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.

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.

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.

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.

For any of you who have studied film and television in any form, do you find the camera work/angles/shots of headland just a disgrace? Either the company have lost their tripod or their camera workers have far to much caffeine in their system. Micellaneous shots are seen all over the place; when someone is ending a conversation by walking out there door we don't need a split second close up of their hand grabbing their keys to know they have picked them up. We can see them in their hand when they unlock the door. The lighting is artificial and washed out, not exactly the best choice for actors who want to look good on screen. We already have enough dodgy soap operas, we don't need another Home and Away. Next thing you know we'll be hearing about the up and coming cyclone that will hit the university head on and blow their mid-term exam notes away...while having some shaky handy cam work attempt to make it look action packed and exciting...