Review of Winter

Winter (2015)
4/10
Winter is a dull season for most of us
29 July 2016
Warning: Spoilers
I doubt if I (we) will finish this series. We watched the pilot and all we did was a back and forth on how incompetent the cops were. But the series is on Acorn, so we said let's see if we do a binge watch to find out if the writers get better.

They didn't. These cops don't jump to conclusions; they take running leaps.  Detective Sergeant Eve Winter tries to run a serious investigation but Detective Inspector Lachlan McKenzie (Peter O'Brien) decides he has the killer of Karly Johansson, Paul Paget whose wife was murdered eight years earlier; and McKenzie is adamant that Paget did it. McKenzie threatens him, follows him, and decides his Javert made Paget take his own life. But Paget was murdered. Rats, wrong again.

Next McKenzie decides Johansson's husband Luke did it. Nope, wrong again. Luke is just a hapless drug dealer. And the Australian feds are involved as Federal Agent Jake Harris is trying to tie up a drug case using Indiana Hope as a witness. But someone is trying to kill Indiana and she tries to hide by having her friend Sharni help her.

Then there is the big twist: Indiana Hope isn't Indiana Hope but Hope Ziegler the daughter of Peter Ziegler, the Director of Public Prosecutions. And Peter dumped his daughter off to be raised by another family as she was always getting into trouble and embarrassing him.

Winter decides there is a leak in her task force and unless she finds out who, Indiana will be killed. And when Detective Inspector Lachlan McKenzie is shot, she knows she is right. This is where I gave up and went to bed. My wife finished it but won't watch a second series should one be approved. She says the cops are so incompetent that they make her cringe. She will admit that she likes Detective Alesia Taylor; but that is it.

There is also a subplot involving Eve Winter's nephew Harry Winter who is a bit of a 14 year old idiot, and Eve's sister Melanie Winter who is a bit of a you are always picking on me for being a bad mother; which she is.
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