AV Johnson

I loved it. The story was simple, but compelling and the visuals were amazing.

I love series one and series 2 is living up to its predecessor. Session, dragging concepts, twist, and great acting

Overly orchestrated storylines. No stand out housewives.

Slow and boring. Just weird to be weird, no reason. Not scary.

Even though it’s in a soundstage, luxury ship is a draw. I loved the love boat, this is not that. The weird tragedy a minute is exhausting. Pass

Not the most thought provoking sci-fi I’ve encountered. The idea is nice but there are a lot of holes . Some of the special effects are good, but most are pretty rudimentary and the acting is subpar.

It’s light viewing, the ‘will-they-or won’t-they is boring, zero chemistry. The mystery and murders are routine and basic, no big surprises, but the locations are good. Not a big fan of the singing at the end. I forward through that. It’s a solid 2.5 out of five for me.

It was very lighthearted, Simple movie. It was nice to see the culture and Australia.

I found it a little too predictable. It always amazes me in a dramatization where the have the lead doing things no one would ever do. There was way, way too much of that in this series. Getting into cars, going into backyards at night, etc, just basically doing the things that are a set up for something bad to happen. I fast forwarded through many of the episodes. There is too many long-held shots, reaction, shots, close-ups of the lead characters face. I honestly think this could’ve been a three hour movie at best. The revelation wasn’t much of one, I had expected it from episode two . I also didn’t enjoy the actresses portrayal of the lead character. I found her too wide eyed and simpering. I wasn’t rooting for her, especially when she would go into dark and dangerous places unrealistically. Not a commentary on the actress, just on the direction of how to play the character. Since the novel was for young adults, perhaps the series skewed just for them as well.

The premise was interesting, but I skipped from the second episode to the last two hoping for a Satisfying resolution. As others have said extremely misogynistic, the abuse of women and Treatment was deplorable and hard to watch as ‘entertainment’, especially with no fitting resolution at the same level as the hours upon hours of terrible treatment of women and servants. I can’t imagine any women were consulted in the writing, production or direction of this series. It gets one stars for the cinematography and the beautiful sets and scenery. Zero for story, and overly dramatic acting and dragged out scenes, so zero for direction.