To me, this movie is perfection.

Please don't spend money on this.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

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

Fans of Underbelly should definitely give this a watch. Killing time follows Andrew Fraser and his real life rise and fall as a criminal lawyer, from his massive cocaine addiction to the years he spent in prison, you will watch his life unfold and the colourful criminals his mixed with in his rise. As far as accuracy goes, as it is all mostly told from Andrews point of view, it's about as accurate as he saw things, which is good because you are seeing the world as he sees it and for the most part routing for him. You are left to decide if he is a bad person or not.

I've not seen many Australian dramas on account most I've seen have not been that good. Usually they love to blow there own trumpet about how great they our as a nation. Tales of heroes underdogs or people who take on the establishment and win. But here we have the true story of Andrew Fraser, a corrupt lawyer involved in two of Australia's highest profile cases the Walsh st police murders and the Alan Bond bankruptcy case. It shows a dark side to Australia we don't normally see. Police corruption, drugs and violent crime. The show captures the excesses eighties and nineties perfectly whilst David Wenham an actor I had not seen before is excellent in the lead role.

I have just seen the fourth episode of Killing Time and am enjoying this immensely. It is interesting that a series of this type has its premier and probably exclusive screening on Cable TV rather than Commercial TV. Perhaps the content is too violent and confronting for Commercial TV. The Cable TV screening actually works very well with a series like this. There are multiple screenings of each episode so there is no excuse to miss anything and only small interruptions from commercial breaks.David Wenham is superb as Andrew Fraser, a lawyer who chooses the wrong clients. His family and friends know this and look on his successes with an almost condescending bewilderment as to why he seems drawn to representing criminals and exploiting loopholes in the law to set them free. Although he is successful he makes enemies with the police and has a tenuous relationship with the people he defends.Killing Time is told as two parallel stories - the past, with Fraser's rise to fame and success in making the police look like fools and the present, where he is incarcerated and trying to cope with life in prison. At the moment we are not sure exactly what precipitated his sentence to a term in prison but there are plenty of clues.With each week we learn more about the man. It seems inevitable that things will eventually turn pear shaped for him. His strange penchant for defending criminals who are obviously guilty is a road to self destruction. Each time he wins in court and humiliates the police, he creates more enemies. He tries to justify his actions to his family but they clearly cannot accept that he uses legal arguments and technical points to defend vicious criminals.The cast is impressive. Diana Glenn is a very promising actress and plays the role of his wife very effectively. Richard Cawthorne and Malcolm Kennard are both brilliant as the manic criminals that Andrew Fraser chooses to defend.Colin Friels is at his best as Lewis Moran. He plays one standout scene in a bar with classic understatement that will linger in the memories of anyone who sees the series.I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of the series - great Australian drama and highly recommended.

To be honest, I'm usually happy to let Australian television pass me by. But the ads I saw for this series quickly grabbed me. Four episodes in, and I'm delighted to say that this series has plenty to recommend it.David Wenham of Lord of the Rings fame plays real-life barrister Andrew Fraser as he seeks out and represents some of Melbourne's most notorious criminals, and he does an excellent job of portraying the two Frasers we see in the series- the brilliant, cocky, ambitious and utterly amoral lawyer who's built up his perfect life with all the trappings of success, and the broken wreck of a man trying to survive in prison, his life and reputation in ruins as he pays the price for his arrogance (although we don't know what specifically he's been convicted of at this point). But this show has more to it than just Wenham and the star power he brings. The acting throughout is excellent, despite almost all of the cast being unknowns to me. The director's done a nice job of showing us Melbourne at its best in places while simultaneously showing us just how degraded some of its citizens are.There are genuine laugh-out-loud moments, most of them courtesy of the wonderfully psychotic Dennis Allen (AKA Mr. Death) and the smooth but ruthless crime boss Lewis Moran (played by Colin Friels). And it captures the full shock and horror of some the crimes committed by Fraser's clients. As someone with an interest in Australian true crime history I'm fascinated by the stories around these crimes which I'd only heard of in passing.All in all, I'm glad I gave Killing Time a shot and I look forward to seeing how it all pans out. At the time of this review, IMDb's given it a weighted score of 5.9. However, the mean score for this show is 8.2 and I think that does it much more justice.8/10.