Street Smart was described in TV Week‘s previews issue as a “hilarious and entertaining look at a team of bumbling crims who dream of fast cars, attractive women and getting rich quick.” I feel like the pilot lived up to most of this description. When I read that Street Smart is the brainchild of Here Come the Habibs co-creators, Tahir
Read moreThe purpose of a season finale is to conclude the season’s story arcs and set up potential new ones for the next season…Harrow certainly achieved this effortlessly. The episode kicks off with the case of the week in a way unique to Harrow. We see Tom (Joel Tobeck) walking around an office, looking out the window and watching a police
Read moreSo we’ve reached the penultimate episode of Harrow‘s first season. The case of the week focuses on Stan Wagner, an elderly man from the Czech Republic, who is smothered to death in the nursing home he lives in. Most of the episode is set in the nursing home as Harrow and Jack conduct their investigation, from making observations on Stan’s
Read moreAs it’s the season finale, this episode kicked off with a Sando’s ad, only Tony’s version for a current ad. The contrast between the Sando’s ads from the 90s and Tony’s ad and plans for Sando’s now and in the future were clear as day. Obviously the board weren’t going for it and before they could tell him this, Sando
Read moreAgain the episode kicks off with a 90s-ish Sando’s ad, this time focusing on dodgy furniture contracts. This episode mainly focuses on Don and Sando as they are locked in Don’s “man cave” for most of it, both of them needing to escape as they have important events to attend–Don, his first pub gig, and Sando, the board meeting. While
Read moreIn my previous review, I asked for improvement in the second half of the season and this episode certainly showed promise. The episode kicks off again with a 90s-ish ad establishing the episode’s theme–hypnotism. Susie wants Sando to have a therapy session with Nicky to get her to change, during this session Nicky tries to get Sando to open up,
Read moreWhile Sando has been filled with outlandish jokes, unfortunately in this episode the A story itself was outlandish and ridiculous, which brought down the episode and made it a failure. The episode kicks off with its usual 90s-ish Sando’s ad of an “out with the old, in with the new” sale, which of course is the theme of the episode.
Read moreRefreshingly, this episode had three subplots and didn’t put the Quinn subplot front and centre. The episode kicks off with a rower discovering the body of a young fellow rower, Rhys Weir (Earl John) who has seemingly slipped and hit his head on the pier, but of course it’s not that easy. We are given the all-too obvious red herring
Read moreNow that the pilot has established the premise and characters, we can get into subplots and story arcs. Again the episode kicks off with another 90s-ish furniture ad featuring Sando, Don and the kids when they were younger. The ad is about a “don’t be sorry sale”, which fits the episode’s name and main theme, which I’ll get to. Another
Read moreThe job of a pilot is to establish a show’s premise and characters, and set up story arcs for the season, I felt that this pilot did a good job. The episode kicks off with a 90s-looking television ad of Sando’s–a discount furniture store, with the “package deal queen” and namesake, Vicki “Sando” Sandringham (Sacha Horler), with her family advertising
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