s01e01 — In the Hands of Giants (1)

It's a very good procedural.
Better than most American and some British ones))

It's quite dynamic

The intense, difficult and often dangerous work of a team of detectives from the homicide squad in Melbourne. A variety of cases, a wide variety of victims, defendants and criminals, confusing, sometimes extremely tragic circumstances.

A completely standard and even hackneyed plot. But the cases are quite intriguing, intricate, but not terribly artificial. Small-minded criminals and thoughtful hired killers, prudent politicians, successful businessmen or respectable heads of prosperous families, with virtually no maniacs and almost no pedophiles. A good balance of drama and tragedy with comedy and detective, and the right mix of violent crimes, interagency conflicts, teamwork, and personal relationships. Diverse, strong and not boring series.

It's well-choreographed, lively and non-static editing, and a good pace of events. Meaningful scenes are often broken up by short shots of recognizable Melbourne "chips": trams, Flinders Street Station and panoramas of the CBD business districts. The dialogues are at a very decent level, and some of Terry Jarvis' lines are just great. I was pleased with the regular and fairly strong main cast, as well as the fact that they did not overdo it.

It turned out to be a solid, rather dynamic, classic police-crime series with an Australian flavor. Positive, with cute characters and quite interesting stories. I don't regret at all that I had to tinker to watch all the episodes.

Language. They speak well, naturally, in principle, intelligibly and usually not insanely fast, the vocabulary is not too complicated, but it can be difficult without subtitles. There are characters with rather heavy accents, there is slang, sometimes they talk a lot, they don't talk a lot into the camera.