Comments on: Underbelly: The Golden Mile

By: Albert

Albert — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 07:34:14 +0000

Get a life, most movies and american series have errors. Its just that unless you know the area and era you will not pick it up. I never picked up the train colour doors, the etching, or the Kings Cross sign. Then again I have not been in that area for many years.

By: RichW

RichW — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:04:46 +0000

Watched it last night and sadly neither Richard or Larry were evident. I won’t be back for episode 2.

By: Richw

Richw — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:32:27 +0000

Will Richard Wilkins be in it or that nice Larry Emdur perhaps ?

By: jenny

jenny — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:53:18 +0000

I’ve never watched Underbelly. I won’t anytime soon.

By: Birddoggy

Birddoggy — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:33:16 +0000

Sorry BigKev I have to disagree. Endless slow-mo montges set to high music does not equate to good drama in my book. It makes for a distinct lack of drama. I haven’t seen the new series but I really do hope they’ve eased off on the copious video clip sequences and given us some interesting, different, engaging situations. That’s when it is at its best. In terms of world drama, I don’t think it’s in the same league as the likes of Sopranos or Breaking Bad. But then we don’t have anything like an HBO to make that kind of drama.

By: bigkev

bigkev — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:30:17 +0000

@Jed….. yes….. so many people will turn off Underbelly….. it will be a disaster when only 2.1 million tune in rather than 2.3 million.

The fact is…. it is bloody good drama, even as flawed as the second series was. It is of such a high calibre that when I was living over in San Fran, there was this cult following, only rivalled by the Americans fascination with ‘Summer Heights High’. It made me very proud to be an aussie… knowing we still have a cool edge to our productions

By: J Bar

J Bar — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:04:29 +0000

hmmm, now who’s being ridiculous? Rather than demolish buildings or change something huge like the Coca Cola sign or film everything in a studio, how about just setting the scenes somewhere else. When something is glaringly, obviously out of another era then don’t film there. Der!

They might have had graffiti in the 80s or 90s but not the sort glass etching graffiti seen on the train that has only appeared in recent years. If you’re happy with the show being littered with inaccuracies, then good luck to you. I’m just saying that it spoils the show for me when they don’t care about the details.

By: Gil

Gil — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:55:15 +0000

Let’s just hope its better than Series 2 or this will be the end of it. Last series was very ordinary to say the least. I like breasts like the next male but not every 3 secs.

By: Boy Wonder

Boy Wonder — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:22:51 +0000

J Bar I hear what your saying but so long as it’s not jarringly obvious things (say digital watches in a 1940 period piece) I will over look it.
I can’t wait for this one and the next one too!

By: Tevyn

Tevyn — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:21:26 +0000

Might as well give it a try like I gave all the other ones. Series two did have to many boobs, I like boobs but it became ridiculous and unrealistic when every second scene had girls topless in a strip joint.

By: hmmm

hmmm — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:45:42 +0000

JBar, those are ridiculous comments. Should they have spent half an episode’s production budget changing the Coke sign for each time it appears in shot? Shiesh.

Should they have demolished all the new developments on the strip and rebuilt each building as stood in 1990 or perhaps shoot the whole thing in a giant Hollywood studio?

Drama is made in this country for close to AUD1Mil an ep and i bet they do a pretty good job with creative angles to keep it as authentic as possible.

P.S there was most certainly grafti on the trains in the late 80′s and 90′s!

By: hmmm

hmmm — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 01:39:05 +0000

I do think this particular era/story is very interesting. They ripped a few blue murder scenes in season 1 (dropping the informant off the boat etc), so will be interesting to see how many others as this will portray the same era however Blue Murder focused on Neddy Smith and Rodgerson, not at all Ibrahim.

By: Beckala

Beckala — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:23:46 +0000

JBar that was the problem we had watching the last series. My husband is a bit of a car nut and he just kept picking up mistake after mistake after mistake. Even I noticed issues with things like cans of drink, signage, the layout and companies used with the air travel, and music. If this is their big investment, and they still want to claim it as “event television” then it is important that they get these things right – how can they suspend the disbelief if mistakes are obvious, no matter how small?

By: Brodie

Brodie — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:20:00 +0000

Underbelly doesn’t seem to have the same hype it used to. I’ll watch the premiere (when ever it is), but if it gets a bit same old that will be it for me.

By: Jed

Jed — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:44:55 +0000

More crap for the suckers to watch. Judging by a lot of the comments i read on the Herald Sun website though, looks like Nine has already outdone its Underbelly welcome. People don’t seem to give a damn anymore, with the consensus, 1st series was the best thing ever, but the 2nd was crap, whch has people turned off now.

By: J Bar

J Bar — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:21:25 +0000

I’m looking forward to it but it’s a shame that it continues to have so many blatant mistakes. The series is set in the late 80s and early 90s but just from the promo there are so many obvious errors to Sydneysiders.

John Ibrahim is riding a train to Kings Cross. The train doors have been painted bright yellow. This was only done on Sydney trains about three years ago. The glass in the door features etching, a form of graffiti that wasn’t seen on trains until about the last five years. Even the big ‘King Cross’ sign at the railway station is in the new yellow/cream colour which was only painted that colour recenty after being shades of blue since the 1970s. These things won’t affect the drama but they do annoy you when a series is supposed to be set in another era.