A great story with fantastic acting. So sad they didn't make more seasons.

Really interested at the start of this. I felt the story progressed too quickly, and the characters developed at an unnecessary rate. Also... why kill off Tommy at the end?! What a waste, and an empty way to leave the show!!

Now being viewed in Canada on Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Unfortunately the CBC has nasty habit of interrupting dialogue mid-sentence for commercial =more$$$. The remainder of scene is then deleted. Don't quite get the neatly barbered look of many characters and the structured hair mess of others. A $300 haircut looks VERY out of place after 5 episodes. The British ideal of 'holding down the fort' certainly displays English ideal of inability to assimilation to surroundings. "The supply boat will bring supplies to feed us." How many months do they starve before they explore for sustenance? The plot may lack continuity through out episodes though the female treatment seams to help gloss over inconsistencies.

Absolute crap. Not in the least bit historically accurate. Dying of starvation after 2 days? Convicts being married and allowed to sit together every night? Soldiers picking 1 woman each? Asking the woman for sex, instead of the usual rape of those days?? Is this a moralistic and PC take on this period of Australia's history. Wolfe Hall was Oscar material compared to this to-sh, and Poldark is shaping up very well too.Horrible unappealing but very "wordy" characters. Absolute mince. For the common people who have never read a bloody book in their lives.And another historical note that is incorrect and jars is the fact that everyone has fantastic teeth! I have watched 2 episodes of this and I've wasted 2 hours of my life that would have been better spent staring at my navel or watching paint dry.