philjquitt

Quite like the way the camera stays on Harrow's face for too long, as he portrays his angst at each new situation. The director is saying....."see my international star drawcard." All good fun. The shots of Brisbane CBD where Harrow lives on his boat are fun for us locals. The old dental school in Turbot St is used as his work location - good call. It does get you in, even though it's not polished. Sort of like Brisbane itself.

Worth watching but will need rejuvenating to be worth a second series. As a version of a detective series, not bad at all. Don Hany seems to carry the show as the suitably stubbled cool expat Australian ex-military man. At least that's what I thought until in one episode he is seen as a client in an opium den. Then I thought... "so he's not so much meant to be cool, as much as being a sort of deadbeat who gets the job done", like many central characters in detective novels. Would be good if he could be seen looking roughly normal and shaved for say 5 minutes in one or two episodes. Some value for it's portrayal of colonial Singapore in transition, but perhaps not trying to be authentic. Joan Chen is beautiful when smiling, but has a profoundly down-turned mouth often which makes her look strange rather than composed - is this too much surgery? Pamelyn Chee is a novel character with her ??English accent. The bad guy dragon gang leader who looks like Bruce Lee is very good.