Halifax: Retribution

Are Australian law enforcement agencies truly as incompetent as portrayed here? Or is the stupidity limited to those who created and aired this nonsense

Really! The same actors wheeled out to allegedly produce 'drama' Australia can produce far better than this contrived rubbish. Its almost embarrassing to watch so do yourselves a favour and watch anything else.

This is par for the course for Australia's largest commercial TV network. It's reasonably well made and acted, but the tone and approach of the script are tugging clumsily at stereotypical tropes that have been seen many times. The characterization is cliche'd, the emotions are forced, the script comes straight from a 'true crime' tabloid formula that tries to sensationalise the story, but without any real substance. Then again, in the current absence of good quality new TV drama, I guess it will have to do, if you can suspend your disbelief. 6/10

I was expecting something better. Some of the acting performances were shockers, in particular Anthony LaPaglia. I have admired his past work but he was way off in this one, he will have to pull one out of the hat to gain any praise from me again. The plot was too far fetched, scriptwriters struggling to keep viewer entertained. Also very little research went into keeping things looking real. Overall I still give it a 7 as it's my favourite genre, I must watch anything RG is in and I recorded it and will watch it again in a year or so.

I have been waiting for this series to air with great expectations. The first thing that sticks out is that the music has vocal songs throughout which if anything was the most annoying of all. The acting and scenes are uninspiring to say the least. After watching episodes 1 and 2, I will give it one more chance.