User Reviews

There are so many clichés in this series that its main value might be as a drinking game: hooker with a heart of gold (have a drink), professional conduct hearing as a means to derail the investigation (have another drink), bickering detectives who are actually hot for each other (drink), person killed because he/she is wearing another person's clothing (drink), staged press conference to bring out the killer (drink), vital information leaked to the press due to pillow talk (drink), etc. I am not mentioning the clichés that give away major plot points (and there are many more), but you get the idea. It really is as if the writers intentionally tried in insert as many overused police procedural tropes as they could into one script.

The problem is that the acting is uniformly excellent. I cannot single out one performance because from the leads to the smallest part, the acting is top notch. It really is a shame that the actors did not have a better script with which to work.

I doubt if I (we) will finish this series. We watched the pilot and all we did was a back and forth on how incompetent the cops were. But the series is on Acorn, so we said let's see if we do a binge watch to find out if the writers get better.

They didn't. These cops don't jump to conclusions; they take running leaps.  Detective Sergeant Eve Winter tries to run a serious investigation but Detective Inspector Lachlan McKenzie (Peter O'Brien) decides he has the killer of Karly Johansson, Paul Paget whose wife was murdered eight years earlier; and McKenzie is adamant that Paget did it. McKenzie threatens him, follows him, and decides his Javert made Paget take his own life. But Paget was murdered. Rats, wrong again.

Next McKenzie decides Johansson's husband Luke did it. Nope, wrong again. Luke is just a hapless drug dealer. And the Australian feds are involved as Federal Agent Jake Harris is trying to tie up a drug case using Indiana Hope as a witness. But someone is trying to kill Indiana and she tries to hide by having her friend Sharni help her.

Then there is the big twist: Indiana Hope isn't Indiana Hope but Hope Ziegler the daughter of Peter Ziegler, the Director of Public Prosecutions. And Peter dumped his daughter off to be raised by another family as she was always getting into trouble and embarrassing him.

Winter decides there is a leak in her task force and unless she finds out who, Indiana will be killed. And when Detective Inspector Lachlan McKenzie is shot, she knows she is right. This is where I gave up and went to bed. My wife finished it but won't watch a second series should one be approved. She says the cops are so incompetent that they make her cringe. She will admit that she likes Detective Alesia Taylor; but that is it.

There is also a subplot involving Eve Winter's nephew Harry Winter who is a bit of a 14 year old idiot, and Eve's sister Melanie Winter who is a bit of a you are always picking on me for being a bad mother; which she is.

Have only watched episode one, and will leave it there. The series may get better, but I'll never know. The storyline for episode one was interesting, but the portrayal of the investigators of serial murder were so ridiculous I won't give this any more attention. Top notch investigators are brought in to help the small community with a history of missing young women. These experts interview a suspect and examine his vehicle on the street in the presence of many angry men. Men who later beat the suspect to a pulp as they are led to believe he is the murderer. But of course he is not. Investigators view a victim, teenage girl's video strip tease on laptop in a public restaurant setting. These same people interview a dance instructor, once married to the killer, as she is conducting her dance class, In front of the teenage dance students. And four investigators discuss sensitive homicide information while seated on bar stools in a local tavern. The writers either have no idea about protecting individual rights and privacy, or they intentionally want to portray police members as idiots who have no respect for protocol.