This is an interesting Australian produced series that details the lives and struggles of working class indigenous people. The first season was better than the second, and after the first couple of episodes, patterns started to emerge, and a certain amount of "sameness" crept in. It's as if the writing had become lazy. In a few of the episodes, the casting is really off e.g in the episode with the daughter confronting the death of her father, it would have been far more believable to have another actress play the age specific role. Having this played by someone in their 40s, wearing pigtails just doesn't cut it. It may have had something to do with the film's budget, who knows. In a couple of the episodes, there was no suitable end. The story just ended abruptly, leaving the viewer in limbo.
I was not surprised by the fact that there were only 2 seasons as I feel the story of the community had been told, and there was no more to share. Others have commented on the slowness of the episodes, the long pauses, extreme close ups of lips, eyes, noses etc, and I would also say that each story could have been told in 25-minute episodes. They just felt dragged out at almost 1 hour. It's a good series to watch but not one that lends itself to "binge-watching"!
I was not surprised by the fact that there were only 2 seasons as I feel the story of the community had been told, and there was no more to share. Others have commented on the slowness of the episodes, the long pauses, extreme close ups of lips, eyes, noses etc, and I would also say that each story could have been told in 25-minute episodes. They just felt dragged out at almost 1 hour. It's a good series to watch but not one that lends itself to "binge-watching"!