Terre de marées

Not a masterpiece, but how many series are!? It left me wanting to know moore about the Tidelanders,hoping for a season 2

It's well written and acted. It seems the shows I enjoy most on Netflix are from Australia including Tidelands and Wentworth. Both are excellent. Tidelands is intriguing and infectious and is one of those shows that compels you to binge watch it.

The quality of the actors, dialogue and story-line is variable. Where the strong actors are given their opportunity to act well they do so in a very believable way, absorbing and enjoyable to watch. They carry the slight and occasional weaknesses in the plot and dialogue and make the show quite watchable. If you are less critical with some of the actors who are not quite as convincing in their roles you will probably enjoy the show. The story tells a tale of the children born of a combination of man and siren, the tidelanders, and the role they play in a small coastal town's ways of making money. There is subterfuge in the human part of town, subterfuge amongst the tidelanders, and all hell between humans and tidelanders despite their strong reliance on each other as part of a production line "product" they make. Some good plot points, some unoriginal well-tried plot-lines done with very little new material, but overall the broad story is original and well executed. Worth watching, and will probably produce a second series. Also, my thoughts are a second series will probably be really cheap to make , not all that many of the first series cast left by the end of it all mayhem and carnage. Not a series for kids.

While the concept looked interesting at the beginning, everything ended up ruined by the bad script, the bad acting and stupid cliches. Characters doing every little stupid thing that they shouldn't do just got boring really fast. Very bad CGI and make up. What a way to ruin Siren Mythology... They came up with an interesting concept and they just ruined it by turning it into a greasy Soap Opera. I can't believe I watched this!

If the scenery and cast weren't so gorgeous there'd be no reason at all to watch this. The other reviews point this out well. With a plot such as this I wasn't expecting much, but the acting is embarrassingly bad even for a day time soap (with a few exceptions). It made me laugh at the points where the drama was supposed to be riveting. Lovely bodies and mindless violence with nothing to justify or substantiate either.