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Just when I thought this show could not become anymore insane I happened upon the scene towards the end of the series where Erin confronts Lena at a location where some dozens of beautifully dressed women are seated in front of a long bar where they are having drinks. This is obviously a very up market collection of females in a very up market location. Not only is Erin badly dressed but her clothes are covered in blood as is her face. Lena arrives, also with blood on her face and wearing cloths that make her stand out like a sore thumb. None of the dozens of women take the slightest bit of notice of either of them! They then proceeded to walk right through the middle of the gathering and still not one woman looked up! The bar man also ignored the teo lunatics standing in front of him. The sheer incompetence is stunning. Did no one think to instruct the extras to react. Pathetic!!

This was actually funded? Seriously? Some the ugliest characters and played by the most unatractive cast that I have ever seen on a television screen. The bad language is just so repetitive that it loses all effect except to be just plain offensive. If that was the intent it has certainly worked! I realise that in real life some people are total morons living in rubbish dumps but the constant scenes of morons, including the Police are in no way a form of entertainment. The only saving grace is that I did not have to pay for it during the ten minutes in which I wasted my life. As Barry Humphries might have said: "This is as funny as a fire in an orphanage".

This is a number of reasonably interesting court room scenes broken up by scene after boring scene of the participants lives most of which I had no interest in at all. If only it was called The Six it would have been over in half the time. A classic example of a concept that would run for perhaps 4 to 6 episodes with a minimum of scenes outside the court room. Court room dramas have always been been very popular and this series would I think have been a winner. A number of dodgy performances is no great help either. Sam Neil of course is wonderful to watch as usual and the prosecutor is suitably annoying. Overall I felt as though I had wasted many hours of my life. I can only assume that the rave reviews with ratings of 8 and over were written by family members of the producers, crew and cast.