Best thing to come out of Australia in a long long time. - The Slap (2011) Discussion

[–] SPfromOZ 13 years ago

Wholeheartedly agree! I can't praise this superior production enough. I've been pleasantly surprised by the acting talents of just about everybody involved. Let's hope it gets the awards it deserves come Logie Night. Currently the ABC seems to be the only one producing quality Aussie Drama. With only a couple of exceptions, the commercial channels have given us absolute garbage of late!

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[–] oakcourt 13 years ago

Am a Brit so can't say, but can say if your tv has turned into anything like ours (reality rubbish, garden progs, home progs to an obsessive level etc) then I'm with you! I bemoaned the lack of good drama for yonks and now the Beeb have given us lots this year. I'm enjoying The Slap and look forward to the next instalment. Not sure how many left we are up to 5 here but obviously Aisha gets a turn but not sure who else. We've also had a really good French drama Engrenages here but it has disappeared - pity really as they had a really foxy prosecuteur :).

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[–] rven3 13 years ago

I agree with all of you. The fact that there has been just so much discussion on this board about the characters - their choices, why Rosie is a crap/great/adequate/inadequate/mewling mother - just goes to show that viewers are hanging out for drama they can sink their teeth into. We all long to get involved in something real, but which does not involve us personally. Perhaps we've all become voyeurs, but voyeurs with a bit of taste!!

Unfortunately, TV is a business, and most of the better dramas are made for pay channels. I think we will be stuck with all the rubbish most of us are well over - you know, the `reality' shows, the `talent' shows, the `cooking' shows, all of which are a twisted and perverse version of `entertainment'.

"Underbelly over and over again. The first series was really good, but the rest were unnecessary"

The above is just one such example of the decision-makers making business decisions, rather than creative ones. Remember "Seachange"? How long has it been since genuinely creative folks such a Deb Cox and Andrew Knight were given free reign with their ideas?

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[–] rven3 13 years ago

Back in the day - late 1990's I think - I knew that "Seachange" had special going for it when a friend of mine stopped watching "60 Minutes" in order to tune into "Seachange." Until then I'd thought she couldn't get the ABC on her TV!

I'm also looking forward to the next series of "Rake". I'd thought it was a bit over-the-top until Charles Waterstreet (on whom Richard Roxburgh's character is based) said in an interview that what happens in "Rake" is all true but tamed down somewhat.

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[–] Jaymb72 13 years ago

Just watched this on BBC Iplayer. I loved it. Fantastic stuff. The BBC haven't turned out anything this good for a long time. British TV is pretty dire, so I usually watch American shows and most recently The killing.

I waited until all of the episodes were on I player and then had a marathon viewing session. That is my favourite way of watching a serial, as I hate it when you have to wait for the next episode.

Anyway, this was pure gold.

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[–] chuffnobbler 13 years ago

Just finished watching it on BBC, and was amazed. My feelings towards all characters changed and changed again, time and again (except Harry, who was an *beep* from start to finish). Constantly thoguht provoking, raising all sorts of issues about friendships, family resonsibility, gender, race, class, acceptable behavious, parenting, alcohol, sexuality ... wow.

the sequence in the final episode, where Gary and Rosie used Richie to confront Aisha in her office ... dynamite. When Connie walked into the middle of the argument, I actually gasped.

Brilliant, brilliant storytelling.

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