You'd think that an Australian show would be more sympathetic to the pain of inept accents- We get it all the time, mostly from Americans, who seem to think Australians sound like a cross between a South African accent, and developmental impairment.
And all the old-timey slang is kinda fun, but it really doesn't help with the cringe factor, either.
The Tin-Pan Alley covers of Mental As Anything, and other old pop songs are cool, though. And the court-room scene was actually pretty funny.
Peaky Blinders did this era (well, a few years earlier) more competently, two years later, but I have to wonder if PB took influence from Underbelly; Razor- The era, the prostitution angle (s1 on PB focused a lot on prostitutes, which is fairly atypical, for crime shows), as well as the shared 'razor' theme, all make it look like the Brits saw the Aussie show and thought "I reckon we could do this, except better".
And all the old-timey slang is kinda fun, but it really doesn't help with the cringe factor, either.
The Tin-Pan Alley covers of Mental As Anything, and other old pop songs are cool, though. And the court-room scene was actually pretty funny.
Peaky Blinders did this era (well, a few years earlier) more competently, two years later, but I have to wonder if PB took influence from Underbelly; Razor- The era, the prostitution angle (s1 on PB focused a lot on prostitutes, which is fairly atypical, for crime shows), as well as the shared 'razor' theme, all make it look like the Brits saw the Aussie show and thought "I reckon we could do this, except better".