Headland

I watched and taped every episode (as I have no life) hoping against hope that at last there would be something Aussie and watchable on regularly. I saw Rachael Taylor - Sasha - display moments of great power when the script gave her a chance to show her potential. The stereotyped bitch role she plays is mostly predictable - it is much better when she is ambiguous - but the sometimes pedestrian script lets her and the others down. But at times, she absolutely fires. Her passion and anger when it hits home lift the show out of its is smug Australian 'she'll be right' sleepy complacency and cliché. She has presence and she is quite strikingly beautiful - gorgeous in fact - if the strange camera angles and lighting let you see her properly. Rachael has a bright future if she can get some serious parts. There are some other characters and plot lines that are also original and appealing. And some dags too. But the script wanders all over the place and wastes so much time on blind alleys and vacuity. One episode there will be a good writer (or team) and it lifts, the next it stumbles or flounders again. Much of it is unbelievable. The cast is overall pretty good. The script is the key. The script is this show's downfall.

It started off a bit slow, even though the ads were like, 'Find out what happened that night,' and 'best show this summer.' But it will get better, as there are good story lines coming up. Go to the website, and you can read the stuff there. Its actually quite good. The characters are great, and the cast is great as well. Most of them have been on All Saints or Home and Away, so they're pretty good actors/actresses. I hope it does get better, as it seems like a nice show, and they've already filmed 52 episodes. Let's hope it doesn't turn out like all the other Aussie shows such as The Alice or Last Man Standing, which were put on later and then axed.

Headland is a Bad Show in Many Ways...

1. Bad Acting

2. Bad Storyline's

3. No Happy Ending

4. Bad Behavior

What were they thinking when they made this Junk? No heart warming Stories either I much prefer the other Aussie Classics with Real Story Lines like All Saints Blue Heelers Police Rescue Water Rats McLeods Daughters Packed to the Rafters Special Rescue Ops Winners and Losers House Husbands Offspring The Alice Upper Middle Bogan Dance Academy The Worst Year of my Life Again Round the Twist Saddle Club Blue Water High H20 Just add Water Good Actors like Gary Sweet Rhys Muldon Virginia Gayy Natalie Saleba.

Didn't like it at first, put bluntly it sucked! But after the dreadful first few episodes it's really picked up and is now a pretty decent show. If you originally watched it and were put off (I don't blame you, most were) I recommend giving it another chance. It's improved a huge deal and is actually worth watching.

Majority of the characters are great (except for the bland Elly and counselors dude aka Conrad Coleby) but the rest are quite good. Sasha is a great bitch. The Monks are sweet. Heath is darling, Craig is intriguing and as the show carries on the story lines become compelling with their mysteries, just what happened that fateful night of the car accident and what agenda does the intriguing Freya have?

It definitely isn't the best show on the box but it's rapidly improving and lets face it, it has to be better than tired old Home & Away which has become so unbelievable (Cyclone, really?) and soapy it's become a joke, a bad one at that.

I can't sit through more than 2 minutes of this show without thinking that Aussie drama is getting worse. "Neighbours" and "Home and Away" are works of art compared to this (and I can't stand either of these shows). This show is being shown at 7pm four nights a week as I write this and at the same time they are repeating this same show a 3pm four nights a week and the show isn't even 2 weeks old. I flicked the TV on and saw one particular scene where a bloke riding a motorbike drives up to a house then we cut to a "point of view" shot of this bloke, only to see (in the front window of this house) that he has changed into a ute carrying a camera. It is this kind of film school production value (dont get me started on how bad the acting is either) that has really turned me off Aussie drama and being an Aussie that is saying a lot. I really hope that this show gets cancelled before it can ruin the reputation of the already struggling Aussie drama industry.