s k Maybe it's just me. But more and more shows seem to want to emulate the offbeat quirky nature of Twin Peaks. However, they almost always fail. What ends up happening is that they interject weirdness and obtuseness just for the sake of being weird and obtuse. It significantly interferes with good old fashioned story telling. And when it comes down to it, all shows, regardless of genre or style, are about telling a story. To intentionally trot out some garbled high brow fogginess and misdirection, powered by multiple misleading story arcs just to try to create mood and tension results in a mess, not a masterpiece. This show is more mess than masterpiece. Things just don't ever really come together with all the different characters and their varying disjointed stories. It's not suspenseful; it's annoying. The show isn't without merit, but it really misses the mark by an Aussie mile.

Shaun Hume OK - first review on IMDb because this show needs a voice, and the people who don't understand the point of "mystery" need to be answered to. First off - don't listen to any of the negative reviews of this series. They are written by people of limited imagination and/or patience. They are from people who wish their stories to be all nicely concluded with a tight shiny bow tied up at the end, all explained. People who do not understand, nor appreciate fantasy and sci-fi elements in storytelling. These are people who take ambiguity as a bad thing in fiction. The series is by no means perfect. The writing and the direction is not flawless. However, the setting and intrigue in the narrative are enough to earn it more than a seven out of ten. The imagination and abstract nature of the show are its largest positive attributes and facets. Ambiguity makes you think, and leaves you with a resonance of thought, one which you take away and keep from the visual and auditory experience you have just bared witness to. If you enjoy watching something which keeps you thinking, sees you going to bed at night feeling that little bit more uneasy about the world you live in and makes you try to guess what is going to happen next, but without giving too much away to the person you are telling your predictions to because in all honesty you aren't at all sure what's going on - then this is the show for you! In short - if you like stories which are not predictable, do not tell you what happens to everyone and everything, then watch 'The Kettering Incident' and make up your own mind. On the other hand, if you are the type of person who watches 'The Walking Dead' or some other such nonsense, then maybe this is a little above your imagination scale, so best to leave it alone.

taoc-74872 The funny thing is I accidentally skipped Episode 7 and didn't notice. That says it all.To fill the remainder of my five lines:A Kettering farmer buys several (non-radioactive0 sheep, hoping to breed them for wool. After several weeks, he notices that none of the sheep are getting pregnant, and phones a vet for help. The vet tells him that he should try artificial insemination.The farmer doesn't have the slightest idea what this means but, not wanting to display his ignorance, only asks the vet how he will know when the sheep are pregnant. The vet tells him that they will stop standing around and instead will lie down and wallow in grass when they are pregnant.The farmer hangs up and gives it some thought. He comes to the conclusion that artificial insemination means he has to impregnate the sheep himself.So, he loads the sheep into his Land Rover, drives them out into the woods, has sex with them all, brings them back, and goes to bed.Next morning, he wakes and looks out at the sheep. Seeing that they are all still standing around, he deduces that the first try didn't take, and loads them in the Land Rover again. He drives them out to the woods, bangs each sheep twice for good measure, brings them back, and goes to bed exhausted.Next morning, he wakes to find the sheep still just standing round. Try again.' he tells himself, and proceeds to load them up, and drive them out to the woods He spends all day shagging the sheep and upon returning home, falls knackered into bed.The next morning, he cannot even raise himself from the bed to look out of the window. He asks his wife to look, and tell him if the sheep are lying in the grass.'No,' she says, 'they're all in the Land Rover…….. and one of them is beeping the horn.'

ElessarAndurilS The Kettering Incident Season 1 was slow to develop, filled with unlikable characters (less Anna, Elizabeth Debicki) who was superb as a troubled doctor returning to her roots to seek answers to her troubles. The scenery of Kettering and Tasmania is fantastic, I can't believe more hasn't been filmed in such a beautiful landscape to date. The show suffers from developing to slowly. While I can accept the need for character development, it doesn't happen in season 1 at a pace that matches the time given. Everything is a mystery and though seeking answers Anna seems to push away everyone offering any. None the less the story plants many seeds of thought of what in the world is going on thus capturing ones attention.Problem is after the finale of season 1 you are left with no answers and only questions. It builds until Anna meets who you suspect is her half sister gone missing 15 years earlier in a secret tunnel but as they come face to face it appears to be her (a clone, someone looking exactly like her but dirty, weak, and starved). As they come face to face your expectation is a major answer, instead the episode ends and the audience is left with 1000 questions. Worst is that most of the questions are introduced in the finale. If they had been planted throughout the season the season would have been less sad and lagging in pace.As bad as what I write is, the problem is there is so much mystery built by this point that if they don't make a Season 2 I'm going to scream at yet another show leaving me hanging AND with all the gaps and questions the show has HUGE POTENTIAL to have the story explode into a unique Sci Fi/Mystery/Drama that rates a 10. Then again depending on how it plays out it could be one of the worst shows ever created. All I can do is write a review stating that if you watch the show you will be disappointed at the ending; however if you have great imagination you will see the potential for an incredible series building from this assuming they start doling out some answers in Season 2 quickly so we have some firm ground to stand on in watching. Sad thing is I google the show and read that a Season 2 isn't even likely making me wonder why they made the show in the first place. But one can hope.