This is a head scratcher! The plot was reasonable, the cast was okay, the filming wasn't annoying. I was hoping to enjoy it but it fell short. I just can't quite put my finger on what was missing. Perhaps the direction and the lead character played by Rachel Griffiths........I just don't know! I'm normally not a fence sitter and can rattle off all the pros and cons with ease but urgh.......I just don't know why this show failed to impress. In a word "one dimensional " , or two!

Some really good actors doing a poor job. The writing is terrible. I mean like in american network tv kind of bad writing. The plot, the dialogue, the repeated accidental telling the boyfriend how to interfere with the investigation kind of plot contrivances. Really how bad can it get here.

For the best part of 5 years, I watched all of the really good Australian shows, Rake, Janet king, Wanted, Jack Irish, Doctor, Doctor, The Doctor Blake Mysteries, etc. Now in one fell swoop, with the screening of 'Dead Lucky, all the previous good work has been wasted.. 'Dead Lucky' is intended to tick all of the boxes for it identified viewers, the liberal cultural apologists, to ensure they don't feel neglected. The screenplay on one episode I watched was woeful, the characters had no credibility or substance in any of the various groups included, and the acting was, at best, wooden, and at worse, painful to watch. This show is something that the BBC or Sky would produce and screen - I had firmly believed that the Australian producers held themselves aloof from the nauseating cultural pandering. There is no opportunity to rate this as 0/10, yet that would be a fair rating. I shall continue to watch the tried and tested programmes, but will be increasingly wary of new shows.

What more can I say other than it feels like. It tries too hard to tick all the SBS boxes. I'll give ep 2 ten minutes to make me watch more . It's a shame.