Headland

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 badly scripted, badly acted and badly directed piece of fluff that involves a group of not-even-that-attractive non-actors struggling to deliver substandard lines while the camera rolls and pitches all around the frame.

I saw the second episode the other night. The only reason I stayed watching it until the end was because I was depressed and hadn't had a good laugh in a while. The show had the potential to put me in two moods - furiously angry at the fact that lazy management at Seven has led to this being commissioned, and choking on my own laughter as the next revelation is delivered with the subtlety of an ice-pick to the head.

At least "Home and Away" has the decency to be only half an hour long.

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.

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.

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...