Although I write my reviews of TV Shows in great detail, I’ve decided to add another category to this blog: TV Shows—Analysis. As a writer, especially a character rather than plot driven writer, I’ve always loved analysing fiction, especially characters and themes. As I watch TV shows, both the ones I review and the ones I don’t, I notice themes
Read moreThis episode was all about playing dirty. Ajax, Meryl, Hayley and Betty—Ajax and Meryl upped the ante with their election campaigns, which kicked off with them going on about their slogans on trucks, running into each other and causing a traffic jam, later culminating in Meryl revealing Ajax didn’t finish high school and Ajax almost revealing Meryl faked a heart
Read moreThis episode was a breath of fresh air as Hugh didn’t go on a bender and the focus started to shift to the other characters. Dinah—I thought I’d start this episode’s review by focusing on the newest arrival in Whyhope, Dinah, Harriet’s mother and Eliza’s grandmother. Dinah offers to babysit Eliza while Hugh is working, much to his relief as
Read moreThe theme for last week’s episode was “back to the way things were/are”. The theme for this week’s episode was “the more things change the more they stay the same.” Hugh, Penny and Tara—Penny makes the decision to sack Hugh due to the Cardiac Unit deal going south for the Hospital. This leads to Hugh going off to Sydney to
Read moreThe job of a season premiere is to establish new story arcs for the season, which could include but not be limited to possible story arcs set up in the previous season’s finale. I felt that this premiere only partially did the job. As it has been over a year since the season 3 finale aired, I had to re-read
Read moreAs well as reviewing the parent series, I decided to review the new web series of Playing For Keeps, Playing For Keeps: Sidelines. The Ten Play website states that “a woman’s car is her own personal haven. We make phone calls, we sing along (albeit often off key) to the radio, we check in with ourselves, and most importantly, there’s
Read morePlease note, this blog post is updated regularly. I went through my blog posts on the TV Week Previews editions for 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 to see what new shows I ended up reviewing and what shows I didn’t. The majority of new shows that I blogged about that I said I’d review, I
Read moreI’m carrying on my annual tradition with this blog post—buying the previews edition of the TV Week and blogging about what shows look good to watch this year (and that I’ll possibly review). Harrow‘s impending third season was only given a paragraph this year. According to TV Week, the third season “sees the forensic pathologist gain a son—maybe. A young
Read moreThe job of a season finale is to wrap up the season’s story arcs and set up new ones for the next season, if there is one. I felt that this finale only partially did its job. Kath, Maddy, Kendall and Liam—The main focus of about two-thirds of the finale was about dealing with Liam. I was happy to see
Read moreWe’ve reached the penultimate episode of the second season and one thing this episode didn’t lack was drama as everything is reaching a head. Connor, Tahlia, Kath, Brian and Liam—I thought I would start with them as the episode revolved around them. The episode kicks off with Connor, Tahlia and Kath having a meeting at Tahlia’s house to discuss what
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