andyonabike

I bought a box set of seasons 1-6 of Outlander and I now wish I hadn't.

Season 1 is an interesting and very believable look into the Scottish Highlander way of life.

Season 2 is also good, anchored in history leading up to the battle of Culloden Moor. But the adventures of Claire and Jamie in Paris become increasingly contrived.

Season 3 is so contrived and not anchored in history in any way. It becomes ridiculous.

I won't be watching any further .

I have watched each episode and each series of this show and thoroughly enjoyed each. Bur ultimately this show is a failure.

One preview of this show claimed that Dr. House was a brilliant diagnostician who single-handledly solved the most difficult medical cases and save countless lives.

My impression of the series in anything but.

Sure there were enormously complex and obscure medical cases solved but these more often came down to a process of elimination, mostly involving House's staff, rather than himself.. And often blind , and often hopelessly contrived, luck.

House came across to me as someone who should have been fired and descended into a drug addled obscurity, long before this actually occurred in the series.

Yet he is somehow made into a hero. A typical failure of this genre.

I grew up watching and loving this series when it aired in the 1980's. It was a great series with a who's who cast of Australian actors and performers.

As a product of its time there was probably little thought given to diversity. Going through the list of probably over a thousand acting credits it is hard to find a non-white and non-anglo/european actor or indeed character.

From my memories of watching this show I can't remember any aboriginal actors or characters either. There probably were some bit-parts.

Friends has often been criticised for its lack of diversity but this Australian production ranks alongside and not in a positive way.