Now that the pilot has done its job, the series can continue with plot and character development. This episode did a great job with the latter. Again the episode starts in media res, I really hope that they stop using this technique to revolve the writing around, it’s cliche and gets tired quickly in short seasons, I felt the same
Read moreI will disclose that I haven’t read The Wrong Girl and that I am reviewing the pilot at face value. That being said, I plan on reading it as I am a fan of the beautiful Zoe Foster-Blake. I loved the choice to have the first thing that the viewers see being Lily (Jessica Marais) running, out of breath, with
Read moreI tweeted my preview of this review in two words–mixed feelings. I have mixed feelings for two reasons–one for Channel 9’s choice to air half the season in a two week period and two for the writing. As I mentioned in my previous review, obviously Channel 9 has made the choice to air half the season in a two week
Read moreI’m honestly not sure if this is the first part of the finale or Channel 9 is saying it is to justify their choice to squeeze out the last four episodes of this season over two weeks rather than the usual four weeks, for some unknown reason (presumably to cater to yet another tired ‘reality show’). For the sake of
Read moreThis week the decision was made either by the Love Child team or Channel Nine (most likely the latter) to broadcast a ‘Love Child Movie Event’ for the first time in the show’s history. Since the episode was a ‘movie event’ and therefore twice as long as usual, this review will be done character-by-character. Viv and Annie–Their plot was the
Read moreIn last week’s review of Love Child, I concluded with the hope that I would eat my words over the next two weeks. This week I’m starting to. While I still feel the episodes are overly plot filled, I’m glad that they’ve started to ease up on the quantity of plots. This week’s focus was the Vietnam subplot, which I
Read moreThis episode to me was surprising and not in a good way. I’ve stated in my previous reviews that the episodes in this season so far have been overly plot filled. I felt a small glimmer of hope last week only for it to be taken away from me in this episode. Not only was this episode overly plot filled,
Read moreThis episode wasn’t as spectacular as the previous two, however I think that’s a good thing. The first two episodes were extremely intense and overly plot filled, now that we are most likely reaching the halfway point of the season, the writers’ seem to be plateauing. While this episode was plot filled as well, what makes it stand out is
Read moreThis was again another packed episode but even more spectacular than the last. Again I felt the writers’ were trying to squeeze too much into an episode, I’m aware that the seasons are only limited to eight episodes, but I never felt that they tried this hard in the last two seasons. I’m not sure if they are trying to
Read moreLike its predecessors, the third season premiere of Love Child was a cracker. The first season premiere focused on building the show and its characters as it should, the second season premiere was all about celebration and tragedy in the new decade, this season premiere felt different to me, to me it was overwhelming yet subdued. According to TV Week,
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