When Charlotte (Melissa George) is found dead, her friend Sarah (Tess Haubrich) and the community's 'bad mothers' join forces to figure out who the perpetrator is.
Over the last couple weeks I have caught up on a couple of streaming TV shows.
The show feels dead. It is watchable but it just comes off like a dehydrated vegetable. You can see what it is, but it needs cooking.
The premise has been done before, with more relish for the melodrama and wit by Desperate Housewives. The show does not have a unique angle to this idea, and despite the Australian setting, the show lacks any sense of cultural specificity.
This show has all the resonance of a commercial. Some of the supporting characters have interesting subplots: Bindy (Shalom Brune-Franklin) is a former teen mum who is having to grapple with parenting solo after her parents leave; Maddie (Mandy McElhinney) is in conflict with her ex (NZ actor Michaela Banas) over their son.
While the supporting players get some interesting dramatic meat and humour, the lead characters and performances feel calibrated to one emotional setting. Granted, they are dealing with a murder, but there is a blankness to protagonist Sarah (Tess Haubrich), her husband/accused murderer Anton (Daniel MacPherson) and the deceased's husband Kyle (Don Hany), who form the key triangle of relationships, that made the central mystery un-compelling.
A pity. There is probably a place for a show like this that had more passion and originality.
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