Twitter loves Wentworth
#Wentworth and #Foxtel were both trending nationally, with some great feedback for Foxtel's new local drama.
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Twitter isn’t always a match for ratings, but last night #Wentworth and #Foxtel were both trending nationally, with some great feedback for Foxtel’s new local drama:
– If you missed #wentworth tonight, you’d better have a decent excuse… like, oh, I was in prison. #greatTV
– In all seriousness: #Wentworth is really right at the apex of Australian drama. Don’t miss it if you’ve got Foxtel.
– Holy wow.. #Wentworth.. 10 minutes in and you really get a strong sense of how alien and terrifying this is for Bea. I feel for her
– OMG…TOTALLY LOVE #Wentworth. Was shocked by some of the character reversals, but it is great!!! Can’t wait for next Wednesday!!!
– Holy crap @foxtel – #wentworth is AMAZING..
– Just watched #Wentworth omg I love it.Outstanding new show.Well done @Foxtel
– Frankie’s a little piece of awesome isn’t she? Well played. #wentworth
– Wentworth was really good. Restored my faith in Australian dramas. Bravo! #wentworth
– What a start to #Wentworth . That was intense. But that’s how I love it
– Try to catch Top TV #Wentworth @Foxtel. Full-on, compelling, Kudos to all. Great to get Bea’s backstory, goosebumps at #Prisoner theme song!
– ClittyLicker. That is all #wentworth
– #wentworth not better than #prisoner – but definitely on par with atm. Roll on next Wednesday #Imhooked
– Not sure on #Wentworth. Sure, it was good, but I think I would have prefered it with a complete new lot of characters.
And yes, Episode Two is also very good….
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News flash, csh but homosexual relationships are very common in prisons. Interesting that the original series lost a few viewers when they decided to give The Freak a love interest (by the same actress who had been Judy’s girlfriend years earlier), a woman wrote into a newspaper to say that she would no longer be watching as “adults do not behave in that way”.
So no probs with violence then?
I turned this off about 3/4 of the way through.
How many cliched prison stories can they cram into one ep? Lesbian inmates, prison riot, rival prison gangs, innocent person being drawn into the criminal web.
Good production values but lazy story telling.
Most of the things you mention were touchstones in the very first Prisoner episode, so it was a homage as part of its reimagining.
I’ll just have to get a Foxtel subscription now. They drew me into their marketing web.
How will Australian television ever improve if critics and viewers settle for this mediocrity? It had no soul or depth and was beyond insulting.
I’m hooked. Hopefully the SoHo youtube channel continues with the episodes.
Just one ep for one week.
ClittyLicker?! Haha!! That is gold!!
With Wentworth screening on 3 channels last night SoHo, Arena and 111HITS, it attracted close to 250K, which is a record for an Australian drama premiering on Pay TV. Wentworth is the biggest Aussie drama premiere in Foxtel’s history.
The interest in Prisoner has always been huge and to think Channel 10 could have had this. Please keep your heads in the sand Channel 10 management!
Long live Queen Bea Smith!
Watched it last night, and to be honest it wasn’t that good. Not grungy enough, and the daytime exterior shots had a blue tinge to them. Not very imaginative color grading. They had the chance to make this visually exciting, but it looks like Neighbours and Home and Away. Ohh by the way Killing Time was a Foxtel production and shown on 7.
Some pretty ordinary acting and direction in my opinion.
Foxtel had such a high benchmark given the other dramas they’ve commissioned over the years (Love My Way, Satisfaction, Cloud Street, Tangle etc). I found this a little limp. As mentioned below, perhaps it would have been a better fit for FTA as paytv dramas used to shine amongst the pack with their originality.
Interesting all the feedback here has been mostly from men. As a woman, I found it beyond insulting and why with all the potential of great, fresh ideas would Soho and producers resort to what has been done before?
Best Aussie drama? Crap. It was cheap and nasty thrills. And I’m not surprised the people behind it have connections to Neighbours. No depth, all surface.
@Jake – short answer is no. It was made for Foxtel and would be like Nine allowing Seven to air Underbelly on 7Mate.
Great first ep but the best part was a) no ad breaks and b) the behind the scenes special at the end which gave away some secrets that will come up in the season.
Will this show ever be aired on free to air television????
Loved it …. well done Foxtel
The production, writing and directing was top notch. Excellent Australian drama.
For anyone that haven’t got Foxtel the SoHo Youtube channel has posted the full episode youtube.com/user/sohotvau?feature=watch
I expected to either love it or hate it, but i am somewhere in the middle! I loved Nicole daSilva’s Frankie, and the few moments had by Kris McQuade, but found some of it a bit far fetched, and still grimace over the character names. Just silly. Danielle was pretty good as Bea. It needs Vinegar Tits! Nicely made though.
I was very concerned about what this new series would be like. Using character names that have no relevance. How could it be compared to the original series. But it was amazing. Kept me glued. It shocked. Felt real looked raw. Great acting. It was fantastic. Best australian drama I have ever watched. The fact is. This type of production is exactly what ten need right now to get them out of the hole they are in. A show that makes people watch and they had their chance with Inside out… And missed out. Does anybody know… Were the producers behind Inside out the same as that behind wentworth.