It was good up to the end of season 3. I stopped watching it, when I went to internet to check some things out. When I found out Claire dies, it was bad enough w Brick and Becky. Life is sad and death does happen. You fall in love w the main characters. One by one they are leaving the show. They're the ones that made the show. I wish they would have done like Tess and Nick, Becky, Meg and Jodi. Older people do die, but they were young. And that way they could pursue other jobs, but still made appearances. Once Claire died and Tess left, it was no longer McLeod's daughters. Even though it was late in the season, Jodi leaves. I would give a 5 +++. If the original characters would have been in it. As I said, life is hard, and you do lose love ones, but to watch a show as good as this, and watch the ones you come to love in the show, died. If you watched the first few series and missed in-between , you would be lost. My opinion. I read were ratings drop, I think it's for the same reasons that I feel. It's not the same when you lose the main characters, plus I don't want to cry all the time.