Liz Stockton (Clare Bowen) leads an International landmine clearing team in Vietnam. She accidentally uncovers an ancient tomb and unleashes hungry ghosts. She reconnects with her famed photographer father Neil Stockton (Bryan Brown). The ghosts bring havoc to the Vietnamese community in Australia. May Le (Catherine Van-Davies) must rediscover her heritage after her grandmother's death to stop a powerful force from the beyond.
This is an Australian TV miniseries trying to tell a Vietnamese ghost story. The first issue is the lead. May Le needs to be the lead without a doubt. Yet the show starts with Clare Bowen as if she's the lead. The introduction should be introducing the lead and the story. This really only does the story. May Le should start the show and be in every scene. She needs to be the center and everything. These characters need to rotate around her. She's the bridge between the western world and the ancient Vietnamese world. Bowen feels very detached. I suspect that Bowen and Brown are the named actors used to sell the project but their characters never got properly integrated into the story.
As a ghost story, it needs something scarier. I do like the culture but the story telling is muddled. The exposition comes in the second episode and the whole thing is only four episodes long. It's clunky. They introduce a villain in the second episode. The premise could be interesting but the execution needs work. There is a fun little ghost story with an exotic culture here but it could be better.
This is an Australian TV miniseries trying to tell a Vietnamese ghost story. The first issue is the lead. May Le needs to be the lead without a doubt. Yet the show starts with Clare Bowen as if she's the lead. The introduction should be introducing the lead and the story. This really only does the story. May Le should start the show and be in every scene. She needs to be the center and everything. These characters need to rotate around her. She's the bridge between the western world and the ancient Vietnamese world. Bowen feels very detached. I suspect that Bowen and Brown are the named actors used to sell the project but their characters never got properly integrated into the story.
As a ghost story, it needs something scarier. I do like the culture but the story telling is muddled. The exposition comes in the second episode and the whole thing is only four episodes long. It's clunky. They introduce a villain in the second episode. The premise could be interesting but the execution needs work. There is a fun little ghost story with an exotic culture here but it could be better.