Update:
So, I just finished the show and had to change my 6/10 rating to an 8/10. Overall, amazing show. The issues mentioned below make some of the middle seasons, especially season 6, a 6/10 rating but the show mostly redeemed itself (hence 8/10 and not 10/10). Highly entertaining. Highly recommend. Definitely not OITNB and that's a good thing cause you don't want a copy. Wentworth is its own unique and valued entry in the prison genre.
Original review:
This show is entertaining, no doubt, but the writing is often maddeningly infuriating and ruins what would have been a fantastic show. I would have given this a higher rating if not for that. I'm almost done with Season 6 and it's getting increasingly insufferable to continue watching because of the idiotic writing that literally make no sense. The characters make the dumbest choices for the sake of drama. Despite the 24 hour surveillance, the inmates and corrupt staff manage to get away with anything, including murder, and the staff/management always remain clueless.
You would think that security footage being erased would cue them to corruption amongst the ranks but it doesn't. And you would think there would be backups of footage inaccessible to regular staff in case of an erasure. Other times, they completely forget that they have surveillance altogether and just rely on getting inmates to "lag" or "snitch" when they could just check the footage. Then there is the issue of the cameras easily being turned around by inmates before they commit crimes. You would think they would be set up with anti-tampering measures in place?! Sigh. And why do inmates have metal cutlery? I don't know anything about prison but I imagine metal knives and forks that can easily be weapons wouldn't be used?! I could go on and on here about even more absurd writing choices but I don't want to give out spoilers. Sigh. If I manage to finish the show and feel there's a need to update this review, I shall. Otherwise, this about covers it.
So, I just finished the show and had to change my 6/10 rating to an 8/10. Overall, amazing show. The issues mentioned below make some of the middle seasons, especially season 6, a 6/10 rating but the show mostly redeemed itself (hence 8/10 and not 10/10). Highly entertaining. Highly recommend. Definitely not OITNB and that's a good thing cause you don't want a copy. Wentworth is its own unique and valued entry in the prison genre.
Original review:
This show is entertaining, no doubt, but the writing is often maddeningly infuriating and ruins what would have been a fantastic show. I would have given this a higher rating if not for that. I'm almost done with Season 6 and it's getting increasingly insufferable to continue watching because of the idiotic writing that literally make no sense. The characters make the dumbest choices for the sake of drama. Despite the 24 hour surveillance, the inmates and corrupt staff manage to get away with anything, including murder, and the staff/management always remain clueless.
You would think that security footage being erased would cue them to corruption amongst the ranks but it doesn't. And you would think there would be backups of footage inaccessible to regular staff in case of an erasure. Other times, they completely forget that they have surveillance altogether and just rely on getting inmates to "lag" or "snitch" when they could just check the footage. Then there is the issue of the cameras easily being turned around by inmates before they commit crimes. You would think they would be set up with anti-tampering measures in place?! Sigh. And why do inmates have metal cutlery? I don't know anything about prison but I imagine metal knives and forks that can easily be weapons wouldn't be used?! I could go on and on here about even more absurd writing choices but I don't want to give out spoilers. Sigh. If I manage to finish the show and feel there's a need to update this review, I shall. Otherwise, this about covers it.
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