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I'm watching cuz Noah Taylor stars. Too grim, humorless, ernest procedural


I don't get it. I must be missing something. This has the same unpleasant tone as CI:SUV, not a good thing. I expected to get some Aussie humor but it simply imitates so many other self righteous, lurid cop shows. Why bother? Couple of points for style but the tone is ripe for parody.

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Agree completely.

How does a show with such amazing scenery, cinematography and setting and based on a tragic and compelling story go so wrong?

Here's a clue: They hung the thing on the scowling, pinch faced, irritating empty suit perpetually aggrieved snip of a lead actress who veered between self-righteous smirking and pinched face like her shoes were too tight in every "emotive" scene.

Toe curlingly awful.

If they dump the self-righteous, unprofessional cow pretendy copper and feature the other excellent actors and get a good story that doesn't preach to us and just highlights another compelling story but without the whining unprofessional bumpkin at the center of it, then this show has a chance.

But that's four hours of life I'll never get back. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

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Ok, cuck.

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