I tend not to be a great fan of Australian TV drama series, but this proved to be a breath of fresh air.
It's consistently engaging and rarelly drags as a well-created, and intriguing, plot leads to the denoument over six episodes - a great binge-able length! Although the climax might be seen as a little clumsy, it doesn't detract from the quality of the series overall.
The acting is generally excellent, particularly from Jemmason Power and Talijah Blackman-Corowa, with a good script and great cinematographhy in the cane fields of North Queensland.
Although I often find time-shifts to be very frustrating, the moving back and forth between the time of the murder, 25 years ago, and today proves to work seamlessly.
It also manages, in a moving way, to draw attention back to the appalling legacy of "blackbirding", or the effective enslavement of tens of thousands of South Sea Islanders in rural Australia, particularly Queensland.
Highly recommended!
It's consistently engaging and rarelly drags as a well-created, and intriguing, plot leads to the denoument over six episodes - a great binge-able length! Although the climax might be seen as a little clumsy, it doesn't detract from the quality of the series overall.
The acting is generally excellent, particularly from Jemmason Power and Talijah Blackman-Corowa, with a good script and great cinematographhy in the cane fields of North Queensland.
Although I often find time-shifts to be very frustrating, the moving back and forth between the time of the murder, 25 years ago, and today proves to work seamlessly.
It also manages, in a moving way, to draw attention back to the appalling legacy of "blackbirding", or the effective enslavement of tens of thousands of South Sea Islanders in rural Australia, particularly Queensland.
Highly recommended!