The first 4 eps really got me excited for the epic showdown between Eve and Mick, but some really poor writing in the last 2 eps harms what could have been one of the great Aussie TV series.
Lucy Fry is pretty damn great. She is vulnerable, beautiful, fragile when we first meet her, and one of the series greatest strengths is seeing her grow tougher, stronger and more self reliant. However she has to deliver some cringe lines, and some of her actions in the last eps make no sense at all. But Lucy was great, really enjoyed her character. The other characters.....not so much.
Mick is the boogeyman. An unstoppable force who just goes around indiscriminately killing anyone he comes across for no reason other than he is a killer. We get a little backstory about his childhood but this is not really enough to flesh out such a one dimensional monster. Jarrett obviously has fun with the role but he's too normal to be a mythical Jason/Michael Myers monster, yet too unbelievable to be a truly scary serial killer.
The side characters and their stories too are fairly pointless and are pure filler for the most part. Great actors like Deborah Mailman and Gary Sweet have small arcs which are completely inconsequential within the greater Eve vs Mick story. Little B-stories like the cop's relationship troubles with his wife pop up every episode and truly offer nothing but filler. We also have other poorly written characters as Jesus, the bikies, the escaped con and the list goes on. This is the weakest aspect of Wolf Creek by far.
The direction and cinematography on the other hand are superb. Every episode is filled with beautiful sweeping shots of the outback. They really captured the beauty but also the scary isolation of living in the remote parts of WA/SA/NT.
So yeah....its a mixed bag for sure. But in the end i think its definitely worth a watch. It definitely stumbles towards the end but overall it could have been a lot worse.
Lucy Fry is pretty damn great. She is vulnerable, beautiful, fragile when we first meet her, and one of the series greatest strengths is seeing her grow tougher, stronger and more self reliant. However she has to deliver some cringe lines, and some of her actions in the last eps make no sense at all. But Lucy was great, really enjoyed her character. The other characters.....not so much.
Mick is the boogeyman. An unstoppable force who just goes around indiscriminately killing anyone he comes across for no reason other than he is a killer. We get a little backstory about his childhood but this is not really enough to flesh out such a one dimensional monster. Jarrett obviously has fun with the role but he's too normal to be a mythical Jason/Michael Myers monster, yet too unbelievable to be a truly scary serial killer.
The side characters and their stories too are fairly pointless and are pure filler for the most part. Great actors like Deborah Mailman and Gary Sweet have small arcs which are completely inconsequential within the greater Eve vs Mick story. Little B-stories like the cop's relationship troubles with his wife pop up every episode and truly offer nothing but filler. We also have other poorly written characters as Jesus, the bikies, the escaped con and the list goes on. This is the weakest aspect of Wolf Creek by far.
The direction and cinematography on the other hand are superb. Every episode is filled with beautiful sweeping shots of the outback. They really captured the beauty but also the scary isolation of living in the remote parts of WA/SA/NT.
So yeah....its a mixed bag for sure. But in the end i think its definitely worth a watch. It definitely stumbles towards the end but overall it could have been a lot worse.