Now that was quality TV.Ī small budget does not mean low quality and a big budget does not mean high quality, a case in point being Space Sweepers billed as the first Korean space blockbuster. Bring back The Magic Boomerang (Australia, 1960s), I say. Both are intended for children and both, in my view, are of only marginal interest to adults. Introductory scenes show the kids escaping from shadowy captors around the North end of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and then cowering in the light rail cutting which is some distance from the South end of the Bridge, but I guess I’m just quibbling. Then there is the series The Bureau of Magical Things – school kids with secret lives as magical creatures fighting other magical creatures - and The Unlisted, kids with powers fighting shadowy government forces who want to control the world’s youth. They arrive in the middle of an Aussie-rules football match in which one side is wearing Richmond-style jumpers, so as far as I’m concerned the aliens can kill everyone. Admittedly I only glanced at the original film in which aliens invade an anonymous Australian town somewhere up North (I thought I saw sugar cane fields). The academic author also says the sequel is worse. I would heartily agree with the author of that article that Occupation tries to be like American blockbuster alien invasion films on a fraction of the budget and without the big-name stars. this article in the conversation will give you more details. But, for some reason, it was a hit on Netflix in the US and so a sequel was ordered. This was made in 2018 to almost immediately sink without a trace at the box office. There is a surprising amount of this stuff and, in my opinion, little of it is worth the trouble. As the series’ main producer died unexpectedly after the episodes started airing, and as shows off the beaten track often depend on one individual pushing them, another series seems unlikely which is a shame. Watched the series right through, to be rewarded by some wonderful, understated British humour. A cable TV technician who investigates the paranormal in his spare time gets a new partner and his jobs become more about the paranormal. Not for the faint-hearted.Ī UK sitcom about a cable installer meets the X Files. After about three episodes I think it’s worth the trouble and will keep watching, even if certain scenes make me want to turn away. This features strong Tarentino-esque violence and a Game of Thrones tendency to slaughter established characters at a script writer’s whim. Another group, the sort of people who might attend a Comiccon, plus one of the novel characters come to life, want to find the books and reveal the diseases. One group called “the others” wants to suppress the series. Or does the strange somehow find me? Anyway, this series is not the Australian one about a government authority but a US SF-fantasy-horror-something drama about a series of graphic novels called Utopia which gives warning of diseases, including the end time disease we all know is just around the corner. Utopia (Amazon Prime) - characters pictured at left.Īfter a pause to binge-watch the Law and Order series (for those interested, it goes up to season 20 plus major spin-off series), I have gone back to surfing the strange.
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