must to collect and stay out of the spotlight, or jilted lovers and spouses that finally have enough and lay down a trail of deceit to stay out of jail. So, to simply see a bigger fish in the pond go after one of its own, was a nice touch. One that really did reinvent this trope nicely and what’s amazing, is that this story had so much more to offer us than just a complex case involving a greedy monster in plain sight. For there was once again, character growth here. Since Harry toyed with love again, with Harry no less. A real, When Harry Met Harry moment, if you will. Plus, we saw Fergus struggle with the realities of being a teen and being a breadwinner, and how that stress can impact emotional maturity since he and Lola are not in the best of places and well, all of this gave rise, to another amazing episode from this series. Because it was captivating, refreshing, and outright kept us guessing, and featured some amazing moments and well, now that we’ve reached the end of this case, we must prepare for one last hurrah. For the season three finale awaits, and it will be interesting to see how this season of reinvention wraps up. Until next time. Watch ‘Harry Wild’
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