The Gone

Might have potential.

It appears to have been shown already in New Zealand in May this year looking at the IMDB page for it.

Found it a bit slow.

How much TV licence money was spent to send people to New Zealand.?

The Irish cop and the reporter aren't very likeable.

The Maori cop has a serious attitude problem.

To be fair, the 'inner demons' aren't new in cop dramas. Alcohol dependency, relationship and family breakdown, PTSD - even if it wasn't called that, cop coming back to their unwelcoming hometown, have all been there for a long time.

I thought it was ok, will watch again next week. Nobody particularly likeable but then it's only episode one. The final scene was interesting, it might be something or nothing.

I thought she was ok, that journalist is a right pain though.

I found it very difficult to understand the Maori cops accent. Had to really focus in on what she was saying but still missed bits.

I couldn't hear what any of them were saying. Thought it was my hearing! Kept turning the volume up

I know a few New Zealanders and I understand them perfectly. One even complains that I speak too fast.

I have very little problem with the others on the show either, just her. She seems to speak with her mouth shut or something so I can't even lipread.

Are your NZ buddies Maoris?

It's strange how the English accent got massacred after they landed in NZ, especially the vowels, but not so much in "Straya".

It doesn't take long to get used to it though, or shouldn't. 😜

Shocker, two police officers sharing a joint!

Big finale next week presumably.

They actually had a good storyline and could have wrapped it up in 3 or at most 4 episodes if they just stuck to it instead of dragging the arse out of the whole thing by throwing in all the Maori stuff which had nothing to do with solving the case.

In what way? They solved Kieran's murder and why & by whom Sinead was kidnapped.

She went to check out the property linked to the Mountain Murderer. It was in a remote location and she drove their alone. Frank's (the guy in prison whose son died) ex-wife told her where it was. We don't know who was in the shadows, presumably the murderer but it was someone she recognised, so she had met them during her time in NZ. Presume the blood on her phone is to suggest that she has been killed/injured by this person - maybe a set up for a possible season 2. that's my reading of it.

It could be Fallon using the whole Mountain Murder site as cover.

Think only two people knew she was looking for the hut so it must be one of those women.

Assume the skeleton was the cop girls mother.

But no idea who that murdered is.

I watched few episodes had hoped the finale would have been better.

The skeleton was from an animal not a human.

Frank hinted about Dana's mother a lot, telling Aileen to take a closer look at her, which made me think Buster was involved.

Season 2 starts October 20th on RTE.