Being a fan of Pia Miranda and Jane Allsop, I was looking forward to this. The lengthy ad build up gave the impression it was actually about bushfires.
Darren McMullen is consistently bad as an actor so I had zero expectations. Especially given the lead in show is Celebrity Amazing Race where he is proving to be a pretty awful human.
Had never heard of the import actor (seems to be a requirement to get these series funded lately ala the recent equally woeful Riptide) Danny Dyer. He was dreadful. Zero acting ability and every scene just consisted of him looking stressed and mumbling incoherently.
Richie Morris is already known for Neighbours and is a great upcoming actor. The younger cast were all great in their roles.
The problem. Well the script. All of it. Clearly written by someone who has never been within a thousand km of a bushfire region. And just too predictable. Every plot line was old. Nothing original.
Costume Dept - at the point one can see smoke one goes inside and takes off flouncy flammable ankle length skirt and puts on jeans & long sleeved shirt. And the teen girl - in shorts no bigger than undies - yep that's safe in a bushfire. Good grief. Combination of poor script direction and poor wardrobe department not thinking logically.
I think these series set in Aus with predominantly Aus actors and a Brit import or two & financed by Brit channels - are written in a way that Brit's think Australia is and the way they think Australians are. This was the same with Riptide where every Aus characterisation was hilarious and embarrassing.
I'm glad actors are getting work but I wish it was something worth putting on their CV.
Oh and to the Brit reviewers who keep referring to the "outback" please stop embarrassing yourselves. The location of the storyline is in the hills an hour from Melbourne. Not the "outback". It's literally where the bushfires are every single year.
Darren McMullen is consistently bad as an actor so I had zero expectations. Especially given the lead in show is Celebrity Amazing Race where he is proving to be a pretty awful human.
Had never heard of the import actor (seems to be a requirement to get these series funded lately ala the recent equally woeful Riptide) Danny Dyer. He was dreadful. Zero acting ability and every scene just consisted of him looking stressed and mumbling incoherently.
Richie Morris is already known for Neighbours and is a great upcoming actor. The younger cast were all great in their roles.
The problem. Well the script. All of it. Clearly written by someone who has never been within a thousand km of a bushfire region. And just too predictable. Every plot line was old. Nothing original.
Costume Dept - at the point one can see smoke one goes inside and takes off flouncy flammable ankle length skirt and puts on jeans & long sleeved shirt. And the teen girl - in shorts no bigger than undies - yep that's safe in a bushfire. Good grief. Combination of poor script direction and poor wardrobe department not thinking logically.
I think these series set in Aus with predominantly Aus actors and a Brit import or two & financed by Brit channels - are written in a way that Brit's think Australia is and the way they think Australians are. This was the same with Riptide where every Aus characterisation was hilarious and embarrassing.
I'm glad actors are getting work but I wish it was something worth putting on their CV.
Oh and to the Brit reviewers who keep referring to the "outback" please stop embarrassing yourselves. The location of the storyline is in the hills an hour from Melbourne. Not the "outback". It's literally where the bushfires are every single year.