In my review of the pilot, I stated that the premise of the show felt cliche and the pilot was flat overall. This episode completely took care of those problems. The episode got off to an unconventional but humorous start with Hugh consulting with one of his city friends about a heart surgery over a video call and subsequently giving
Read moreThis episode did its job as Doctor Doctor‘s pilot–it established the show’s premise, its characters and a few future plots. I felt that the premise of an arrogant city man who screws up and is forced to go home to his family to live out the consequences, was cliche. However Rodger Corser portrays Dr Hugh Knight perfectly, especially with his
Read moreI didn’t know what to expect from Hyde & Seek, my impression from the trailer was that Detective Gary Hyde (Matt Nable) was corrupt. The trailer is obviously meant to mislead and they did with Hyde, however it didn’t mislead on how much of a thriller Hyde & Seek would be. The action is set off within the first five
Read moreI didn’t know what to expect from The Secret Daughter, other than what I saw in the trailers. The premiere episode could have been better, however overall it didn’t disappoint. I’ve always found Jessica Mauboy fabulous, however I do question whether her incredible singing abilities are relied on too much in her acting gigs. I’d rather see more of her
Read moreNow 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
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