The 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 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 moreSo this episode starts the shift from Fern drama to Stephanie drama. The case of the week revolves around a mother and son double fatality. At the start of the episode we see a woman (Audrey) in her car on the side of the road, watching a ute speed past her and hitting a tree off-screen, with the mystery woman
Read moreAfter the tension and high stakes in the previous episode, this one in comparison seemed tame. Nevertheless the start of the episode wasn’t tame in graphic nature with the case of the week kicking off with the discovery of a dismembered young woman on train tracks. For the most part I felt that this case was predictable—-it was obvious that
Read moreThis week the Fern drama and the case of the week came together for the first time. The drugs that Billie gave Fern in the previous episode ends up causing the death of a young woman, and puts others, including Billie himself, in the hospital. While the young woman who takes the drug falls to her death, the murder of
Read moreThis episode interestingly focused more on the case of the week than Fern and the River bones. The case of the week revolved around bones found in a backyard, where it is revealed that they belong to a young homeless woman, Sally (Zindzi Okenyo). While the most obvious suspect was quickly eliminated, what was interesting about this case was that
Read moreThis episode got Harrow out of the office and out of Brisbane. This episode immediately kicked off with the case of the week and I swear that each week, the moments of discovery when it comes to the crime of the week are getting more graphic and gruesome. I’m not sure what the writers’ have planned for next week’s episode,
Read moreNow that the pilot has aired and established the show’s premise and characters, now the fun and character exploration can really begin.
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 the pilot of Harrow pulled this off beautifully, even if it did so slowly. The episode starts with an unknown figure pouring concrete over a body and disposing it in the river, followed by the opening
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