At first glance, a refreshingly different set-up of 1950s emigrants to Australia. They are Michelle Keegan (Corrie, Our Girl), and family of Faye Marsay (Pride), Warren Brown, Hattie Hook and Finn Treacy.
Plotlines: Warren 'befriends' tough Aussie (David Field, who raucously laughs too much) who runs over Aborigine; one of the latter's tribe (Rob Collins) is a fellow ditch digger. Warren keeps making increasingly stupid choices. Marsay gets job in a department store, witnesses the birth of Australian TV, flirts with chap. Hook is pregnant, but befriended by Declan Coyle. Stephen Curry is the useless camp commandant, I mean supervisor.
Keegan is there to find her son, does so and confuses the poor chap; ex BF is after her.
There's also a dodgy accountant, Leon Ford, who sets up his own robbery, and his singing wife (Emma Hamilton, who looks a bit like a Farmiga) who's desperate to return home.
With Cheree Cassidy (department store), Berynn Schwerdt (booze provider.)
Themes: Frightful treatment of indigenous people; shipping off of orphans; PTSD.
It's all a bit of a mess, really, and nothing comes to any sort of satisfying conclusion, like it's all strands dangling for season 2, which I'm not sure I'd watch.
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