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It's odd. I thought I'd give it three stars for atmosphere, but then remembered the reference to the radio head song creep and dropped it a star for lacking in original content. Shock factor was there and Hugh grant definitely plays a person's worse nightmare as far as sycos go. I liked how realistic the dialogue was between the two women and hugh grants character when they were guests in his house. I found this to be very believable. In fact considering the personality hugh grant was portraying the rest of the movie could very well be a true representation of how someone of his characters mindset might behave and think. I just didn't see the point. I think that had this been an episode of a series and we had been given some back story on the character Hugh grant was portraying and we knew he was what he was and not just senile, then it would have been more intense. Although knowing upfront he was obsessed with religion probably would have made all the dialogue boring. Plus we wouldn't have been second guessing who or what might be behind the curtain. The acting was excellent. It wasn't a waste of time. It was just a half and half mix of potential to be a very hard hitting realistic portrayal of the darker side of members of society and situations anyone of us could easily find ourselves in and a load of weird "what was the point of that!?"

This is a five Star movie. What I didn't like though is the wolf saved his life and he owed the wolf. Even if the wolf hadn't saved his life people who really care would have gotten the wolf medical attention. Conservation should involve providing medical care for wildlife if it doesn't already. They way they talk about how they themselves kill the wolves if the wolves don't move and behave within the conservationists patterns isn't allowing nature to exist in nature as nature should. Then there's the cattle ranchers complaining about the wolves killing the cows. The ranchers also kill the cows. They literally bring them into existence to murder them for profit. Here's an idea: find another way of making money that doesn't involve rearing cattle in wolf country and putting them out to grass in wolf country. That way you won't feel the need or need to make excuses to hunt down a significant attribute to ecosystems into extinction. Another thing I didn't like about this movie is the riding of horses. These people who ride horses kill an animal to produce a saddle for so called byproducts in order to sit on a horse. They literally contribute to cattle farming for their leathers and place the heavy remains on top of a poor horse and sit on them and ride them about. If horses were supposed to be ridden they would be born with nails driven into their hives, metal hooves and a saddle on their backs. Ride a bike made for cross-country. It's not rocket science.

I haven't even finished season one and it's boring and dragging. So I then checked to see if season two was the same story and omg it is and so is season three. It would have been better if each season was a different story with different characters in a different place. It has so much potential until it starts looking like "lost" and " the walking dead" It's like watching the same movie several times in a row. It reminds me of those click bait news articles online where you keep reading for ever and the article doesn't get to the point until 10 years later. And once you are wise to this you just scroll to the bottom and find it was rubbish anyway and pointless. This is 2024, nearly 2025 and people don't have the time for this with countries in financial crisis and the public having to work twice as hard for less. All anyone wants in the short space of free time they have is an escape. They don't want a slow burn with so little content that they become distracted about how much time they are wasting and should they drag their now unenthusiastic ass up from where their soul has been dying a slow death and make their time count.

This is a slow burn and very depressing. I liked the simplicity of the people's lives. However in reality everyone must have had depression and a multitude of mental health conditions. I liked the relationship the parents had and how nice they were. The town folks were ok upto a point and then they displayed a mentality the pretty much everyone in the human race does regardless of whether you live in an area with a large population or a small population. It has nothing to do with a lack of social interaction, poverty and a lack of employment. It's the human condition. The kids acting abilities where brilliant, but I don't think it's healthy to have children play roles regarding death. Especially childhood death. I really don't see the point in this type of story. I actively searched Australian movies because Australian movies are very atmospheric and well acted and well turned out overall. And in spite of the fact that this movie doesn't have an awful lot of content it does hold the viewers attention because that's the beauty of Australian films. Sadly it is depressing by the time you reach the end. And sadly it's at this point you find yourself feeling like it was wasted time and like you need to watch something else to lift your somber mood. In fact there's a sense of acuminated boredom that you didn't realise you were collecting throughout because the great acting and atmosphere of the movie kept you glued and holding out for something. By the time the end arrives it's simply "the end" It's a bit like the lives of the characters. You need to move away in order to be able to look back and realise you were just settling and telling yourself something good is coming. When you look back all it was, was dust, sunshine, humdrum and the end.

The music at the beginning was cringe. It reminded me of hippy seventies music that plays at the beginning of some 70s B horror movie. It was creepy, loud and annoying. It carried on even after conversation had started. What actually caused me to switch off only five minutes in was the teenager asking her friend for a tampon. Then we see her taking the tampon while sat in the toilet Infront of her mate and unwrapping it with her underwear and jeans around her knees. The door is literally wide open and her dad is rushing around the house getting his camping gear sorted. I get that the makers of this movie wanted to make it as real as possible, but in real life only skanky people cohabit in this way. As a female I can honestly say my friends and I didn't do this growing. We didn't defecate Infront of each other either. And none of us sat on the family toilet with the door wide open changing tampons. Oh wait! There was one girl who sat right at the top of the stairs inline with the front door, on the toilet with the toilet door open. The mother was generally getting off with a lad from the neighbourhood, there was a lot of swearing even from the kids, they always had scabies , impetigo and a lot of incest. And my siblings and I were not allowed to hang out with them, but obviously we did because we were kids. None of my other friends would ever live like this. So yeah if this movie was trying to depict a laid-back family that gets along comfortably and family friends being just like family and it all being so wholesome the makers of this movie failed. The second actress portraying the family friend doesn't live like the main characters do. She was lowering her standards. Tampons aren't biodegradable either so she needs a mooncup for camping. Then she can rinse it in the river and they can all have trout for dinner. Creepy flute music, young girl on her period going camping with two middle aged guys.

No Spoilers I've never read the books so I'm giving my review based solely on this TV drama. I think it has potential to be a hit cult TV series. I only got halfway through the first season though and was surprised to see there was still quite a few more segments. First the good thing about this show. The main characters and the serial killer theme is what makes it worth trying to preserve with. The main characters family life and their home and home life. The work colleagues are good for the show except the ones the scenes where the start to over dramatise characters dialogue and reactions. The show is in danger of becoming just another CSI though. Now the negatives: when a show is dealing with reality it needs to be within the boundaries of what's realistic. When a show is depicting themes outside of reality such as Buffy the vampire slayer for example. Then it can depict realistic and unrealistic. Throughout what I did watch it was 50/50 between keeping my attention and not keeping it. I found I had zoned out during a lot of the episodes. The reason I couldn't stay tuned in and gave up halfway through the first season is because everything was a stretch of the imagination. The main character Cross appears to work things out from nothing. Yet if he has such a talent or gift why do they just go from the beginning to the end in the very beginning? While he may be able to put two and two together and speculate on some things, the majority of what he figures out is too convenient. And unless the viewer is willing to overlook the majority of content the majority of it is just not realistic. It drags because they milked it. And as it drags it becomes more and more elaborate with fillers of us being told the plot/ storyline by the characters rather than viewing it and figuring it out for ourselves from some depicted realism and logic. As the episodes unfold it becomes more and more like being in a room with a group of people making up a story as everyone goes a long and pitches in what happens next. It's almost like roleplay where the impossible and unlikely is chipped in as a way to be able to move onto the next segment of the story.