Ten Pound Poms
Not quite what to make of this series as within the first 15 mins a whole agenda of modern woke tropes were inserted into a story from 1945 - 50, it really was quite inexplicable.
We had, abuse of women, female empowerment, racism, women's football, mixed race relationships, indigenous rights and enforced family separation. The need to have an inclusive or diverse agenda in not about accessibility as no one under 50 is watching this show.
The idea that people were turned away at the docks for not being white is absurd as selection forms were completed long before departure, not to mention all the schemes in Germany, Italy, Ireland etc where many of the immigrants were not English speaking.
To suggest that British immigrants expected luxurious accommodation when they arrived is massaging the truth that many applicants for the scheme were a rock bottom and living in squalor following the war. Despite the recruitment adverts no idiot would have believed they were just going to be handed such a house, the advert was clearly aspirational and by working hard they mostly achieved their dreams.
Episode 2 injected some much needed humour only to revert to racism in the next breadth, what was this idiot writer thinking.
I really didn't like the adoption story line, it was just so overly contrived and dominated so much of the show. Kate viewed her child as a possession when it was self-evident she was in no way able to bring up any child.
This could have been great, but instead of Aussie humour and stories of human resilience and triumph we had a heavy and mostly dreary kitchen sink drama.
Overall it was a 5 outta 10, dreary.
