The job of a season premiere is to establish new story arcs for the season and pick up any arcs that were established in the previous season. I feel like this premiere didn’t really do this, however as each episode of the show so far has been self-contained, I felt that this job didn’t apply to them. As it has
Read moreHyde & Seek premiered on 3 October 2016 on the Nine Network. A drama thriller series, Hyde & Seek’s premise was described as follows: “When his best mate is killed in a seemingly random attack, Detective Gary Hyde (Matt Nable) vows to bring the killers to justice. Together with his new partner Claire McKenzie (Emma Hamilton), Gary uncovers a criminal
Read moreThe job of a season finale is to bring the season’s story arcs and subplots to a close and establish new ones for the next season (if there is another one). This show is unique as it was an anthology series, so it didn’t have story arcs, rather individual self-contained stories revolving around the same setting, a beach holiday house,
Read moreThis episode went in a different direction to the previous ones with two sisters only having the holiday house for one night and the use of flashbacks throughout it. Interestingly, the episode kicks off with Hannah sitting in her car in her driveway and not at the holiday house. She’s ignoring phone calls from her work, her mother, and a
Read moreSo we’ve had two married couples, two long-term couples, and two divorcees sharing the house, and in this episode we had a couple on a trial separation. The episode kicks off with Charlie dragging her suitcase into the house during a thunderstorm and having a nice relaxing bath that is interrupted by the arrival of her husband, Zeke, and her
Read moreHow to Stay Married premiered on 8 November 2018 on Network Ten. The show focuses on Greg and Em Butler, a couple who have been married for fifteen years whose lives change when Em returns to work, Greg becomes the stay-at-home parent to their daughters, Sophie and Chloe, and Greg’s brother, Brad, moves in. They are also good friends with
Read moreHouse Husbands premiered on 2 September 2012 on the Nine Network, it was also the very first show I reviewed. The Nine Network commissioned a ten-part comedy drama about the issue of changing gender roles and had the series focus on four modern families where the men are in charge of raising the children. When you watch the series, they
Read moreThe job of a season finale is to wrap up the season’s story arcs and establish new ones for the next season (if there is one). This finale did its job perfectly. The finale picks up from where we were left off with Daniel entering Heidi’s parent’s farmhouse to look for Heidi and Zoe. When he gets there, he finds
Read moreThe job of a season’s penultimate episode is to provide a springboard for the finale, I felt this episode did its job. The episode kicks off with Clara waking up in the middle of the night as she hears banging, only to discover Margie is making chicken schnitzels for her and the kids, as she’s struggling to sleep alone. Meanwhile,
Read moreNow that we’ve passed the halfway point of the season, Paul is now the main suspect and has been arrested, and Daniel is going to turn himself in for taking a bribe, where do we go from here? The episode kicks off with Clara visiting Paul in remand. Paul blames Clara for being in there, however Clara points out that
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