Black Snow

I was fairly worried at the start. The first scenes of Izzy were as unsympathetically shot as possible. Then the introduction of Travis Fimmel's character had me thinking uh oh this is going to be over the top.

Fortunately it got better pretty quickly once the action moved to the North Queensland location.

There were still some quite annoying flaws in the depiction of the characters over the 25 year timeline. Some of the actors seemed to have aged about 5 years tops. While others like Hazel were realistically completely different.

Maybe got a bit too "Broadchurch" in the middle episodes. But the resolution wasn't awful.

BTW. Couldn't help noticing in an extended scene in the video shop where the victim worked in 1994 that there were numerous unrented copies of Elaine Paige's Cats film. Perhaps it was because that film wasn't released until 1998.

Loved Travis in this! My favourite of his work so far.

Real Aussie style drama, loved the backdrop country Nth Qld and the really nicely tailored imagery and camera work. Story line was simple but captivating, I literally had no clue who it was till the end, love it when that happens!

Character development was well done and the timeline jumps were easily defined, even though this had the potential to be problematic as there was a constant back and forth, it was handled very well. I watch it all the way through on New Year's Day morning after watching the first sunrise for 2023!

A great way to start a new year. Great work.

I might be biased as I'm an Aussie, but I'm saying that I usually prefer British crime shows. This one however, lived up to expectations. I've been seeing ads for it for a while now and I was really hoping it wouldn't be a let down...and it wasn't.

The scenery is beautiful (filmed in QLD), the main actor is incredible in his performance. Most of the acting is really well done, there are a few people who you can tell may not have acted before but they still did well.

The plot was easy to follow and full of twists. I was gripped the entire time, I watched the whole thing in one day! I had it partially figured out mid-way through but that didn't spoil anything as there were still plenty of surprises and interesting things happening. Even shed a year.

Highly recommend!

One of the more difficult things with regards to a story line with so many different character arcs is to keep each as interesting as the other. There wasn't a single time where I would shut off with different characters on screen; all interesting as the next. Travis Fimmel was exceptional along with his supportive actors and actresses. Even the younger versions of the characters were extremely good, which can be difficult to pull off. The only problem I can really think of is that about a few eps in, the suspect pool isn't necessarily the entire cast - however the killer is still extremely difficult to predict due to the amazing drip fed style of writing. All in all a very well done series with an absolute stellar sound design (and tracks).

Aussie TV continues to rise.

I really enjoyed this series. It has a good plot with sevral mini sub-plots. ALl good. I like Aussie TV serials and have rarely seen a bad 'un. The main plot is basically a who dun it and the whole plot revolves around who killed a young girl. The main cop character is himself complex with his own set of problems. The main characters are well filled out and easy to relate to.

THE MOST ANNOYING part on this whole series was the awful loud banging noises that pass for incedental music. I really wish that the producer had not allowed this as it spoils many scenes. Apart from that I liked it. Bad music too.