Loveday Writing

This 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

In 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

This 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,

This 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

This 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

Like 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,

The season finale of the second season didn’t disappoint. The Joan and Jim subplot was packed with the right amount of tension and detail. I was surprised by the reveal that Joan does in fact love Jim, since their marriage was slightly forced although they did clearly bond, so I guess it kinda makes sense, it just seemed rushed. I

This episode was the best penultimate episode of a season of any television show I have ever seen. The chain of events that unleash after Viv tells Annie that Chris is Matron’s son is remarkable. After the revelation, Annie discovers she is pregnant again, which leads to her telling Chris the truth, which leads to the confrontation between him and

Once again we are provided with a distinct time setting for the episode–ANZAC Day. Therefore four months have passed since the events of the first episode. Similar to the previous episode, this one is progressing the season but still feels like a filler, it’s a set up for the story arcs of the final two episodes. The highlight of this

I felt that this episode was a filler for the next three remaining episodes of the season. This episode focused on character development more than anything with Viv starting her job as a Nurses’ Aide at the hospital, Shirley in the process of divorcing Colin and dealing with an awkward encounter with Eva, Joan’s reaction to Shirley sleeping with Patrick,