Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

I didn't know any thing about Australia's discrimination towards its native people. OK, point taken. Other than that, pretty dumb simplistic plot, the supernatural element is far from genuine or interesting, it feels like something that you have seen in hundreds of low-level movies/TV shows. (native people and magical things!) Casting actors/actresses who somehow look exotic is intolerable specially when the acting is unbelievably bad, some highschoolers with a little bit experience in drama class could have pulled it off much better. I wonder if anyone can enjoy this show other than teenagers who don't understand the difference between good and bad TV.

One shouldn't be surprised with the low ratings and scathing reviews coming from the wading, whining crowd of neanderthals with a TV who came across this series hoping that Australia kept quiet about the mistakes of past and present and was portrayed as the racial democracy it is still struggling to be. The ignorant will describe things that don't conform to their bigoted view of the world (as usual confusing fiction with documentary) as political correctness, liberal propaganda, leftist historical revisionism and whatever pair of words these real-life far-right sub-humans can support in their pea- sized brains when faced with a dystopian sci-fi happening right in their backyard.I believe the strength of this series lies in its ability to show how easy it is for humans to exert united oppression over those who are different. The series is not as nuanced as the film Crash (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375679/) or District 9 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1136608/) when it comes to portraying the deeper psychological aspects of race relations. Unfortunately at this level things can be very flat and divided into the old us vs. them without much history growing into the situation the characters are found.It also doesn't build up its background history too well. The series jump-starts at a point in history where things are well ahead and kicking off with government containment, persecutions and killings freely ongoing, unlike A Handmaid's Tale which does that pretty well without soaking one on infinite flashbacks.All in all, this is a good series to watch and I am having fun so far.

I skimmed thru the first episode and was unsure if I wanted to continue.After deciding to give it a try I was unable to remove myself from this series. Sure, we may be used to blockbuster budgets and desire every TV show to spend 6 million dollars per episode (ie. the OTHER TV show Ian Glen/JARROD SLADE is in)however I found myself drawn to the story and stopped my "I.L.M." special effects hunting.AMAZING. That is all I can say. This show gets a solid A in my book.Sure - there are some things I did not agree with, but how many TV shows do I agree with 100% in full? Almost none (if that many).EXCELLENT.I hope to see a season 2 !!!

Wow. No matter what this show is trying to do, any intentions it has to deliver some sort of "message" is lost. I agree that Aboriginal Australian's have been and continue to be treated like something akin to a slave race, but this show's efforts to address this is lost. The production values are woeful; the acing is barely passable. Embarrassingly so. It makes one wonder if they kept the bad takes and rejected the good. The writing, although based on an interesting concept, has been murdered along the way. I am a lover of almost all genres of film, but this attempt at Sci-fi is poor. The levels of gratuitous violence are unnecessary, and are really only inserted for "shock value" or to appeal to the baser side of an audience that this offering's message would be wasted on anyway. In addition to this, the way women are portrayed in many scenes is despicable, and is not warranted in any genre. Australia has been attempting as a culture to rid itself of the entrenched attitude that violence is acceptable towards women, and sadly this show undermines this. Any movie/game/show that contains graphic displays of this under the "it's OK, it's only make believe" loophole is wrong. You don't have to look far to find a consensus view that most people, subconsciously or consciously, are influenced by what they see on a screen. Congratulations to those that are not - you are in the minority. For the rest of the easily influenced world, this show is reinforcing rather than changing the current view. The next, and final point I raise, is for the NSW government. Why would you put your money into a second series of a show that is so poorly produced, and contained such questionable content. Surely spending the money directly towards the issues the series "claims" to address, would be better and more fruitful.