Christopher Malpas
I only came across this classic about a month ago on some obscure satellite channel in the early hours of the morning. Within two minutes I was hooked.Return to Eden has it all - attempted murder, suspense, a gold-digging husband, the backstabbing best friend, a miraculous makeover and some of the best 80s fashions ever seen on film. Follow the amazing adventures of Stephanie Harper from the beginning as she goes from frumpy, middle aged heiress to Tara Welles - toast of the Sydney fashion scene but carrying a secret and plans to get revenge on those who wronged her! This mini series was so successful worldwide that it spawned a weekly serial a few years later.For fans of glossy 80s soaps Return to Eden is essential viewing from start to finish. The costumes are amazing,the scenery beautiful, the acting is lets say, variable, and the script veers from the sublime to the ridiculous but you will be on the edge of your seat waiting for the next instalment!
Sherazade
This was a great mini series, if I ever saw one. The plot is so solid and well-thought out that it just makes you wish you could read people's minds before you fall in love with and commit to share your life with them.A well-to-do entrepreneur marries an ordinary man, who soon falls in love and begins to have an affair with her best-friend. In order to acquire her money as well as gets the woman he really wants, the man conspires to kill his wife by pushing her into a crocodile infested lake. He then returns to land and announces her death but little does he know that his wife survives her ordeal and undergoes plastic surgery to reconstruct her face. With her new identity, she is able to become a famous supermodel and begins planning her revenge.It's a bit dated but well worth a look!
blanche-2
We used to call these opulent '80s mini-series "trash wallows." Unfortunately, they don't make them like this anymore. And I don't think anybody ever equaled the gigantic trash wallow of Return to Eden.First of all, it's Australian, with one gorgeous hunk after another - that in itself made it worth sitting through. Also it's an extreme makeover story before there were REAL extreme makeovers on reality TV. And this one's a doozie. Ugly, matronly, but loaded with cash, our heroine marries a hubba-hubba who, enamored with someone else (like five minutes after the wedding), throws his wife to the crocodiles. Maimed, she survives with the help of an old man and a handsome plastic surgeon who works wonders and falls for her in the bargain. She then becomes the toast of the modeling world and seeks her revenge.It's really too good. I own it.
MaRX-4
A riveting performance from the superb actor, Rebecca Gilling.This mini-series is a Mile Stone for Australian Television. A heart breaking story about a young woman disfigured in a fight with a crocodile, who falls in love with the plastic surgeon from whom she seeks help.This is Australian Television at its absolute best.Oooo, GOEBBS.A must for all Australians.