Dead Heat

As an Aussie I am appalled at the Australian accent of the actor who, I believe, is from Manchester UK. It's not even close to an Aussie accent. The episode itself was good but the issue with the accent distracted me so much that I was having issues concentrating on what was happening. There's always been a large cohort of Australian expat actors in the USA. Surely one of them could have been used. It seems as though the casting person had never heard a real Australian accent and things they all sound like Paul Hogan's exaggerated accent in Crocodile Dundee. Very disappointed by this as it is insulting to Aussies.

Michael Enright's Australian accent falls short of the mark. Unless a British or American actor is good with accents, they always comes across as cockney. Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum in The Sundowners, Jude Law in Contagion, Elisabeth Moss in Top of The Lake, and John Mills, Ernest Borgnine, Anne Baxter and Angela Lansbury in Summer of the Seventeenth Doll all sounded like they came straight over from East London. Why didn't they just use Australian actors? It's probably for the same reason that until recently, Hollywood cast a multitude of Caucasian actors in leading Asian roles. Reference the films Charlie Chan, Mr Moto, Breakfast at Tiffany's and the television series, Kung Fu.

He sounded more like a Kiwi trying to do an Australian accent and failing.

Couldn't resist to comment that the guy who played the Aussie, definitely put in a decent attempt. His accent was spot on with certain words, but he definitely sounded more British.