Reviews

So after my last review I decided to delete that one and make a new one and watch the whole thing from scratch. And going back in a second time this time with fresh eyes and time to reflect, it was actually really good and something new.

It was something different and new and written by someone with lived experiences, and it was well done and well made by Ra Chapman who deserves major credit for also writing a play on the same subjected, so it was great to see.

It's actually a really funny comedy and while it does start slow it is worth sticking around and seeing the character just have the time of their lives, written from lived experiences and that has to be commended and what also has to be commended is the "controversy" this brought because it shines a lit on dating and just things we don't think about in others lives.

Go in with fresh eyes, and a new perspective, you may find your next binge!

Actually really enjoyed watching this over Easter, as I had seen the ads for it on TV and thought it was just going to be about a kid who loves running and that was it.

It was so much more and it was a great movie, not to long not to short, the characters clicked really well and the story was actually pretty decent.

We need more storytelling like this with humour and heart because that is what we all need in our lives adults and kids alike.

Was great to see Jess Mauboy again and she put in a great performance and so did the actors who played the teachers, the dude who played Grandpa was another highlight.

Great to watch with the family they will love this!

Hate how you have to give this over 600 words.. It doesn't even deserve 600 words..

The amount of good things I heard about this and how it was so hyped up during the festivals and even on instagram and how it took the festivals "by storm" who did actually enjoy it? Because I know it wasn't me, that is for sure.

It needs the speed up feature to be watched because it is so slow in places and so over the top.

The only decent actor in this is Sigrid Thornton and then she is too over the top for this, her monologue during one scene was the only good part of this, someone please apologise to Sigird.

You can skip this one, find something a bit more fast paced or with a speed up option.

Nothing could even prepare me to watch so far the first couple of episodes that have aired, because it was written by the team who were behind Wentworth and then you just knew it had to be good.

Leah Purcell being given the reigns of her first lead in a series and it is off to a magnificent start and how good are the shots of the country? We have some of the best bushlands in Australia and this show is showcasing it perfectly.

My only wish is what would Brian have said when he seen this one come to life, afterall it was his last commission as head of foxtel/binge, this one is for you Brian

Stick with it, you might just like it. I know I do.

Making this review 600 words will be kind of easy.. here we go..

Managed to watch all the episodes of series one so far and it has felt like it has a Dexter vibe to it, but got kind of lost meaning if you bought Dexter at the dollar store and gave him a script and said "be like Dexter but the cheaper version.. the we have dexter at home.. dexter at home.."

Really enjoyed the premise and to see David De Lautour and Robbie Magasiva after Wentworth and just how well Magasiva played Schroder, I hope if/when there is a second season if he is asked to return because that would be awesome!

Budget Dexter better have his Budget Rita with him too! Minus the voiceover during the next season though please.

Hard to put into words how much this didn't deserve to be a series and making sure this reaches 600 words will be a stretch.

I agree with another review were they said it was like the cast met right before filming and didn't know or worked alongside each other before..

The acting is so stiff and the camera movements during certain scenes being edited in such a way where it give you motion sickness if you looked at it for a long time.

I love Sam Neill but far out he deserved a better series then this and everyone else should take some acting lessons cause god they were stiff and it wasn't good.

Give it a miss. Read the book instead.

Find it really hard to make a review 600 words now lol, but here we go.

I managed to finish the series in one night and while I normally don't do that, it was the support cast that kept me engrossed as I chuckled alongside them.

How good was it seeing Katrina Milosevic in a comedy for once? Especially after Wentworth she was truly a breath of fresh air that made me chuckle watching her in a role far from the confines of Wentworth. Geraldine was a hoot who wasn't afraid to cross a line when needed.

It's not supposed to be serious and why are people complaining about that? Acting like you're superior, it's silly fun and if you don't like that, maybe comedic dramas aren't your thing.

Give it a go, it's comedic drama being silly and it's good.

The last few years of Home And Away something has been lost, whether that is the shows original heart or jumping the shark so often it feels broken.

Something has to give for this show and I don't know what it is.

Ah. Yes. It's the writing that has been lost, and the show not allowing older characters to return to the show. It feels lost, the writing and current production team relying too much on the young cast, while older cast members are thrust into the background with the same repetitive storylines.

Channel 7 has some brilliant productions coming through but now? With HAA beings its only major draw it needs to change. Cause the longer the current writing team is in, the more the show gets lost.

Ah.. Here we go again. I did manage to watch this in one night and while I thought it was ok, I just want someone at Rebecca and Richard's agencies to apologise to them, oh an apologise to Jacek Koman as well this is one of his best performances in years and yet he got casted here.

The story jumps up and down and the B story is like three stories that mix together in some confusing way and someone in the script department just went "make everyone sound as nervous as possible." it's fine but gets old quick and most of the way the characters speak is like they aren't used to talking in such a way.

Maybe give it a few years and I might watch it again, but if it does get a second season I hope they replace the writing team.

Can someone please apologise to Asher Keddie and Tina Bursill? That would be great thanks.

If this is what post Brian Walsh can look like at Foxtel/Binge I dread whats coming next.

I just could not get into this and watched it over the course of a few days because there is no way this should've been made into a show.

Can we please stop greenlighting peoples memoirs please because after the failure that was Warnie this year you think Binge/Foxtel would've served up something just a little bit better.

Don't get me wrong Asher is a national treasure but I feel like someone just handed her the script and went "read it now"... Do yourself a favour, skip this.

Everyone kind of knows what SBS is famous for, and to me after the success of their previous drama titled Safe Home, we are served with this "Erotic Stories", not really what we were expecting this year, but hey? It's SBS haha.

Now I won't spoil much but I really enjoyed episode two "The Deluge", Kate Box, Danielle Cormack and Emily Havea were all brilliant in this episode, and it was so great to see Kate Box again after Deadloch and Wentworth, gosh Kate is such an incredible actor and deserves the entire world.

Also enjoyed the episode "Powerful Owl", what a good episode.

If anyone from the Wentworth fandom gets to see this series, please watch this, you will enjoy it more then you know.

Every episode is important to a different demo and it shows, but it's truly something that gives the audience what they need and want to see in the realm of sex, love and boundaries

Also, more SBS like this again please.

Wow just wow. Ben O'Toole is the most underrated person in the show, just his performance alone and how he can be heartbreaking with his emotional scenes and when he needs to be funny he is. IMO one of the most underrated people here.

This is a brilliant dramedy that has a good premise and great actors on a mission to give this show life. I also think Lincoln Younes as Albhanis is a riot and the character giving a "rambo" vibe is what I live for lol.

Someone also please slap that gum out of Matt Fox's face cause it's like watching a cow chew its cud and bring it up numerous times. That's really my only gripe about this lol.

I managed to see this during The Sydney Film Festival when it was on and it was one of the most underrated films of the night.

David Dastmalchian is brilliant in this role and the other actors in this gel and make this one of the films of the year.

As an Australian it is good to know when can at least make some good horror films, and you'd never know that this was made on a minimal budget it never shows and I hope it gets to make a big return..

I have nothing but good things to say about this because of just how good it was. I always see things at film festivals and seeing this was a highlight of the SFF and it has MIFF to go. Can't wait for everyone else to see it.

If I could write the word "GARBAGE" over and over I would. Because that is what this is. This is tacky in the highest order and we all thought Underbelly Vanishing Act was awful this is just a cash grab of a legend of the game.

It's a pity as well because the "archive" footage if you can even call it that is edited in such a way the "bowling" action used by Alex Williams is awful, maybe should've used a stunt actor who actually played cricket professionally. Alex Williams didn't portay Warnie the way we knew him as a larrakin, his acting in certain scenes looks stiff and it's noticeable in some scenes alongside the actors who had been in the industry for years.

I love a lot of the actors in this, but whoever let them do this, I feel sorry for them, not only did they have the weight of the world on their shoulders, but the script writer Matt Ford? Should never write another biopic again.. and Geoff Bennett? Needs to stop directing "drama events" because they are becoming worse and worse.

Channel 9 should offer a personal apology to the screen legends in this, specifically the actor who played his mother and Marny Kennedy this project was above them and they were the only shining lights to a project where again: The cast had the weight of the world, media scrutiny and a family in mourning to deal with at the same time.

Again, Channel 9 apologise to everyone who appeared in this and be careful with your next "drama event of the year." make sure its not as tacky as this..

Good to see that Kate Box after Wentworth got this job and I love Alicia Gardiner these types of roles suit her so well.

This is my favourite type of show as it is just glorious chaos as her character Dulcie is trying her best to get on with the investigation but has incompetent police officers and a gungho partner.

I thought I wouldn't like this as the trailer didn't do the show justice and that's most trailers to be honest.

But this is just pure chaos as everyone is doing the one thing they aren't supposed to and it is clearly annoying Collins as Eddie is making things worse and the storyline getting really dark and deep really quickly.

Can't wait to see more.

Wow. There's a lot to say about how this topic of discussion can effect so many lives and who it effects. We think of family violence as name calling or a playful punch on the arm but it is so much more then that.

I watched all 4 episodes and I congratulate the cast and crew who brought this to life it could not have been easy.

Aisha Dee as Phoebe in a world she doesn't understand and trying to make a journo understand what is going on, her depth and emotion to this cannot be understated, she played this to perfection.

The names that were attached to this and when I saw them on screen was like "Oh hey I know them from this light hearted role." that was my first thought with Diana played by Janet Andrewartha from Neighbours, what a return to the screen for her, such a hard role to play someone being controlled by this she played it perfectly.

The intertwining stories and subject matter make it a hard watch but it needs to be watched we can no longer be quiet about Family violence when it out there and not going away.

Wow.... this one... this one is hard to put into words because I knew friends that died from HIV/AIDs during those years and to see how it could be portrayed here was how everyone felt, scared, angry and nervous 'could it happen to me'.

ABC chose to do this and boy did they deliver something that is still a massive threat to everyone, the issue of HIV/aids hasn't gone away, the story to tell is still there and everyone who worked on this did a wonderful job bringing to life.

While I did have a few gripes with some of the acting choices by the actors and the weird placement of the 'music element' this was done so well. It could've done without the singing but it's worth watching how the response was handled, how emotions were at the time and how the world reacted.

I remember seeing the ads for this and thinking "wow this could be bad." but I watched it all in one sitting and it ended up being really good? That was the surprising thing. It was just daring to be different and daring to change the normal of just a 'school drama', the director and cast did a fantastic job at bringing this to life, congrats.

What this shows is that you can never really hide from the past and make sure the future looks safe when its not and unfortunately while everyone else let go of the past Jo couldn't. Jo is the epitome of 'can't let go' and it really shows when she meets the people from her past who have let go their previous lives at the school.

You can run from the past but you cannot hide from it.

While parts of the film can be slow at times and some scenes drag on for a little too long, it is enjoyable. Well from my end anyway, you may or may not like it and it may not be your favourite type of movie or with the actors you're used to seeing, but the producers gave it one hell of a go

The acting from the kid actors is a little off and someone needs to go back to drama school, mainly the son character who comes across as bland and at time very unlikeable.

Matt Nable? He continues his rise as another broken figure and he really is stepping into his acting more and more with every role he takes on now.

First heard of them film when someone on instagram announced they knew someone they knew was going to be in this but had to ultimately withdraw due to the 'goat show' happening in NSW at the time, I held my breathe baited until I saw this.

What an amazing piece this is. Showing the lights and sounds of Newcastle at its very very best. Jye Currie is a tremendous director who brings to light just how confronting the movie can be at times.

The music was just one of the most hauntingly beautiful things to listen to, the emotions of everyone involved was amazing.

Jye if you read this, i look forward to your next project. This is worth watch after watch after watch.

A fitting end to 37 years. My thing is "where do the cast go from here"

Especially Jackie Woodburne who has been the heart and soul of the show so many years. I wish everyone who worked on this all the best.

This might be "a show" to some but it really is so much more.

I'm a huge fan of insight, and these interviews are full of personal insights from set. And peoples time on the show.

Cast/Crew nothing is off limits. That's the way it should be.

While it starts off slow and sometimes stays in the slow lane, I found it quiet interesting in the way the communities in the outback deal out their justices.

Rarriwuy Hick certainly held her own in her first lead role, and the cast are brilliant as well.

This being one of SBS & NITVs first commissions into the foray of Aussie drama, I believe whatever we see next from them will be just as good as their first offering.

Give it a go. You might just like it.

If you see one movie this year or don't go out to see movies often, this one is a must see. Leah Purcell did the short story some incredible justice. The landscape and story are just perfect.

Always enjoyed Kate Atkinson in Wentworth so to see her as a crim in an underbelly was something new. She delivers a fantastic performance, but pity some of the others just phoned it in.